• Marxism-Fennekinism@lemmy.ml
    hexagon
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    8 months ago

    There's actually an entire field of chemistry dedicated to finding renewable alternatives to petroleum as a manufacturing feedstock for common chemicals. It's not easy but very necessary.

      • Marxism-Fennekinism@lemmy.ml
        hexagon
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        8 months ago

        This page has more information about some of the approaches: https://www.science.org/content/article/can-world-make-chemicals-it-needs-without-oil

        Plant based chemistry is also one of the avenues being seriously explored: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452223621000067