the problem with having a fairly efficient bioplastic synthesis process is that you have a bunch of crude oil that nobody knows what to do with. the enjyn have so much of it that you don't even need to drill wells - their planet is basically a giant tepid bog, it just seeps out sometimes and is really annoying. whatever they don't use (most of it) is off to be processed into bioplast by funny algae
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in reply to @pearshapes's post:
might be useful as a pharmaceutical precursor source - crude oil has a lot of different molecular structures (aromatic rings, etc) that're difficult to synthesize from non-petroleum sources
Not sure how it would compare to having biosynthesis, though - it really depends on the relative scalability of the biosynthesis methods compared to petrochemical ones
with enough space and enough time, anything's possible! but that's an interesting point... i think if anything they might be harvested from nebulae and deeper down in gas giants, if at all. the microcosm is basically post-scarcity so it doesn't matter if something operates "at a loss", more that it produces efficiently
Oh yeah, efficiency (space or energy) is what I was thinking of when I meant "scalable" :P
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