Plastic
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We know with them that you can print in many materials ranging from
plastic
to chocolate to metal and even concrete.
In the ocean, what is the common point between oil,
plastic
and radioactivity?
The middle line is millions of tons of
plastic
debris accumulating in our ocean, and the third line is radioactive material leaking from Fukushima nuclear power plant in the Pacific Ocean.
We hope that we can sometime clean up oil spills, or we can gather or collect
plastic
in the ocean, or we can have swarms of our machines controlled by multi-player video game engines to control many of these machines, to monitor coral reefs or to monitor fisheries.
And in this case, I used ABS
plastic
to produce the columns, we used the bigger, faster machine, and they have a steel core inside, so they're structural, they can bear loads for once.
And those are my heirloom students making heirloom sauce, with
plastic
forks, and we get it into the cafeteria, and we grow stuff and we feed our teachers.
It's about taking those artistic people in your community and doing some fabulous designs in those raised beds to explain to people what's growing there, because there's so many people that don't really recognize a vegetable unless it's in a bit of
plastic
with a bit of an instruction packet on the top.
The
plastic
we'll build it out of is some kind of well-known
plastic
that we have good experience with, and we'll rebuild our modules to be able to reuse them again.
It was a place where we were growing algae and welding
plastic
and building tools and making a lot of mistakes, or, as Edison said, we were finding the 10,000 ways that the system wouldn't work.
These were the structures that would be floating at the surface made out of some inexpensive
plastic
material that'll allow the algae to grow, and we had built lots and lots of designs, most of which were horrible failures, and when we finally got to a design that worked, at about 30 gallons, we scaled it up to 450 gallons in San Francisco.
We basically take waste water with algae of our choice in it, and we circulate it through this floating structure, this tubular, flexible
plastic
structure, and it circulates through this thing, and there's sunlight of course, it's at the surface, and the algae grow on the nutrients.
But this is a bit like putting your head in a
plastic
bag.
So there's always a big question that comes up, because
plastic
in the ocean has got a really bad reputation right now, and so we've been thinking cradle to cradle.
What are we going to do with all this
plastic
that we're going to need to use in our marine environment?
Well, I don't know if you know about this, but in California, there's a huge amount of
plastic
that's used in fields right now as
plastic
mulch, and this is
plastic
that's making these tiny little greenhouses right along the surface of the soil, and this provides warming the soil to increase the growing season, it allows us to control weeds, and, of course, it makes the watering much more efficient.
Washington, D.C., last year, actually led the nation in new green roofs installed, and they're funding this in part thanks to a five-cent tax on
plastic
bags.
I remember one night, one of the nurses came in, Jonathan, with a whole lot of
plastic
straws.
Sometimes we see dads get more excited than their kids playing with Legos or putting together
plastic
robots.
So we built a device, which we call a puff-o-mat, in which we could deliver little brief air puffs to fruit flies in these
plastic
tubes in our laboratory bench and blow them away.
(Video game noises) And you know the little
plastic
drawers you can get at Target?
So there's a highly
plastic
animal dealing with great transitions in temperature and environment, and doing very, very well.
Remember, this was a highly
plastic
animal that lived over tremendous climate variation.
So imagine you have carbon nanotubes growing inside a 3D printer, and they are embedded inside a matrix of plastic, and follow the forces which occur in your component.
Because I'd had such a bad problem with self-injury that most of the cutlery in the house had been hidden, so I ended up arming myself with a
plastic
fork, kind of like picnic ware, and sort of sat outside the room clutching it and waiting to spring into action should anything happen.
I've got a
plastic
fork, don't you know?" Strategic.
But I was so surprised to see the shelter, refugee camp organized by the U.N. They're so poor, and they are freezing with blankets during the rainy season, In the shelters built by the U.N., they were just providing a
plastic
sheet, and the refugees had to cut the trees, and just like this.
They were living like this with very poor
plastic
sheets in the park.
I asked the Kirin beer company to propose, because at that time, the Asahi beer company made their
plastic
beer crates red, which doesn't go with the color of the paper tubes.
And also I still remember, we were expecting to have a beer inside the
plastic
beer crate, but it came empty.
I took a speaker, I placed a thin foil of
plastic
on top of that speaker, and then I added tiny little crystals on top of that speaker.
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