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Microbial_electrosynthesis

So, this is different.

Photosynthesis
PhotoCells
Electrosynthesis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrosynthesis
Chemosynthesis
Here you go, lets put your bib on!
https://www.newscientist.com/article/21 … ls-and-us/

Video.  Spacemen at the end!
https://youtu.be/VZuNdZTIUcc

and now;
Microbial_Electrosynthesis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial … osynthesis

Hmmm....sciencenordic.  The Danes?
http://sciencenordic.com/bacteria-eat-e … it-biofuel

“Only our imagination is the limit”
Rotaru explains that the product potential of the electricity-gobbling bacteria is infinite. If it is organic it can probably be made from these bacteria.
The major target is primarily to make butanol, which is a better biofuel than e.g. ethanol. It will also constitute a research-related ’proof of concept’.
At the same time, the production of biofuel in electricity eating bacteria will not require large expanses of farmland which biofuel derived from plants does.
“We can, for instance, couple tanks containing bacteria to wind turbines and solar panel installations. This will mean that when nobody wants the power it can be fed straight into the tanks and start making butanol. It's a smart way to make surplus energy into something useful,” says Rotaru.
But there are other ways of exploiting the bacteria’s’ special abilities. Rotaru envisages, among other things, that the bacteria can be used to convert surplus electricity into amino acids and animal feed.
The amino acid lysin, for instance, is added to pig fodder, and it would not be much of a problem to get the bacteria to produce this.
Another possibility is to get the bacteria to make bioplastic.
“It’s all a question of making surplus electricity into something useful, and the only limit is our imagination,” says Rotaru.

And humans resemble animals, and they also have use for plastics.

And then;
3D printed food.
https://3dprinting.com/food/
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/06/tech/inno … index.html

And here we go again, the Danes!
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/ … -printing/

Bioengineered bacteria could be used to 3D print food and tools on Mars

Just like checking your bag on a commercial airline, space travel comes with some pretty big weight restrictions. How big? According to estimates, reaching space costs a whopping $10,000 per pound, which means that every ounce saved has a big impact on the bottom line.
That’s where a group of Danish researchers comes in. The team is working on a synthetic biology project called CosmoCrops, which hopes to use bacteria to make it possible to 3D print everything needed for a respectable space mission, using a cutting-edge co-culturing system. And it could even make life better for those of us back on Earth in the process.
“We are trying to make space exploration cheaper, because many inventions we use in our daily life were invented because of space exploration, like Velcro and solar energy,” Joachim Larsen, one of the students working on the project, told Digital Trends. “The way we want to achieve this is to [be] able to produce everything from food to medicine and bioplastic for 3D printers out in space — making the space rocket a lot lighter.”
To this end, the team has designed a special kind of bioreactor and has bioengineered bacteria that can be used to produce the necessary 3D-printing materials.
Related: The International Space Station’s new low-gravity 3D printer just printed its first tool

Read more: http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/ … z4YLh9xPOL
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So, Electrical Source
Electric Microbes
3D Printed Food, Plastics

No Greenhouse necessary.  No Electrolysis Necessary?  But do that if you want to.

OK.

Last edited by Void (2017-02-10 22:13:32)

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Done.