The aluminum is because it's very light.

The aluminum castings must be brushed again.

Now, think about your interactions with aluminum foil.

We cross on aluminum ladders with safety ropes attached.

The redesign involved substitution of aluminum lithium for the existing aluminum alloy, thus taking advantage of the greater strength per unit of weight characteristic of the new material.

This is some aluminum foil, right? You use it in the kitchen.

KS So I'm sure all you engineers know that even though aluminum is a metal, it's not a magnetic material. But something unexpected happens when you drop a magnet down an aluminum tube.

There are six layers three layers of plastic, aluminum which are are sealed together.

But I also met aluminum mold makers, ammunition producers and all kinds of people.

This is a bronze ball, an aluminum arm here, and then this wooden disk.

If we put aluminum windows in this house, we would double the energy use right there.

We used a bit of laser cutting on the plywood and some of the aluminum pieces.

You can always be changing colors, put aluminum paint, or I could put anything into this.

When you get to the very bottom of the slide the rider passes through an aluminum tube.

This wedding dress here is actually made of sporks, and this dress is actually made of aluminum.

We stripped out all the vinyl and zolatone paint that was covering up this just fantastic aluminum shell.

What I came up with was a series of second skins that basically float over the aluminum shell.

The few surfaces not covered by signs are often clad in a distinctive, dark green gray, striated aluminum siding.

An aluminum factory in Czechoslovakia was filled with carcinogenic smoke and dust, and four out of five workers came down with cancer.

And they had this vision of the nurse, kind of, clicking away on this aluminum device and it all being incredibly, sort of, gadget lustish.

In Sri Lanka the practice of building houses with aluminum roofs on mountain tops and without earth terminals attracts lightning and causing loss of human lives and damage to properties.

The manufacturing industry, meanwhile, will be similarly transformed by 3D printing technology. Supply chains will be eliminated or reshaped an expectation that the CEO of a major aluminum manufacturer recently described.

It's making silicon as important as aluminum, and we'll grow it in the future by adding more antennas to reach 350 for more sensitivity and leveraging Moore's law for more processing capability.

Energy independence thus could destroy entire industries, especially petrochemicals, aluminum, and steel. In fact, cheap energy in oil producing countries might make their new industries competitive with those in China, India, and Southeast Asia.

In moments of war there's great technological innovation, and in the world you have to do without well, during the Second World War, you had to do without steel, you had to do without aluminum.

Shape retaining is common in metal you bend a piece of aluminum foil, and it holds its place. Contrast that with a plastic garbage can and you can push in the sides and it always bounces back.

I'm looking at single surface structures and how they flow how they stretch and flow. It's based on furniture typologies, but that's not the end motivation. It's made from aluminum, as opposed to aluminium, and it's grown.

Steel production alone consumes 18 of the country s energy resources, nearly twice as much as all Chinese households. The chemical industry consumes more energy than all private transportation, and aluminum production rivals the commercial sector in terms of electricity demand.

The idea behind this form of geoengineering as it's called, is that, as the planet heats up, we may be able to shoot sulfates and aluminum particles into the stratosphere to reflect some of the sun's rays back to space, thereby cooling the planet.

Excessive law making has pushed up prices and pushed out investors, not only from refining and petrochemicals, but from all energy intensive sectors, including aluminum, steel, and cement. In some EU states, electricity prices for industrial customers are twice what their North American counterparts pay.

That message still resonates today, though it was spectacularly wrong. For example, the authors of The Limits to Growth predicted that before 2013, the world would have run out of aluminum, copper, gold, lead, mercury, molybdenum, natural gas, oil, silver, tin, tungsten, and zinc.

Jamaica, for example, would issue aluminum bonds Nigeria would issue oil bonds Sierra Leone would issue iron ore bonds and Mongolia would issue copper bonds. Investors would be able to buy Guatemala s coffee bonds, Côte d Ivoire s cocoa bonds, Liberia s rubber bonds, Mali s cotton bonds, and Ghana s gold bonds.

Technological innovations have replaced mercury in batteries, dental fillings, and thermometers mercury consumption is down 98 and, by 2000, the price was down 90 . More broadly, since 1946, supplies of copper, aluminum, iron, and zinc have outstripped consumption, owing to the discovery of additional reserves and new technologies to extract them economically.

So a threat Iraqi weapons of mass destruction had to be created. As we now know, the threat was based on lies (aluminum tubes for a nuclear weapons program, for example, meetings between the 9 11 plot leader, Mohamed Atta, and Iraqi officials in Prague, and even glaring forgeries like supposed Iraqi orders for yellowcake uranium from Niger).

Based on the NDRC s figures, 2008 capacity utilization rates were just 76 for steel, 75 for cement, 73 for aluminum, 88 for flat glass, 40 for methanol, and 20 for poly crystalline silicon (a key raw material for solar cells). The current project pipeline also implies less than 50 utilization for wind power equipment manufacturers in 2010.

But Europe s economy will not grow, and a sufficient number of jobs will not be created, if such vital industries as aluminum, steel, fuels, plastics, and cement are not allowed to thrive. This outcome would be bad not only for the economy, but also for the environment, because these industries will simply continue relocating to markets with far worse environmental records.

At the same time, it is increasingly obvious that any reform of risk models must factor in environmental implications and natural resource scarcity. Indeed, a recent investment report underlined that the fall in prices in the twentieth century for 33 important commodities including aluminum, palm oil, and wheat has been entirely offset in the decade since 2002, when commodity prices tripled.

And the reason this has not been very seriously examined before is there was a common assumption in the industry that well, then it might not be safe if you got whacked by a heavy car, and it would cost a lot more to make, because the only way we know how to make cars much lighter was to use expensive light metals like aluminum and magnesium.

China s leaders are already eager to rein in energy and pollution intensive industry for reasons of national security, air and water quality, and simple economic efficiency. Production of steel, cement, chemicals, paper, and aluminum alone account for nearly half of China s energy needs and generate nearly half of the air pollution that claims over 300,000 lives and costs the economy close to 100 billion each year.

Today, Mao s dream of catching up with the rest of the world has been realized, albeit a bit behind schedule, not only in steel making, where annual capacity has reached 660 million tons, but in many other sectors as well. In 2008, China ranked first in steel (about half of world production), cement (also about half), aluminum (about 40 ), and glass (31 ), to take just a few examples.

To be sure, intensity of use has fallen for some commodities, like gold and nuclear energy but for others, such as aluminum and coal, it has risen since 2000 or, as is the case for copper and oil, declines have slowed markedly or stalled at high levels. As the composition of China s economy continues to shift from investment to consumption, demand for commodity intensive consumer durables cars, mobile phones, indoor plumbing, computers, and televisions will rise.