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It's Just String & Glue. This is a newsletter about composites, the strings, the glues, and the business.

Oct 16, 20235 min read

Maker Faire Bay Area 2023 – It was Awesome!!!

#makerfaire, #MFBA23, #seemeatmfba23, #composites, #UC_Berkeley, #UAVs_Berkeley, #string_and_glue I went to the Maker Faire Bay Area over...

Oct 9, 20234 min read

Sustainable Plant-Based Fibers - So What's Nanocellulose?

#String_and_Glue, #makerfaire, #MFBA23, #seemeatmfba23, #composites, #sustainability This week I’m going to go back to being a bit...

Oct 2, 20235 min read

Composites at Maker Faire Bay Area 2023

#String_and_Glue, #Make:, #Maker_Faire, #Composites I thought this week I would focus a little bit on a really awesome event that is...

Sep 26, 20234 min read

How do Airplanes Stop When They Land?

#String_and_Glue, #composites, #carbon_carbon, #aircraft_brakes, #Collins_Aerospace, #Spokane I recently went up to Spokane, WA for a...

Sep 17, 20236 min read

How does a Book Signing Work – My Personal Experience

#String_and_Glue, #composites, #Book_signing, #book_sales I have to say this has been a crazy week for me, which is why I am as tardy...

Sep 5, 20234 min read

Some News About Plant Based Fibers and Resins

#String_and_Glue, #sustainabillity, #recycle, #biocomposites, #plant_based I thought this week I would go back to some natural (that is,...

Aug 29, 20234 min read

Wind Energy is Taking Off – and All the Turbine Blades are Composite

#String_and_Glue, #renewable_energy, #renewables, #composites, #wind_energy, #wind_farms With the approval last week of the Revolution...

Aug 22, 20233 min read

Some Interesting Things Going on with Recycling / Sustainability

#String_and_Glue, #Composites, #Published, #recycling, #sustainability There are two articles I read this week about composites recycling...

Aug 7, 20234 min read

Plant or Biomass Derived Carbon Fiber (PAN-Based)

#String_and_Glue, #Sustainability, #biomass, #sustainablecomposites This week I am going to focus on just one aspect of sustainability of...

Jul 31, 20238 min read

So, You Wrote a Book - Now What?

#String_and_Glue, #Author, #Publishers I thought that this week I would talk a little bit about the journey I’ve been on now for about a...

Jul 24, 20231 min read

I have the proofs for my Book – “The String and Glue of our World”

#String_and_Glue This morning I was thinking of contacting McFarland to see when I would get my proofs, and what do you know, they showed...

Jul 17, 20235 min read

A Quick Update on Renewable Energy and Composites – The interesting and the Strange

#String_and_Glue, #Renewable Energy, #Wind Turbines, #Composites in Renewable Energy This week I want to talk about some new and – at...

Jul 10, 20235 min read

A Bit More About Recycling Composites – So What’s New?

#String_and_Glue, #Composites, #Recycling, #Pyrolysis, #Solvolysis Yes, I’m going to talk a bit more about sustainability of composites...

Jul 5, 20237 min read

How to Make Sure it Doesn't Break - Part Deux

#String_and_Glue, #Composites, #Failure, #Titan_Disaster In a sense this post is about the loss of the Titan submersible. But mostly it...

Jun 26, 20235 min read

When Hubris Overtakes Reason – People DIE!

#String_and_Glue, #Composites, #Pressure_Hull, #Deep_Submersible Well, this week, I just had to do this. This post is going to be about...

Jun 5, 20234 min read

A Bit More About Repair - How About Automation?

#String_and_Glue, #Composites, #Composite_Repair, #Repair Fully Automated Portable Digital Repair (Composites World Jan 20, 2022) One of...

May 29, 20233 min read

Special Memorial Day 2023 Post

#String_and_Glue This post is not going to be about Composites per se, and it might be a bit shorter than some of my other posts. What I...

May 22, 20234 min read

Recycling Fiber is Scaling Up – And that’s Good News

#String_and_Glue Of course, It's a Lamborghini - What else would it be? By now you all know that I am going to put an eye-catching pic at...

May 15, 20235 min read

All Electric Aircraft are All Composite Too

#String_and_Glue Archer Electric eVTOL Aircraft I thought with this post I would revisit electric aircraft, which because of the strength...

May 8, 20234 min read

Composites are Now Mainstream

#String_and_Glue There was an interesting editorial in the May 2023 edition of Composites World Magazine. The point of the article is...