CO2 conversion to biomass using photosynthesis, then biomass to CO2 conversion using cellular respiration. You could even feed the algae feces and completely recycle every carbon atom that doesn't get incorporated into the human body.
Supposing you're into closed loop systems.
-SG
On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 1:59 AM Ravasz <ravaszmeister@gmail.com> wrote:
Dunno if it has been stated earlier but algae tend to provide almost everything we need, except they contain them in suboptimal amounts. So currently any alga based diet needs to be supplemented with other stuff. However, in the last few years genetic engineering has developed so rapidly that it would be more-or-less possible to create a super alga that could serve as a single food source.
As a bonus, algae are about 50x more efficient at creating edible biomass than the best land plants we have out there.--
On Tuesday, 10 April 2018 19:30:33 UTC+1, Cory J. Geesaman wrote:This is more just mental masturbation than anything, but does anyone have an ideas on how much work would be required to make a food that hits all the appropriate daily values of everything (essential vitamins included) for a Human from a single source, say a mushroom? Are all the metabolic pathways and associated enzymes and genes known already for the synthesis of each of the essential vitamins? Would those pathways compete with each other negatively, or would they more or less work in parallel without stepping on eachother's toes? Mushrooms are kind of arbitrary, and I know I've heard potatoes are close, but are there other things that don't require direct sunlight and aren't animals? (Again, this is just a curiosity, I don't want to paint myself as some kind of vegan.)
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