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Re:Cyborg bacteria outperform plants when turning sunlight i... by digi_owl on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @09:20AM (#15072066)
The elephant, as always, is "will it scale?"...
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Re:Cyborg bacteria outperform plants when turning sunlight i... by tomjen3 on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @11:14AM (#15073181)
It is bacteria. Those usually have no issue scaling.
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Re:Cyborg bacteria outperform plants when turning sunlight i... by agumonkey on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @10:40AM (#15072828)
btw, is there a mindset about centralization efficiency (as in large scale manufacturing) vs small scall distributed ?

If everybody bred these as they see fit, the scale issues might not appear. But I'm surely missing something.

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Re:Cyborg bacteria outperform plants when turning sunlight i... by visarga on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @02:21PM (#15075078)
Elephants don't scale up. Sorry about that.
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