[ExI] Fame meat

Kevin Freels kevinfreels at insightbb.com
Thu Apr 24 02:17:08 UTC 2008



Bryan Bishop wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Kevin Freels wrote:
>   
>> I don't think that the vascularization or the scaffolds are an issue.
>> The rules don't specify that it has to be like a chicken muscle. I
>> think it would be fine if we could make sheets, grind them and make
>> chicken nuggets. Maybe McDonald's should get in on the research
>> funding.
>>     
>
> The problem with sheets is the surface area to volume issue plus 
> dependencies on the amount of nutrients that can be supplied to the 
> cells. So a giant 2D grid of cells. Okay, that's great, you can 
> effortlessly get nutrients to them since you have both sides 
> accessible, but then this means that you also have tons of overhead per 
> slice, and how many slices are you going to need to do in order to get 
> any significant output?
>
>
>   
Yes, but that's an engineering problem that will take some trial and 
error. Simply getting the maximum sheet thickness possible without 
having to resort to scaffolds and vessels. I'm starting to think this is 
another problem for the ink jet printer.
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