Dr. Eric Whale, left, and Dr David Hepworth have engineered carrots as a replacement for carbon fibre. It is predicted this advance is to change a whole lot of things — from fishing rods to battleships. In fact, the first device to be impacted by this new application — a fly-fishing rod — is set to go on sale later this month.
What this pretty much means is that many of our future daily tools are going to be made out of 100% biological matter. In turn, this also means that they will be biodegradable.
While this may be cause for celebration for environmentalists the word over, I foresee some problems. For instance, what if my furniture rots? Or what if while gardening, I go inside for lunch, come back out only to discover that a rabbit have eaten my shovel?
Did you ever think of that, scientists? Did you?
Source: The Scotsman
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Imagine a World Where Everything is Made Out of Carrots
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I suspect the items will NOT be biodegradable for exactly the reasons you mentioned. At the very least, the items will be treated with toxins or resins just, just like treated lumber, that prevent things from eating them or allowing them to rot and thus degrade.
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