[Bradford] Fwd: Wood chip breakthrough!

[Andy Coulson]

And of course there's a whole new problem with bugs. Imagine the
re-programming a wood-boreing beetle could give it...

On 30 May 2015 at 18:01, David Spencer <baildon.research at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Oops, that should have gone to the list. Sorry folks!
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Spencer <baildon.research at googlemail.com>
> Date: 30 May 2015 at 17:59
> Subject: Re: [Bradford] Wood chip breakthrough!
> To: Paul Colley <pchcolley at yahoo.co.uk>
>
> Yes it sounds great!
>
> Until... you read the small print and it turns out that the layer on
> top of the biodegradable stuff is our old friend gallium arsenide
> (always the bridesmaid and never the bride) which amazingly is even
> more nasty than it sounds (it's not just half arsenic, it's also a
> carcinogen). What could possibly go wrong if people take
> "biodegradable" on face value and chuck it on the compost heap?
>
> However, in other news, safe cuddly whizzy gallium nitride is the new
> big thing, so if the biodegradable folk talk to the gallium nitride
> folk, we could have a happy ending after all.  Fingers crossed.
>
> Tarra
> -D.
>
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>
> On 30 May 2015 at 16:05, Paul Colley <pchcolley at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > A 99% biodegradable computer chip | KurzweilAI
> >
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> > A 99% biodegradable computer chip | KurzweilAI
> > A cellulose nanofibril (CNF) computer chip shown on a leaf (credit: Yei
> Hwan Jung, Wisconsin Nano Engineering Device Laboratory) University of
> > View on www.kurzweilai.net
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