How to grow food without light
Added on 31 October 2024
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Feng Jiao, the Elvera & William R. Stuckenberg Professor in the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, along with Robert E. Jinkerson, at the University of California, Riverside, propose a move to an electro-agriculture framework that combines carbon dioxide electrolysis with biological systems to boost food production’s efficiency. Such a system could reduce agricultural land use in the United States by nearly 90% and allow food to be grown in urban areas and deserts without the need for light or pesticides. It also allows farmers to use fertilizer more efficiently.
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