it's not something we're currently used to eating, mind you, but tastes change. it's algae. i know. sounds kind of ewww, doesn't it? but the microalgae growing in these test units are rich in protein and omega—3 — much more so than traditional crops grown in a field — and they also consume way fewer natural resources, too. in these systems, we can grow a tonne of protein and using 300, 400, 500 times less water and 1400—1500 times less land than the best thing that we know today. and in fact, because algae is a plant, it has another environmental benefit — photosynthesis. we get the co2 from the power plant, we get that into our system, we use algae to actually fix that co2