What's The Big Idea?

What's The Big Idea?

The Material That Could've Changed The World...

Chris
Nov 09, 2021
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Today we’re diving right in to an exceptional material nicknamed ‘starlite’. It’s inventor, Maurice Ward was a former hairdresser before he followed his other passion and became a backyard experimenter.

In his humble garage laboratory one cold morning in England, Maurice stumbled upon a thermal shielding material with potential far beyond anything we had…

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