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Sea water desalination: becoming a reality here
The technologies that can be used to make fresh water from sea water or partly salty bracking water have been used for a long time in locations where little fresh water exists (e.g. the Middle East). The processes employed are … Continue reading
Global Warming and GHG: Where are we?
President Obama plans a new effort in his second term to address climate change. No specific actions were mentioned in his inaugural address, but they will presumably be outlined in his State of the Union speech. Regardless of what he … Continue reading
Posted in Chemical Engineering, Energy Industry
Tagged Alternative energy, Climate Change, Energy policy
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We hear about Geoengineering: should we worry?
Climate manipulation ideas have been around for quite a while. In the middle of the last century, Nobel Laureate Irving Langmuir at General Electric came up with the idea of seeding clouds with iodide crystals or dry ice to produce … Continue reading
“Digging deeper” into fracking issues
The controversies regarding the use of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling to liberate huge qualitites of natural gas and oil now recoverable from shale formations will not soon go away. And the vigorous opposition to “fracking” should not and will … Continue reading
Posted in Chemical Engineering, Energy Industry
Tagged natural gas, petroleum, Technological Risk
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Nanotechnology thoughts
I thought I should look into this subject, which has promised big things. So, I put nano and successes into Google and discovered….no particular “breakthroughs”. How is that possible? I then looked at some chemical journals and other sources to learn more. From what … Continue reading
Posted in Chemical Engineering, Chemical Industry, Energy Industry, Manufacturing
Tagged Manufacturing
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New nuclear technology: It’s far out!
It’s nice to have something in common with Bill Gates. Both of us gave TED speeches — in fact a video of his recent speech on energy was shown just before I climbed up on the stage to give my … Continue reading
TED: I salute chemical engineers
In late March I was asked to speak at a TEDx conference hosted by the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark. Although the theme of the conference was Sustainability,Professor Mike Ehrlich, who coordinated the event, said I should choose a … Continue reading
Posted in Chemical Engineering, Chemical Industry, Energy Industry
Tagged Career, competitiveness, natural gas, petrochemical, petroleum
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TEDx lecture
It seems that my articles on the chemical and energy industries, focussing frequently on the chemical engineering profession and on the “renaissance” of American manufacturing, have succeeded in creating a larger audience. On the evening of March 23rd, I will … Continue reading
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Tagged Career, competitiveness, Manufacturing
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Visualizing the industry
I’ve talked to a number of university and high school science and chemistry teachers to find out to what extent students with an interest in chemical engineering get exposed to actual industrial plants. It has always seemed to me that if … Continue reading
Posted in Chemical Engineering, Chemical Industry, Energy Industry
Tagged ag chemicals, petrochemical, petroleum
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Defying Malthus: Chem. E’s are helping
Recently, I was privileged to attend a conference :Feeding the World” sponsored by the Chemical Heritage Foundation in conjunction with the International Year of Chemistry 2011. A range of eminent speakers from universities, NGO’s and companies involved in agricultural chemicals … Continue reading
