ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Mark Shaw - Macroencapsulator
Mark Shaw develops technologies to contain hazardous waste, storm water and radioactives.

Why you should listen

On graduating from college, Mark Shaw saw a news broadcast on a toxic waste clean-up called Love Canal. The footage showed leaking steel drums of toxic waste being lowered into larger steel drums. It was then he was inspired to “save the world from toxic waste” and build a drum that would never leak. At 23, an economics major working out of a rented storage locker, he developed his first patent, an overpack container with resistance wiring built into the lid that would automatically heat-weld the lid to the container with the push of a button. He dubbed it “Macroencapsulation” and today, it is not only an EPA-approved treatment for hazardous waste but is also used extensively at the U.S. Department of Energy National Labs for shipping and treating mixed radioactive waste that is both chemically and radioactively hazardous. Many of his inventions and products have become the market standard worldwide. Shaw and his companies are also pioneers in the spill containment, stormwater management and spill response industries and are now bringing over 500 practical and innovative products and technologies to industry on a global basis through its 1,500 distributors covering 40 countries.

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Mark Shaw: One very dry demo

Mark Shaw: En meget tør demo

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Mark Shaw demonstrerer Ultra-Ever Dry, en væske-afvisende belægning der fungerer som et forbløffende kraftigt skjold mod vand og vandbaserede væsker. På nanoniveau dækker sprayen overfladen med en paraply af luft så vandet springer af. Se efter en spændende overraskelse til sidst.
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I'm here to showat vise you
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how something you can't see can be so much funsjovt to look at.
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hvordan noget man ikke kan se, kan være så sjovt at kigge på.
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You're about to experienceerfaring a newny, availableledig
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Om lidt vil I opleve en ny, tilgængelig
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and excitingspændende technologyteknologi that's going to make us rethinkgenoverveje
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og spændende teknologi der vil få os til at genoverveje
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how we waterproofvandtæt our livesliv.
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hvordan vi gør vores liv vandtætte.
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What I have here is a cinderslagger blockblok
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Det, jeg har her, er en cementblok
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that we'vevi har coatedbelagt halfhalvt with a nanotechnologynanoteknologi sprayspray
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som vi har belagt halvt med nanoteknologisk spray
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that can be appliedanvendt to almostnæsten any materialmateriale.
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der kan anvendes på næsten ethvert materiale.
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It's calledhedder Ultra-EverUltra-nogensinde DryTør,
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Det hedder Ultra-Ever Dry,
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and when you applyansøge it to any materialmateriale,
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og når man påfører det på et hvilket som helst materiale
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it turnsdrejninger into a superhydrophobicsuperhydrophobic shieldskjold.
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forvandler det sig til et superhydrofobisk skjold.
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So this is a cinderslagger blockblok, uncoatedUbestrøget,
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Dette er en cementblok, ubehandlet,
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and you can see that it's porousporøs, it absorbsabsorberer watervand.
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og som I ser er den porøs; den absorberer vand.
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Not anymorelængere.
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Ikke længere.
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PorousPorøse, nonporousnonporous.
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Porøs, ikke porøs.
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So what's superhydrophobicsuperhydrophobic?
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Men hvad betyder "superhydrofobisk"?
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SuperhydrophobicSuperhydrophobic is how we measuremåle
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Superhydrofobi er den måde vi måler
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a dropdråbe of watervand on a surfaceoverflade.
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en dråbe vand på en overflade.
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The rounderrundere it is, the more hydrophobichydrofobe it is,
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Jo rundere dråbe, jo mere hydrofobisk er overfladen,
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and if it's really roundrund, it's superhydrophobicsuperhydrophobic.
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og hvis den er virkelig rund, er overfladen superhydrofobisk.
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A freshlyfrisk waxedvoksbehandlet carbil, the watervand moleculesmolekyler slumpnedturen
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På en nyvokset bil falder vandmolekulerne sammen
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to about 90 degreesgrader.
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til cirka 90 grader.
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A windshieldforrude coatingbelægning is going to give you about 110 degreesgrader.
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En belagt forrude vil resultere i 110 grader.
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But what you're seeingat se here is 160 to 175 degreesgrader,
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Men det I ser her, er 160 til 175 grader,
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and anything over 150 is superhydrophobicsuperhydrophobic.
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og alt over 150 er superhydrofobisk.
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So as parten del of the demonstrationdemonstration,
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Som en del af demonstrationen,
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what I have is a pairpar of gloveshandsker,
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har jeg et par handsker,
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and we'vevi har coatedbelagt one of the gloveshandsker
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og jeg har belagt en af handskerne
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with the nanotechnologynanoteknologi coatingbelægning,
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med den nanoteknologiske belægning,
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and let's see if you can tell whichhvilken one,
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og lad os se, om I kan gætte hvilken en det er,
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and I'll give you a hintantydning.
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-- jeg vil give jer et vink.
