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nanotimes Editor‘s Letter

12-01 :: January 2012

need more ground-breaking innovations like the ones in the railroad era or such patents like these of Thomas Alva Edison. It means that latest innovations in the field of water filtrations and cheap re-move- ment of salt from sea water on an industrial scale are crucial. All these are industrial solutions; we do not need more mobile app developing companies.

As Paul B. Farrell writes, “Agriculture will decide the Earth’s fate in 2050, not ‘Peak Oil’,” because we have to feed 10 billion in 2050.

And nanotechnology will be one of our solutions. Thomas Ilfrich

* Paul B. Farrell: Global suicide 2020: We can‘t feed 10 billion, Create a new agriculture or capitalism self-destructs, In: MarketWatch, Feb. 14, 2012: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/global-suicide-2020-we-cant-feed-10-billion-2012-02-14?link=MW_story_popular