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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Can it prevent Monkey Pox?
“Can it prevent Monkey Pox?”
Probably...if they can use it to make a body condom.
They have a shorter track life than the sticky “Red” tires do, depending on the track surface.
Rubber wasn't coming from Indonesia and Malaya anymore, but we could still get it from Brazil (if we could get it past the German submarines, which also made it hard to get rubber from Africa). Still, it was scarcer than it had been.
It was tougher for the Germans to get rubber, so the Germans were making rubber from coal with slave labor from Auschwitz.
Today, surgical gloves are made from nitrile rubber (fake rubber) because some people are allergic to latex (real rubber)
Great article on desalination that brings up some points I hadn’t thought of.
https://www.wired.com/story/desalination-is-booming-but-what-about-all-that-toxic-brine/
Seems like a nuclear power plant with each desal plant would make a good combination.
I was wondering about that.
< slap upside My head >I’ve got no idea why I didn’t ask You. < /slap upside My head >
Interesting Thank You.
Wow! Rubber from plants… who could have imagined that?
Anyone knows an ant, can't
Move a rubber tree plant
He has high hopes.
5.56mm
Thanks!
This is the heart of the matter here. When they change the desalination brine from a cost center to a profit center—the world changes.
But brine is more than just hypersaline water—it can be loaded with heavy metals and chemicals that keep the feedwater from gunking up the complicated and expensive facility. “The antifoulants used in the process, particularly in the pretreatment process of the source water, accumulate and discharge to the environment in concentrations that can potentially have damaging effects on the ecosystems,” says Jones. Dilution may help with the hypersalinity problem, but it doesn’t get rid of the chemical toxins.
But herein lies opportunity: The discharge can also contain precious elements like uranium. This might be enough incentive to turn desal brine from a noxious byproduct into a source of revenue. Or you might use evaporative pools inland to produce commercial road salt for deicing roads. And that could help clean up the industry, because capitalism.
“There’s definitely economic opportunities available,” says Jones. “That’s why we stress there is positive news here as well. There’s an opportunity as well as it currently being a big challenge.”
The little-known tree that revolutionised global communication
BBC Reel | July 27, 2022 | Video by Archie Crofton, Narration by Emily West
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Back in the 1980s, I heard that guayule was a great untapped resource, and saw it growing in the agricultural exhibit, at Walt Disney World’s EPCOT. What’s new about it now?
Question with a Question dep’t: In the 1980s, a NASA researcher (go figure) found that the ubiquitous kudzu plant would compost into alcohol, leaving nothing behind. What happened to that, eh?
Yes, in Georgia the process of composting kudzu into ethanol would solve two problems. If you have ever been there, you know how common kudzu is.
I have. In Alabama they said one could see it growing. I’d be wary of sitting down to watch this phenomenon — doze off in the chair, wake up confined by vines. :^)
Anybody looked at tire prices lately?
OMG the tires that were a 100 bucks are 200 now, in a couple years time.
Oops there goes another rubber tree plant!
The last new tyre We bought was for a 2004 Chevy Trailblazer and the best price I found was $140.00 installed now it’s $239.00 !!! Cooper discoverer srx 245/70 16.
The 2018 Colorado WT uses a 265/60 18 m
Wrangler Territory LT $223.96
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