Charles Forsberg, executive director of the MIT Nuclear Fuel Cycle Project, agrees that these materials would likely be more difficult to steal than plutonium, but he notes that the processing technology could be dangerous in the hands of a nation wanting to repurpose the materials for weapons rather than power plants.
We were able to repurpose the materials into something we were proud of for the stool assignment, although we had to leave before we could add more supports and decoration; our workshop doesn't yet have electricity and we didn't want to risk walking to the bus stop after dark.
The Newark Star-Ledger reports Newark has raised $20,000 for buyback programs by melting down weapons reclaimed by police and sending them to Jewelry For A Cause, a company that repurposes the materials from liquidated weapons.
A more satisfying example of repurposing old material is found in Donald Farr's "Mustang Boss 302: From Racing Legend to Modern Muscle Car".
But just like with sampling sound, cutting up and repurposing older material can make for incredible results, and it's easy enough to do with actual scissors and glue.
Your agency as an artist shifts towards more fundamental concerns about perception, and from there it seemed like a small step to begin repurposing existing material, as it's the cracks between everything that fascinate us.
Instead of feeding the culture as they once did — providing songs for the charts, material for popular movies and a repository of theatrical entertainment that could reach millions in one form or another — the musical in the new century mostly feeds off other forms of media, repurposing material already tested.
You aren't repurposing your best material.
In line with an agenda for repurposing old materials, Mr. Taylor and Ms. Manheim used parts of deconstructed walls and even old machinery in the renovation.
''I like to use everyday materials in a different context to give them new life,'' says the 44-year-old, who has made a name for himself over the last decade by repurposing humble materials and unwanted objects as well as reworking classic pieces by design icons like Gio Ponti and Carlo Mollino into his own wild, hybrid furniture.
So the Varispeed production, presented as part of the Performa 11 festival, was less an act of rescuing a work from oblivion than one of repurposing its materials to unleash latent potential, while remaining faithful to its textural integrity and structural rigor.