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Did you guessgætte the one that was drytør?
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Kunne I gætte hvilken der var tør?
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When you have nanotechnologynanoteknologi and nanoscienceNanoscience,
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Når man har nanoteknologi og nanovidenskab,
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what's occurredfandt sted is that we're ablei stand to now
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er vi nu pludselig i stand til
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look at atomsatomer and moleculesmolekyler and actuallyrent faktisk controlkontrollere them
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at se på atomer og molekuler og faktisk kontrollere dem
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for great benefitsfordele.
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med store fordele.
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And we're talkingtaler really smalllille here.
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Og vi taler om noget virkelig småt her.
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The way you measuremåle nanotechnologynanoteknologi is in nanometersnanometer,
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Måden man måler nanoteknologi på, er i nanometer,
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and one nanometernanometer is a billionthmilliard of a metermåler,
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og en nanometer er en milliardtedel af en meter,
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and to put some scalevægt to that,
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og for at sætte det ind i et målestoksforhold:
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if you had a nanoparticlenanopartikler that was one nanometernanometer thicktyk,
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Hvis man har en nanopartikel der er en nanometer tyk,
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and you put it sideside by sideside, and you had 50,000 of them,
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og man sætter dem side om side, og man har 50.000 af dem,
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you'ddu ville be the widthbredde of a humanhuman hairhår.
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så har man bredden af et menneskehår.
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So very smalllille, but very usefulnyttig.
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Meget småt, men meget brugbart.
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And it's not just watervand that this worksarbejder with.
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Og det er ikke kun vand dette virker med.
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It's a lot of water-basedvand-baseret materialsmaterialer like concretebeton,
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Det er mange vandbaserede materialer som cement,
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water-basedvand-baseret paintmaling,
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vandbaseret maling,
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mudmudder,
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mudder,
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and alsoogså some refinedraffineret oilsolier as well.
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og også nogle typer raffineret olie.
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You can see the differenceforskel.
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Man kan se forskellen.
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MovingFlytning onto the nextNæste demonstrationdemonstration,
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Vi går videre til den næste demonstration,
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we'vevi har takentaget a panerude of glassglas and we'vevi har coatedbelagt the outsideuden for of it,
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hvor vi har taget glasrude og vi har belagt ydersiden,
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we'vevi har framedindrammet it with the nanotechnologynanoteknologi coatingbelægning,
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vi har indrammet den med nanoteknologi-beklædningen,
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and we're going to pourhælde this green-tintedgrøn tonet- watervand insideinde the middlemidten,
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og vi hælder dette farvede grønne vand ind i midten,
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and you're going to see, it's going to spreadsprede out on glassglas
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og som I kommer til at se, vil det sprede sig ud på glasset
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like you'ddu ville normallynormalt think it would,
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ligesom man normalt ville forvente det gjorde,
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exceptundtagen when it hitshits the coatingbelægning, it stopsstop,
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bortset fra at når det rammer belægningen, så stopper det,
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and I can't even coaxCoax it to leaveforlade.
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og jeg kan ikke engang lokke det til at forsvinde.
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It's that afraidbange of the watervand.
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Så bange er det for vandet.
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(ApplauseBifald)
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(Bifald)
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So what's going on here? What's happeningsker?
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Hvad foregår der her? Hvad er det der sker?
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Well, the surfaceoverflade of the sprayspray coatingbelægning
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Jamen, spraybelægningens overflade
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is actuallyrent faktisk filledfyldt op with nanoparticlesnanopartikler
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er faktisk fyldt med nanopartikler
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that formform a very roughru and cragglycraggly surfaceoverflade.
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der danner en meget ru og forreven overflade.
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You'dDu ville think it'ddet ville be smoothglat, but it's actuallyrent faktisk not.
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Man skulle tro at den er glat, men det er den ikke.
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And it has billionsmilliarder of interstitialinterstitiel spacesrum,
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Og den har milliarder af interstitielle rum,
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and those spacesrum, alonghen ad with the nanoparticlesnanopartikler,
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og de rum, sammen med nanopartiklerne,
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reach up and grabtag fat the airluft moleculesmolekyler,
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rækker op og tager fat i luftmolekylerne,
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and coverdække over the surfaceoverflade with airluft.
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og dækker overfladen med luft.
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It's an umbrellaparaply of airluft all acrosset kors it,
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Det er en paraply af luft over hele overfladen,
