PowderRiverCowboy Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 Yep , you read that right It’s edible, the stuff being produced in Stephen Techtmann’s lab. Or it’s meant to be. It doesn’t smell bad, he said, a bit like a yeast extract or the Australian food spread Vegemite. But he hasn’t tasted it. First, he wants to know it’s safe, free from anything that might be toxic. It is, after all, made from plastic. Techtmann, a microbiologist at Michigan Technological University, and collaborators from Michigan Tech and the University of Illinois, are in the midst of a project that seems half-miraculous: turning plastic waste into edible protein. https://www.mlive.com/news/2022/10/michigan-tech-researchers-are-turning-plastic-waste-into-food-for-the-us-military.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 Plastic is made from oil so I guess it can be made edible. I interesting. BTW the link says page not found Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 What could go wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowderRiverCowboy Posted October 25, 2022 Author Share Posted October 25, 2022 41 minutes ago, Rye Miles #13621 said: Plastic is made from oil so I guess it can be made edible. I interesting. BTW the link says page not found Try it now Copy missed a letter, Sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 1 hour ago, Rye Miles #13621 said: Plastic is made from oil so I guess it can be made edible. I interesting. BTW the link says page not found There's all kinds of oil. Vegetable oil and mineral oil. I know of no plastic being made from vegetable oil. As far as I know it's made from petroleum, and I was unaware of petroleum being edible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 20 minutes ago, Alpo said: There's all kinds of oil. Vegetable oil and mineral oil. I know of no plastic being made from vegetable oil. As far as I know it's made from petroleum, and I was unaware of petroleum being edible. They're call bioplastics. Microbes Convert Cooking Oil to Plastics Most plastics are not made directly from oil but are made out of the waste byproducts that result when crude oil is refined. Plastics arose out of the desire to make a profit from that waste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 30 years from now there will be a new cancer. Just like 15 years from now there will be a new virulent fatal lung cancer from all the Vapers inhaling heated glycerine based oils. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 I see it as a great new innovative product. Like Agent Orange Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 You got that right Bob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 It makes sense to try it on the military. 75 years ago they would try it on prisoners, but that abuses their civil rights. Military ain't got no civil rights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 34 minutes ago, Utah Bob #35998 said: I see it as a great new innovative product. Like Agent Orange Soylent Plastique Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 1 hour ago, Alpo said: There's all kinds of oil. Vegetable oil and mineral oil. I know of no plastic being made from vegetable oil. As far as I know it's made from petroleum, and I was unaware of petroleum being edible. Where does petroleum come from? The ground ! It’s called fossil fuels so it was alive at one time. No you can’t eat petroleum but they probably can process it to make it edible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waxahachie Kid #17017 L Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 Another source of income for big pharma. This will create a disease that will need new medicines, for us to buy at inflated prices for the rest of our lives. My science books, back in elementary school, said: "you are what you eat". I never envisioned I might become a plastic milk carton. This is so stupid. Just eat real food, naturally put together, and not something artificially put together. Gee Whizzy!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 will the using of plastics make it easier to 3D print the food ? .... you know, to give it "texture" ...... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowderRiverCowboy Posted October 25, 2022 Author Share Posted October 25, 2022 9 minutes ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said: will the using of plastics make it easier to 3D print the food ? .... you know, to give it "texture" ...... ? But will it taste like chicken ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colorado Coffinmaker Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 PLUS ONE for Utah BOB!! NO!! It'll taste like SNAKE!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 6 minutes ago, PowerRiverCowboy said: But will it taste like chicken ? 1 minute ago, Colorado Coffinmaker said: PLUS ONE for Utah BOB!! NO!! It'll taste like SNAKE!! ........ Vegemite apparently, (which has just lost some, but not all, of its' appeal ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Dan Troop 70448 Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 Petroleum is not the only raw item to make plastic. Coal, cellulose, natural gas, and yes, even salt. Process is a polymerization and polycondensation process. Polymerization is were small molecules are chemically to produce a network, plastic. polymer or resin. Polycondensation is just chemical condensation is used to produce a connecting network, polymer, a plastic or resin. After working in these units, I wouldn't eat the product no matter what. What's next, "Soylent Green"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckshot Bear Posted October 25, 2022 Share Posted October 25, 2022 Damn I hope that's not what they put in my Vegemite !!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colorado Coffinmaker Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 SO: IFFIN "they" start making "Plastic" food, when ya Fart, will it leave a "Snakeskin inna Bore??" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Bascomb, SASS # 47,494 Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 And the military thinks they have trouble recruiting NOW........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artie Fly, SASS #25397 Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 Read the book The Tomorrow File, by Lawrence Sanders. That's one of the main threads leading into the society he envisioned in this Sci-Fi novel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Barleycorn, SASS #76982 Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 Plastic, it’s what’s for dinner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Gun Barney, SASS #2428 Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 After you eat the plastic food, off your plastic plate using a plastic spork, you eat the plastic spork and plastic plate for dessert, dont forget the plastic water bottle! Mmmmm tasty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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