{"id":578,"date":"2009-05-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-226\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:30:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:30:04","slug":"innovation-anthology-226","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2009\/05\/19\/innovation-anthology-226\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #226:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/1-Innovation Anthology 226.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Scientists from 20 countries gathered in Edmonton recently for the <strong>15th World Micromachine Summit.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p> Tiny micromachines operate at a near atomic scale.  They&rsquo;re a functioning part of many products, from GPS systems to Nintendo Wii to lab-on-a-chip technology. <\/p>\n<p> <strong>Ken Brizell<\/strong> is the CEO of ACAMP, the <strong>Alberta Centre for Advanced MEMS and Nanotechnology Products<\/strong> which sponsored the Summit. <\/p>\n<p> As Ken Brizell explains, advances in micromachine technology have great potential for harnessing new energy sources and reducing environmental degradation. <\/p>\n<p><strong> KEN BRIZELL:  <\/strong><em> There&rsquo;s new technologies that are being created right now for molecular level solar energy where you are putting down solar cells onto plastics, you&rsquo;re rolling it out and making large sheets of plastic, basically you can cover large areas and have solar panels to generate energy back to your homes and businesses.<\/em>  <\/p>\n<p> Ken Brizell also points out developments in micro and nano technology have particular application to Alberta&rsquo;s oil sands    These advances will reduce water usage, tailings pollution, and enhance recovery of  bitumen.  <\/p>\n<p> <em><strong> Learn more at InnovationAnthology.com<\/strong><\/em> <\/p>\n<p> <strong>I&#8217;M CHERYL CROUCHER <\/strong> <\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3> , <\/h3>\n<h4>, , , , <\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02009-05-19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from 20 countries gathered in Edmonton recently for the <strong>15th World Micromachine Summit.<\/strong>   The Summit was sponsored by <strong>ACAMP, <\/strong>the Alberta Centre for Advanced MEMS and Nanotechnology Products. As ACAMP  CEO<strong> Ken Brizell <\/strong>explains, advances in micromachine technology have great potential for harnessing new energy sources and reducing environmental degradation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-information-technology","category-nanotechnology","category-technology","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/226ken_brizell.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4544,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/4544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}