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Tag Archives: Manufacturing
All solar; all the time
Can a sentence including the words “solar” and “Tesla” make sense. Cars can not run on solar roof panels, but such a sentence would make sense if it also includes Elon Musk who is the CEO of both his eponymous car company … Continue reading
Posted in Energy Industry, Manufacturing
Tagged energy storage, Manufacturing, solar energy
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Nanocrystals for tagging: A possible breakthrough
Research carried out at MIT and funded by the National Science Foundation, the Army Research Office and National Institute of Health has led to the successful development of tiny, smartphone-readable particles that, inventors say, could be used to authenticate currency (see also … Continue reading
Chemicals Manufacturing: New Technologies, New Thinking
Consider this quote from a high level Chinese spokesman: As supply of capital, land and other factors is on the decline and resource and environmental restriction become more serious, the proportion of first and second industries, which consume capital, land … Continue reading
Posted in Chemical Engineering, Chemical Industry, Manufacturing
Tagged Manufacturing, material chemistry
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Looking toward a technology future
The end of the year is a good time both for reflection and look-ahead, I thought that an article from yesterday’s New York Post, taken from publications by scholars from Stanford and Duke, is worth covering in this blog, though some of this … Continue reading
3D Printing comes of age
This blog is about chemical and energy developments of interest to me and, I trust, also to readers following these posts. Since I have wondered for some time about how 3D printing works, I decided to investigate and this is the result. (Full disclosure: … Continue reading
Carbon fiber making progress in automobiles
The substitution of high strength carbon fiber composites for steel in automobile bodies is gaining momentum (See also earlier posts as background on carbon fiber). As reported in Bloomberg Business News, BMW has taken the lead by investing in a plant … Continue reading
Private Equity’s unique role in chemicals
I have recently been thinking about Gordon Cain, who was a client and a good friend and, above all, a unique individual. After a successful career as a high level Conoco executive, he put on an entrepreneurial cap and spent a … Continue reading
