Nanotechnology and the Resource Fallacy / (Record no. 71782)
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| fixed length control field | 03737nam a2200517Ii 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 9780203733073 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20220711212637.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 190122s2018 si ab ob 001 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9780203733073(e-book : PDF) |
| 082 04 - CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Call Number | 333.7 |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Nanotechnology and the Resource Fallacy / |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | First edition. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 1 online resource (394 pages) : |
| 520 3# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | 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"), so 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. Non-thermal use of energy, in broad emulation of what organisms do already, will not only lead to more efficient use but make practical diffuse sources such as sunlight. Pollution control and resource extraction become two aspects of the same fundamental problem, the low-energy extraction of particular substances from an arbitrary background of other substances, and this also is in emulation of what biosystems carry out already. This book sketches out approaches both for the efficient, non-thermal use of energy and the molecular extraction of solutes, primarily from aqueous solution, for purification, pollution control, and resource extraction. Some long-term implications for resource demand are also noted. In particular, defect-free fabrication at the molecular level is ultimately likely to make structural metals obsolete. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| General subdivision | Environmental aspects. |
| 700 1# - AUTHOR 2 | |
| Author 2 | Gillett, Stephen L., |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203733073 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | eBooks |
| 264 #1 - | |
| -- | Singapore : |
| -- | Pan Stanford Publishing, an imprint of Pan Stanford, |
| -- | 2018. |
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| -- | computer |
| -- | rdamedia |
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| -- | online resource |
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| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Chemical & Biochemical. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Material Science. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Nanotechnology |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Power resources. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Nanotechnology. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Natural resources. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Pollution prevention. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Raw materials. |
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