Equation 1 · Part 2 · The Domestication of Everything: Biotech's Loop, Closed
Symbol V
What this part means
production volume in metric tons per year — a real economy-of-scale effect, but one that only partially offsets the bioreactor ceiling above it.
Its job in the formula
V is one of the signed contributions combined to compute the quantity on the left.
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Where the article explains it
where P is price in dollars per kilogram and V is production volume in metric tons per year — a real economy-of-scale effect, but one that only partially offsets the bioreactor ceiling above it.
The passage around this formula
…for roughly 51% of total fed-batch cost. Humbird models individual amino-acid prices as falling with production volume along a fitted relationship, . where P is price in dollars per kilogram and V is production volume in metric tons per year — a real economy-of-scale effect, but one that only partially offsets the bioreactor ceiling above it. His own summary conclusion is that “metabolic efficiency enhancements and the development of low-cost media from plant hydrolysates are both…
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