US Air Force Seeks Sustainable Dandelion Supply Chain To Thwart “Rubber Apocalypse”
If all goes according to plan, the US Air Force could fly on sustainable tires made from dandelion rubber, some day.
If all goes according to plan, the US Air Force could fly on sustainable tires made from dandelion rubber, some day.
The first-ever modern pilot system for the extraction of large quantities of tire rubber from dandelions is currently in the process of being built by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, in cooperation with Continental. The pilot project is possible thanks to a number … [continued]
Talk about your poetic justice, karma or just plain old payback: dandelions, that bane of suburban life, may some day work their way into that staple of suburban life, the family car. In partnership with researchers at Ohio State University, Ford is developing a dandelion-based rubber substitute that could be used to make