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China approves CO2-turned protein as feed material
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this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2025
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Fuck me! We aren't going to eat the bugs in the pods. We are going to eat climate change.
Not really. This falls under CO2 utilization, which converts waste CO2 into more useful stuff. Because cows/pigs eat the yeast protein, and we eat the cows/pigs and burn them as calories, we re-release the CO2 in our breath.
This tech is better classed as precision fermentation, and unfortunately has little to do with fighting climate change.
Could they theoretically store or just bury the yeast as a means of carbon capture ?
Yes, you could just bury organic carbon for carbon sequestration. However, using your custom engineered yeast enzyme to do this is pretty dumb when you could just use waste plant biomass like SinkCo Labs does.
Herein lies the fundamental economic problem with carbon sequestration: you spend money to produce nothing.