Researchers create eco-friendly detergent from wood fiber and corn protein : science

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 42 points 2 months ago (4 children)

science will always find ways to turn corn into anything.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Corn is like the underdog of oil. Which is such a strange sentence to say.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 13 points 2 months ago

I'm pretty sure that if it wasn't for the Spaniards, the Aztecs would have reached the moon by now using maize fuel.

[–] geekwithsoul@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago

Big Ag will always find ways to turn corn into anything.

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago

When you get paid just to produce the thing, it's also nice if you can actually use it for something I guess

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

No, that's mostly americans.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 months ago

Sounds great, if it's non-allergenic too it would be a great product.

[+] Lemmist@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 months ago

But we DID hear about all those battery improving scientists again. If you compare the batteries in your current smartphone with those from 10 years ago, you can see quite the difference in performance (charge/discharge speed), longetivity (charge/discharge cycles) and capacityIsize. Those things take time, and not every innovation that is found is cost effective or practical as an industrial process - but it might be later on, awaiting additional knowledge to empower it.

[+] DigitalDruid@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It all depends if this can be produced in big quantities without it being too expensive.

[–] iamtherealwalrus@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Did you even read the article? It literally states that this is cheap and abundant.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

I didn't and I agree with you!

[–] limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

It does not say how they make it; just because it’s cheap for them to make in small scale is not enough info. Many good things easy to make on a workbench fail to be marketed