Protein from Air, The Future of Farm-Free Food
Is it really possible to produce food just from 'thin air'? And will this new technology be able to save our planet earth? I have spent a lot of time thinking about food over the past month. Even before this coronavirus period, I used to spend a lot of time cerebrating about food in general, but now, due to the curfew imposed in my city- Chandigarh- since last week of March because of COVID-19, my cerebral cells have really been pushed to think about it a lot more than usual. While my Instagram feed has been filled with people showing off their newly-acquired cooking skills, I and one of my food-nerd friends, Apoorva Tikku, have been sharing articles and discussing all the novel innovative ways to produce food. During this season of sharing links with each other, I came across a review paper published in September 2019, written by a team of Finnish scientists, that explains how protein flour can be produced without any farms, farmers, plants, and photosynthesi