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The Factory Is Alive

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Living within our means might require making our technology come alive.

The Factory Is Alive Christina Agapakis, Natsai Audrey Chieza Biology might hold the key to developing a more ecological model of industrial scale before climate change kills us all. A single E. coli placed in a sugary broth will divide into two genetically identical cells in twenty minutes. Another twenty minutes later, those two will grow and divide into four. Give those cells enough broth and room to grow and after about twenty-three hours there will be enough E. coli cells to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool. Wait another twenty hours and the mass of bacteria would equal the volume of th

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