Whatever Happened to Nanotechnology?
Nanotechnology did not fail. Tim Harper’s archive shows how the boom became tools, materials, standards, manufacturing processes and supply chains, and what that teaches today’s deep-tech companies.
After the Accord: The Lasting Supply Chain Legacy of the Iran War
Most of the coverage of the Iran war has focused on oil prices. That is understandable — Brent crude surging
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How the Iran War Is Fracturing the Semiconductor and AI Supply Chain
How the Iran War Is Fracturing the Semiconductor and AI Supply Chain Summary: The iran war semiconductor supply chain crisis
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From the 1973 Oil Crisis
The current oil (and gas) crisis provoked a rummage in the reggae archive for this masterpiece from 1973 “Arab an’
The Oil Shock That Won’t Accelerate the Energy Transition
The Iran war triggered history’s largest oil shock and supply disruption. But unlike past crises, higher oil prices won’t speed up renewable energy adoption. The real constraints are sulphur shortages, rare earth bottlenecks, and Chinese manufacturing dominance.
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Rare Earths Export Controls: China’s Power Play & What the West Needs to Do Next
China’s rare earths export controls are now a supply-chain reality. Here’s the context, the consequences, and a pragmatic playbook—spanning recycling, magnet capacity, and alternative materials.
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Nanotech and Water: It Took Ten Years Just To Get To The Starting Line
It is just over four years since I drove through an ice storm in Georgia and South Carolina for the meeting that led to the founding of G2O Water. In…
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nanoBucky
Something else that may worry the environmental movement is the number of variants of fullerenes that seem to be multiplying
Costing the Earth?
Jim Thomas of the ETC Group made a crucial point on and interview on BBC Radio 4s environmental program “Costing
ISO9000 for CNTs
One of the major issues plaguing anyone making use of carbon nanotube is the variability between batches, production methods, and