Dandelion tires? It’s not a Beatles lyric, it’s biotech
http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/14/tech/dandelion-tires-latex-biotech/index.html?hpt=hp_c3
This is another one of those ideas that I wish I had thought of, though realistically, I have too ideas I am already thinking about to add any more. Rubber tree plantations (really! they still use natural rubber!) take quite a while to establish themselves and harvesting is highly labor intensive. To have something that can grown and be mechanically harvested in a single year would be a huge breakthrough, I am quite sure. Plus the little devils grow just about everywhere!
