• Fondots@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    NileRed on YouTube has done a few interesting things like turning plastic gloves into hot sauce through different chemical processes.

    It’s more of a fun science demonstration than anything meant to be even remotely practical to create food from waste, and there are some pretty nasty chemicals involved in some of them that really have no business being anywhere near food

    But it does I think drive home the point that everything is basically made out of the same stuff and it’s a matter of figuring out how to break it down and put it back together in the right way to be useful.

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      But it does I think drive home the point that everything is basically made out of the same stuff and it’s a matter of figuring out how to break it down and put it back together in the right way to be useful.

      One step closer to my favorite utopia, Gay Space Communism* (replicators).

      * coined by rightwing chuds, but I really like this term.

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      12 hours ago

      The alchemists were right, they just focused on the wrong area of the periodic table. We can’t turn lead into gold, but we can turn plastic into mouthwatering hamburgers!

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        You can turn lead into gold; it was something that was demonstrated in my HS science class. It’s just that the chemical used to make the change is far more valuable than the gold you get out of the process.

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        We’ve so far turned lead into gold 2 times

        It’s just so expensive it’s not worth doing except to see if you can

        It’s also weirdly easiest to turn things much more radioactive but further away into gold, such as Osmium, but the gold that it produces is radioactive

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        We actually can turn lead into gold and fairly easily now, it’s just that it would cost you billions of dollars to make pennies worth of gold.

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        10 hours ago

        Actually we can turn lead into gold by shooting it with particle accelerators. It is not profitable though.

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      12 hours ago

      The researchers on this one are convinced they can eat the cookies. And while scientists underestimating personal risks isn’t unheard of (hence why they need university approval), it means there isn’t anything obviously dangerous with this process.