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Green Chemistry

Solar Foods gets money for making food from air

by Alex Scott
April 16, 2021 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 99, Issue 14

 

Solar Foods, a Finnish start-up developing a process for making protein by feeding single-cell microbes renewable hydrogen and CO2 from air, has secured a $12 million loan from the Finnish Climate Fund. It is the fund’s first loan. Solar Foods will use the money to build a commercial-scale production plant for its Solein brand of protein. The firm says Solein has a carbon footprint 99% lower than that of meat protein and 80% less than that of plant protein.

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