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Of course, the scalability and economics of this technique are nowhere to be found, either in the article or the paper it's based on.
by allears 4y ago
Of course, the scalability and economics of this technique are nowhere to be found, either in the article or the paper it's based on.
- mytailorisrich 4y agoThere's no free lunch. They are growing cells in vitro and need to provide all the nutrients they need. Thus, to produce, say, 1 ton of wood this way they need to somehow produce at least 1 ton of nutrients... There are probably interesting uses for this tech for niche products but perhaps not at scale.
- imtringued 4y agoThis is like vertical farming. Nature gives you everything for free, now you have to pay for everything yourself.
- ckrapu 4y agoNature hasn’t provided glyphosate, accessible nitrogen by the megaton, and millions of square miles of artificially drained soil. Vertical farming isn’t much more of an aberration than the average row crop operation in America.