The Future Over-regulation of Nano-Tech; Fearing What You Cannot See?

Posted by admin on Oct 2nd, 2009 | 0 comments

By Lance Winslow

There are many environmental type groups and OSHA watchdog groups calling for the complete banning of Nano Technologies and yet these new technologies could change everything and completely revolutionize nearly every industry. Even the FDA is being attacked for being slow to develop rules and regulations concerning NanoTech.

The EPA is concerned and already has several committees on the subject to protect water supplies, the air we breath and make sure nothing escapes from the manufacturing process or laboratories. Of course Michael Crieghton’s “Prey” did not help anyone’s emotional fears in the matter. The story of course being about a NanoTech project in the middle of the Nevada Desert going totally wrong.

Yes some regulations might be needed but it is hard to say to what extent, as that will not be known for some time. The real problem of course is the fact that if we over-regulate now then many start-ups will not be able to make the breakthroughs needed to make the industry worthy of investment and capital flows. Indeed, NanoTech will revolutionize medicine, make our Space Program five times as efficient and save Americans fuel by lightening our automobiles.

In fact NanoTech will provide better strength in materials and light weight to improve aircraft performance, trucks, trains, ships, spacecraft, as well as help with better building materials and unique high-tech features for schools, home entertainment systems, transparent ceiling to watch the stars all at a flick of a switch. NanoTech, will make everything better, more efficient and stronger too. So, why impede the future at a time when we need solutions? Consider this in 2006.

Abatement Check of Nano Contaminants

Posted by admin on Sep 2nd, 2009 | 0 comments

By Lance Winslow

In the future we will need procedures and specialized protocol to deal with nano contaminants. As mankind learns more about the science of NanoTech and creates micron sized materials, which are so small you cannot see we will need to address the issues of cleaning up contaminants at a nano molecular level. Easier said than done, nevertheless abatement checks and specialized sensors will need to be developed as this new Nano Tech research and development gets underway.

Consider if you will be possibility of Nano Tech manufacturing at the molecular level, which might be so small it could escape the building in which the manufacturing is being done and once out of the building and into the environment it would continue to build and this would be the starting of a Nano Tech eco disaster. Obviously I am pro technology but at the same time do not read these words of caution as a doom and gloom prophesy, as my goal is not to scare people but rather to make us think and it is up to us as we explore innovation into the next century that we also pay attention to what we’re doing.

As humans become their own God and play God with micron sized nano technologies, then we’d better pay attention to what we’re doing and we owe it to ourselves and our children to do the right thing. I therefore propose abatement checks and specialized sensors to be funded along with the Nano Technology of tomorrow to ensure a safe passage into future periods in the forward progression of mankind. Consider this in 2006.