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Lauren Solomon's avatar

So glad you rediscovered your 8-year-old drawing and shared this wonderful journey with us.

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Mary O’Reilly's avatar

Thank you Lauren! It makes me so happy that you're reading these.

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Dave lahr's avatar

Thank you for sharing! Awesome to see this progress. I realize ethylene itself isn't a fuel, but it is such a great building block chemical - I can imagine easily using well established chemistry to turn it into fuel, or just substituting the solar produced ethylene in everywhere ethylene is currently used. Very exciting!

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Mary O’Reilly's avatar

Totally! And it's hard to get excited about making more plastic but even if we just used this solar-produced ethylene to make it instead of petroleum that feels like a win considering how little is still made from recycled plastic, sadly.

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