Biomanufacturing
topic on 3 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes
5 statements about Biomanufacturing, every show
Michael: Biomanufacturing will enable rare earth separation and synthetic blood
“You could use biological mechanisms to separate rare earth metals? So instead of mining them out of the ground and doing this, like, nasty refining process you could, we use biology to do that You could. Use biology to create synthetic blood. You could can use…”
Friedberg: Biomanufacturing could return billions of acres of land to nature
“And so I think that it can be extremely carbon negative. It sucks carbon out of the atmosphere. It will create incredible jobs. It's an incredible infrastructure opportunity. It would return billions of acres of land back to kind of, you know, whatever form na…”
Lipman: Downstream processing accounts for most industrial biomanufacturing costs
“Most of the cost actually comes in the downstream processing. So after you grow up these cells in these big steel tanks the vast majority of costs come after that phase where you have to process this wet biomass and spin it down and treat it and purify it.”
Friedberg predicts most goods will use biological manufacturing by 2050
“I think by twenty-fifty, you know, we should see most of our goods that are manufactured rather than being made in the traditional sense, which is basically old technology scaled up which is what the industrial revolution did but really shift to a new model of…”
Biomanufacturing will become the primary way humans produce materials this century
“So I do believe that there is a big wave of biomanufacturing as an industry that is coming on the U.S. This century, and it will hopefully by the end of the century be the primary way that we're kind of producing a lot of the molecules that we consume and that…”