I concur with building picoballoons. It's much more economical. It's hard to recover from a malfunctioning rocket that carried your precious payload, but a burst Yokohama is just a learning lesson.
The current zeitgeist is clearly anti-plastic. Only time will change their minds. Fortunately, the healthcare industry (hospitals) will always use plastic for preventing contamination in a very economical way.
yeah but there don't seem to be conclusive studies that show that "microplastics" are a detriment at all.
You'd assume that there is a study that tested 200 people with more and less microplastic intake over a year to show that it actually has an effect, but I guess you'd have to do 20 studies to get a p<0.05...
It's the current trend in selling the fear of climate change caused by fossil fuels. People get desensitized to prior campaigns, like oil drilling, pipelines, gasoline cars, and plastic bottles in the ocean and straws in the rivers. Microplastics push the fact there's something foreign in your own body, and that's disgusting.
Martin personally gave me a tour of the factories back in 2002. I got to see first hand things being made from parts. I overheard him pitching an idea to an engineer, and then a year later seeing the product reviewed in QST. I still use the clock he gave me.
