I've been surprised by how little I've heard about this kind of research in the past. There's Air Company vodka, and a startup useing hydrogen bacteria to make a sort of egg white, but I had to dig a lot to hear about either of those.
Basic biology will tell you that very little energy passes all the way through a trophic level, so food production should be much, much cheaper at scale if we can do it like autotrophs. Farming will inevitably be replaced, at least in part, one day.
Interesting. The obvious limitation here is that while they've made fatty acids, they still need purchased glycerol to attach them to. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a cheap byproduct right now but for the future that needs to be worked on. I'll eagerly await it on store shelves.
Also a fun fact: If they're using fossil carbon, which they probably are, eating this stuff will fuck up carbon dating.
