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Re:Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to di... by tablespoon on Thursday September 23, 2021 @02:51AM (#28625949)
>> A ten times larger facility would cost more than ten times as much to run.

> This is an impossibility. You can just build ten smaller factories to scale up and get at least a linear gain.

No it isn't. Your "solution" is a different thing. A collection of smaller facilities is not the same thing as a larger facility.

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Re:Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to di... by willis936 on Thursday September 23, 2021 @07:37AM (#28627798)
You can have a large facility with 10,000 automated lines.
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Re:Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enough to di... by tablespoon on Thursday September 23, 2021 @10:58AM (#28630106)
> You can have a large facility with 10,000 automated lines.

Read the article. IIRC, it's talking about the limits of how large you can practically scale a clean room.

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