Natural protein production anywhere by using air and electricity.
Created: 2020-08-07
Updated: 2024-03-09
Company - Solar Foods
Product/Service - Solein
- Classification
- In-Space Manufacturing
- Category
- In-Space Manufacturing
- Fields
- Food for Earth
Food for Space
- Status
- Development
- First launch
- Not announced
We are introducing a game-changing natural protein for the global food industry. Produced from CO2, water, and electricity, our unique pure single-cell proteins are independent of agriculture, weather and the climate. They open a new world of unimaginable protein choices while creating new sustainable food diversity.
Manufactured Food. Single-cell protein production by means of gas fermentation.
- With missions that go beyond LEO and the Moon, a small-scale Solein production unit moves from a cost-saving procedure to the realm of possibilism.
- A flight to Mars would take at least seven months, plus another seven months for the return trip (and that’s in optimal conditions). Any mission would need a way to produce food during the flight: taking more than a year’s worth of food for a crew of six quickly runs into the limitations of storage space. Instead of filling the cargo bay with foodstuffs and water, it makes sense to launch things that can only be produced on Earth – anything else is a waste of precious cargo capacity. A Solein production unit could solve these challenges.