
What silicone is, and why I don't love cooking with it (E42)
The Adam Ragusea Podcast
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Silicone Is a Synthetic Organic Compound
Fossil fuels are finite, non-renewable and we need them for lots of purposes other than fuel. It would really suck if we burned all of the accessible fossil fuels before converting to renewable energy. Then we would be out of the raw materials necessary to make silicones and plastics and lots of other things. Silicone coatings are used on the windows of supersonic jets; they do not stick to water.
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