This is kind of amazing. Could be a real game changer when it comes to global food access (especially in places where growing conditions are sub-optimal:
Computer! Carrot - fresh!
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Seems like planting gardens or hydroponics would be a better solution.
Depends how much water is readily available I suppose. If gardens and hydroponics were the ultimate solution there’d be no food shortages anywhere. In any event it’s a pretty cool innovation.
food printers in use
Yeah I would say that there are better solutions for things like this than printing them, especially things like vegetables which already have some alternative growth methods. But it is still interesting, how I always think about things like this is that when computers first came out it was still much faster to do calculations yourself, yes they could do more complex calculations more accurately but it was still slow and possibly unnecessary. But people continues to work at it and it rapidly improved, and now we can do calculations with computers that would be way too complicated for us.
At the current point a 3D printed carrot is… well… just sort of interesting, its not practical whatsoever and it can’t be widely adopted. But if we keep working at this technology and making many slight improvements we may be able to see a day when this type of thing is far more practical than the original process. I can especially see this with meat, as the population increases and the demand for meat goes up we will need to somehow fill the demand. So something like print on demand meat would be a godsend.
I don’t know if that makes any sense, what are your opinions?
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