The future of carbon fiber?

[ergott]

This looks promising

Scientists are making carbon fiber from plants instead of petroleum

[flydhest]

Very cool. Thanks for posting.

[tylercheung]

I sort of wonder, eventually would biochemical engineering get good enough you can program a vat of e. coli to grow your fibers, kind of like how they do beer w/ yeast these days...

[dddd]

They really mean the resin (matrix), not the fibers, right?

[zap]

The fibers.