Agriculture & Food · Recorded milestone
Food from air and electricity
Recorded year2024
Microbes fed on CO2 and hydrogen make protein with almost no farmland.
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Led to
- Precision-fermentation proteinForecast · ~2030enables
- Fats made from CO2Forecast · ~2032enables
- Famine endsForecast · ~2060enables
- Starch and sugar from CO2Forecast · ~2062enables
- Half of farmland returned to natureForecast · ~2070enables
- Kitchen air-to-protein makerForecast · ~2071enables
- Cultured meat dominantForecast · ~2074enables
- Mars food industryForecast · ~2080enables
- Food from asteroid carbonForecast · ~2088enables
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.