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		tablespoon on Sept 23, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lab-grown meat may never be cost-competitive enoug... >> 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.

willis936 on Sept 23, 2021 [–]

You can have a large facility with 10,000 automated lines.

tablespoon on Sept 23, 2021 | [–]

> 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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