|
Blog: Full speed ahead for nanotechnology? (International Herald Tribune Blog, 6/25/08) |
|
|
|
|
June 25, 2008 |
|
Nanotechnology holds vast potential for producing energy
efficient products and processes — from purifying water to making better solar
cells. In my Business of Green column this week, I write about how the market
for such products could be worth trillions of dollars in coming years.
But the science of the small (as nanotechnology often is
described) is throwing up vast, new challenges for regulators.
Everyone from health and environmental campaigners to
business leaders agrees that reconciling the pros and cons of nanotechnology is
going to be hard work, and that a full understanding of the properties of these
materials could take years to establish.
Where they disagree is what to do now.
Read the full blog here.
|
|
Last Updated ( July 01, 2008 )
|
