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"Liquid Wood" a Contender To Replace Plastic
Ostracus recommends a Christian Science Monitor piece on the 40-year quest to find a replacement for non-biodegradable plastic. One candidate, written off 20 years back but now developed to the point of practicality, is a formulation based on the lignin found in wood. And it turns out there is another strong environmental reason to put lignin to use in this way: burning it, which is its common fate today, releases the carbon dioxide that trees had sequestered. "Almost 40 years ago, American scientists took their first steps in a quest to break the world's dependence on plastics. But in those four decades, plastic products have become so cheap and durable that not even the forces of nature seem able to stop them. A soupy expanse of plastic waste — too tough for bacteria to break down — now covers an estimated 1 million square miles of the Pacific Ocean. ...[R]esearchers started hunting for a substitute for plastic's main ingredient, petroleum. They wanted something renewable, biodegradable, and abundant enough to be inexpensive."
and it shoots out the end of my wood.
Everybody's got something to do
I've got nothing but this empty room
Everybody's got some kind of job
Everybody's got someone to love
Not me, I'm fucking the dog
Everybody's got somewhere to go
I've got nothing but this dirty hole
Everybody's going out tonight
I'm staying here and out of sight
Yea, fucking the dog
I'm living in darkness every day
I'm the devil's son some people say
I'm so far gone I can't be saved
I'm just living day to day
Yea, that's right, fucking the dog
Liquid wood? Sounds great. Where can I get a strap-on made out of it? Then my girlfriend can pound me in the ass with wood instead of plastic!
WHAT IS THIS?!...
Now we're citing CSM? Thats a slippery slope...
This news is from May 2006. and since when do we cite the christian science monitor's "innovation" section?
Here's an innovation: take your kids to a DOCTOR.
Great. The German's have successfully hidden their highly secretive and potentially Earth saving formula away from the masses and academia where it could be improved for over a decade. I'm for making a buck the same as the next guy, but when you come across something as important and the potential for widespread impact such as this you would think that your better half would take over and get the word out. Imagine if this little alternative plastic company joined forces with the largest paper producer in the US which provided it with an almost limitless supply of this ligin. That would drive the cost down and provide the volume necessary to make a legitimate impact on the market.
OMFG! Didn't ANY of you people ever take a science class? When did the common understanding of the cycle of life on earth stop being taught? How in the world did Al Gore and all those moronic "environmentalists" take over past scientific FACT...
OK, people, YOU (and ALL animals) breath IN air, containing oxygen (O2), and exhale carbon dioxide (CO2) OH NOES!!! LIFE IS KILLING THE PLANET the stupid people say...
EXCEPT...by God's glory or evolution, take your pick, PLANTS BREATH IN CO2 and plants RELEASE O2...
OMG!!!! It turns out that life on the planet kinda works in a big old circle!!!
You freaking morons out there need to get your heads out of the sand and open up and old school science book!!
CO2 is NOT a pollutant!
By the way...the last *** 10 *** years are now PROVEN to be a cooling cycle (by UN data) and the ice caps are now LARGER than in the 70's.
STOP LISTENING TO ACTORS AND FOOLS AND DO SOME ACTUAL SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH.
Amen, Bro!
Even the "underground" carbon is known to have once been a part of the atmosphere, to "releasing" it through *whatever* form is just returning the earth to a previous NATURAL level of CO2.
Which of you geniuses out there have the God-like knowledge to tell me the exact, perfect level of CO2...or what the perfect temperature of the earth is?
The environmentalist movement is as ridiculous as the flat-earthers from way back when, or the boobs that thought the Earth was the center of the universe.
Trust me, NOBODY can tell anybody what the "right" temperture or CO2 level is. Franly, if the earth warmed a little, big deal! We will NOT flood out, but we will have longer growing seasons. yeah yeah yeah...blah blah blah...this area will become a desert, blah blah blah...so another area will become tropical. It was all different i nthe past, before man, too..so who are you to say what we have right now shold stay the same.
Arrogance and foolishness, all of it.
RELEASE THE CO2!!!! Let's bring back the good old days!
Have not read TFA (natch), but going by the title, Viagra is now available drop form. Okay gals, splash a little in your man's beer when he he's not looking, for the ultimate date enhancer. Liquid wood indeed.
Liquid Termites.
Any article that doesn't mention overpopulation should not be allowed to present itself as any sort of solution to environmental problems.
Global warming is a leftist scam to prevent the development of liberal democracies and free markets in the 3rd world by retarding their economic and industrial growth.
The 3rd world and all of its problems represent the last possible hope for the left to remake the world into a communist dsytopia. If 3rd world countries are transformed into wealthy nations with political and economic freedom, there will be no one left to sell communism to other than wet-behind-the-ears college students, most of whom outgrow it.
The swindle of global warming is a scam to keep people in impoverished countries poor.
It's all about making the world safe for communism.
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