Friends of the Earth has issued a report analysing the environmental claims made by the nanotechnology industry (PDF). Nanotechnology (Wikipedia definition) has been touted as a way to significantly improve the efficiency of manufacturing all sorts of products and, thus, reducing the environmental footprint of industries. But the reality hardly conforms to this claim. In [...]
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Nanotechnology’s true climate and energy cost
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