Esaay:-Nanotechnology.

Nanotechnology takes all parts from materials and devices which work Nanoscale. Nanotechnology means small tools are used to measure small things, which we can’t see by eyes and Nano, equal 1 over 1000,000,000. We can use Nano in different ways such as Nano materials, Nanoelectronics, Nano devices, Nanofabrics, Nanogels and Nanopowders.  Easily, we can say that Nano can help us to measure small parts of a subject so we can give the approximate number of the red cells in human body more than 2,000 nanometers long. Nowadays, the governments and special sector (make big budget of money, workers and try to find Scientists who can work in this technology. )

In the past:

The first uses of Naotechnology were used in middle ages by take small part from gold and mixed with red flower to make pigments to  paint the glass.In 1959 in famous lecture "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom" by brilliant Nobel Laureate physicist Richard Feynman, the first one who talked about materials, and his vision was the idea to change options materials. He told we could use this technology in many sectors such as physics, chemistry and biology, and it will offer a new world with a new technology and will make our life better.    .

In the present:-

Many people say that, Naotechnology is possible nowadays, and not much people know about it, so the people don’t sell Naotechnology applications . Nanopowder plays an important role in medicine felid, environment and home. For example, Functionalized Nanomaterials this option we can find in gold Nanoparticles which  have controlled new methods to change the adhesion, so we can make more adhesion or ‘decrier’. Another example is the biomedical field such as producing bones by using calcium and phosphates, and this compound we can find it in natural bones, and these bones have power equal to stainless steel. Nanotechnology now is playing main role to find some solutions for energy problems in world . Now Scientiststo try to use Nanotechnology to make solar to get more power without used any power . the last use is Nanohorns. They mix ‘ Nanohore’  to make strong power and improve electrical conductivity.

In the future:-

In future Nanotechnology will be a big fact nearly in all industries. The U.S Foundation estimated that this section can earn $1,000,000,000  or more during the next 20 years. In the next 5 years, machines will be small, light ,strong and easy to take from place to another because of the Nanotechnology. As a point of view, the  next 5-15 years it will be used to solve problems that are related to the human body such as calculating the damaged cells and fixing them or to make body parts.

Conclusion:-

I think it will be useful if we use it for human kind and in peace. For example, we can improve transportations such as producing cars that work in different environment. It can be used to produce clean energy which will lead to solving  environment problems such as globe warming. Overall, it will make our life better than before.

“I want to build a billion tiny factories, models of each other, which are manufacturing simultaneously. . . The principles of physics, as far as I can see, do not speak against the possibility of maneuvering things atom by atom. It is not an attempt to violate any laws; it is something, in principle, that can be done; but in practice, it has not been done because we are too big.” (Feynman in 1959).

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Personal Reflection 1:-

In is the course I learnt much different kind of skills. For example, I learnt how read articles in newspaper and change sentence, but the mean still same. I learnt new word so this will help me to improve my Knowledge to understand what I’m read and give me good idea about it.

In this course Mr. Gregory Vrhovnik, learnt me with my friend how can make reference by use bibme.org.  In this website you can make any reference from anything books, newspaper, journal and film. Addition in this website you can get URL from different sources and make as reference.

 I like this course because I learnt how write and  read quickly and work  as group to get main idea by sharing the different opinions and choose the best one to be main idea, I like how can teacher show information for , I learnt how to make Official summary . For example, I learnt must the article be font 12 or 14 and make Distance 1.5 to 2.0 between liners because this will help how will read my summary to understand it, and I learnt in this course how can organize my information and put in order by which Important.

In my opinion, this course will help me to discover my mistake in summary and try to solve. Another point this course will help to make my summary perfect by use different words.

Essay 2:- story of stuff

In the ‘story of stuff ‘video, Annie Leonard , talks about the materials economy process. Nowadays, there are many parts to the materials economy process to get basic things to make complex things like mobiles. So we must use toxic chemical, and will help to destroy our plant and make more pollution and our water will be dirty so we can’t drink a water and if animals drink it will die. Many companies do this to get money. The parts are extraction, production, distribution, consumption and disposal and need to be change to save our planet.

The materials process begins with extraction. Extraction means taking basic natural things to make complex things .There are different kinds of extraction. The first type of extraction, called wood extraction. In this type of extraction we must cuts many trees to get wood to make paper or build our houses. On the negative side, cutting trees will help to increase Co2 percentage and will increase  air pollution so this threatens our life. The result of cutting trees the forest will decrease and the animal’s numbers will decrease because animals can’t find place to live. Finally, we must find other materials without destroying environment. "This is the last place that anyone should be drilling for oil, let alone a company with unproven technology and little capital for a project with such a heavy environmental footprint" (Koenig ,2012).

The second part for the materials process is called production. Production means changing material to another situation by adding something to change materiel like toxic chemicals. One example of production is plastics industry. We find plastic everywhere in our lives in food, bags, water bottles …... but on another hand plastic has many disadvantages. One type of plastic called PVC make health problems if we burn it after using .We must find a substitution to protect ourselves from disease and try to save our planet because we will destroy our planet.  “The rate of drilling and the volume of fluid used have increased tremendously,” (Ingraffea, 2012)

The next important point of the materials process is distribution. Nowadays, many people think about money so they try pay less and then they pay higher for trades or in big malls. (But, in fact the companies who lost a lot to collect parts for the thing which want sell.) Like cars. Cars have many products  such as AC, steering wheel, body and workers how will work on it so must  from company bring steering wheel from Japan so must pay transport fee, and bring A/C from Germany so must pay money for cargo . Over all, we must not we be surprised if we find a car which we want pay higher than our budget.

