So is this about integrating with solar panel farms (which we are already doing and is pretty damn cool - basically plants under the panels is the simple way) or a completely novel method on its own?
> Here a two-step CO2 electrolyser system was developed to produce a highly concentrated acetate stream with a 57% carbon selectivity (CO2 to acetate), allowing its direct use for the heterotrophic cultivation of yeast, mushroom-producing fungus and a photosynthetic green alga, in the dark without inputs from biological photosynthesis.
My understanding is that they take CO2 from the atmosphere, run it through an electrolyzer to create acetate, then add the acetate to the plants' environment to skip the need of sunlight in and/or aid photosynthesis.
Note that I am not a biologist so this could be completely wrong.