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Originally Posted by sabredog
Another soon to be realised technology I first read about in books by H Beam Piper.
He described starships and domed/new colonies using "carniculture vats" to grow meat products in order to feed crew or colonists.
I read on a local news site that scientists have developed means to grow meat in vats to feed the words starving millions within 50 years.
Interesting...
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I'd be interested to see a link to that site.
I've been thinking lately wouldn't it be cool to have a box or a tank of some kind that you just shovel waste into and it puts out some kind of edible gloop and maybe clean water. While I am dreaming let's have generate enough heat to power small appliances, eg charge the phone battery etc.
Then have them so cheap that you could drop them into disaster areas, meanwhile the rest of us would keep one in a cupboard in case we had a local emergency. Though if it were algae-driven you'd have to feed it sometimes or it would die.