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1. Custom Manufacturing (eMachineshop.com)
   Provides software to create the design you wish to have manufactured. Awesome Library does not endorse this service, but shows it as an example. 8-04

2. Carbon Fibers: Manufacturing the Fibers (Polymer Science Learning Center)
   "Carbon fiber...the wonder polymer...stronger than steel, and much lighter...but how does one make it? It's made something like this: We start off with another polymer, one called polyacrylonitrile. We take this polymer, and heat it up." 02-08

3. -09-02-04 Republican National Convention - Bush to Speak (CNN News)
   "President Bush set out immediately to remind the Republican faithful of his purpose in delivering the final address of his party's national convention."
   
   "Bush said his plans for a second term cover changes relating to taxes, education, economic development and Social Security."
   
   " 'To create jobs, my plan will encourage investment and expansion by restraining federal spending, reducing regulation, and making tax relief permanent," Bush said. 'To stand with workers in poor communities and those that have lost manufacturing, textile, and other jobs we will create American opportunity zones. In these areas, we'll provide tax relief and other incentives to attract new business, and improve housing and job training to bring hope and work throughout all of America.' " 8-04

4. -10-19-04 Flu Supplies Fragile (Bloomberg.com)
   "In May 2001, the GAO warned that manufacturing difficulties that delayed vaccine shipments up to eight weeks during the 2000- 2001 flu season 'illustrate the fragility of the system to produce a new flu vaccine each year on a timely basis.'' The government also lacked a system 'to ensure that high-risk people have priority when the supply of vaccine is short.' "
   
   "Janet Heinrich, the GAO's director for health-care and public health issues, repeated that warning Sept. 28 in testimony delivered to Congress. She also said that the Health and Human Services Department's plan for dealing with a possible flu outbreak 'leaves many important decisions about the purchase, distribution and administration of vaccines unresolved.' " 10-04

5. How Iron and Steel Work (HowStuffWorks.com)
   "When you compare iron and steel with something like aluminum, you can see why it was so important historically. To refine aluminum, you must have access to huge amounts of electricity. To shape aluminum, you must either cast it or extrude it. Iron is much easier to deal with. Iron has been useful to man for thousands of years, while aluminum really did not exist in any meaningful way until the 20th century." 9-05

6. Next 20 Years (ThomasLFriedman.com)
   "History of the world twenty years from now, and they come to the chapter "Y2K to March 2004," what will they say was the most crucial development? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, giving them a huge new stake in the success of globalization? And with this "flattening" of the globe, which requires us to run faster in order to stay in place, has the world gotten too small and too fast for human beings and their political systems to adjust in a stable manner?"
   
   "In this brilliant new book, the award-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman demystifies the brave new world for readers, allowing them to make sense of the often bewildering global scene unfolding before their eyes. With his inimitable ability to translate complex foreign policy and economic issues, Friedman explains how the flattening of the world happened at the dawn of the twenty-first century; what it means to countries, companies, communities, and individuals; and how governments and societies can, and must, adapt. The World Is Flat is the timely and essential update on globalization, its successes and discontents, powerfully illuminated by one of our most respected journalists." 9-05

7. Lithium Ion Batteries - Advantages (IndustryWeek.com)
   "Currently nickel-metal-hydride batteries power most HEVs, but lithium-ion batteries likely will become the preferred choice for HEV manufacturers because they offer power, size, weight, cycle-life and cost advantages, according to Johnson Controls, one of IndustryWeek's IW 50 Best Manufacturing Companies for 2005." 02-06

8. Lithium Ion Batteries Breakthrough (GreenCarCongress.com)
   "Researchers at MIT have now developed lithium nickel manganese oxide electrodes for a new type of lithium battery that offers unexpectedly high rate-capability—considerably better than lithium cobalt oxide (LiCoO2), the current battery electrode material of choice."
   
   "A battery made from the new material can charge or discharge in about 10 minutes—about 10 times faster than unmodified lithium nickel manganese oxide technology, according to Gerbrand Ceder, MIT professor of materials science and engineering, who led the project. That brings it much closer to the timeframe needed for hybrid car batteries."
   
