Despite Ike's Wrath, a Texas Flag Waves
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Never Underestimate People and Creativity
Robert Shumake brings a sign of hope to Galveston seawall
Physics for Future Presidents: The Podcasts - Times.UK
$20B Large Hadron Collider Best and Worse Case Scenario - Wired
New Experimental Evidence for Deuteron Clustering - LENR.org
Seeing Inside Pyramids with Cosmic Rays - Achaeology
The JukeBox
National Academy of Sciences: Global Warming Largest in 1300 Years - Seatle Times
Pipe Lamp Exudes Hardware Class - Make Blog
Robert Shumake brings a sign of hope to Galveston seawall
[Update] You would think that in areas the size of Houston or Galveston with millions of residents, that city officials would have ways of taking water and rapidly making it potable to help those in the future who might find themselves (God forbid) in the same predicament as residents of the Texas coast. In fact, the Houston mayor cautioned residents when water pressure dropped after Hurricane Ike passed through town Saturday. Some residents of Texas and Louisana now have no water(or electricity).
Could the standing water outside their homes and yards be put to use?. After reading my blog post, a reader sent me an email informing me that mobile canteen vans have been used for years by the Salvation Army and they do include fresh drinking water. But still, even these canteen vans have their limitations on the number of people they can serve and their inability to access some damaged areas.
New water purifying devices do exist and with the help of more nanotechnology R&D awareness and agencies like FEMA adopting new technology initiatives at the Federal level, perhaps the costs of these types of devices would drop significantly as they are more widely adopted by metropolitan areas for such emergency uses. Perhaps there will be a day when such a device might even float, or be self powered and low cost. It could be affordable to most Americans as an emergency device for such flood conditions, until utilities are restored.
Who knows? If adopted on an even wider scale, and with a reasonable power source like Solar (as sunny skies reappear after a storm), perhaps costs could drop significantly enough that these devices could then almost be given away to the poor villages of the world when ravaged by major hurricanes to help rebuild their lives after such disasters. Technological ideas often only evolve when each person lends a hand to make them integrated into their lives in new ways. A favorite Nobel Laureate chemist that many admired was famous for saying in his lectures: "Science is People ! - Dr. Alan MacDiarmid"
Atomic LinksCould the standing water outside their homes and yards be put to use?. After reading my blog post, a reader sent me an email informing me that mobile canteen vans have been used for years by the Salvation Army and they do include fresh drinking water. But still, even these canteen vans have their limitations on the number of people they can serve and their inability to access some damaged areas.
New water purifying devices do exist and with the help of more nanotechnology R&D awareness and agencies like FEMA adopting new technology initiatives at the Federal level, perhaps the costs of these types of devices would drop significantly as they are more widely adopted by metropolitan areas for such emergency uses. Perhaps there will be a day when such a device might even float, or be self powered and low cost. It could be affordable to most Americans as an emergency device for such flood conditions, until utilities are restored.
Who knows? If adopted on an even wider scale, and with a reasonable power source like Solar (as sunny skies reappear after a storm), perhaps costs could drop significantly enough that these devices could then almost be given away to the poor villages of the world when ravaged by major hurricanes to help rebuild their lives after such disasters. Technological ideas often only evolve when each person lends a hand to make them integrated into their lives in new ways. A favorite Nobel Laureate chemist that many admired was famous for saying in his lectures: "Science is People ! - Dr. Alan MacDiarmid"
Physics for Future Presidents: The Podcasts - Times.UK
$20B Large Hadron Collider Best and Worse Case Scenario - Wired
New Experimental Evidence for Deuteron Clustering - LENR.org
Seeing Inside Pyramids with Cosmic Rays - Achaeology
The JukeBox
National Academy of Sciences: Global Warming Largest in 1300 Years - Seatle Times
Pipe Lamp Exudes Hardware Class - Make Blog
Labels: Clean Water, Education, Hope, Research, Weather
This entry was posted
on Sunday, September 14, 2008 at 1:29 AM.
You can skip to the end and leave a response.
» Post a Comment