Carrot, Turnip, Parsnip, the Nano-Dream of Economist & Bikers Alike

Fly fishing rods of the new biocomposite, curran - Scots Gaelic for carrot, are now available. Curran is made of resin mixed with nano-sized carrot fibres. The patent for it is here. CelluComp, Ltd. is the manufacturer. Curran exhibits faster damping and has a lower density, than carbon fibre, plus it's moldable.

Meanwhile, over on A Canadian Econoview, an economist's imagination runs wild over the possibilities of getting around in vehicles made of carrots and turnip, and the then potential need for a central carrot governing body and strategic carrot reserve. :) And on the UK site, Bike Biz, they are excited by the potential end of what they're calling a "carbon fibre famine", due to biocomposites made from assorted root vegetables which cellulose fibre could be made of to mix with the resin to form the curran nano-bio-composite. They have added parsnips to the other two veggies. I'd like to add the humble rutabaga to the potential list.

OTOH, this might be bad for world food prices of these comestibles. Look at what's happened to vanilla once the whole aromatherapy-based body product thing took off. The price has gone way up because the demand is so high.