So have the fools who claimed that the CIA executed JFK
Even google can make no sense of that
More fool you.
I used that in the sense the turnip uses it.
His first sentence proves that.
'watch out for the return of the sailing ship'
Taint gunna happen, even just sail assist either.
And even his slender ships is fool/arts student shit. That would need MORE ship trips, fool.
The rest of the article is even sillier, in spades with the use LNG instead of fuel oil and covering the entire deck with solar cells.Not going to work with a container ship, stupid and wouldnt even produce anything like enough power for even a f****ng oil tanker.
Record's stuck.
Irrelevant to what is being discussed SAILING SHIPS.
A large proportion of the maize grown in this country is used for animal feed, and the use the whole plant, not just the cobs. If you can persuade everyone to become vegetarian, then we could divert all that animal feed into fuel production
And you are even more clueless if you believe that the conditions that converted organic material millions of years ago (and no longer exist on planet earth today) can be replicated in a test tube on the stuff that grows today.
Why would they need to be? Oil is very simple stuff. Its just long chain hydrocarbons for the most part. Methane can be made in a biodigester just as easily as pumped from the ground. Peat IS coal, in its early stages.
What the f*ck did you think e.g. Biodiesel is made from?
I did a quick Google earlier today, to see if normal plastics could be produced from plants, and quoted polyurethane.
Also, polyethylene is the most common plastic and is produced from the C2H4 monomer, which can be derived from ethanol, although they normally use petrochemicals.
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But... I think asking if they can make existing plastics from plants was the wrong question. I don't think they want to duplicate existing plastics. I think they are looking to produce new plastics with different characteristics. For instance, ones that decompose in a reasonable timespan. I think that is what the bioplastic industry will be about.
With bulk materials, like minerals, a continuous supply is needed. Whether or not that is done by means of a few fast carriers or rather more slow carriers won't matter to the customer.
Well yes. There are two things about current plastic usage
- its easy to make from crude oil distillates,
- it works.
Organo-plastics will follow the same pattern As long as they work, exactly *which* plastics are employed is moot. Most 3D printers use polylactic acid made from corn starch. It is supposed to degrade in a few years. Its not bad, The vast majority of disposable items *could* be made from it.
PVC is in principle synthesisable from methanol or ethanol starting points.
Rayon was originally synthesised from plant cellulose. Remeber that nylon only goes nack to 1938 or thereabouts, and it was the first thermplastic polymer.
Before that we had thermosetting plastics made of coal tar, and/or wood products. Bakelite is a classic example, IIRC a phenolic resin impregnating sawdust.
Phenol is hard to make directly from plant material though
Exactly, and that is why there wont be any wind assisted ships. They cant bring the cost down enough to justify the expense and complexity.
If you look at a sailing ship that CAN actually generate useful power, the sails are *massive*
Do the calculations. There is no cost benefit advantage It would be better to erect solar panels all along the decks. Except that's where you stack containers...
Square rigged ships needed big sails, because they are, counter-intuitively, propelled by the drag those sails create. Aerofoil sails, including things like Bermuda rig and gaff rig, use lift to propel the ships, so don't need to be so large, although for an ocean going ship they will still be very big. Compare the size of the parachute in the ballistic recovery systems used in some light aircraft to the size of the wings they use in normal flight. Both need to carry the same weight, but the parachute needs to be larger and, apparently, still gives quite a hard landing.
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