Bio-electricity

[Taem]

It could even start off (cost wise) as a food source that has the added benefit of producing it's own energy!

Billy Preston said it; "Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'".

You gotta have something, if you want to eat the meat.

I a little surprised you guys are still struggling to see my vision here, lol. Or perhaps I'm just looking through rose covered glasses?

The article is interesting in a "new flavor of yogurt" type of way, but no one is suggesting creating artificial cannibalistic Popeye's, that run treadmills to solve our energy shortage. More like "The Matrix" and their single-celled protein and amino acid colloid that has a very unappealing consistency and flavor of Tasty Wheat.

Not even a cabal of scientists meeting in Sweden is going to find a meat that violates the laws of the conservation of energy. To make the muscles, you will require more energy than could be produced by the muscles as they consume themselves. The source of this energy is solar (the sun supplied the energy to grow the ingredients in the nutrient agar used to grow the proteins.)

The reason we do transform energy from one form to another is to make it edible (for ourselves or our animals) or portable, to pump into our gas guzzling automobiles. But, then it would be more viable to create an algae that uses the sun to combine carbons directly with water to produce oil (carbon sequestration process).

Ok, I think I'm finally starting to understand what you and Pete have been saying all along: solar energy is the best because essentially, it is the source for everything else, so why not go straight to the source and cut out the middle-man (i.e. reduced effeciency)? I'm following you... finally, lol!

In regards to the meat, the article said the flavor can be whatever type of meat you choose. It even mentions creating rare meats, such as Panda burgers and so forth. And if the muscles are exercised, I believe the texture should be close to the real thing! As for how they create it, I'm willing to bet soon, they will fill a 1/2' size flat swimming pool with the stuff and "grow" it. I wouldn't mind trying some grown wooly-mamoth steak myself! Coming to a restaurant near you!