In 2021 Steve Techtmann at Michigan Technological University and Ting Lu at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign received over $100 million in prize money to further their research into converting waste plastic into edible proteins, sugars, and fats; converting them “into something that’s nutritious,” Techtmann told Fox 5 New York.
Techtmann says that their process works by using microbes that completely breakdown the plastics completely, and “in the end, all we are left with are microbial cells, and those cells are made up of a lot of the same things we eat,” Techtmann added.
Bacterial cells are about half protein, so they have all the nutrients that we would really need in order to be used as a food.
Techtmann explained to WJMN Local 3 News
Once dried-out the powders look identical to brown sugar, the head scientist explained, which he says takes roughly about a day to fully breakdown.
The end product will purportedly be used for MREs and other food items at store shelves, though this vision is still probably a few years off.
Last year The WinePress reported on another team of scientists (also in Michigan) who are seeking to try and convert old wind turbine blades into edible gummy bears and sports drinks, among other things.
SEE: Scientists Say Wind Turbines Could Be Recycled Into Edible Gummy Bears And Sports Drinks
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[7] Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate. [8] He that deviseth to do evil shall be called a mischievous person. [9] The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men. Proverbs 24:7-9
Ah, the mind of a modern scientist at work once again, we see! Never asking themselves, should we, but said, can we?
It’s one thing if you said to me that you wanted to breakdown the plastics, dedicate a burial plot for the residue, burry it, and never speak of it again; but you are out of your mind if you think I am going to ingest this.
As I have said before, the same eco-warriors that convinced the world to ditch paper bags and paper products for plastic in the name of saving the habitat of the spotted owl, and convert to all plastic for nearly everything – are now the same idiots whining about the pollution and health problems they inadvertently caused.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Plastics based protein and macronutrients? Two words: NO THANKS
SO, made up of “a lot of the things we eat”. He is not telling that they are also made up of a LOT of the things we should NEVER eat. Another psychopath. Most ALL researchers make their living from US GOVERNMENT GRANTS meaning they have strings attached to their grants. All sell out scumbags. Science is long dead when political agenda is the driving factor……throughout the entirety of the history of medicine, food and most other things we take for granted
lol those aint scientists. those are nut cases.
any basic man or woman knows there exists no protein in plastic coz they arent organic living organism. i think these conjurers have dipped too much into the crispr kits while making them.
faitlytales do come true but only when get a government grant and a white lab coat.
what airheads! lol
1 Timothy 6:20
O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:
Plastics made from oil (same base as the alternative petroyuan setting the stage for the fulfillment of Ezekiel 38….& you can bet the technobate elites&cronies or high nicolaitan crowd won’t be eating bugs, microbes & plastics should things drag on long enough. (Which means someone, somewhere has to be doing that ‘dirty’ work & sweating somewhere to supply them. Remember, the Egyptian’s attitude on shepherds! Genesis 46:31-34 KJB. God’s people survived on the fringes by filling such niches, even the remnant of anabaptists who fled Prussia for Russia…& then to Canada& the US, who were wise to the conditions & spirit of the times leading up to the Revolution. Surviving & living their quiet lives [1 Thess 4:11 KJB], here & there, wherever denying Christ & receiving the pope as the visual god wasn’t made a condition.)
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There are two theories on ‘oil’…petrocarbon, coals, etc. The millions and millions of years ago theory, and the Flood of Noah producing those buried layers of carbon. So you can guess which side ‘science fal$ely so-called comes down on. All living things are made of carbon, & everything burned on the altar of the Tabernacle & Temple was made of carbon. For years it looked like those buried commodities were limited, & weren’t perpetually being created as part of the cycle of death, decomposition & corruption now at work in this world, but then the petrified wood & oil produced in Spirit Lake after the eruption of Mr. St. Helens in the ’80’s changed that (probably a continual natural process involving microbes & conditions…& the control freak profiteers/alchemists/green-whacko myths & savior stories had to adjust).
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Still, a product derived from corruption, judgment & death; not life as all the blessings of God…which makes sense. (As well as the necromancers & death worshippers ‘progressing’ through neutering, sterilization & death… That’s all evolution is. Now they want to ‘eat it’, too?…or feed it to others?…or both. Anything to shake their fists at God, reject his provision of salvation & justification….and to justify & build their own salvation! Anything but humbling themselves. Such is idolatry & antichrist ‘science’.)
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Interestingly, the big ministry creation science folks released a LOT supporting Noah’s flood from the Spirit Lake & Mt. St. Helens data that was really good. But they were pretty mum on the part about the oil, though they did use some of the microbe information gleaned to clean up an oil spill here or there.
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Now that I’ve read more of Ruckman’s compilation of the biblical textual issue & how disappearing all the mountains of evidence & textual & lectionary etc history (even of their own ‘Church Fathers’, especially anteNicene) worked & was worked: steered, greasing the skids w/ money & rewarding people for not promoting or mentioning ‘certain things’….something that’s easier to do with each dumbed down & demoralized generation then unaware of those things, & robbed of their heritage & literacy.
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Very much like the Jews through the ages reading from Judges onward. (I mean, what do you mean ‘then they found a copy of the Law’? Wasn’t everything in Israel & Judah supposed to be done according to the word, & where were the Levites? Oh yeah, sons of Samuel and all that!!) “to the Jew first and also to the Greek/Gentile” cuts both ways: Romans 11 KJB.
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With all of that in mind, it’s even easier to understand how & why that was achieved & carried out.
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Ruckman’s ‘Biblical Scholarship’ has been a great blessing in ironing out the many false claims made against certain passages of the King James Bible, the non-Alexandrian, non-Origen, non-gnostic, non-humanist, non-Catholic Bible. The only one that doesn’t confound the identities of Christ and antichrist, open the door to idolatries & additional gods, or fuzzy up the endtime prophecies. Our faith is grounded in many infallible proofs.
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Because I’d never read Ruckman prior to that, and had come independently & by the grace of God, the guidance of the Holy Spirit acting on conscience to a stand on the King James alone: I can’t be accused of being ‘Ruckman’- defiled or -influenced to that end & ‘in ignorance’, or whatever the slanders & labels of that old accuser this, & the next, go-round for those ending with a narrow, singular stand on the KJB. Or so easily dismissed by those I tried to warn as the evidence piled up before it all became antichrist propaganda sight in 2020.
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I can also testify because of the way the Lord led me from most to least apostasized, but none pure so far as standing on the King James Bible & or its order& polity for the churches is concerned, that those scriptures he defended are precisely where the attacks are made: not just in the liberal, the ‘theologically liberal, politically conservative’, but even in ‘fundamentalist’ & supposed KJB churches & schools without anyone saying he biased me.
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It’s like closure, & though it’s not an imperative to know or walk in faith, it’s an incredible blessing & bolsterer of faith second only to the word of God itself. An incredible satisfaction & stay. Like a bonus.