propylene Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:10:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Siluria’s New Technology Could Make Plastic Bottles from Natural Gas https://www.greenoptimistic.com/siluria-plastic-bottles-natural-gas-20140117/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/siluria-plastic-bottles-natural-gas-20140117/#respond Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:10:47 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=45246 The start-up Siluria has discovered a way to swap natural gas for crude oil as a key ingredient in the plastics around us. Siluria has an excellent pedigree. Bill Joy, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, MIT scientists Angela Belecher, and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen all backed the six year old start up. Thanks to a […]

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