Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc (KBLB)

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Either way, my point was that two separate, rival companies have cited the $100 per kilo production cost,

Eska you are granting that they are talking about protein production but then use the same number for costs.
The cost of the goo alone at $100 a kilo is their goal. Claiming that same target as production costs is the same as saying "silkworms for $10 a kilo" is KBLBs " production costs"

The production of the goo is a simple process just like feeding worms is a simple process.
Just look at what any of them say. They brag about how their process is so simple. Just add sugar maintain temperature and wait.

It is the post processing that build costs.
In goos situation it is making that goo into a fiber and the treatments of that fiber to maintain the product properties.

In KBLB it is cooking cocoons and reeling/spinning.

In the goo producers nobody has found a way to make the fiber in a cost effective way on a large scale.
Samples are so small they get lost so how can anyone say they can consistently produce any sort of quality control?


In the worms case there are existing machinery to produce all forms of silk. There are solutions already in place for quality control issues etc.

My point is that the spinning is the "impossible feat" that goo producers can not get past. Not because it can not be done but because it cant be done feasibly.

This is in no way the same as acrylic,nylon or any other plastic. Those products are produced from a product purified by another company.(oil company) Then its really as simple as heating nylon and you can turn a 2 ton block into a string that has the same properties as the original block.

that doesn't compare at all to making a vat of goo proteins knit in the proper way to produce a fiber.