{"id":20,"date":"2006-02-17T07:37:29","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T15:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2006-02-17T07:37:29","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T15:37:29","slug":"sandia-national-labs-going-to-save-surfing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/archives\/20","title":{"rendered":"Sandia National Labs going to save surfing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I grew up in Encinitas, CA<\/a>, I never became a surfer (shocking, I know). Sure, I did some boogie boarding and body surfing, but was never good enough to even consider being a poser. I did appreciate the surfing culture and was saddened when I read last year that Clark Foam  was ceasing production of surfboard blanks, the foam core of a surfboard that is shaped into the final board. <\/p>\n

While there is some debate that Orange County simply wanted that business out of their area, the fact is the foam used Toluene Di Isocynate (TDI), a chemical that caused some environmental concerns. Rather than fight, they are likely going to stop production. The interesting part is that Clark Foam produced the blanks used in 90% of surfboards in the U.S. Needless to say the surfing community is concerned.<\/p>\n

The twist of the story came yesterday with Sandia National Laboratories offering to help. They have developed a foam used to protect the electronics in nuclear missles. It doesn’t use TDI and they are working to license it to surfboard manufacturers. That is a colaboration I never would have guessed.<\/p>\n

Rocket Foam May Save Surfboard Industry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I grew up in Encinitas, CA, I never became a surfer (shocking, I know). Sure, I did some boogie boarding and body surfing, but was never good enough to even consider being a poser. I did appreciate the surfing … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vft-k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}