Notes
Field notes.
Efficiency
Eighteen times the acre
A yeast fed on acetate made from electricity and CO₂ used sunlight almost 18 times more carefully than a field.
6 min · 22 September 2026
Hydrogen
Solein leaves the lab
Solar Foods is already running a factory on hydrogen, air, and electricity. The early line beat its own forecast.
5 min · 22 September 2026
Land
The land we could give back
Food already causes more than a third of emissions. Making some of it in tanks is only useful if the electricity is clean — and plentiful.
7 min · 22 September 2026
Calories
Fat from syngas, cocoa from a vat
Protein gets the headlines. A large share of the calories on a plate are fat — and fat can be chemistry.
5 min · 22 September 2026