Terrorist attack on Saudi oil

[All Darc]

Flying cars... Unless they discover anti-gravity, they would be just like small helicopter, and demanding large spaces to fly, and not like the flying droids of Star Wars.
The idea that everyone would be able to replace their cars with flying cars (like planes or helicopter or drones) it's insane. 2D it's already difficult to drive and keep safe, and 3D would be even more dangerous, and the air turbulance demand large distances splitting the vehicles one form each other.

Drones... large drones... I think it's a mistake imagine it as flying cars... Anyway if we think about large drones for human transportation, maybe up to 4 people, it can became a reality in the next 15 years or less, if Goodenough new battery could realy get 10x more energy than the actual lithium cells, but would demand air roots as a helicopter demands.

Controled fusion already exists, but at present time it produces less energy than what it's need to create the fusion itself.

Originally Posted by redpoint5

Switchgrass ethanol in my view is like nuclear fusion and flying cars... it's coming... in 30 years?

[Xist]

It is also possible that humans discover obscure plants with desirable attributes and engineer it into everyday crops.

[redpoint5]

If we understand how to genetically manipulate things, we wouldn't be so reliant on finding something that already does something similar to what we want. New creatures.

[freebeard]

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by All Darc

Unless USA have a secrete technology to much higher & easier corn production compared to Brazil, sugar cane it's more effective, otherwise Brazil would use corn, since Brazil also have a very high cattle and vegetable oil production for exportation.

It's not simply a matter of a higher productivity with corn crops compared to sugarcane, you need to remember not every region is suitable to sugarcane, while there are many varieties of corn that are better suited to different climates.

USA, few years ago, was interested on Brazil's sugar cane ethanol production.

With so many gas-guzzlers there, I'm sure it would become harder to sell. Not even the cold start would be all that hard to overcome...

I wonder how many cars could they move if was possible to collect methane from cows.

Corn-based ethanol ends up being somehow the closest approach, as it ends up decreasing the amount of methane released by beef cattle.

By the way, just for brazilians : João Doria would try to feed the poor using corn destilation leftover, if Brazil had a corn ethanol program.

It does surprise me that some businesses that provide meat-replacement items for vegetarians didn't try using DDG corn protein as a cheaper alternative to soy concentrated protein.

[All Darc]

Flex cars (works with gas and ethanol) it's another good technology.

Corn destiled left over have high protein :



If it's clean and not toxic and rich in nutrients, what the hell... it like yogurt.
And with a hot girls in a add you can broke prejudices, or even convince people to eat ping-pong balls.

But aminoacids, in terms of essential aminoacids, corn have not a good balance alone, as it's poor in lisin and triptofano, but with other vegetable protein, rich in both of these, like beans, it can be used, or even get added of synthetic lisin and triptofano.

And there are researchs which developed corn varieties richer in lisin and triptofane.
https://www.agencia.cnptia.embrapa.b...uenjb06chf.htm

There are yeasts that we can eat and are very flavor and rich in nutrients, like nutritional yeast. I supose all the starchs, extracted from grains to produce protein isolated, could be used to produce such yeasts.

Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr

With so many gas-guzzlers there, I'm sure it would become harder to sell. Not even the cold start would be all that hard to overcome...

It does surprise me that some businesses that provide meat-replacement items for vegetarians didn't try using DDG corn protein as a cheaper alternative to soy concentrated protein.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by All Darc

But aminoacids, in terms of essential aminoacids, corn have not a good balance alone, as it's poor in lisin and triptofano, but with other vegetable protein, rich in both of these, like beans, it can be used, or even get added of synthetic lisin and triptofano.

Chickpeas (grão de bico) have a good amount of Tryptophan.

There are yeasts that we can eat and are very flavor and rich in nutrients, like nutritional yeast. I supose all the starchs, extracted from grains to produce protein isolated, could be used to produce such yeasts.

IIRC that would be quite similar to how Vegemite is made.

[All Darc]

https://saude.abril.com.br/bem-estar...a-a-depressao/

Vegemite costs a fortune on Brasil.
Someone here should create a national equivalent, other brand but with similar taste.

Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr

Chickpeas (grão de bico) have a good amount of Tryptophan.

IIRC that would be quite similar to how Vegemite is made.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by All Darc

Vegemite costs a fortune on Brasil.
Someone here should create a national equivalent, other brand but with similar taste.

AFAIK there are similar products being currently made in Brazil too, but most if not all the production is bound for export to Australia.

[oil pan 4]

Turns out it could have been this guy.
This is what he looked like before and after he orchestrated the attack on our embassy.