• @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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    811 months ago

    Tl;dw:

    • Lab meat works in small (2L tanks), but doesn’t scale in big tanks (which is needed to get cheaper than 50$ per chicken nugget)
      • (The whole video is basically detailing why; contamination ruins the batch, continuously replacing the immune system is extremely expensive, every attempt and breakthrough has worked in small tanks but not big ones)
    • People in the industry know this, but investor money is $$$
      • Helix 🧬
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        110 months ago

        Are any of these points unsolvable engineering problems?

        Currently, yes.

    • bmaxv
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      11 months ago

      @OsrsNeedsF2P @thevoiceofra That might work, depends on the details. Specifically how much of that 50$ is RnD they haven’t written off as a loss yet.

      If they can sell a DIY kit and the ingredients, we could do the same thing for lab meat that we do for IPAs and coffee roasting?

      After watching the video, it sounds like that won’t be happening. Too complex and specialized to do at home. Sounds like lots of filtration, chemistry problems.

  • Jay Baker (he/they)
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    511 months ago

    I’ll be sticking with the tofu and stuff I’ve been surviving on for the last 30+ years.