Interesting Michele.
Thoughts on the chickens. How does this actually affect the chicken being used in the study other than the outcome of the egg? What happens if one gets loose? What happen to future generations?
Also, who is the company developing this egg/chicken? What is their GMO background? What is their track record of drug recalls and safety?
I do not trust Big Pharma.
Here is another related article which I found today. Gene editing of wheat to make it safe for people with coeliac disease . That is a whole other can of worms.
https://phys.org/news/2019-01-wheat-safe-people-coeliac-disease.html
Jeanne Mayell
On 10/27/2018 I entered a post concerning my expectations about new developments in electrical energy storage. You responded and asked me these questions: “Does this mean more affordable electric cars that would enable us to fossil free cars by 2020? Battery operated airplanes? Homes heated by batteries?”
This morning I read the following article: “Electric aircraft could transform short-distance regional air travel”
by Chad Berndt | 01/28/2019
In the article Chad refers to an all-electric aircraft with a range somewhat short of 700 miles being developed sometime in the early 2020’s.
https://www.teslarati.com/electrification-vertical-take-off-landing-aircraft-travel/
Wow, NWDoug,
What an interesting project. Can't quite wrap my head around big enough electric storage battery systems just yet but things are already changing in leaps and bounds.
But if the average flight is indeed our "commuter" planes of under 700 miles it makes a big difference.
I'm typing on a cell phone that's faster than the fastest computer we ever had using a mobile signal faster than our wifi we used to have.
Never could have imagined that when we got our first plug in bag phone im what, the 90s?
Now i understand that 20 years flies by like a time warp, so why not accept the possibility of an electric airplane in what could happen in even less?
I am amazed! WOW!
With so much concern now with plastic straws and utensils in a world where fast food and drive-up food service are a staple in far too many family's lives, any news that help exchange these environmentally hurtful products for eco-friendly ones is so important.
From ending up in our seas and oceans to being found inside sea life (even trapped in sea turtles nostrils) its more serious that most of know. Even the ubiquitous plastic plastic bag has been ingested by many animals, especially sea life, or wrapped around them, making it impossible to breathe, to eat or to surface for air under sea vessels, docks etc.
Companies have been experimenting with bamboo, paper, and other alternatives but cost, usability, and reality of production have all found issues with many choices.
So, how about recycling avocado pits/seeds to make a plastic material that actually decomposes?
A news article out of Mexico seems to show that this just might be a new alternative.
A young biochemist, Scott Munguia, has spent 2 years develooing and working on this and founded a company, Biofase and is now starting production with 44 employees.
And with market demand it just might be a viable alternative.
And the need and the production for many types of neo-plastics as well as the need to use every bit of all products currently going into landfills by using them in the manufacturing of other items will create many new forms of industry and employment possibilities.
With so much concern now with plastic straws and utensils in a world where fast food and drive-up food service are a staple in far too many family's lives, any news that help exchange these environmentally hurtful products for eco-friendly ones is so important.
From ending up in our seas and oceans to being found inside sea life (even trapped in sea turtles nostrils) its more serious that most of know. Even the ubiquitous plastic plastic bag has been ingested by many animals, especially sea life, or wrapped around them, making it impossible to breathe, to eat or to surface for air under sea vessels, docks etc.
Companies have been experimenting with bamboo, paper, and other alternatives but cost, usability, and reality of production have all found issues with many choices.
So, how about recycling avocado pits/seeds to make a plastic material that actually decomposes?
A news article out of Mexico seems to show that this just might be a new alternative.
A young biochemist, Scott Munguia, has spent 2 years develooing and working on this and founded a company, Biofase and is now starting production with 44 employees. His monthy yield is 130 tons of biodegradable plastic and 40% of that includes straws.
And with market demand it just might be a viable alternative.
And the need and the production for many types of neo-plastics as well as the need to use every bit of all products currently going into landfills by using them in the manufacturing of other items will create many new forms of industry and employment possibilities.
Michele & Lovendures, here is another article about electric planes:
“Tesla’s Latest Acquisition Could Make Elon Musk’s Electric Plane Fly | By Mike Brown 02 05/19”
I wonder what other electrical technology will be hinted at next?
Thanks NWDoug, a very interesting article.
We are opening up into a huge era of Technological Evolution (instead of only the old Industrial Revolution) and it's dramatically speeding up in length of time required to jumpstart and take off into one new idea/thing after another!
What an interesting era to be living in!
Interesting. I hope he doesn't simply "sit" on this technology. Thanks NWDoug.
Lovendures, I can only hope he follows through on all his revelations. So far these achievements have been remarkable; Space X with the booster rockets landing back on earth, and Tesla selling more Model 3's than any other luxury car in the US in 2018.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/08/teslas-model-3-was-2018s-best-selling-luxury-car-in-us.html
Volkswagen will be using Tesla battery power packs in it's charging stations for the US in it's bit to help electrify the US.
https://www.ioebusiness.com/tech/volkswagen-to-use-tesla-batteries-at-its-charging-stations/
VW plans to give Tesla serious competition in the not too distant future.
https://www.autoblog.com/2019/02/06/vw-ev-strategy-inside-story/
VW plans to use solid-state batteries in it's EVs and is making a major push to do so.
Tesla about to have major competition from a new EV start-up company.