“I see prodidgy as an egg factory. Someone has to supply eggs to contractors.”
This is what I predicted back in 2019, even made up a spreadsheet showing what would be possible if the original 40 tonne facility was converted entirely to egg production and silk production was contracted out. The number was pretty impressive. To simplify just multiply 40 tonnes by 100 and whatever price you think a tonne of spidersilk will bring.
Probably is the reason they never stated how many tonnes the new facility could produce when it is actually just going to be used to produce eggs for contractors. Makes more sense than trying to feed out all them worms yourself.
Don’t know why this is the first time we have heard of any contractors actually feeding out worms for KBLB though. Sounds like they have been around for a while already. Don’t know what the holdup is on making actual textiles is. What properties will these materials have to differentiate them from what’s currently out there besides being able to stop jet airplanes?
Assuming a silkworm produces 200-500 eggs, it takes less than 1% of eggs produced to maintain the current worm population, so if they are using 15% of the worms for breeding purposes their production should increase at least 15 times every generation. Doesn’t take many generations to get to multi ton capacity at that rate. Need to have the mulberries to feed them though.
I even have a marketing campaign worked out to sell billions of dollars of spidersilk apparel if anybody was interested in contacting me about it. Just need some material. :)
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