Thank you for actually answering the question. I'll be there for the open house and am looking forward to it.
And I'll absolutly get tea in building 40.
So it's nice that they've found a bacteria with an interesting matabolism, but what's the point of speculating about using it to perform actual, industrial-scale recycling? Once you've gone to all the trouble to actually seperate and heat the styrofoam, there are plenty of great ways to perform reactions on it without going through all of the hassle of using bacteria to do it.
If you have have styrene oil, your recycling problem is already solved -- the styrofoam has been saved from the dump, and you can use it as a feedstock for lots of reactions. The problem is performing the first step, and finding a less efficient (though extremely cool) way to deal with the styrene doesn't really help.
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"the engineer had just discovered that all information processing machines send their secrets into the electromagnetic ether."
Well, except for the abacus.
Thank you for actually answering the question. I'll be there for the open house and am looking forward to it. And I'll absolutly get tea in building 40.
Reviewer hated it, but had to admit that being "murdered by ice pirates is good."
So it's nice that they've found a bacteria with an interesting matabolism, but what's the point of speculating about using it to perform actual, industrial-scale recycling? Once you've gone to all the trouble to actually seperate and heat the styrofoam, there are plenty of great ways to perform reactions on it without going through all of the hassle of using bacteria to do it. If you have have styrene oil, your recycling problem is already solved -- the styrofoam has been saved from the dump, and you can use it as a feedstock for lots of reactions. The problem is performing the first step, and finding a less efficient (though extremely cool) way to deal with the styrene doesn't really help.