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Re:Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018) by eru on Thursday December 03, 2020 @06:58AM (#25288021)
As an even simpler example, hydrocarbons can be burned to water and C2O. You can feed those to plants just like anything else.

(But going that route would waste a lot of energy.)

Re:Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018) by firethief on Thursday December 03, 2020 @07:36PM (#25297528)
That would never make sense to do. The atmosphere is heavily enriched with CO2 already, so plants don't need help obtaining it. If you want to grow plants in an area where water is so scarce you have to import it, but you have oil, don't burn your money: sell the oil and buy water.
Re:Mushrooms Can Eat Plastic, Petroleum and CO2 (2018) by eru on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:32AM (#25300554)
Uh, yes? You'd be a fool to burn oil just as a source as CO2 and water.

I didn't say that's what you should do or that it makes sense.

Merely as an illustration that you can start with some toxic substances and feed them to plants, and be very happy eating those plants.

Of course, that doesn't apply to everything. Heavy metals stay bad for you.