Horizontal scaling makes sense and especially for startups. I remember discussing this approach with investor type people interested in biotech and the response kept falling back on maximum litres and comparison to existing hugeness of reactors. Which I thought was missing the point entirely! Some bioproducts can be sold for $1 million a gram. It doesn't take a genius to realise that size isn't everything in bioreactors.
There’s some consensus that the results can be questioned based on:
- Lenz’s law applying to copper (Lenz's law - Wikipedia 7)
- Copper phosphide (“Lanarkite and Cu3P were uniformly mixed in a molar ratio of 1:1 in an agate mortar with a pestle”). Pretty high copper content.
-No Meissner effect just standard copper-related phenomena based on Lenz’s law.
Here's the issue with copper and the Meissner effect and claims in this paper:
- 50% copper phosphide in the material.
- Lenz's law effect on copper content (e.g. trojan horse situation.."lets use copper because this will make the demos easy").
- No clear demonstration of the Meissner effect.
Link to eevblog and replicating the v silly video on the landing page of the institute (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHPFphlzwdQ). There are other problems but this screams of professional fakery but fakery indeed.