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Algae as a surprising meat alternative and source of environmentally friendly protein
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2024-11-11
Did you read what i wrote? i said "take inspiration from" not "should copy 1:1 also i work i pharma so yes i have a good take on this.
When you're working with coproducts like algae-derived pharmaceuticals (see Lumen biotech in Seattle) that sell for 6 figures/kg you're correct, much more stringent pharma-like ideas do get implemented because the down time is costly. This is seen in indoor reactor setups where you can grow under artificial light year round. Outdoors, the cost to implement more sophisticated systems doesn't translate in your TEA especially when growing things like protein which is cheap in comparison.
Yeah you are probably right that cost will be the biggest issue when comparing between the two fields of production. Getting a good stable production that is also cheap enough to be viable is always the hurdle
What you said on the 1st sentence is okay. After that, is clueless. ...in the context of discussing the difficulties - technical and economical - of growing specific algae for food.
This is like saying that if there's sun and no clouds, in theory, the sky should be blue. In practice there's no useful information added to the discussion on the...
Like in all that is microbiology, kind of. Except steam is not sterilising. Unless under autoclave pressures. Inside an autoclave. Even in those conditions, which are agreed to be sterilising, even then not all microbes are killed and contamination is still considered as an issue in some cases. Again, in practice there's no useful information added to the discussion on the...
Your non-expert overconfidence is not unique. It's an epidemic. And that's why I'm triggered to comment on it.
And by that logic neither have you added anything useful so far with two long posts in this thread. So I guess we are even now? :)