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上海市民办欣竹中学2023-2024学年八年级上学期12月英语月考考前复习卷
Biomimicry borrows nature's design ideas and applies them to solve human difficulties. Nowadays a lot of companies started to invent in ways that are as elegant as what nature manages to do, and their designers and engineers began to sit with biologists to learn how nature would solve whatever it is they're trying to solve.
Some biologists worked with Nike company on apparel(服装）that would keep an athlete cool at the 2004 Summer Olympics. In a hot, dry place like Athens, what kind of organisms have to keep themselves cool and how do they do it? They found an African reed frog——a champion adapter in the heater—to study.
If a company is making a solar cell , Biomimicry scientists will talk about how a leaf captures energy with their designers. Or if they're looking for some way to create an impact-resistant car,
Biomimicry scientists will explain how woodpeckers can peck trees all day without harming themselves.
Companies get the catalog of inspiration from the natural world and create things that sip energy, a city planner, an architect-should take one biology class in school.
If you take a look at the octopus, you'll notice it moves fluidly and precisely but of course without motors or noisy fans or harmful fuel. The giraffe's vascular system allows it to pump blood up to its head and dip its head without getting dizzy. The humpback whale's flipper has scalloped edges to calm turbulence, and that's being mimicked in a new kind of wind turbine that can rotate in very low wind speeds because of its shape. There's even a new kind of pacemaker based on the heart of the whale.
One famous biologist once said, 'In nature, failures are fossils. The organisms that are still with us are proven Companies that created a new product inspired by an organism have decided to donate a percentage of their proceeds to conserve the habitats of the organism.
In ten years, you'll be able to visit ocean parks that have been preserved with the proceeds from a no-heat ceramic recipe based on the abalone's mother-of-pear!
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