Equation 3 · The Domestication of Everything: Biotech's Loop, Closed
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production volume in metric tons per year — a real economy-of-scale effect, but one that only partially offsets the bioreactor ceiling above it. Read the equation part by part below; each part has a contextual explanation and a link to its mathematical background.
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production volume in metric tons per year — a real economy-of-scale effect, but one that only partially offsets the bioreactor ceiling above it.
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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 necessary but insufficient conditions for displacement of conventional meat by cultured meat” [ 13 ] — necessary and insufficient, not impossible, which is a materially different claim than the industry sometimes attributes to him in rebuttal.
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