The chemicals that make cleaning products so effective can be difficult to break down or could even trigger ecosystem-altering algal blooms. Now, researchers reporting in ACS’ Langmuir have addressed those challenges with an environmentally compatible detergent made of tiny wood fibers and corn protein that removes stains on clothes and dishes just as well as commercial products.
But we DID hear about all those battery improving scientists again. If you compare the batteries in your current smartphone with those from 10 years ago, you can see quite the difference in performance (charge/discharge speed), longetivity (charge/discharge cycles) and capacityIsize. Those things take time, and not every innovation that is found is cost effective or practical as an industrial process - but it might be later on, awaiting additional knowledge to empower it.
But we DID hear about all those battery improving scientists again. If you compare the batteries in your current smartphone with those from 10 years ago, you can see quite the difference in performance (charge/discharge speed), longetivity (charge/discharge cycles) and capacityIsize. Those things take time, and not every innovation that is found is cost effective or practical as an industrial process - but it might be later on, awaiting additional knowledge to empower it.