“Plant to Produce Rubber” Grown in Arid Zones - Guayule Development of a new source of natural rubber
“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.
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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.
If ya can’t make tires out of plant based rubber, ya could always make McPlant Nuggets out of the stuff..
Wow! Rubber from plants… who could have imagined that?
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!