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To: Clappy who wrote (43064)	4/26/2005 2:08:17 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 104181

:-). And besides this one, I just read somethng on ?Gold-Eagle. I'll try and find it in the next day or two. Energy, Farms, Water Seen Aided by Nanotechnology Tue Apr 12, 2005 07:40 PM BST OSLO (Reuters) - Futuristic microscopic devices could store energy, raise farm output and purify water to help the world reach 2015 goals of curbing poverty, according to a report on Tuesday. A poll of experts by the University of Toronto Joint Center for Bioethics (JBC), said nanotechnology -- the design and use of molecule-sized devices -- was also likely to have wide uses in diagnosing disease and cutting air pollution. "This is the most educated of educated guesses," JCB director Peter Singer said of the most likely applications for nanotechnology in 10 years predicted in the JCB poll of 63 experts from around the world. "If even half of those applications come to pass it would be a huge boon for the developing world," he told Reuters. The experts reckoned that energy storage, production and conversion would be the top use of nanotechnology in a decade, including more efficient solar cells, hydrogen fuel cells and new hydrogen storage. Second was farming, where nanotech devices could increase soil fertility and crop production. Tiny devices could, for instance, be made to release fertilizers at a strictly controlled rate. Third came water treatment -- nano-membranes and clays could purify or desalinate water more efficiently than conventional filters and are a fraction the size. Singer said the study might give clues to investing in nanotechnology and contribute to U.N. goals set in 2000 of halving poverty and hunger by 2015. reuters.co.uk Linked from here; sometimes have articles on nano; the next dot com? 321energy.com