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 energyExplore Rethinking Energy FAQs

Myth: A sustainable energy future will require us to embrace austerity and use less energy
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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
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Myth: Cloudy days present a real challenge to solar, wind and battery meeting daily global energy demands as weather fluctuates
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Myth: The same amount of energy is needed for a combustion civilization as an electrified civilization
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Myth: Solar, wind and batteries cannot support the entire global population
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Myth: It is impossible to build enough battery storage to power our civilization with clean energy
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Are batteries too expensive to build to meet our global energy demands?
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What is the role of hydrogen in our energy future?
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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
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Will the cost of batteries rise because of supply shortages?
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What is the role of conventional nuclear power in our energy future?
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Can we build batteries fast enough to maintain exponential growth of renewables and EVs?
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Myth: Nickel is a less abundant resource. There is not enough of it to power an electric future
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Myth: There is not enough lithium on earth for a global electric economy reliant on lithium ion batteries
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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?
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 transportationExplore Rethinking Transportation FAQs

Myth: Electric vehicles are too expensive to produce to replace traditional vehicles globally
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Myth: “I could never give up my car!”
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Myth: There is not enough lithium to make all the electric cars we need
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Myth: Robotaxis cannot compete economically with human-driven taxis because of the cost of taxi licenses (‘medallions’)
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Myth: Robotaxis cannot take over the market quickly
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Myth: Robotaxis will never be safe enough
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Myth: Robotaxi technology does not work and will never work. Driving is too complicated. At best, so-called “Level 5”, fully self-driving cars are decades away
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Myth: Electric cars require cobalt, the mining of which uses child labor
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Myth: It is impossible to convert the entire global road transportation fleet to electric vehicles
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Myth: Autonomous vehicles are more dangerous than manual driving
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Myth: Roadtrips are impossible with electric vehicles because of the need to recharge. Charging an EV is lengthy and inconvenient
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How many autonomous electric vehicles will be needed?
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How will the roads be financed when there is no gas tax? Will there be an electronic distance-based toll system?
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Will automated vehicles really be safer?
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How will the disruption play out in India, Southeast Asia, Africa and other places where consumers are very price-sensitive?
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What will happen to the existing fleet of vehicles as a result of the transportation disruption? Can these vehicles be converted to EVs? AEVs?
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How many jobs will be created by the disruption of transportation? How many jobs will be destroyed?
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 food-and-agricultureExplore Rethinking Food & Agriculture FAQs

What is the difference between Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture?
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Myth: The disruption of food and agriculture means that in the future there will be no meat available from animals
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Myth: Precision Fermentation is only a production method for making proteins
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Myth: Modern foods are only able to replicate the animal products we already have
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Myth: Foods made with precision fermentation are GMOs
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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?
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How can we avoid large-scale corporate control of these technologies?
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Myth: Technologies like Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture will not be able to be scaled enough to feed our global population
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Myth: Modern foods are, and will forever be, too expensive to compete with animal products
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Myth: Cultivated meat is not real meat
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Myth: The companies and products we see today are the future of the food industry
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How can we trust meat, milk or other animal products grown in a lab?
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Myth: The new modern food system will be centralized and corporation owned, just like the pharmaceutical industry
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Myth: The disruption of food and agriculture means that in the future there will be no meat available from animals
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How much will the energy for Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture cost?
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How much farmland acreage would be impacted by a transition to Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture food systems?
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Where will Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture technologies be most suited geographically?
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How will the modern food disruption work in poorer regions and nations around the world?
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What will happen to all the cows?
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What if I never want to give up my meat?
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How much waste material is produced by modern foods, and are there any associated environmental risks?
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Myth: Modern foods will not contain the same micro- and macro-nutrients as animal foods
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How much energy do Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture require?
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Why aren’t other modern food technologies disruptive in the same way that Precision Fermentation is?
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Where will the energy for Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture come from?
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How does Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture water use compare to the animal agriculture it will replace?
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Myth: A modern food system will demand far too much energy to be viable
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Myth: Modern foods will have the same environmental impact and drawbacks as animal-based foods
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