Krautdragon [ Art ]Mar 5
Costume crafting is my most rewarding hobby. (But the materials are giving me ecological nightmares.)
Show threadMx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of the Pnictogen Wing

that's amazing work and very life-like. I know what you mean about the materials and it's a pity, because I feel like that's unnecessary. There's a tremendous body of work on substitutes for polymers that are currently made from petrochemical feedstocks, but it all remains very small-scale and mostly academic because the petrochemical industry does NOT want to interrupt the pipeline they've constructed: straight out of the Earth and flowing into every conceivable consumer product.


#plastics #polymers #petroleum
Mar 6 at 7:21amWeb
Show threadKrautdragon [ Art ]Mar 6
@mxchara I'm not knowledgeable, I had the assumption it's not that simple but looking at oil and gas industry, wouldn't be surprised if big players sabotaged and slowed it... one way or another civilisation is way behind with it's alternatives. This is what we should have figured out more, not image generators and chatbots. 
Show threadMx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of the Pnictogen WingMar 6

You said it! Yes there's challenges; I think that going over to natural and renewable feedstocks in a sensible way would mean abandoning a lot of the industrial expectations that have been built up over the centuries since "The Industrial Revolution". People would have to expect a bit more variability in physical properties, a bit less reliability in supply-chained that (in my opinion) would be compensated by having a greater range of options and sources. And I totally agree: this is what technological development should be all about, not…LLMs.


#technology #manufacturing