Nanotechnology and the Resource Fallacy
| Other author | Gillett, Stephen L. Editor |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Singapore : Pan Stanford Publishing Florence : Taylor & Francis Group [Distributor] |
| Description | 382 p. ill 23.100 x 015.600 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
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| Summary | Annotation Dwindling global supplies of conventional energy and materials resources are widely thought to severely constrain, or even render impossible, a 'first-world' lifestyle for the bulk of Earth's inhabitants. This bleak prospect, however, is wrong. Current energy resources are used grotesquely inefficiently as heat, ('fuels,' after all, are 'burned'), such that well over half of the energy is simply dissipated into the environment. In turn, conventional materials resources, particularly of metals, are geologically anomalous deposits that also are typically processed by the prodigious application of raw heat. Simultaneously, rising levels of pollution worldwide are a challenge to remediate as they require the extraction of pollutants at low concentration. Nanotechnology, the structuring of matter at near-molecular scales, offers the prospect of solving all these problems at a stroke. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9789814303873 |
| ISBN | 9814303879 (Trade Cloth) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9789814303873 |
| Stock number | N12011 01517771 |