Gordon Irons on Sustainability and Process Metallurgy
Monday, November 24th, 2008A couple of weeks ago I went to a seminar by Dr. Gordon Irons of McMaster University entitled The Role of Process Metallurgy on Sustainability. (You can download the talk here.) It was a good talk because it focused on what sustainability actually means for engineers. That is, how to evaluate the impact of a given process/industry in terms of impact on global warming, delinearization of the different facets of that industry, and what types of projects are necessary in order to improve the sustainability of process metallurgy. In other words, pragmatism over jingoism. (more…)