Yesterday Your Screen Was Built With Fossil Fuels -Today It’s Built With Biology
- Date: 20-Jul-2021
- Source: Forbes
- Sector:Industrial
- Country:Gulf
Yesterday Your Screen Was Built With Fossil Fuels -Today It’s Built With Biology
Hyaline, a transparent film made biofactured by microbes rather than petrochemicals.
Modern manufacturing essentially hasn’t changed in 200 years. Fossil fuels are burned or converted into other materials to make everything from skyscrapers to phone screens. But now scientists and entrepreneurs are going back to nature’s oldest building blocks to design a newer, more sustainable future. Why pump oil out of the ground to make chemicals when microbes can make higher quality materials that are better for our planet?