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Bike tires made from NASA’s bizarre shape-shifting metal are now available to buy
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this post was submitted on 16 Sep 2023
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You do realize harvesting rubber from trees means lots of cut down trees in the Amazon, and most rubber in tyres is actually synthetic
I do know most rubber is synthetic, but even making it from fossil fuels we will have enough that we will never run out.
Uh, not if our fossil fuel consumption drops to 0, which is where we will need to be