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we are having an existential marine crisis due to the millions of tons of essentialy non recyclable "plastic" bieng dumped in our oceans, a fully recyclable al
by metalman 10mo ago
we are having an existential marine crisis due to the millions of tons of essentialy non recyclable "plastic" bieng dumped in our oceans, a fully recyclable alternative is worth trillions over the long haul.
The switch will happen when a viable alternative is discovered, and a material that has inherent value will be a key requirement.
If this new epoxy is a true engineered material that is suitable for say, vacume infusion molding of things like wind turbine blades,and smaller ships, and injection molding of buckets and computer chasis etc, etc , then it will become universal for those things.
- pfdietz 10mo ago> existential marine crisis I think you're being overly hysterical there. Plastics in the ocean are certainly not ideal, but "existential"?
- metalman 10mo agothe known consequences of polluting the the entire base of the planets food web isn't existential? "scientists", politicians, beurocrats, lawyers, and the mega wealthy have kept moving the agread upon limits to environmental exploitation, with zero sign that they have any other intent, than to take more³ what you are missing is that no one will ask for permission, to fix that.
- lazide 10mo agoWe’ve literally been dumping nuclear and chemical waste in the oceans for 100 years now? It isn’t good, but it isn’t any different than usual either.
- wiml 10mo agoThe amount of plastic going into the ocean is increasing rapidly, especially in the last 15 years or so. It is different from (say) 50 years ago. Also you might have noticed that a lot of sea life is scarcer than it used to be.
- pfdietz 10mo agoI had hoped the use of the word was based on some actual specific world-ending effect I didn't know about, so I could learn something new and important. But apparently it's just untethered anxiety.