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• owenfromcanada@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Short answer: it’s easier to grow it

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because photovoltaic panels are more expensive than plant leaves

  We could do what you’re suggesting, it would just be incredibly inefficient.

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• JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why would I want to manufacture a plant when I can use a seed to do it for me?

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• GiveOver@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I assume you’re talking about (for example) some equipment that takes in soil/water/air, rearranges the atoms and churns out potatoes. We definitely can’t do that. It’s too hard, we’re nowhere near that level of technology.

  I can only imagine the people in this thread are referring to lab grown stuff where they use plant cells, which is cheating because that’s still depending on plants.

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• Kalkaline@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You have to figure out how to recreate photosynthesis which, believe it or not, is an incredibly difficult process to recreate.

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Recreating photosynthesis is the easiest part by a huge margin.

    Whether you decide to define it as synthesizing ATP or glucose, both a simple molecules that we can create in a lab. Everything else is the hard part, there is a huge amount of “things” on that “everything”.

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• MrJameGumb@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Here’s a relevant short video about the benefits of farming in general

  I hope this helps answer your question 👍

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• jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  We don’t have the tech. Cells are tiny factories capable of ingesting nutrients and producing little chains of proteins, fats and other stuff.

  We don’t currently have the ability to build machinery that small. With CRISPR we kinda start to tap into that power, to modify genetic code to do what we want, but it’s still far from reliable enough to create a potato 3D printer. We’re big monkeys with big hands and it’s hard to manipulate tiny things.

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