Oh yeah for sure there is, but whether structurally, institutionally we'll actually do that in a proactive way, I'm not so sure. Dairy farms carry quite a lot of debt so their business models are pretty locked in to an extent.

I wonder when they say sugar as a feedstock, do they mean like sugarcane or is it any sort of crop given everything we eat breaks down into sugars in the end. I wish these articles would link the reports theyre reporting on..

[–] purrtastic@lemmy.nz 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nowhere is NZ is warm enough for commercial sugarcane production, unfortunately.

[–] Xcf456@lemmy.nz 5 points 6 months ago

Yet...? 😬

[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 points 6 months ago

Theoretically, any feedstock that can be converted to sugar would work.

Bioreactors that take "waste" plant material and convert it to sugars have proved very difficult to perfect. There were a huge number tried when biodiesel was "the next big thing".... None became commercially viable, which is why biodiesel died....