From where do you get these ideas?
Please provide some reference or background as to why you think that creating artificial milk in a chemical process is easier and cheaper than milking a cow or goat?
Please note, by the way that Amsilk has not spent time and money and years and years "getting the chemistry right".
Amsilk does not produce their silk analogue protein by a chemical process.
They produce it using transgenic animals just like KBLB.
But Amsilks animals are bacteria, a much lower and simpler life form than silkworms, too small and simple to actually produce real spider silk protein, they instead have genetically engineered the bacteria to produce a smaller, lower molecular weight (and therefore inherently weaker) protein.
Amsilk's bacteria do not externally express this protein.
to extract it they must be killed, cooked, treated with corrosive chemicals and solvents and then the protein is separated from the resulting soup by filtering and centrifuging.
The silkworms produce their spider protein in the silk glands that comprise more than 40% of the body weight of the worm, and then externally express this protein as an integrated constituent of SPUN Silk fiber which needs no further processing for extraction.
Now explain to me again how Amsilk's processes and production are ever going to be less expensive than KBLB's, even for the protein?
So much less expensive that they can afford the research and development expenses to design and perfect the as yet undiscovered machinery with which they can spin their protein analogue into a fiber as strong as the spider silk which it vaguely resembles before being boiled and bleached and dissolved out of the ground up corpses of the bacteria.
So much less expensive than feeding vegetation to insects that they can also afford the factories needed to spin it into fiber! (this is where you apply the magic folks, just feed in your sludge at one end of the box, wave your magic wand, and out come miles of fiber all rolled up on neat little spools!)
Mike
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