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Why? They say the physical properties are like polycarbonate: no problem there. They don't say how fast it degrades in ideal conditions but do say it takes 4
by Brian_K_White 1y ago
Why?
They say the physical properties are like polycarbonate: no problem there.
They don't say how fast it degrades in ideal conditions but do say it takes 4 months in poor conditions, and that it requires microbes not merely water, or oxygen or other chemistry or uv etc, but microbes: sounds like it won't be touched at all in your soda even after a week.
Where is the terrible part?
- constantcrying 1y agoIt doesn't have the same physical properties. Even the idea of that is ridiculous, one physical property the article mentions it its degradability. "Strength" is also a meaningless metric to compare, it just is not a material property.
- anigbrowl 1y agoThis doesn't make any sense and is not responsive to the points from GP.
- Brian_K_White 1y agoAgain, they claim the properties are similar to polycarbonate. The properties of polycarbonate are thoroughly understood, and are perfectly suitable for a drinking straw. So again, what do you base this judgement on exactly? Do you have a sample of the material and can claim they are lying and it's not actually like PC and that it somehow fails when used as a drinking straw? Does it taste bad? Did it steal your girlfriend? Like what?
- constantcrying 1y ago>Again, they claim the properties are similar to polycarbonate The claim in the article is "strength" which is not a material property at all. Just a very vague description. Besides that obviously they do not have the same properties, because the article literally says that it is being eaten by bacteria quite quickly in sea water.