By Andrew Williams •
November 11, 2008
US Scientists have figured out a way to mass produce the nanomaterial graphene, opening the door to significant advances in the storage of hydrogen, as well as the electricity produced by solar and wind energy.
Graphene, produced by reducing graphite down to a sheet only one atom thick, is one of the strongest materials known to man. It has been shown to have huge potential for hydrogen and renewable energy storage, but up until now has been held back by a lack of supply. Now the team, based at the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA, have discovered a method of producing graphene sheets in large quantities.
By Caroline Savery •
July 27, 2008
“Businesses and politicians have no part whatsoever to play in the solution: it is all about individual ‘non-civilians’.”
-Keith Farnish
The Sust Enable webcast series was spawned in a climax of understanding… years of myriad input and countless bits of information collected over time at once coalesced into one artistic, complex and beautiful vision. I’ve never experienced anything else quite like it. This is why I sometimes refer to the project as my “opus”–it artistically expresses and defines who I was before this period. Who I will be after, too, is forever altered by the work’s creation. Like giving birth to a living being, the act of creation transcends your own capacity to control it.
I can only imagine that Keith Farnish’s comprehensive A Matter of Scale was a similar labor of love. One can sense the author’s own expressive burst in the feverish love with which he forms his ideas.
A Matter of Scale is an e-Book only; not yet a typical “print” book. This could be for a number of reasons. It could be the author’s environmental concerns of tree-felling for books. Then, it could be the crux of his whole philosophy of taking personal responsibility for the actions affecting our global ecosystem. But one thing is certain–A Matter of Scale is unpublished certainly NOT due to its lack of quality insight and urgent information. For its own modest scale and scope, it packs a wallop.
