According to the article, though, the graphene is permeable when stacked, i.e., the water slides between the sheets. There’s no suggestion that it permeates through the sheets themselves, which would be a major […]

…All of which is why the only area of development that interests me these days is governance. How we make decisions and how well we execute them are the only issues that currently matter. This is also, as far as […]

I got very depressed when the ISS was first announced. I’d already been depressed over the final design parameters of the Space Shuttle program. When the first shuttle lifted off I’d turned my back on ever […]

Here’s what I want to find out:

1) Is there an existing timeline plugin that can be used on this website?

2) Can the forums be used effectively as they are to do a backcast?

3) Can we build a backcasting […]

Zach, I’ve joined the “What will we eat” group, but can’t figure out how to add a topic or posting to it. I’m sure it’s easy, there’s just no intuitive process for it. Maybe I’ve misunderstood the intent of the […]

I’ve been thinking and reading about the carbon bubble a lot lately (check out carbontracker.org/carbonbubble for a summary). Agriculture being a highly fossil-fuel intensive activity at present, it’s as […]

ARC are, as I’ve said, just a part of an imaginative system. If I were writing a novel about these ideas (which I might well do) I couldn’t get away with the old SF trick of ‘imagine one thing’s changed and how […]

Actually, last week I sat in on a set of first-year design student presentations at OCAD University here in Toronto. One of the presentations was on the future of food.

The term they’d invented to make eating […]

I’m loving this discussion. I think the potato cloud forms a nice hieroglyph in the sense that I take Neal to have meant it: a visualizable thing that embodies a visionary limit-case for some […]

Specificity is the difference between creativity and innovation. I’ve been a creative thinker for many years, and have nothing to show for it. I’d like to turn some of that creativity into specific […]

There’s a very recent article or paper about this idea—I’ll try to track it down. The short answer to your concern, Neal, is that such a structure shouldn’t add significantly to the cross-section or wind-load, […]