Intellectual Waste

The Industrial Revolution caused significant demographic changes. A concentration of waste and disease followed for cities that were technologically ill-equipped to cope. While the Industrial Revolution’s initial impact was witnessed in the loss of human life, we’ve been dealing ever since with its output in terms of the production of goods that find themselves new homes in our landfills.

Intellectual Recycling Then along came recycling. Recycling wasn’t ‘new’. It was a practice for Native Americans and people who had to use everything to survive - nothing went to waste. But it moved from being a common practice to a business, a powerful offer to an economy that had to learn new mechanisms to cope with its wastes.

The Information Age is causing its own ‘wastes’. We witness companies and organizations that are ill-equiped to cope with this on-slaught of data. And the outputs are ideas and inventions that find themselves in databases and relegated to ‘archives’.

Then along came CrossInnovation.NET’s (CI) offer of CI Harvest, a recylcing program for the knowledge-based economy…read more

CI Harvest Projects

CI Harvest is investigating solutions to several industry problems: a) improving chemical and fuel storage life, b) enhanced secondary oil recovery through channel blocking, c) shortening the computation time to characterize oil reservoirs.
Scientists are reporting a new technique for mapping and testing oil-contaminated soils

Scientists are reporting a new technique for mapping and testing oil-contaminated soils. The new method can take measurements in the field and accurately predict the total amount of petroleum contaminants in moist, unprepared soil samples.
Silicon-Coated Nanonets Could Build a Better Lithium-Ion Battery

Wang said the capability to preserve the crystalline Titanium Silicon core during the charge/discharge process was the key to achieving the high performance of the Nanonet anode material.

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