Starting in 2018, Solar Foods is participating in the ESA Business Incubation Centre Finland.
All their news is about funding, not doing. Nor does the NASA involvement seem to be more than a query.
This sounds like a food-from-methane scheme, prettied up with hype about cracking water and CO2 using "renewable energy" to get the H and C needed. That goes into a fermentation process, like a brewery.
KnipBio was doing something like that, but using methane as the feedstock. Their web site talks about future events in 2018, so they apparently are not doing too well.[1]
Calysta is actually doing it. They bought the technology from Statoil in Norway, which had a plant 15 years ago making about 10,000 tons of animal feed a year from methane. Wasn't profitable. Calysta has a pilot plant in England making animal feed, but it's been running for several years with no scale-up.
NouriTech in the US licensed the process from Calysta and has a plant in Memphis, TN. They're working with Cargill, the big US ag company. The address for the plant shows a big place with railroad sidings, tanks, and trucks, but it's a Cargill high-fructose corn sweetener plant and doesn't match the drawings of the proposed NouriTech plant.
So it's clear that you can do this, but not clear that it makes economic sense.
All their news is about funding, not doing. Nor does the NASA involvement seem to be more than a query.
This sounds like a food-from-methane scheme, prettied up with hype about cracking water and CO2 using "renewable energy" to get the H and C needed. That goes into a fermentation process, like a brewery.
KnipBio was doing something like that, but using methane as the feedstock. Their web site talks about future events in 2018, so they apparently are not doing too well.[1]
Calysta is actually doing it. They bought the technology from Statoil in Norway, which had a plant 15 years ago making about 10,000 tons of animal feed a year from methane. Wasn't profitable. Calysta has a pilot plant in England making animal feed, but it's been running for several years with no scale-up.
NouriTech in the US licensed the process from Calysta and has a plant in Memphis, TN. They're working with Cargill, the big US ag company. The address for the plant shows a big place with railroad sidings, tanks, and trucks, but it's a Cargill high-fructose corn sweetener plant and doesn't match the drawings of the proposed NouriTech plant.
So it's clear that you can do this, but not clear that it makes economic sense.
[1] https://www.knipbio.com/fermentation [2] http://calysta.com/feedkind/ [3] http://nouritech.net/feedkind/