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
- 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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