A New Solar Panel Shield Made From Onion Peels Outlasted Industry Plastics in Tests
https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/renewable-energy-ecology/a-new-solar-panel-shield-made-from-onion-peels-outlasted-industry-plastics-in-tests/
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Zachariah@lemmy.world · 70 pts · 293d
/c/nottheonion?InnerScientist@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 293d
No, the onion!
prex@aussie.zone · 15 pts · 293d
No, not nottheonion!
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social · 8 pts · 293d
“Thats as clear as I can make it”
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world · 10 pts · 293d
Great. Now I have the Dinosaurs baby in my head...
whiwake@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 293d
RIP cheap onions
magic_lobster_party@fedia.io · 24 pts · 293d
Nah they’re just going to extract the skin of the onion, and sell it to grocery stores with a plastic covering instead
x00z@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 293d
I see you're making a joke about it actually being worse for the environment.
But serious answer: I think they'll be sourced from companies using bulk onions as an ingredient, who can now sell the skins for a profit, thus lowering the prices of those end products while keeping the prices of onions the same.
modus@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 293d
Ha! You think they'll lower prices just like that? You underestimate big onion.
whiwake@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 293d
The world no longer works on that “lower prices for the consumer” concept because consumers will pay whatever price you tell them to pay.
KarmaPolice@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 293d
I think you mean raising the price of the end products, because they're a responsible company that is helping the environment.
dave@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 293d
So glad they put an onion in that shot—I had no idea what they were talking about until I saw it.
Zachariah@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 293d
Could have been this guy: