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Activity on Cost-benefit analysis

BENEFIT: advantages, good effects/impacts, profit

COST: disadvantages, negative effects/impacts, drawbacks

Scenario Benefits Costs Assessment

(3 each) (3 each
Which do you think is more
equitable in its impact? (benefit or
cost)

Why?

1.
a. An appointment to a a. Cause job In the scenario given,
Nanotechnology
healthcare professional displacement nanotechnology is more
can provide
relying on nano- machines. beneficial than disadvantageous.
alternatives to technology can help The pros provide access to
early detection of stop or cure the disease
b. Introduce an easier comprehensive and quality
cancer cells, drug even at an early stage way to produce healthcare services, which the
delivery, and given that it is safer biowarfare and world needs right now
injectable compared to other deadlier directed because of the pandemic. On the
treatments. energy weapons. other hand, the cons are
vaccines that to
this day rely on preventable by good political and
b. Nanotechnology can
c. Exploit cheaper economic governance.
healthcare help healthcare
labor markets.
professionals to professionals to monitor
a disease, observe and
administer.
come up with a
medicine or solution for
this.

c. Nanotechnology
enables the healthcare
system to administer
 their work efficiently and
effectively.

2.
a. Iron nanoparticles a. A further problem is Reducing pollutants through
Nanotechnolog nanotechnology showed that it is
may help clean up that we don't fully
y can be used indeed effective but it also
to reduce organic solvents that understand how
created another environmental
pollutants in the pollute groundwater. these nanoparticles
crisis. Being a solution and at the
environment The iron nanoparticles move through and same time creating a new
such as spread out in the body interact with their problem do not make any
radioactive of water and break surroundings, which is progress in helping our
wastes, oil spill,
down the organic made worse because environment thus it can become
and propylene
solvent. biological systems did a pollutant itself. Proving that
oxide, the raw nanotechnology in this area
material for not develop in the
should undergo more research
making plastics. b. Nanoparticles are presence of and experiments.
organized in a grid that nanoparticles of the
gives a large surface kinds being
area for the reaction, is produced.
activated by sunlight,
and can function in b. Nanomaterials that
water, making them make their way into
ideal for cleaning up oil the soil have the
potential to
spills.
contaminate it and
migrate into surface
c. Promote more and ground waters.
efficient use of raw Wind or rainwater
materials, resources, runoff can transport
equipment, energy, particles from solid
and water. waste, wastewater
effluents, direct
discharges, or
accidental spills into
aquatic systems.

3. a. Energy storage
Nanotechnolog systems will become
y can be more efficient as a
incorporated result. It will also enable
into solar panels new methods of
to convert generating and storing
sunlight to energy.
electricity more
efficiently and b. Solar panels do not
helps in cleaner generate greenhouse
production of gasses and do not
alternative and contribute to water
renewable pollution.
energy sources.
c. Independent solar
systems could be
created to help
remote regions access
energy.
c. Regeneration and
reusability,
functionalization,
and separation
efficacy
challenges in
cleaning up
the nuclear waste by
nanotechnology.
a. Modern solar Analyzing the pros and cons, solar
panels with panels could help the
nano-solar cells have environment and especially
a high millions of people but the
initial cost. They are challenges it has makes it
sometimes impossible to accommodate
unaffordable and communities who need it.
inaccessible to However, with proper financial
people in allocation and further
lower classes. development on this
nanotechnology, it is possible to
b. They are high achieve more suitable solar
maintenance and panels for the users.
dependent on the
owner’s available
space.
c. Irregular collection
of energy because
the sun's intensity
varies which leads to
limited access to
energy.
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