http://doylebrau.com/2008/03/10/technomimicry/ The after eggnog beer. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:00:06 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://doylebrau.com/2008/03/10/technomimicry/comment-page-1/#comment-24014 Underwear-off… | doylebrau.com Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:38:15 +0000 http://doylebrau.com/2008/03/10/technomimicry/#comment-24014 [...] Yes, I’m appreciative of all the work that the fine folks of Hot Chillys (an American company, by the way) have done in advancing synthetic protection against the elements, but had they bothered to look, they would have seen that mother nature solved this problem a long, long time ago, and with far fewer petrochemicals involved. There are already animals that exist in the cold, and they do just fine without polyester. Hell, I think I remember from that Planet Earth series that scientists were having trouble locating Musk Ox with infrared cameras because their insulation was just that good. Biomimicry, people, biomimicry. [...] [...] Yes, I’m appreciative of all the work that the fine folks of Hot Chillys (an American company, by the way) have done in advancing synthetic protection against the elements, but had they bothered to look, they would have seen that mother nature solved this problem a long, long time ago, and with far fewer petrochemicals involved. There are already animals that exist in the cold, and they do just fine without polyester. Hell, I think I remember from that Planet Earth series that scientists were having trouble locating Musk Ox with infrared cameras because their insulation was just that good. Biomimicry, people, biomimicry. [...]

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