Tech Tuesday: Vegan Spider Silk

Oscar Gordon

A Navy Turbine Tech who learned to spin wrenches on old cars, Oscar has since been trained as an Engineer & Software Developer & now writes tools for other engineers. When not in his shop or at work, he can be found spending time with his family, gardening, hiking, kayaking, gaming, or whatever strikes his fancy & fits in the budget.

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15 Responses

  1. Marchmaine says:

    Not calling anything progress until we find a replacement for clamshell packaging.

    It would be nice if it could replace ‘plastic wrap’ but the thing that makes plastic wrap useful is its clingy-stretchy-ness… absent that it would be like covering it with wax paper. So I suppose we’ll have to see all of it’s properties (native and manipulated) to figure out where it would fit in? Heck, if all it did was replace toilet paper bundling, would be huge. Is it translucent? Does it take ink?

    On the spiders, have we tried raising wages?Report

    • Jaybird in reply to Marchmaine says:

      If it doesn’t take ink, it won’t be useful for clothing.

      Well, outerwear.Report

    • Oscar Gordon in reply to Marchmaine says:

      On the spiders, have we tried raising wages?

      Let’s talk about the scarcity of crickets and flies before we do anything crazy like raising spider wages.Report

    • Not calling anything progress until we find a replacement for clamshell packaging.

      I have noticed that more and more of the things I order from Amazon that are in clamshell plastic packaging at the bricks-and-mortar stores come in some form of small light-weight corrugated cardboard box with the contents identified in black print on the outside.Report

      • Marchmaine in reply to Michael Cain says:

        Yeah, there’s clearly alternative packaging going on… for a while you could even chose I think they called it ‘easy access’ packaging for some products. Not seeing that as much, but also not seeing as many clamshells from Amazon. Maybe the solution is to kill bricks&mortar for good…Report

        • Oscar Gordon in reply to Marchmaine says:

          Clamshell exists solely for loss prevention purposes. Hard to extract the product from the package while leaving the product visible in a package that can’t e easily hidden under clothing.

          No reason for it when shipped directly to the customer.Report

      • DensityDuck in reply to Michael Cain says:

        Which suggests that online direct-shipping sales are now big enough that there can be a SKU specifically for “sold online” with packaging appropriate to that, rather than just shipping an online-reseller a box of the same SKU you send to retail stores…Report

  2. Oscar Gordon says:

    Here’s an issue I had forgotten about, lost fishing nets.

    I wonder if DSOLVE has been clued in to Vegan Spider Silk yet?Report