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Vegetarian radials? Defatted soy eyed as tire filler substitute (Green Tires?)
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| 01-06-2009
| by Jeremy Korzeniewski
Posted on 01/06/2009 12:25:05 PM PST by Red Badger
There's more that one way to green a car, and many of the most interesting technological advancements don't involve powering an internal combustion engine. Consider that much of the fabric, plastic and rubber that goes into a car's construction is derived from petroleum, and you see why alternatives are becoming increasingly attractive. Automakers have taken up corn-based plastics and soy-based seat foam, and now the latest greenery comes by way of defatted soy flour. The latter is an organic substance that's being considered as a replacement for the petroleum-based "carbon black" rubber particles that are currently specified in the vast majority of tires.
The technology has a long way to go before we could be driving on soybeans, and there are likely issues involving using a possible feedstock as a petroleum replacement (again) that will need to be worked out. Still, as pressure builds to abandon the use of petroleum in as many ways as possible, advancements are likely to become a bigger part of our day-to-day transportation needs.
[Source: DairyHerd.com]
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: agriculture; auto; soy; tires
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Where the rubber meets the rowed..............
To: Red Badger
Now, if they were edible...
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posted on
01/06/2009 12:27:15 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Red Badger
somehow i think the tires i like would irritate tree huggers even if they were "green"
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posted on
01/06/2009 12:32:18 PM PST
by
absolootezer0
(thank God for Chicago: makes Detroit look wholesome by comparison.)
To: Army Air Corps
Bet they would taste the same as bean curd.
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posted on
01/06/2009 12:32:17 PM PST
by
Cyclone59
To: Red Badger
I work in that industry, it will never happen. Carbon black works and it has nothing to do with being “green” or not, the stuff is just carbon anyway and it’s dirt cheap.
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posted on
01/06/2009 12:32:39 PM PST
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Cyclone59
Where the tofu meets the road.
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posted on
01/06/2009 12:34:00 PM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Red Badger
Buy Jiffy Lube stock. Every 4k miles we change oil, we'll also have to change our tires.
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posted on
01/06/2009 12:34:04 PM PST
by
ryan71
To: Red Badger
They learned nothing from the corn/ethanol debacle. But then liberals are not interested in facts.
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posted on
01/06/2009 12:34:14 PM PST
by
libh8er
To: Red Badger
A good burnout just wouldn't smell the same.
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posted on
01/06/2009 12:36:23 PM PST
by
Deaf Smith
(A storm is coming.)
To: absolootezer0
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posted on
01/06/2009 12:36:28 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
To: Deaf Smith
It’d smell like a burnt burrito..............
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posted on
01/06/2009 12:38:35 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
To: Red Badger
And if rodents like soy......?
To: Deaf Smith
“A good burnout just wouldn't smell the same.”
Only the gang-green hippies will buy the tofu tires anyway. Will a Toyota Pious even do a burnout? I think not.
The only burnouts will be the drivers!
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posted on
01/06/2009 12:42:15 PM PST
by
Beagle8U
(FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
To: Abathar
Carbon Black causes cancer in California........So they ban all products with carbon black......Since they are the largest market for tires, then everybody else will get soy tires, too..........Instead of Mickey Thompson Slick 60’s we’ll get Mickey Mouse Silk Soy tires..........
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posted on
01/06/2009 12:42:27 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
To: Red Badger
I have high hopes for this stuff. Oops, there goes another rubber tree plant |
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posted on
01/06/2009 12:43:34 PM PST
by
Nick Danger
(www.swiftvets.com)
To: Proud2BeRight
I assume all rodent do like soy, especially squirrels........
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posted on
01/06/2009 12:45:42 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
To: Red Badger
It doesn’t matter, pretty soon they will finally get the right compound and go with urethane over rubber anyway. More money, but much longer life and less disposal which is what the greenies are really concerned with.
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posted on
01/06/2009 12:46:28 PM PST
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: libh8er
They learned nothing from the corn/ethanol debacle. But then liberals are not interested in facts. For liberals, history started at breakfast this morning............
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posted on
01/06/2009 12:46:40 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
To: Beagle8U
Will a Toyota Pious even do a burnout? I think not.
my gas guzzling SUV won't do a burnout either. stupid mud tires and having too much traction.
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posted on
01/06/2009 12:52:03 PM PST
by
absolootezer0
(thank God for Chicago: makes Detroit look wholesome by comparison.)
To: Cyclone59
Bet they would taste the same as bean curd.
This is DEFATTED soy, so it would taste the same as bean curd but without the flavor.
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