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FAQs & Mythbusting

FAQs & Mythbusting

Browse some of our most frequently asked questions and the myths surrounding the Energy, Transportation and Food & Agriculture disruptions.

Energy

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 amount of time.

Will the cost of batteries rise because of supply shortages?

What is the role of conventional nuclear power in our energy future?

Can we build batteries fast enough to maintain exponential growth of renewables and electric vehicles?

Myth: Nickel is a less abundant resource. There is not enough of it to power an electric future.

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?

Are batteries too expensive to build to meet our global energy demands?

Myth: A sustainable energy future will require us to embrace austerity and use less energy.

Myth: There is not enough lithium on earth for a global electric economy reliant on lithium-ion batteries

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.

Myth: It is impossible to build enough battery storage to power our civilization with clean energy.

Myth: The same amount of energy is needed for a combustion civilization as an electrified civilization.

Myth: Solar, wind and batteries cannot support the entire global population.

Myth: Cloudy days present a real challenge to solar, wind and battery meeting daily global energy demands as weather fluctuates.

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Transport

How will the roads be financed when there is no gas tax? Will there be an electronic distance-based toll system?

How many jobs will be created by the disruption of transportation? How many jobs will be destroyed?

What will happen to the existing fleet of vehicles as a result of the transportation disruption? Can these vehicles be converted to EVs? AEVs?

How will the disruption play out in India, Southeast Asia, Africa and other places where consumers are very price-sensitive?

Will automated vehicles really be safer?

How many autonomous electric vehicles will be needed?

Myth: Electric vehicles are too expensive to produce to replace traditional vehicles globally.

Myth: Roadtrips are impossible with electric vehicles because of the need to recharge. Charging an EV is lengthy and inconvenient.

Myth: Autonomous vehicles are more dangerous than manual driving.

Myth: “I could never give up my car!”

Myth: Robotaxis cannot compete economically with human-driven taxis because of the cost of taxi licenses (‘medallions’).

Myth: Electric cars require cobalt, the mining of which uses child labor.

Myth: There is not enough lithium to make all the electric cars we need.

Myth: Robotaxis cannot take over the market quickly.

Myth: Robotaxis will never be safe enough.

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.

Myth: It is impossible to convert the entire global road transportation fleet to electric vehicles.

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Food and Agriculture

How can we trust meat, milk or other animal products grown in a lab?

How much will the energy for Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture cost?

How much farmland acreage would be impacted by a transition to Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture food systems?

Where will Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture technologies be most suited geographically?

How will the modern food disruption work in poorer regions and nations around the world?

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?

What will happen to all the cows?

What if I never want to give up my meat?

How much waste material is produced by modern foods, and are there any associated environmental risks?

How can we avoid large-scale corporate control of these technologies?

What is the difference between Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture?

How much energy do Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture require?

Why aren’t other modern food technologies disruptive in the same way that Precision Fermentation is?

Where will the energy for Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture come from?

How does Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture water use compare to the animal agriculture it will replace?

Myth: The new modern food system will be centralized and corporation owned, just like the pharmaceutical industry.

Myth: A modern food system will demand far too much energy to be viable.

Myth: Modern foods will not contain the same micro- and macro-nutrients as animal foods.

Myth: The disruption of food and agriculture means that in the future there will be no meat available from animals.

Myth: Modern foods will have the same environmental impact and drawbacks as animal-based foods.

Myth: Foods made with precision fermentation are GMOs

Myth: The companies and products we see today are the future of the food industry.

Myth: Modern foods are only able to replicate the animal products we already have.

Myth: Precision Fermentation is only a production method for making proteins.

Myth: Modern foods are, and will forever be, too expensive to compete with animal products.

Myth: Cultivated meat is not real meat.

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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