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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 Biomimicry 1997

  • 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 Frank Fish West Chester University PA: Tubercles (bumps) on leading edge of humpback whale fins help form streamlines (vague)
  • 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

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