The next step after distribution is consumption. Consumption mean is what happens to products after exiting from factory and who decides what products to sell or not in market. In our world the government decides if the product is suitable to sell in market or not so the local people must accept government decision if they like it or not. On the positive side, the government has more knowledge than local population about products.  For example, In the USA any person wants buy a car from outside must buy higher fee than a car which made in USA so local people will look to cars made in the country because it will be lower price and this will help to encourage local industry and build strong economy. Sometimes the weather in US is not suitable for cars which which came for outside USA. Finally, the government has more knowledge than local people about product so it decides what is better for local people. “We call upon governments, industry, international and non-governmental organizations, to adopt a factor ten increase in energy and resource productivity as a strategic goal for the new Millennium". (Schmidt-Bleek, 1997)

The final point of materials called disposal. In this point we must dispel of materials which we made years ago or find anyway to reuse by cutting it in small parts. Those days, the government tries to find some solutions for this problem. One of these solutions is burning materials. In this kind of solution the government talles old materials from one place, then burn it and thus cause a big temperature, steam and ash, this way help to make new phenomena called ‘’ Global warming’’ and our planet suffers of it .The next way of disposal is called ‘’Landfill’’ this is famous way around the world because is easy and does not cost money only digging earth and put waste there. But, the bad things about it this way help to collect insects and bad fluid goes inside the earth. Another bad thing helps to make Co₂ and CH4 gas and these two gases are dangers and threaten the planet. On another hand we can find some positive solutions .One of these solutions is called recycling. Recycling cuts materials into small’s parts and reuses in different ways for industry. We can find some solutions to disposing of materials by remaking it, but some materials you can’t do any things with it.

When the people discovered oil in the UAE they star to build many project like building company, factories….. So the local people get a high salary. However, people who locally start to buy any things necessary or not. Or such his friends. One example for this is buying fewer cars. Most, local people have many cars and this will help to increase air pollution percentage and this makes a lot of health problems for breathing.

On the plus side, the government has many solutions. One of these solutions is Masdar City. If you want to go to Masdar City you must leave your car outside the city and take one of Masdar cars. Masdar cars has my options such cars from Masdar are not use gas ,but use solar energy so this will help to reduce air pollution and the most of Masdar is green so this will help to have the Masdar carbon foot print.

 

  

References

Are you a Californian Against Waste? | Californians Against Waste. (n.d.). Are you a Californian Against Waste? | Californians Against Waste. Retrieved May 22, 2012, from http://cawrecycles.org/

Environmental Paper Network. (n.d.). Environmental Paper Network. Retrieved May 22, 2012, from http://www.environmentalpaper.org/

GAIAآ :آ Index. (n.d.). GAIAآ :آ Index. Retrieved May 22, 2012, from http://www.no-burn.org/

Ingraffea, A. I. (2012, April 1). USGS: Recent Earthquakes “Almost Certainly Manmadeâ€‌ | Environmental Working Group. EWG Home | Environmental Working Group. Retrieved May 15, 2012, from http://www.ewg.org/analysis/usgs-recent-earthquakes-almost-certainly-manmade

Koenig, K. (2012, May 9). AMAZON WATCH آ» Indigenous Group Rejects Ivanhoe's Rainforest Oil Project in Calgary. AMAZON WATCH آ» Supporting Indigenous Peoples, Protecting the Amazon. Retrieved May 15, 2012, from http://amazonwatch.org/news/2012/0509-indigenous-group-rejects-ivanhoes-rainforest-oil-project-in-calgary

Leonard, A. (2012, January 5).  The Story of Stuff Project.  The Story of Stuff Project. Retrieved May 15, 2012, from http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Schmidt-Bleek, D. F. (1997, January 5). Factor 10 Institute. Factor 10 Institute. Retrieved May 15, 2012, from http://www.factor10-institute.org/pages/factor_10_institute_2008.html

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Personal Reflection 2.

In this course I learnt many writing skills it can help me in future jobs when I will write reports or when I will complete my education. The first thing, I learnt how to write summary article. This will help to give important information with exact number of words  in short time without any mistakes. This kind of skill will be useful if I have a lot of information with a lot of papers. Another important thing I learnt from this course is how to search in websites. I realized which good websites I can look for if I want to search such as google.com, yohoo.com by using specific words and get the information I need. This helped me to improve my computer skills and suffers in the Internet. I learnt how to make references by using websites. In class, me and with my colleagues have learned how we make references using kind of websites called Bibme.com. in this website you can make different kind of references from books, website, magazines and finally newspaper and another thing I learnt about it how can some called notation, this mean person told a famous sentence in website or book .we take this  sentence then we refer to person who told it . I learnt to design my website using blogger.com. In this website you can design your personal website for example, my blogger have my work what I did in the whole semester and some personal information about me.

Khaled Ahmed

CIQ