   "The lithium nickel manganese oxide [Li(Ni0.5Mn0.5)O2] batteries would also be less expensive and more stable than lithium cobalt oxide cells. Before the material can be used commercially, the manufacturing process needs to be made less expensive, and a few other modifications will likely be necessary, Ceder said." 02-06

9. Editorial: Oil Not Running Out Soon (Economist.com)
   "Despite today's obsession with the idea of 'peak oil', what really matters to the world economy is not when conventional oil production peaks, but whether we have enough affordable and convenient fuel from any source to power our current fleet of cars, buses and aeroplanes. With that in mind, the global oil industry is on the verge of a dramatic transformation from a risky exploration business into a technology-intensive manufacturing business. And the product that big oil companies will soon be manufacturing, argues Shell's Mr Van der Veer, is 'greener fossil fuels'." 03-06

10. Online Tutors Gain Popularity (ABC News)
    "Students from elementary to graduate school can get help any time of the day or night, from the comfort of their homes. Subjects range from math to English."
    
    "It's the outsourcing of education. Just like manufacturing or service jobs, the task of teaching America's youth is no longer limited by borders."

11. 10-09-07 Republican Candidates for President Debate (CBS News)
    "Republican presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani clashed over tax and spending cuts Tuesday, each claiming greater commitment than the other in a debate in the nation's struggling manufacturing heartland."
    
    "Eight of the candidates support the continuing U.S. military presence in Iraq, but Rep. Ron Paul of Texas drew a loud round of applause when he loudly dissented. Paul posted a surprising $5 million in campaign donations for the three months ending Sept. 30." 10-07

12. Hydrogen Sulfide Removal Using Hydrogen Peroxide (Antoine.Forstberg.edu)
    "Hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide are waste products of several manufacturing processes, and reaction with peroxide is one fairly cost-effective method of removing them from industrial wastes." 12-07

13. Carbon Fibers: A History (Wikipedia.org)
    "Carbon fiber or carbon fibre is also sometimes called graphite fiber. It has the highest compressive strength of all the reinforcing materials (composite materials), and it has a high strength to weight ratio and low coefficient of thermal expansion." 02-08

14. -04-18-08 Nanosolar (Time.com)
    "The CEO of the thin-film solar cell manufacturer Nanosolar, Roscheisen says that he can sell solar panels at $1 per watt of electricity produced — a price that is competitive with coal, and far lower than what his competitors can do. The secret is that Roscheisen's company uses nanotechnology to cut the cost of manufacturing, producing roll after roll of thin-film solar panels in a process that looks like a printing press." 04-08

15. Air-Powered Car in the U.S. Planned for 2010 (PopularMechanics.com)
    "Zero Pollution Motors (ZPM) confirmed to PopularMechanics.com on Thursday that it expects to produce the world’s first air-powered car for the United States by late 2009 or early 2010. As the U.S. licensee for Luxembourg-based MDI, which developed the Air Car as a compression-based alternative to the internal combustion engine, ZPM has attained rights to build the first of several modular plants, which are likely to begin manufacturing in the Northeast and grow for regional production around the country, at a clip of up to 10,000 Air Cars per year." 06-08

16. Making Diamonds (ScienceDaily.com)
    "New and improved technology has now made growing diamonds cost-competitive with mining them. Diamond-making machines subject a graphite-carbon core and a diamond seed at a pressure of 850,000 PSI for four days, recreating conditions similar to those 100 miles below the earth's surface. The lab-grown diamonds that come out are optically, chemically and physically identical to those that occur in nature." 06-08

17. -07-10-08 Toyota to Build Prius in the U.S. (CBS News)
    "Toyota Motor Corp. will start producing the hybrid Prius in the U.S. for the first time as the Japanese automaker adjusts its U.S. manufacturing operations to meet customer demands for smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles."07-08

18. -07-24-08 Innovlight Proposes Inexpensive Solar (Earth2Tech.com)
    "Innovalight is developing a silicon nanocrystalline ink, which supposedly will have the advantage of high throughput print manufacturing — without the lowered efficiency CIGS-based solar technologies suffer. The company says its technology 'could be as much as ten times cheaper than current solar cell solutions.' " 07-08

19. -07-24-08 Thin Film Solar at 100-Feet-per-Minute (Earth2Tech.com)
    "For all those that have been waiting to catch a glimpse of how Nanosolar has been printing its next-generation thin film solar cells, here’s some eye candy for you. The company, which started manufacturing in just December, put up this video clip of what the company says is the solar industry’s first 1 GW production tool." 07-08

20. -07-24-08 Thin Film Solar Advance Announced (BusinessWire.com)
    "Global Solar has developed a proprietary process for manufacturing thin-film CIGS photovoltaic cells and modules, and is the only company reliably producing CIGS that can be encapsulated in traditional glass modules or in a flexible substrate." 07-08