It’s always “in mice” or on an extremely small scale for ridiculous prices.
Scientists only develop the first stepping stones, most of which lead to nothing, that’s okay. But the university PR > newspaper pipeline leads to everything being a major breakthrough, and that leads to fatigue with the reader.
The biggest hurdle with getting widespread adoption of any scientific breakthrough is cost. If something is not more profitable than the current way of doing things it will not be adopted. Destroying our planet is pretty damn profitable, so until we exterminate capitalism I don’t see anything changing.
These stories have been rolling out my entire life and we still have nothing but a sea of plastics polluting the word. I call bullshit.
I think they just left out “…in the lab.”
The research is great, the article is horrible in many ways; it was obviously written by someone who didn’t understand what they were writing about.
Even leading with a high power laser array image when the article is about heating plastic with a low power non-visible radiation….
It’s always “in mice” or on an extremely small scale for ridiculous prices.
Scientists only develop the first stepping stones, most of which lead to nothing, that’s okay. But the university PR > newspaper pipeline leads to everything being a major breakthrough, and that leads to fatigue with the reader.
The biggest hurdle with getting widespread adoption of any scientific breakthrough is cost. If something is not more profitable than the current way of doing things it will not be adopted. Destroying our planet is pretty damn profitable, so until we exterminate capitalism I don’t see anything changing.