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and that layerlag of airluft is what the watervand hitshits,
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og det luftlag er det, vandet rammer,
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the mudmudder hitshits, the concretebeton hitshits, and it glidesglider right off.
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mudderet rammer, cementen rammer, og det glider lige af.
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So if I put this insideinde this watervand here,
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Hvis jeg sætter det ned i vandet her,
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you can see a silversølv reflectivereflekterende coatingbelægning around it,
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kan man se den sølvfarvede reflektion af belægningen,
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and that silversølv reflectivereflekterende coatingbelægning
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og den sølvfarvede reflekterende belægning
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is the layerlag of airluft that's protectingbeskyttelse the watervand
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er det lag af luft der beskytter vandet
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from touchingrørende the paddlepadle, and it's drytør.
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fra at røre ved padlen, og det er tørt.
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So what are the applicationsapplikationer?
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Hvad er anvendelsesmulighederne så?
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I mean, manymange of you right now are probablysandsynligvis going throughigennem your headhoved.
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Jeg mener, mange af jer går det sikkert igennem i jeres hoved lige nu.
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EveryoneAlle that seesser this getsfår excitedbegejstret, and sayssiger,
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Alle der ser dette bliver begejstrede, og siger,
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"Oh, I could use it for this and this and this."
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"Åh, jeg kunne bruge det til det og det og det."
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The applicationsapplikationer in a generalgenerel sensefølelse
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Overordnet set kan anvendelsesmulighederne
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could be anything that's anti-wettinganti-befugtning.
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være hvad som helst der er anti-befugtende.
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We'veVi har certainlysikkert seenset that todayi dag.
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Det har vi bestemt set her i dag.
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It could be anything that's anti-icinganti-Icing,
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Det kan være hvad som helst der er anti-frysende,
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because if you don't have watervand, you don't have iceis.
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fordi hvis der ikke er vand, er der ikke is.
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It could be anti-corrosionanti-korrosion.
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Det kunne være anti-korroderende.
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No watervand, no corrosionkorrosion.
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Ingen vand, ingen korrosion.
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It could be anti-bacterialanti-bakteriel.
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Det kunne være anti-bakteriel brug.
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WithoutUden watervand, the bacteriabakterie won'tvil ikke surviveoverleve.
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Uden vand kan bakterier ikke overleve.
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And it could be things that need to be self-cleaningselvrensende as well.
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Og det kunne være ting der også har brug for at være selvrensende.
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So imagineforestille how something like this
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Forestil jer hvordan noget som dette
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could help revolutionizerevolutionere your fieldMark of work.
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kunne hjælpe med at revolutionere jeres arbejdsområde.
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And I'm going to leaveforlade you with one last demonstrationdemonstration,
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Og jeg vil efterlade jer med en sidste demonstration,
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but before I do that, I would like to say thank you,
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men inden jeg gør det, vil jeg gerne sige tak,
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and think smalllille.
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og tænk småt.
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(ApplauseBifald)
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It's going to happenske. Wait for it. Wait for it.
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Det kommer til at ske. Vent på det. Vent på det.
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ChrisChris AndersonAnderson: You guys didn't hearhøre about us cuttingskæring out the DesignDesign from TEDTED? (LaughterLatter)
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Chris Anderson: I har ikke hørt noget om at vi har skåret Design væk fra TED? (Latter)
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[Two minutesminutter latersenere...]
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He ranløb into all sortssorterer of problemsproblemer in termsbetingelser of managingadministration af the medicalmedicinsk researchforskning parten del.
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... han løb ind i alle mulige problem med hensyn til at lede den medicinske forskningsdel.
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It's happeningsker!
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Det sker!
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Mark Shaw - Macroencapsulator
Mark Shaw develops technologies to contain hazardous waste, storm water and radioactives.

Why you should listen

On graduating from college, Mark Shaw saw a news broadcast on a toxic waste clean-up called Love Canal. The footage showed leaking steel drums of toxic waste being lowered into larger steel drums. It was then he was inspired to “save the world from toxic waste” and build a drum that would never leak. At 23, an economics major working out of a rented storage locker, he developed his first patent, an overpack container with resistance wiring built into the lid that would automatically heat-weld the lid to the container with the push of a button. He dubbed it “Macroencapsulation” and today, it is not only an EPA-approved treatment for hazardous waste but is also used extensively at the U.S. Department of Energy National Labs for shipping and treating mixed radioactive waste that is both chemically and radioactively hazardous. Many of his inventions and products have become the market standard worldwide. Shaw and his companies are also pioneers in the spill containment, stormwater management and spill response industries and are now bringing over 500 practical and innovative products and technologies to industry on a global basis through its 1,500 distributors covering 40 countries.

More profile about the speaker
Mark Shaw | Speaker | TED.com