A non-life process making glucose from carbon dioxide and water using electricity or light?

**update (Sept. 2018):** Here is a bit of news that someone might be inclined to cite in a "No, not yet, but..." answer.




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NASA has announced a CO2 conversion challenge!



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> Get out of your element! Convert CO2 into molecules to power bio-manufacturing in space.
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> **Convert CO2 to Glucose:**
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> Help us discover ways to develop novel synthesis technologies that use carbon dioxide (CO2) as the sole carbon source to generate molecules that can be used to manufacture a variety of products, including "substrates" for use in microbial bioreactors.
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> Because CO2 is readily abundant within the Martian atmosphere, such technologies will translate into in-situ manufacturing of products to enable humans to live and thrive on the planet, and also be implemented on Earth by using both waste and atmospheric CO2 as a resource.
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It looks like this will be a multi-year project.




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**original question (Mar. 2017):**


A large mass fraction of foodstuff a person would need on a long trip (for example, in space or otherwise [not on Earth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(Weir_novel))) would come from its caloric (energy) value. Scenarios have been explored for decades to use solar photovoltaic (or other electric) power to generate light to *grow plants* locally for food. Light provides energy for photosynthesis which combines $\ce{CO2}$ and $\ce{H2O}$ and makes glucose, (later converted to and stored as starch) which then provides caloric value to food.


$$\ce{6CO2(g) + 6H2O(l) -> C6H12O6(s) + 6O2(g)}$$


I'd like to know if a purely non-life based self-contained chemical process has been developed or is at least close to *continuously* converting $\ce{CO2}$ and $\ce{H2O}$ to glucose, using electricity directly, or electrically generated light.


By "non-life based" I mean it's not a bioreactor based on living cells. It could certainly use processes that are similar to those used in organisms.


The process would have to be potentially able to run stand-alone with minimum consumables, in the same sense of the term "process" as is mean for the [Haber Process](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process#Process).


*I am not asking* if you think it could be done, but if there is a way that it could be done, based on well-documented research towards implementing complete [Artificial Photosynthesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_photosynthesis) using light or electricity, not just a demonstration where a laboratory technician regularly adds separately prepared reagents and precursors for each step.




Popular research these days for CO2 fixation involves the following enzymes with associated conversion rate:


* RuBisCO - 10 molecules/sec
* ECR(Enoxyl-CoA carboxylase/reductase) - 80
molecules/sec


The major noncarbohydrate precursors are lactate, amino acids, and glycerol.


Here are some links to current research:


* TiO2-catalyzed [synthesis of sugars](https://www.nature.com/articles/srep23199) from formaldehyde
* CO2 reduction -> Hydrocarbon eg. Formaldehydes/acids (CH2O).
  
Then [Formose/Butlerov reaction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoelectrochemical_reduction_of_carbon_dioxide) (catalyst:base+Ca/Mg) -> sugar
* Volume 1 of Comprehensive [Glycoscience](https://www.sciencedirect.com/referencework/9780444519672/comprehensive-glycoscience)
* CO2 to Glucose [Whitepaper](https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5ab79425ff9c8bc38fcd64a7/5c6c9bfb07ffea7cffd43750_Cemvita%20Factory%20CO2-to-Glucose%20Whitepaper.pdf)


Some topics for research:


* Gluconeogenesis
* Formose reaction
* Calvin cycle (absence of light)


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