“Plant to Produce Rubber” Grown in Arid Zones - Guayule Development of a new source of natural rubber
Posted on 08/08/2022 12:21:51 AM PDT by mabarker1
Guayule is an evergreen shrub that originated in the arid zone from the southwestern part of the USA to northern Mexico and therefore can be grown in environments totally different from those suited for para rubber trees (the current primary source of natural rubber (*1)). Also, the rubber constituent contained therein is very similar to that of para rubber trees. Given these factors, guayule is expected to become a new source of natural rubber. *1Hevea brasiliensis, Euphorbiaceae; evergreen tree originated in Brazil. Latex extracted from the tree contains natural rubber.
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“Plant to Produce Rubber” Grown in Arid Zones - Guayule Development of a new source of natural rubber
I heard a year or so ago there was some kind of issue with rubber plants and there were potential shortages. This is good news.
Heard about this new tire and rubber while watching the IndyCar race in Nashville today they are using it to build the sidewall of the tire.
The tires/tyres the Indycars were racing on today the side walls are made of it.
Lots to read at the excerpt.
Yes it is.
Pray that brandon and cohorts don’t screw it up !!!
It’s good for America and Americans they will try their darndest.
Found an article from last year:
https://www.newsweek.com/how-are-car-tire-supplies-affected-rubber-shortage-1644075
It’s pronounced guayule (/ɡwaɪˈuːliː/ a
Thank You, and I found this below several articles in the DuckDuckGo Search.
https://racer.com/2022/08/05/firestone-set-to-introduce-guayule-race-tires-at-nashville/
https://postimages.org/
Well damn they said the same thing forty years ago...
I’m just an old fart... what would I know.
They were trying this out in 1942. WW2 cut off the supplies of natural rubber and they were still trying to work out synthetic rubber. Gas rationing during WW2 was admitted to be more about saving rubber than gas. 35 mph speed limit nationwide would supposedly make tires last twice as long. Tire rationing. Needed authorization to even get recaps. Stealing a tire was a felony in DC.
Times change. Sometimes what is not efficient/practical at one place and point in time, often because there is a more abundant and easily extracted substance available, may become practical later, when the costs of the once abundant substance make it prohibitatively expensive, creating an opening for the formerly impractical product to fill.
June 1942. Congress passed $8,835,000 for planting guayule.
(That’s $136,765,000 in today’s money). 50,000 acres of plant production and 500 acres of seed production.
btt
Forty years ago, this crop was tested in Arizona. The question is consistent buyers and revenue per acre ($/ton and tons/acre).
I remember that too. They were test growing here where I live.
arizona should be saving every drop of water that falls there.
Nah throw in another irrigation demand on the Southwest.
Of course, they say it is a renewable source so that makes it ok.
Whatever happened to synthetic rubber? Oh wait, probably made with natural gas which ain’t renewable.
If ya can’t make tires out of plant based rubber, ya could always make McPlant Nuggets out of the stuff..
Better natural condoms are on the way?
Thanks! I missed most of the race, travelling, but am looking forward to it on YouTube when I get home. Sounds like it was like a pinball game again.
for the big bold water stuff like they did in the first half of the 20th century—imho the best investment is in R%D to collapse the cost of water desalination.
Make water desalination cheap enough and envirnonmentally friendly to California’s liking—and suddenly California won’t need the water from the colorado. That water will be too expensive.
Make the desalinated sea water still cheaper and what the hey—they can pipe the desalinated seawater east or north to arizona.(though east is probably safer.)
Think that sounds far fetched. For R&D we’re talking about something less than 10 billion—maybe only a billion. Heck, Elon Musk may be doing the work right now—because he’ll need a desalination plant for his mars mission.
Compare that with the cost of diverting Mississippi water into the colorado basin. Now that’s a lot of money. But I see that proposal being floated in the news fairly frequently.
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