In contrast to ETC’s competition to design a rather doom laden nanohazard symbol, Jessica Burns, the winner of the 1st Annual Clarion University of Pennsylvania Nanotechnology Digital Art Contest takes a more positive view.
DEFRA Tabulates Nanotech Impact On Climate Change (but fails to quantify it)
The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has released a study exploring some of the ways in which nanotechnology could be used to help combat climate change (download pdf). Not surprisingly, the study identifies similar areas of nanotechnologies to our March study, Nanotech:Cleantech. Overall, the DEFRA study gives a good overview with a focus on UK policy implications …
Counting The Cost Of Carbon Emissions
Further to our recent Carbon Emissions calculations we looked at the cost of offsetting the carbon saved through the use of nanotechnologies (many companies offer this service, and it involves planting trees and building windmills, though not seeding the ocean with iron filings). Assuming a figure of around $15 per ton, which is what we were quoted by The Carbon …
Quantifying Nanotechnologies In Tons Of Carbon Dioxide
There is a current fashion to relate everything to cleanteach or sustainability, and nanotech is no exception. In fact since the dawn of nanotechnology there has been much speculation over how nanotechnologies can enable a green and sustainable future, whether in replacing all manufacturing with table top nano assemblers or developing cleaner and more efficient ways of generating energy. But …
From NanoBiz to CleanBiz
Touching down between Saarbrucken and Bucharest I’m not sure whether imitation is the sincerest form of flattery or the number of people leaping off the nanotech bandwagon and onto the climate change one will result in a tsunami. The US Nanobusiness alliance is the latest to go dark green, abandoning the molecular future and the usual hype for a “Cleantech …
Carbon Crazy
Anyone reading or listening to British news over the last few days will have noticed that the country has gone carbon crazy with politicians falling over themselves to be the greenest. The United Kingdom unveiled plans to set a “legally binding” target to cut carbon emissions by 60% by 2050. The European Union has agreed to cut emissions by 20% …
Serious Silicon Shortage Hampers Solar : Enter Nanotech
Red Herring reports on a US Department of Energy initiative to bring down the cost of solar energy – it needs to be below 10 cents per kilowatt hour to be competitive and current technologies cost around double that. The usual nanotech suspects crop up, with $20 million to Nanosolar and another chunk to Konarka. One of the reasons that …
Sustainable Nanotech
One of the great breakthroughs we expected from nanotechnology was abundant clean energy, and the plentiful supply of funds diverted towards companies such as Konarka and Nanosolar (and previously Nanosys) indicated that there was plenty ofopportunities in that sector. With the coming mania for Cleantech, we decided to take a look at nanotech and energy in a new report and …