J-Beer bottles: diamond & plastic?

[Taro Toporific]

Sealing machine makes plastic beer bottles reality
Monday, December 1, 2003 / Japan Times
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. has found a way to enhance the sealing performance of plastic, allowing beer makers to reduce their need for aluminum cans and create new kinds of product containers.
Mitsubishi said the equipment coats the inner surface of a plastic bottle with a substance known as DLC, or "diamond-like carbon," which makes the bottle more than 10 times as resistant to oxygen penetration or carbon dioxide leakage.

[kami gaijin]

Yippie! Score one more for science!

That makes the score:

Alcohol - 10000691
Intelligence - 2 (the first one was when man invinted beer)

[devicenull]

sigh, i cant wait till the mass production starts up for the perfect diamonds... the one that debeers is literally shitting themselves over because it will kill them

[Caustic Saint]

sigh, i cant wait till the mass production starts up for the perfect diamonds... the one that debeers is literally shitting themselves over because it will kill them

Great article about this in the Sept. 2003 issue of Wired.

Aron Weingarten brings the yellow diamond up to the stainless steel jeweler's loupe he holds against his eye. We are in Antwerp, Belgium, in Weingarten's marbled and gilded living room on the edge of the city's gem district, the center of the diamond universe. Nearly 80 percent of the world's rough and polished diamonds move through the hands of Belgian gem traders like Weingarten, a dealer who wears the thick beard and black suit of the Hasidim.

"This is very rare stone," he says, almost to himself, in thickly accented English. "Yellow diamonds of this color are very hard to find. It is probably worth 10, maybe 15 thousand dollars."

"I have two more exactly like it in my pocket," I tell him.

He puts the diamond down and looks at me seriously for the first time. I place the other two stones on the table. They are all the same color and size. To find three nearly identical yellow diamonds is like flipping a coin 10,000 times and never seeing tails.

"These are cubic zirconium?" Weingarten says without much hope.

"No, they're real," I tell him. "But they were made by a machine in Florida for less than a hundred dollars."

Weingarten shifts uncomfortably in his chair and stares at the glittering gems on his dining room table. "Unless they can be detected," he says, "these stones will bankrupt the industry."

[devicenull]

Great article about this in the Sept. 2003 issue of Wired.

meh, wired was slow to it... hit the intarweb quite a while ago. and the flawless method that produces 1ct/$5 is apparently working. this is a main reason why debeers has started to throw serial numbers on all their diamonds... gotta wonder how long before people catch on that something better is out there for practically nothing

[Buraku]

Plastic Bottles

[Coligny]

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