I notice that you don’t include peanuts, which are one of the cheapest sources of calories currently widely available. Is this because they require a warm environment?
Thanks, Greg! Peanuts (groundnuts) are cheap, but generally the cheapest are the grains including wheat, maize (corn), and rice. However, if we’re talking about growing outside in a nuclear winter, it would be so cool that plants might not be able to flower. So we looked at crops that can produce food without flowering, such as potatoes, carrots, cabbage, etc., and potatoes were the cheapest per calorie. However, we recognize that the wealthy of the world will still want to eat a greater variety of food. We are very concerned that they will use a tremendous amount of energy to grow just a little bit of food with artificial light. Then there may not be much energy left to feed the masses, say with natural gas single cell protein. That’s why we have the greenhouse project where we have found that we can grow pretty much any crop in the tropics in nuclear winter. I think that will include a sizable amount of peanuts.
Great report, and exciting times for ALLFED!
I notice that you don’t include peanuts, which are one of the cheapest sources of calories currently widely available. Is this because they require a warm environment?
Thanks, Greg! Peanuts (groundnuts) are cheap, but generally the cheapest are the grains including wheat, maize (corn), and rice. However, if we’re talking about growing outside in a nuclear winter, it would be so cool that plants might not be able to flower. So we looked at crops that can produce food without flowering, such as potatoes, carrots, cabbage, etc., and potatoes were the cheapest per calorie. However, we recognize that the wealthy of the world will still want to eat a greater variety of food. We are very concerned that they will use a tremendous amount of energy to grow just a little bit of food with artificial light. Then there may not be much energy left to feed the masses, say with natural gas single cell protein. That’s why we have the greenhouse project where we have found that we can grow pretty much any crop in the tropics in nuclear winter. I think that will include a sizable amount of peanuts.