Ron
Some thought on your praise of this advancement in rod technology. They are not written to be critical of the what these two guy have created but to provoke deeper though.
What they have done, nano fibres found in cellulose form plants is not a new technology, the carrot bit is, but the technology has been around for sometime in other products on the market.
It is the ?environmentally friendly? bit I have some misgivings about
Carrots are grown in very sterile environment with lots of chemicals used to aid their growing. Chemicals we know the use of, are degrading the environment including the water environ. Making the arable areas very biodiversity poor.
Lets assume this carrot tech has many uses and takes off in a huge way. Will we see in place of miles and miles of rape field, those replaced with Carrot fields with the associated chemical treatments?
Given that Rape is being used for other processes and the market with biodiesel, bioethonol, etc is forecast to grow considerably in coming years, where is the land for large amounts of carrot growing, going to come from?
Then you have the possibility that such carrots may be genetically modified to produce more cellulose for the nano fibres. GM has not been proven to be an environmentally safe technology so far.
Then there is the resins it?s mixed with, many being Volatile Organic Compounds. Many of the processes used to create them are distinctly environmentally unfriendly as are many of the compounds themselves.
Ron it?s one thing to say a product is Envo friendly, but for it to be so, it must stack up to a full environmental life cycle and history analysis.
Does this new carrot tech do so?
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