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New Tires Made of Oil from Orange Peels

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You read it right. A Japanese company is making tires that are not made from ANY petroleum product. The tires are composed of 20% rubber from rubber plants and 80% rubber from the oil in orange peels. Not only do these tires help to wean nations off of oil by their mere composition, but gas mileage is also slightly improved due to a 20% reduction in rolling resistance, which also helps to reduce oil dependency. Here is the video:

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Article is here.

There is about to be a whole new meaning of the term "peeling out". You had to know this crack was coming. LOL.
 
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I've always maintained that it will be technology and industry that vastly reduce pollution and oil dependency, not government. I love stuff like this.
 
Hmmmm, I wonder how much carbon based fuel it takes to raise, harvest, and process the peels and what they would do with the rest of the orange if a significant portion of tires were produced this way.


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TOJ said:
Hmmmm, I wonder how much carbon based fuel it takes to raise, harvest, and process the peels and what they would do with the rest of the orange if a significant portion of tires were produced this way.


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You could probably get free orange peels at orange juice factories. :cool:
 
Here are my questions: How much are these tires going to cost and how long do they last, in other words is there a trade-off of value or time that would make switching to these less viable?
 
Here's my main concern:

The next time the Governor of New York ignores a treaty, prompting the local Natives to shut down the the Thruway with piles of burning tiers, will we smell burning rubber or orange incense?

In other words, will it still stink when these tires burn, or will the sale of fruit-scented bathroom deodorant dip in the short-term?
 
TOJ said:
Hmmmm, I wonder how much carbon based fuel it takes to raise, harvest, and process the peels and what they would do with the rest of the orange if a significant portion of tires were produced this way.


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ornage peels are used in animal feed. If the process isn't too destructive the peel could be used thus, if not, burned for fuel.
 
Danarhea posted: There is about to be a whole new meaning of the term "peeling out". You had to know this crack was coming. LOL.
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It'll give a knew meaning to peeling alright. Peeling is when the thread seperates from the sidewall and goes rolling out through the ditch.
 
AND...... Think of how clean the roads will smell!!! :lol:
 
"Knock-knock."

"Who's there?"

"Bananna."

"Bananna who?"

"Knock-knock."

"Who's there?"

"Bananna."

"Bananna who?"

"Knock-knock."

"Who's there?"

"Bananna."

"Bananna who?"

"Knock-knock."

"Who's there?"

"Orange."

"Orange who?"

"Orange you glad we don't make tires out of banannas?"
 
Lightdemon said:
You could probably get free orange peels at orange juice factories. :cool:
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Any idea how many oranges it takes to make enough rubber for one tire? I'm thinking its gonna take a crap load.

Also, after they genetically alter the oranges for best rubber producton, will the juice made from them be any good or will they be fit to eat?

Whatever happened to those 200 mpg carburators? ;)


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TOJ said:
Hmmmm, I wonder how much carbon based fuel it takes to raise, harvest, and process the peels and what they would do with the rest of the orange if a significant portion of tires were produced this way.


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Jaysus H Christ on a cracker, if they made a cure for cancer would you complain about how much carbon is emmited by the trucks shipping it out to people?

Some people just like to sh*t on everything...
 
Pitwolfy said:
AND...... Think of how clean the roads will smell!!! :lol:
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Yeah, whenever you burnout, it smells spring fresh. :rofl

You think NASCAR will buy off on these?
 
Sturmrabe said:
Jaysus H Christ on a cracker, if they made a cure for cancer would you complain about how much carbon is emmited by the trucks shipping it out to people?

Some people just like to sh*t on everything...
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And some buy into every scheme that comes down the pike. Only idiots accept everything without question.

BTW, if someone claimed they had a cure for cancer I would question that also as the chances there will ever be a cure for cancer is somewhere between slim and none and slim left town. ;)


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TOJ said:
Any idea how many oranges it takes to make enough rubber for one tire? I'm thinking its gonna take a crap load.
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What difference does it make? It was crap to begin with. It's taking useless garbage and turning it into something useful. The more useless garbage they use to make something useful the better.

...Unless you have a better use for orange peels?

Also, after they genetically alter the oranges for best rubber producton, will the juice made from them be any good or will they be fit to eat?
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Genetically alter oranges for best rubber production? Are you delirious? If we even get to the point of genetically engineering orange peels you think we'll still be getting those peels from orange juice factories? :roll:
 
People like to eat oranges and their peels.
It will almost assuredly take more fuel (OIL) and resources to produce one tire then it will to produce 10 current.

Its an advancement in its field..its not a solution to anything.
 
Triad said:
People like to eat oranges and their peels.
It will almost assuredly take more fuel (OIL) and resources to produce one tire then it will to produce 10 current.

Its an advancement in its field..its not a solution to anything.
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You eat orange peels?

:thinking
 
Oftencold said:
I've always maintained that it will be technology and industry that vastly reduce pollution and oil dependency, not government. I love stuff like this.
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I agree. There's money to be made in this arena.
 
missypea said:
You eat orange peels?

:thinking
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Millions do every single day.

In fact the Orange Oil is eaten and used in numerous ways.
Any serious usage of it in tire production would be a negative not a positive. Very similar to the Corn fuel thing..or electric fuel thing...or battery fuel thing.
 
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Triad said:
Millions do every single day.

In fact the Orange Oil is eaten and used in numerous ways.
Any serious usage of it in tire production would be a negative not a positive. Very similar to the Corn fuel thing..or electric fuel thing...or battery fuel thing.
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Do you just bite into the orange without peeling it? Peel it and eat the peel first or save it for last?

Honestly, I've never known anyone to eat an orange....peel and all.
 
Lightdemon said:
What difference does it make? It was crap to begin with. It's taking useless garbage and turning it into something useful. The more useless garbage they use to make something useful the better.

...Unless you have a better use for orange peels?
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Ya think it might make a difference if they use all available orange production from a 1000 acres of orange trees to get enough peels to produce enough rubber for fourteen tires? Might make the economics somewhat questionable.

Genetically alter oranges for best rubber production? Are you delirious? If we even get to the point of genetically engineering orange peels you think we'll still be getting those peels from orange juice factories? :roll:
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Just guessing, but I'm thinking oranges will continue to be produced by trees and the rubber producers/tire makers will get them directly or indirectly from the growers.

So you are saying that they will not use selective breeding and genetics to produce orange hybrids for higher oil production at the expense of juice and food production, if that is how they are the most valuable?

Dictionary.com said:
de⋅lir⋅i⋅ous  /dɪˈlɪəriəs/
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–adjective 1. Pathology. affected with or characteristic of delirium.
2. wild with excitement, enthusiasm, etc.: She was delirious with joy at the news.
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I'm not the one going wild with excitement over every new scheme that comes along. That would be... you.

This may be a fantastic idea. I am simply posing questions that occur to me. ;)


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missypea said:
Do you just bite into the orange without peeling it? Peel it and eat the peel first or save it for last?

Honestly, I've never known anyone to eat an orange....peel and all.
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Not directly. :doh (Although I am sure some do)

There are various recipes out there which use orange peel.

Edit: Here

And I am sure there are various other recipes (not to mention non-food uses) which, as Triad says, use orange oil.

Edit 2: [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_oil"]Here[/ame]
 
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