🤖 Biomanufacturing capacity is the bottleneck the US should own

Friedberg tech w=1.08 · n=65 · E31 (2021-05-01) · explicit_prediction · strength 3 ▶ 57:34 SUPPORT

“I still think biomanufacturing represents this, this complete great domain where the United States could build and lead ... There's a hundred synthetic biology companies that are looking to produce fermentation based products from materials for clothing, to food, to animal protein, to new drugs, and they can't get the capacity to make this stuff. ... This is where the United States can lead because we can make every material, every drug, and every consumable that the entire world would use using biomanufacturing.”

Friedberg tech w=1.08 · n=65 · E54 (2021-11-06) · explicit_prediction · strength 2 ▶ 1:18:35 SUPPORT

“27 million tanks made out of plastic. You could probably get that stuff produced, you know, a couple billion dollars. Find a piece of land that's 25 by 25 miles, that's near some water and put a nuclear power plant there. And you could suck up all the CO2 in the atmosphere. ... If we want to invest in infrastructure, this is the sort of thing that both solves climate change, creates jobs, and has extraordinary economic return potential built into it.”

Friedberg tech w=1.08 · n=65 · E56 (2021-11-20) · sentiment · strength 1 ▶ 1:05:32 SUPPORT

“What we need is the stuff that the free market cannot afford to fund and stand up, like next-gen nuclear power stations, like biomanufacturing, like large-scale on-demand 3D printing systems. These are the sorts of infrastructure programs that the United States and our workforce could benefit from government subsidies to help the private markets get stood up.”