Adapt

How Humans are Tapping into Nature's Secrets to Design and Build a Better Future

Amina Khan, 2017, Hillsboro Brookwood 620.0042 KHAN 2017

Interview science book. Skimmed.

• p005 Janine Benyus Biomimicry1997 Book

• p049 Sea cucumbers change from soft to hard (for defense), collagen forms ionic bonds
  • Stuart Rowan @ Case Western

• p055 Nanocellulose strength/weight 8x steel, "facility in Wisconsin"

  • p056 polar solvent (i.e. water) softens
  • Jeffrey Capadona @ Cleveland VA, John Trotter @ UNM med, Alan Rudolph @ DARPA

• p77 2013 gashes in Curiosity rover wheels, Mars 2020 (July launch) rover

• p78 2012 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge, RoboSimian

• p110 Geoffrey Spedding USC, disturbance trail wake lasts day
  • p111 refuses security clearance p112 Seals follow wakes with whiskers
• p113 Susanne Akesson sea turtles migrate to Ascension Island, diving to thermocline wake to find it

• p116 Joachim Huyssen Pretoria stubby flying wing aircraft

• p117 tilting wing detaches boundary layer, more tilt moves detachment forward
• p131 Tubercles (bumps) on leading edge of humpback whale fins help form streamlines (vague)
  • Frank Fish West Chester University PA
• p136 John Dabiri Stanford engineer - jellyfish wakes to arrays of vertical axis wind turbines

• p147 London Walkie Talkie building concentrates Sun 6x, scorched cars and shops

• p153 Scott Turner State University NY, African termite mounds not air conditioned, instead soil temperature

• p229 Good Judgement Project

• p236 Siberian Traps 252 MYa, 24e15 kg carbon in 60ky, 5e15 kg fossil fuel
• p247 Heinz Gerischer. John Turner NREL, semiconductor liquid junction PV
  • Artificial leaf, water splitting (cells fail after hours to days) John Nocera at Harvard

• p277 Lavasa in Sahyadri mountains 4h SE of Mumbai

• p282 Bob Bechtold Webster NY Harbec Plastics

• p289 Water taken from Owens Valley (Switzerland of California) for LA ( Chinatown movie )

• p298 Ray Anderson CEO Atlanta GA Interface Inc carpet tiles, recycled materials

  • biomimicry to match new tiles to old, zero VOCs