Growing Food with Electricity: Sustainable Protein Production with a Kitchen-Table Bioreactor

May 30, 2025 @ 12:10 PM - 12:30 PM GMT+1 Add to Calendar

Did you know that protein can be grown using just electricity and carbon dioxide, with a fraction of the land, water, and emissions required by traditional farming? By harnessing hydrogen-oxidizing bacteria, we’re creating an open-source bioreactor for small-scale protein production. This technology could allow anyone to produce protein at home, without the need for large factories. In this talk, we’ll discuss how open-source hardware and community collaboration can make microbial protein fermentation accessible, helping to shape a more sustainable future for food production.

Gerrit Niezen

Gerrit Niezen (PhD in Industrial Design, MEng in Computer Engineering) is the co-founder of LabCrafter, a company that develops and sells open science hardware. He also volunteers with AMYBO.org, a non-profit community exploring microbial protein fermentation as a sustainable food source.

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