What Will Mankind Do For Plastics ... Corwin: We can manufacture plastics from plenty of different organic compounds.... corn oil for instance. We can manufacture fuel with it too. If you fill your car in Canada, the chances are that you're already burning up to 10% ethyl derived from corn. calybonos: I'm holding out for the Romney 2.0 version. Carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic...twice the bullshit and half the weight! Hyenablood: personally I can't wait for oil to run out and humanity to fall apart, it will bring me much pleasure to watch the daily news on all the rioting, sigh, chaos is so nice. StuckInTheSixties: Post-apocalypse television programming should be interesting ... Wait ... um ... Never mind ... Geoff: You can create cellulose based plastics from vegetable matter. And humanity has been moving more towards carbon fibre over plastics anyway. And glass is a perfectly acceptable alternative to plastic for bottles. And we're not likely to run out of sand. | Science Chat Room 2 People Chatting Similar Conversations |