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this post was submitted on 05 May 2024
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Maybe, but there is a massive opportunity here to transition to supplying feedstock.
Look forward 30-50 years, will there be any dairy farming at all if this tech is perfected?
Oh yeah for sure there is, but whether structurally, institutionally we'll actually do that in a proactive way, I'm not so sure. Dairy farms carry quite a lot of debt so their business models are pretty locked in to an extent.
I wonder when they say sugar as a feedstock, do they mean like sugarcane or is it any sort of crop given everything we eat breaks down into sugars in the end. I wish these articles would link the reports theyre reporting on..
Nowhere is NZ is warm enough for commercial sugarcane production, unfortunately.
Yet...? 😬
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Theoretically, any feedstock that can be converted to sugar would work.
Bioreactors that take "waste" plant material and convert it to sugars have proved very difficult to perfect. There were a huge number tried when biodiesel was "the next big thing".... None became commercially viable, which is why biodiesel died....