Actually, it is naturally occurring. Lightning and other electrical arcs will create it. The discovery is an interesting story in itself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminsterfullerene <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminsterfullerene> Bruce > On Dec 11, 2014, at 5:00 PM, via EV <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:21:39 +0000 > From: Peri Hartman via EV <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > To: evdl <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Subject: [EVDL] nanocarbon effects on environment? > Message-ID: <em9483004d-f5d4-403a-a895-bb4f5e94019e@peri-laptop> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" > > From a technological point of view, nanocarbons are providing for > incredible new products from batteries to textiles. However, I've seen > nothing about their long term effects on the environment. What will > happen as more and more products containing nanocarbons end up in the > soils, rivers, and oceans? > > They aren't a naturally occurring material so, I presume, there are no > natural ways for organisms to process them. Will they simply pass > through? Will they have effects like asbestos? Will they act more like > radioactive particles and affect DNA? > > There seems to be scant research on this, or at least scant publicity. > Should our governments be more proactive in ensuring proper recycling or > destruction of no-longer wanted products containing nanocarbon? > > Peri -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20141211/8beb6c24/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
