The technology, which I didn’t get to–my bad it was 1:30am, has to do with being awakened by my phone sending me an alert to the possibility of 90mph winds along with possible flooding due to very heavy rains.

It might not seem like much to you, but when you live in a very rural area in the middle of a forest, we don’t get the niceties of more urban folks. Ignoring the years I spent as a medic and fire fighter in this area and getting my pager pinged for every weather watch from the county dispatch, (information the general populous doesn’t get), This is a new thing for us. Now, if only cell service wasn’t so poor here even more people could get such warnings.

And my automatic backup generator is still running and powering my house. A bit of tech kit you probably don’t need, but I do. So my lights are on, the air conditioning is working and so is my electric kettle to make tea. It might be all day or longer before the co-op can restore power.

I understand engineering and scaling production. As an engineer who did things like that, I have some experience in that area. How long have they been making non meat products? A fair number of years now isn’t it? So how much longer? Months, years, decades? It’s always a “2 years away” that never gets here.

Like I said, until you can make it cheaper and faster, it’s not going to be much more than a curiosity for the wealthy.

As much as I’m all for lab produced meats, I’m against the price to buy it. Lab grown salmon is cool and all that, but until it’s cheaper than farm raised salmon, (most of what you can buy in a grocery store), it’s merely something for wealthy people to eat to make themselves feel better about themselves. And not something the poor can easily afford or even access.

And this is an issue with all Eco-friendly products from lab grown meats to EV’s to solar panels, None of those things do the average plebe any good.

To paraphrase a TV show,

:The head office asked me to identify the differences between these two pictures. They are the same.