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- From: hagerman@ece.cmu.edu (John Hagerman)
- Newsgroups: sci.nanotech
- Subject: Water
- Message-ID: <Nov.11.17.41.20.1992.19964@planchet.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 22:41:21 GMT
- Sender: nanotech@planchet.rutgers.edu
- Organization: Carnegie Mellon University
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- Approved: nanotech@aramis.rutgers.edu
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- First, a question.
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- In many cases, water is the limiting factor in the size of an area's
- population. What are the near-term prospects for nanotechnological
- contributions to the problem of supplying good water where wanted?
-
- This is along the lines of the general question: What sort of bulk
- processes are there upon which nanotechnology will have little impact?
- In this case, the question is: How might nanotechnology contribute to
- bulk chemical processes?
-
- Next, a prediction.
-
- Our choice of living location is currently constrained in various
- ways. Many of those constraints will disappear as availability and
- demand become less localized (through better physical and logical
- connectivity). So where will people live? If recent trends are any
- indication, the answer is: southern California. It is interesting to
- note that, other than transportation and expense, the main reason
- people avoid southern California now is due to the lack of water...
-
- - John
-
- P.S. Did anyone notice my attempt to introduce a new term? I used
- "nanotechie" to mean "someone inclined towards fully nanotechnological
- solutions to every problem." Is anyone keeping a glossary?
- --
- hagerman@ece.cmu.edu
-
- [Make a good enough "smartsuit" (nanotech second skin) and it'll
- be as comfortable outside almost anywhere, as in S. CA.
- Buy land in the Canadian north woods... and one wonders about
- the oceans.
- --JoSH]
-