I am curious at how many of these pointless reports are going to be made. I have seen countless reports like this and at the end of the day we are drowning in plastic.
Every year there is a new article about a scientist finding a new bacteria, funghi worm or other kind of species that can digest plastic. However they work only in perfect lab condition and on smaller scale. Sadly there is no real world usage yet.
the solutions already exist, the customer & industry just doesnt want to adapt
What choice does the customer really have? Plastic is a component of nearly everything that isn’t food and packaging for nearly everything.
Looking forward to having that in my balls as well as microplastics
damn imagine how cool it’ll be if your balls become transparent
Cool? I don’t know man, would someone lick them if they saw what’s under the hood? Would you?
Transparent means that you can’t see them
True, I guess my thought was more skin transparency.
I dont think transpaency is the attribute we need for most plastics. Thats glass.
Now those woke scientists are making transgender wood /s
Vacuum chamber transparent wood filled with resin. Ok yeah sure that’ll “replace plastics”
If you’d like a real demo of what this article is talking about check out this NileRed video
I also assumed that was the process here, but from the article this does seem to be something slightly different. Overall process seems to be roughly the same, but they’re using biodegradable materials instead of resin, apparently a mix of egg white and “rice extract”
Now I’m personally skeptical about how long-lasting something made from egg and rice can be, although I guess there are still tempera paintings (tempera paint is made from egg yolks) around from the Renaissance, so what the hell do I know?
And the chemicals used to strip the lignin from the wood aren’t exactly the most environmentally friendly, but I guess arguably they’re better than some of the ones used in plastic production.
Don’t talk to me until it’s transparent aluminum
Now, all we need is a bird of prey and two humpback whales.
We’ve had that for awhile now
Fascinating. I would love to see screens with ALON coating
breathing in
Aluminium
Both are technically and historically accurate. I also prefer aluminium, however, due to the consistency with other element naming.
I prefer to achieve consistency the other way. Radum is a dangerous element for example
Fair.
I don’t think were replacing plastic anytime soon but using materials smarter is always nice.
But we should, because plastic is made of oil. And that oil goes CO², be it because it’s burned or because it rots away in nature.
Environmental stability is very important but we should master how we use materials, not discount their usefulness entirely, as that is more empowering to our species.
Like sure we can make oil cars outdated and that may be a good thing, but we’d still use it in grease.
There are many cases where a chemical had to be entirely replaced with a more targeted or less damaging variant because of environmental considerations. Most prominent being CTFE, because it affected the ozone layer.
