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Hyperloop One Announces Record Speed but Doesn’t Best Aérotrain
Posted on August 16th, 2017 by Ken Klapproth in New Materials & Applications
By Hyperloop One [Content on YouTube], via YouTube
Inventing a new form of transportation is hard to do, even if it’s been seemingly done before. While Hyperloop One is not the first company to attempt commercialization of a hovertrain, their achievement is not in their vehicle’s announced top speed, but in the propulsion system used to get there. Continue reading “Hyperloop One Announces Record Speed but Doesn’t Best Aérotrain” »
Bigger Bucks for Additive Manufacturing in the Stuff That Makes the Stuff
Posted on August 9th, 2017 by Ken Klapproth in New Materials & Applications
Image by Arne Hückelheim [CC BY 3.0] via Wikimedia Commons
Human RFID Implant – Orwellian or Requested?
Posted on August 2nd, 2017 by Ken Klapproth in New Materials & Applications
Image by Amal Graafstra [CC BY-SA 2.0] via Flickr
What could be perceived as raising the specter of “Big Brother”, a Wisconsin company is offering employees microchip implants beginning this month. A majority have agreed, do you? Continue reading “Human RFID Implant – Orwellian or Requested?” »
DSM Pushes Carbon Pricing
Posted on July 31st, 2017 by William Beacham in Chemicals Industry News and Analysis
DSM has become something of a sustainability trailblazer for the chemical industry as it pushes the concept of carbon pricing through its own operations and investments as well as lobbying others to do so. Continue reading “DSM Pushes Carbon Pricing” »
