Myth: Electric vehicles are too expensive to produce to replace traditional vehicles globally
Myth
6 May 2024
Myth: Roadtrips are impossible with electric vehicles because of the need to recharge. Charging an EV is lengthy and inconvenient
Myth
6 May 2024
Myth: It is impossible to convert the entire global road transportation fleet to electric vehicles
Myth
6 May 2024
Myth: Electric cars require cobalt, the mining of which uses child labor
Myth
6 May 2024
Myth: Robotaxis will never be safe enough
Myth
6 May 2024
Myth: Modern foods will not contain the same micro- and macro-nutrients as animal foods
FAQ
6 May 2024
How does Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture water use compare to the animal agriculture it will replace?
FAQ
6 May 2024
Why aren’t other modern food technologies disruptive in the same way that Precision Fermentation is?
FAQ
6 May 2024
How much energy do Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture require?
FAQ
6 May 2024
How can we avoid large-scale corporate control of these technologies?
FAQ
6 May 2024
How much waste material is produced by modern foods, and are there any associated environmental risks?
FAQ
6 May 2024
What if I never want to give up my meat?
FAQ
6 May 2024
What will happen to all the cows?
FAQ
6 May 2024
How can we avoid a sudden transition to the modern food system that could threaten the livelihoods of subsistence and artisan farmers and others that work in food production?
FAQ
6 May 2024
Where will Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture technologies be most suited geographically?
FAQ
6 May 2024
How much will the energy for Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture cost?
Myth
6 May 2024
Myth: The disruption of food and agriculture means that in the future there will be no meat available from animals
Myth
6 May 2024
Myth: The new modern food system will be centralized and corporation owned, just like the pharmaceutical industry
FAQ
6 May 2024
How can we trust meat, milk or other animal products grown in a lab?
Myth
6 May 2024
Myth: The companies and products we see today are the future of the food industry
Myth
6 May 2024
Myth: Cultivated meat is not real meat
6 May 2024
What is the difference between Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture?
FAQ
6 May 2024
What is the role of conventional nuclear power in our energy future?
Myth
6 May 2024
Myth: A sustainable energy future will require us to embrace austerity and use less energy
Myth
6 May 2024
Myth: Cloudy days present a real challenge to solar, wind and battery meeting daily global energy demands as weather fluctuates
Myth
6 May 2024
Myth: Solar, wind and batteries cannot support the entire global population
Myth
6 May 2024
Myth: Precision Fermentation is only a production method for making proteins
FAQ
6 May 2024
Can we build batteries fast enough to maintain exponential growth of renewables and electric vehicles?
FAQ
6 May 2024
How will the roads be financed when there is no gas tax? Will there be an electronic distance-based toll system?
Myth
6 May 2024
Myth: It is impossible to build enough battery storage to power our civilization with clean energy
Myth
6 May 2024
Myth: There is not enough lithium on earth for a global electric economy reliant on lithium-ion batteries
FAQ
6 May 2024
Will the cost of batteries rise because of supply shortages?
FAQ
6 May 2024
How many jobs will be created by the disruption of transportation? How many jobs will be destroyed?
FAQ
6 May 2024
What will happen to the existing fleet of vehicles as a result of the transportation disruption? Can these vehicles be converted to EVs? A-EVs?
FAQ
6 May 2024
Does the scarcity of raw materials needed to make lithium-ion batteries mean that we won’t be able to build enough batteries for our energy demands?
Myth
6 May 2024
Myth: The disruption of food and agriculture means that in the future there will be no meat available from animals
Myth
6 May 2024
Myth: There is not enough lithium to make all the electric cars we need
FAQ
6 May 2024
How many autonomous electric vehicles will be needed?
FAQ
6 May 2024
Where will the energy for Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture come from?
FAQ
6 May 2024
How much farmland acreage would be impacted by a transition to Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture food systems?
Myth
6 May 2024
Myth: Foods made with precision fermentation are GMOs
Myth
6 May 2024
Myth: Technologies like Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture will not be able to be scaled enough to feed our global population
Myth
6 May 2024
Myth: Nickel is a less abundant resource. There is not enough of it to power an electric future
Myth
6 May 2024
Myth: It is impossible to have a 100% renewable grid, because it is too inefficient to build solar, wind or battery capacity that we only use for a small fraction of the time
Myth
6 May 2024
Myth: Robotaxi technology does not work and will never work. Driving is too complicated. At best “Level 5”, fully self-driving cars are decades away
Myth
6 May 2024
Myth: Robotaxis cannot take over the market quickly
Myth
6 May 2024
Myth: Robotaxis cannot compete economically with human-driven taxis because of the cost of taxi licenses (‘medallions’)
FAQ
11 July 2023
How will the disruption play out in India, Southeast Asia, Africa and other places where consumers are very price-sensitive?
Myth
11 July 2023
Myth: Autonomous vehicles are more dangerous than manual driving
Myth
11 July 2023
Myth: Modern foods will have the same environmental impact and drawbacks as animal-based foods
Myth
11 July 2023
Myth: A modern food system will demand too much energy to be viable
FAQ
11 July 2023
How will the modern food disruption work in poorer regions and nations around the world?
Myth
11 July 2023
Myth: Modern foods are only able to replicate the animal products we already have
Myth
11 July 2023
Myth: Modern foods are, and will forever be, too expensive to compete with animal products
FAQ
11 July 2023
What is the role of hydrogen in our energy future?
FAQ
11 July 2023
Are batteries too expensive to build to meet our global energy demands?
Myth
11 July 2023
Myth: The same amount of energy is needed for a combustion civilization as an electrified civilization
Myth
11 July 2023
Myth: Switching to clean technologies will be expensive, and the cost of converting to an electrified civilization is more than the cost of maintaining the current system
