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But you can make plastics from plants.
by ph0rque 10y ago
But you can make plastics from plants.
- newswriter99 10y agoNot sustainable or cost-effectively. Not yet anyway. Look at most of the bio-converters in the US. They're expensive, usually down for one reason or another, and half the time they end up killing their microorganisms via failing to filter out byproduct like cyanide gas: http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2014/09/05/on-the-mend-why-ineos-bio-isnt-reporting-much-ethanol-production/ http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2014/09/05/on-the-mend...
- Retric 10y agoThat's an odd view of Sustainable with Oil being a finite supply. Further, cost-effective assumes cheap oil with massive economies of scale and 10's of billions in R&D vs small scale trials of new tech.