Food from a 3D printer will be able to prevent global hunger

The world population is approximately 7 billion people and enough food is not for everyone. What will happen when we will be 12 billion? To synthesize the usual food of the cheap and nutritious but unappetizing components using 3D printers offers an engineer from the United States.
Anyang contractor of the company Systems & Materials Research Corporation, has created a prototype device that is able to cook edible food of several nutrients. His project has received funding from NASA — the fact that such a system will need in long-term space expeditions. The grant amounts to 125 thousand dollars.
Contractor utverjdaet that in the near future when the population will exceed 12 billion people, each kitchen will stand the 3D printer on the shelves and will be not usual products and cartridges with nutrients and flavors to create a "food future".





The shelf life of the contents of such cartridges will be not less than a month. This will solve the problem with thousands of tons emitted every day around the world of the spoiled food — each cartridge can be able to use the printer until the end, before you replace a new one. Theoretically, the powder components can be stored up to 30 years — it will need space researchers.





The video presents a 3D printer that "prints" chocolate. Not melted chocolate, and of individual components — proteins, sugars, complex carbohydrates etc they can be from anything, including cheap natural ingredients — for example, what, in principle, the difference is obtained the protein from the meat of a cow or meat from the caterpillar? If You have to compete for food with 12 billion people, then the "unappetizing" the origin of ingredients for your "printed" food, says the Creator of the system, can be easy to ignore.

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