As I head towards Doha where through the World Economic Forum I will be continuing the battle to encourage governments and policy makers to be proactive about technology rather than reactive, Andrew Maynard’s excellent posting on the kerfuffle over using ‘nano’ dispersants to clear up oil is more grist to the mill. I often despair when policy on environment and …
We Have The Technologies To Deal With Oil Spills, Why Don’t We Use Them?
Twenty Four hours ago my colleague Dexter Johnson asked my opinion about what nanotechnology could do to help clean up the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and I reluctantly said “not much.” But this doesn’t have to be the answer, we probably have access to most of the technologies that we would need to make a big …