Hi Mike; You and I have something in common then. The university I work for has just launched an undergraduate program called nanotechnology engineering. Quite the laugh since the engineers are waay behind the scientists in nanotech, but it was part of an initiative to get status and therefore money, being the first university in the world to launch such a program. We don't even have a grad program yet, but I digress.. You know about the risks of playing with particles that are able to easily go inside cell walls then. I personally feel we should have a moratorium on this technology for a while until we know more but then I feel that way about genetic research too, and a lot of stuff actually. But the forces of the capitalist charade will see to it that we discover our mistakes when they are in our faces rather than beforehand sigh.... I had some glass microspheres about a decade ago and there were warnings all over it about inhalation risks, and these were not even hollow with palladium inside just solid glass.
Joe Mike McGinness wrote: > I guess we will all just have a BALL, LOL. OK, I guess it's not really funny > after all. > > GOOD Question!!!! > > I just wrote a published paper late last year on the hazards of NanoTech > particles on just this sort of item. > > Mike McGinness > > Joe Street wrote: > > >>Uh huh and what happens when you breathe them? >> >>Joe >> >>Kirk McLoren wrote: >> >>>[0]navalynt writes "New Scientist reports that the Department of Energy >>>has filed a patent for [1]hydrogen fuel balls. From the article 'The >>>proposed glass microspheres would each be a few millionths of a metre >>>(microns) wide with a hollow center containing specks of palladium. The >>>walls of each sphere would also have pores just a few ten-billionths of >>>a >>>metre in diameter.' They are supposedly safe and small enough to be >>>pumped into a fuel tank in the same manner as gasoline." >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Biofuel mailing list >>Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >>http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org >> >>Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >>http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html >> >>Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >>http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
