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Lipman: Most lab-grown meat startups will fail to reach commercial scale
“I'm anticipating that the vast majority will not be able to reach commercial scale and not be able to reach the market, so we'll either see a bunch of consolidation or a bunch of dead companies in the wake of whatever reckoning may be coming.”
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.”
Lipman: Animal agriculture is never going to completely disappear
“And I don't think animal agriculture is ever going to go away.”
Lipman: Cultured meat will not achieve an affordable price point at scale
“Technically they may be able to, but I don't think that it will come out at any affordable price at the end of that scaling process.”
Lipman: Lab-grown meat will struggle to gain non-coastal consumer adoption
“And I think lab grown meat is all, is going to really struggle to you know, get consumers on board, especially not coastal consumers, not the ones on the blue coasts.”
Lipman: Microbial nitrogen fertilizer additives already see strong field use
“I think these, that my, that specific microbial additive is really exciting, and that, as far as I can tell, it's already getting a lot of use out in the field”
Lipman: Bioremediation relies mostly on wild, not engineered, microbes
“We already use microbes to help with things like oil spills, so there's already a field called bioremediation today which is, you know, fairly robust, but for the most part, these microbes we're using today to kind of break down contaminants are wild microbes …”