Really cool. It's good to know that there are hackathons for this kind of thing. Ignoring, for the moment, all the overbearing ethical problems with factory fa

Really cool. It's good to know that there are hackathons for this kind of thing. Ignoring, for the moment, all the overbearing ethical problems with factory farms (those kinds of discussions are almost never constructive), I wonder if a first principles calculation would reveal the sort of potential efficiency gains to be made if you could make in-vitro meat work and scale properly. I bet it's going to be far, far more energy-efficient to grow meat according to demand with nutrient solutions derived from plants or bacteria, than to use factory farms. And that's not even taking other critical resources like water into account.