TEDx Talkback with Robert Wolkow | Atom Scale Manufacturing: The Path to Ultimate Green Technologies

What if we adopted atom scale manufacturing? Robert Wolkow discusses this and more with Teale Masrani

⁠"If we adopted atom scale manufacturing, it is very energy efficient because the electrons are held just right. Think about how much energy the world is consuming just to do our every day computation...."

Robert Wolkow is a Professor in the Department of Physics, iCore Chair of Nanoscale Information and Communications Technology at the University of Alberta and Fellow at the Royal Society of Canada. He is also a Principal Research Officer at the NRC Nanotechnology Research Centre (NRC-NANO) and CTO of Quantum Silicon Inc.⁠

As an award winning innovator, Wolkow has had a leading role in discovering, altering and deploying atom scale properties of silicon. His years of fundamental advances have laid a broad foundation for practical applications.

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⁠"If we adopted atom scale manufacturing..."

The problem is never a lack of positive benefits for some new tech that does not exists or is in a primitive state. The problem is usually the fact the tech does not exists or is in a primitive state and getting it to a commercially ready state isn't economically viable in the near term.