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Interesting: 10 Uses for Graphene.
Posted on 10/19/2019 10:00:05 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Multinational food packaging company Tetra Pak will be exploring the possible future applications of graphene in food and beverage manufacturing as the exclusive representative from the packaging industry at the European Commission Graphene Flagship project.
The company is leading research and development in the packaging industry into how graphene can be used to unlock innovations for food and beverages.
Graphene is a thin, carbon-based material that is around 200 times stronger than steel. It is an excellent conductor of heat and electricity, and absorbs light in a number of ways.
Tetra Pak will look at how graphene can be used in packaging material innovation such as reducing the carbon footprint of the packaging supply chain. It will also look at how the material can be used in smart packaging, by using ultra-thin graphene sensors that are smaller, lighter and cheaper than traditional sensors and can be integrated into packages as data carriers for producers, retailers and consumers.
The company will also explore if graphene composites can be used in the next generation of equipment to make it lighter and more energy efficient, reducing costs and energy consumption.
(Excerpt) Read more at packaging-gateway.com ...
In other words, there will soon be many new ways that my bag of Lays Potato Chips can spy on me, and tattle data back to the manufacturer, or whoever wants to pay for it.
I hope this will give way to something like a Black Light, where the user could tell what communication elements are woven into that packaging material.
This kind of imagery and suspicion would have been called Crazy-Koo-Koo
not that long ago.
Great. Get ready for Wrap Rage on steroids.
Wrap rage, also called package rage, is the common name for heightened levels of anger and frustration resulting from the inability to open packaging, particularly some heat-sealed plastic blister packs and clamshells.
It’s not just wrappings. I got a new higher dose of Synthroid this week. The Bottle is NOT SENIOR friendly at all. You nearly have to saw off the top of it to get it open. Push down then Turn past the lock. My R. Hand has surgery damage and severe Osteoarthritis.
Use to be my kids now adults opened all those child proof bottles as I never could.
That’s the choice of your pharmacy/dispensary. Many such are able to dispense medications in plain old screw top containers if you are willing to sign a statement indicating there are no children *ever* in your home or in grasping range of your meds - and often an open, unlimited liability release. If you can’t detect the sting in the tail of that last one, well..... you probably voted for Hillary.
I am not belittling your physical afflictions, but I actually use those push-then-turn bottles as a quick and dirty filtration method for hale adults wanting to work with me. If someone is in perfect health, no disabilities affecting their ability to open one of those bottles with the instructions clearly printed on them yet can’t do so, they’re too stupid to be on my team/work for me.
Wow, people actually FAILED that little test?
My dad managed big teams on complex aerospace projects and hired lots of brilliant people, many with PhD degrees. His had a simple hiring filter, too. He’d ask a candidate he was interviewing what he would do if he was in a dirty room with a broom waiting for my dad (the interviewer) to show up to the interview. The right answer, of course, was “I’d get to work and start cleaning the place up.” People who weren’t ambitious enough to get to work doing something or were too stupid to not understand the true question had a big strike against them.
Another article on characteristics of graphene for packaging ...hm
https://cen.acs.org/articles/92/i31/Graphene-Surprises-Decomposing.html
Unfortunately, modern liability lawsuits mean a prudent person wouldn’t touch that broom and pan these days no matter how motivated. Sadly invalidates your dad’s old test.
As for failing - yes. You would be surprised how many people fail that test; not just millennials either. About ten years ago, I gave that test to a company board at the behest of the company owner. This at the time was mostly Boomers - people in their late 40s, early 50s, all claiming they had no medical issues whatsoever. Had 50% failure to read and follow instructions.
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My God...50% failure rate! Incredible.
Of course, I like to jump in and do things often before reading instructions. So, guilty as charged (sometimes)!
Yeah, I like keeping this in mind when I hear Boomers complain about Millennials... while I’m in their office to show them how to send an email for the 90th time this year because “my secretary used to deal with all that.”
Or my 55 year old female client who somehow avoided learning how to use Word or Excel... or even open a file on a desktop computer. Despite working in urban offices most of her career. And now wonders why all the jobs she wants *require* at least some competency in common computer programs/tasks. Lady, when even the teen clerk at the Ikea checkout can be seen entering information in Excel at *her register* and checking her schedule in same, guess what? You better know how to use a computer.
Anyway - in the 50% failure rate event, here were the most common fails:
1. Refused to try to open it, thrust it at me and demanded I open it for them. Sorry, I don’t work for you, open it yourself.
2. Refused to read the instructions on the bottle, twisted it normally, gave up - sometimes in disgust, sometimes out of laziness, sometimes just in despair. One threw the bottle at me.
3. A couple looked at the bottle, went to open it, decided they didn’t want to find out what was inside and stopped. Technically failures, but interesting.
4. Refused to open it, said it was beneath them and they didn’t see the point. Owner fired these immediately.
5. Finally, we had people actually visibly read the instructions but apparently completely fail to parse the standard, plain English directions and do all sorts of weird stuff to try to get the bottle open. These, I assume, are now the old people that stand in front of self checkout units in total confusion unable to understand the instructions the console is speaking in plain English.
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