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Zoot Katz
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Oh joy! Skids will smell like fresh squeezed oranges. The roads will get degreased and tire fires will smell like burning citrus orchards.
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nutsandvolts said:
What juice you drinkin' that has the peel in it? :|
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"...20-percent reduction in rolling resistance..." THAT's pretty significant too... Come on Yokohama, make some bike tires too!
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...hey... waitasec... these tires are TINY. Or they have sourced really big oranges?
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...hey... waitasec... these tires are TINY. Or they have sourced really big oranges?
spinningmagnets
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Germany has always had a shortage of crude organic oil, and the US had a dramatic shortage during WWII. Both nations have developed advanced chemical industries as a result. Before WWII the major component of tire rubber was a natural latex sap from a rubber tree. The number of latex groves suddenly needed then would take years to mature if the military tripled them, so inventing synthetic rubber was a national priority.
The polymer (plastics) and elastomer (rubber) industries can be supported by chemically changing any naturally occurring oil. But the more you have to do to the oil to change it, the more expensive it is. Rudolph Diesel showed his giant one-cyl factory engine at the 1900 worlds fair burning peanut oil. You can imagine the difficulty in obtaining a tanker load of peanut oil compared to the simple distillation of crude oil pumped out of a well.
Corn oil can be used (to make any plastic or rubber type), and the left-over carbohydrate mash then fed to livestock, but orange peels have been a waste product for some time. Citrus products are a basic commodity in society because of scurvy. This leaves a huge volume of citrus peelings that are very cheap. Certainly some are ground up and mixed into animal feed, but extracting the oil is a smart move...
The polymer (plastics) and elastomer (rubber) industries can be supported by chemically changing any naturally occurring oil. But the more you have to do to the oil to change it, the more expensive it is. Rudolph Diesel showed his giant one-cyl factory engine at the 1900 worlds fair burning peanut oil. You can imagine the difficulty in obtaining a tanker load of peanut oil compared to the simple distillation of crude oil pumped out of a well.
Corn oil can be used (to make any plastic or rubber type), and the left-over carbohydrate mash then fed to livestock, but orange peels have been a waste product for some time. Citrus products are a basic commodity in society because of scurvy. This leaves a huge volume of citrus peelings that are very cheap. Certainly some are ground up and mixed into animal feed, but extracting the oil is a smart move...
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Real also about how King Leopold absolutely raped the Congo, especially for natural rubber, about the time the 20th century discovered the joy of pneumatic tires... Perhaps this time around more demand for natural rubber might be better managed, rather than like blood diamonds etc.
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somone please e-mail me when the first tyres emerge - I work for a eco group - and they're all looking fro funny ways of being the most eco friendly---
trumpettom001@hotmail.com
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spinningmagnets
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Orange-peel-oil tires, on a diesel burning old french-fry oil? Throw in the hemp-cloth upholstery, and I'm getting the munchies just thinking about the smell !
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Be yee preparrrrrrred! A Reid Rant © ( :lol: :lol: :lol: ) is to come
toooo soon! Please do not stand by, nor re-boot your 'puter.
I am preparing bottles of vitriol to throw at all and sundry Operating Systems
PS: the orange oil tire seems perfectly sound and proper and good.
In the meanwhile, look up via google, " terpines " , to get a head start.
My post to come will need hours of composition and it will be long.
Ignore it as you like, I care not; I have no life/family, anyway, otherwise.
The Reid © likes to opine like a porcupine likes to bristle :lol:
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toooo soon! Please do not stand by, nor re-boot your 'puter.
I am preparing bottles of vitriol to throw at all and sundry Operating Systems
PS: the orange oil tire seems perfectly sound and proper and good.
In the meanwhile, look up via google, " terpines " , to get a head start.
My post to come will need hours of composition and it will be long.
Ignore it as you like, I care not; I have no life/family, anyway, otherwise.
The Reid © likes to opine like a porcupine likes to bristle :lol:
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