Joel Barker

Turning plastic bottles into super insulation

Joel Barker joins Jim Blasingame to report on recent breakthroughs with turning plastic bottles, etc. into a kind of aerogel that becomes a multi-purpose insulator, thus turning a menacing waste into a useful product.

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