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Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q Yeah. Could you, I mean, so your base assumption and just help me understand this. Your base assumption is that we can come up with the technology to consume more sustainably and better. Well, I, I w I want to believe that's true because I love consuming like, you know, and, but can you explain what makes you so sure in that?
A Um, so on a first principles basis, we can look at, for example, all of these systems and assess the energy and resource needs to, to produce the things coming out of these systems. So take animal protein as an example, right? So, so cows, beef, there's about 30 times, actually, let me just speak to the whole animal system. The whole animal system to make all the, the animal proteins that we as a species consume requires roughly 30 times the energy going into that system as the energy coming out of that system. Okay, what is it? What are we making? Well, we're making these proteins. These proteins are definable, right? So first principles assessment, we can look at what these proteins are. We know how to make them. We know how DNA makes them, right? We can code for those proteins using DNA. And then we just have to find a better way to make those proteins using that same DNA sequence. And so today, there are incredible technologies that are emerging In being able to produce those proteins using what are called recombinant DNA systems. So you take the DNA of the chicken, or the cow, or the fish, and you can put it in the yeast cell. And the yeast cell you put in a fermenter tank, like you make beer or wine, you put sugar stock in the fermenter tank, and the yeast cell eats the sugar, and it spits out the animal protein. Take that animal protein, you can turn it into ground beef,…
AI assessment note: “on a first principles basis, we can look at, for example, all of these systems”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 4 4.85
Q Yeah. Could you, I mean, so your base assumption and just help me understand this. Your base assumption is that we can come up with the technology to consume more sustainably and better. Well, I, I w I want to believe that's true because I love consuming like, you know, and, but can you explain what makes you so sure in that?
A Um, so on a first principles basis, we can look at, for example, all of these systems and assess the energy and resource needs to, to produce the things coming out of these systems. So take animal protein as an example, right? So, so cows, beef, there's about 30 times, actually, let me just speak to the whole animal system. The whole animal system to make all the, the animal proteins that we as a species consume requires roughly 30 times the energy going into that system as the energy coming out of that system. Okay, what is it? What are we making? Well, we're making these proteins. These proteins are definable, right? So first principles assessment, we can look at what these proteins are. We know how to make them. We know how DNA makes them, right? We can code for those proteins using DNA. And then we just have to find a better way to make those proteins using that same DNA sequence. And so today, there are incredible technologies that are emerging In being able to produce those proteins using what are called recombinant DNA systems. So you take the DNA of the chicken, or the cow, or the fish, and you can put it in the yeast cell. And the yeast cell you put in a fermenter tank, like you make beer or wine, you put sugar stock in the fermenter tank, and the yeast cell eats the sugar, and it spits out the animal protein. Take that animal protein, you can turn it into ground beef,…
AI assessment note: “on a first principles basis, we can look at, for example, all of these systems”
