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Offline vyper

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on: April 27, 2005, 07:59:32 pm
http://www.wired.com/news/space/0,2697,67350,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_5

[q]NASA will pay Rice University $11 million over the next four years to develop an experimental power cable made from carbon nanotubes, the agency announced Tuesday.

The cable, also known as a quantum wire, would theoretically conduct electricity up to 10 times better than traditional copper wire and weigh one-sixth as much.

...

...carbon nanotubes seem so versatile that scientists believe they may one day end up in everything from batteries to military armor -- provided that they can be produced easily and cheaply.

"There is a new miracle polymer to be developed," said Smalley. "I believe this is a tremendously important objective for modern society." [/q]
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Re: The borg were onto something [New tech]
Reply #1 on: April 27, 2005, 08:37:59 pm
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Originally posted by vyper
http://www.wired.com/news/space/0,2697,67350,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_5

[q]NASA will pay Rice University $11 million over the next four years to develop an experimental power cable made from carbon nanotubes, the agency announced Tuesday.

The cable, also known as a quantum wire, would theoretically conduct electricity up to 10 times better than traditional copper wire and weigh one-sixth as much.

...

...carbon nanotubes seem so versatile that scientists believe they may one day end up in everything from batteries to military armor -- provided that they can be produced easily and cheaply.

"There is a new miracle polymer to be developed," said Smalley. "I believe this is a tremendously important objective for modern society." [/q]


Makes me proud to live in Houston :)
I could probably go to Rice if I wanted to but....I would be one of the stupidest people there.

I wonder if this has anything to do with the Bucky-Balls (a third form of carbon thas stronger than diamonds) they developed a few years ago.
 

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Reply #2 on: April 27, 2005, 08:48:56 pm
I'm not quite sure, but I don't believe carbon nanotubes have anything to do with fullerene.
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Reply #3 on: April 27, 2005, 08:59:25 pm
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Bucky-Balls



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I can't help but think of deer(s) when I read that... :shaking:
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Reply #4 on: April 27, 2005, 09:15:52 pm
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Reply #5 on: April 27, 2005, 09:16:35 pm
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:nervous:


I can't help but think of deer(s) when I read that... :shaking:


Damn furs :p

On topic: that's pretty nifty.
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Reply #6 on: April 27, 2005, 09:19:08 pm
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Damn furs :p


It doesn't help that there's an artist called "Bucky Boy" on there somewhere...
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Reply #7 on: April 27, 2005, 10:29:04 pm
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I wonder if this has anything to do with the Bucky-Balls (a third form of carbon thas stronger than diamonds) they developed a few years ago.


Not really - but Bucky balls are going to have applications in nanotech, though nothing like the significance that these things will reach.
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Reply #8 on: April 27, 2005, 10:59:27 pm
orbital elevator.
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Reply #9 on: April 28, 2005, 12:24:17 am
It's when they perform self-repair that I'll be worried.
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Reply #10 on: April 28, 2005, 01:21:45 am
nanotubes are 10x stronger than diamond as well. they are also prohibitively expensive to make.
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Reply #11 on: April 28, 2005, 10:17:57 am
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nanotubes are 10x stronger than diamond as well. they are also prohibitively expensive to make.


I can imagine why...
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Reply #12 on: April 28, 2005, 11:20:48 am
"...but honey, this nanotube ring is a dozen times more expensive than the usual boring gold and diamond-"

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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Reply #13 on: April 28, 2005, 11:42:25 am
Why can I see this turning into something from Desperate Housewives.
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Reply #14 on: April 28, 2005, 01:56:56 pm
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I'm not quite sure, but I don't believe carbon nanotubes have anything to do with fullerene.


Take a buckyball. Add some extra carbon atoms in the middle and you end up with a rugby ball shaped C70 molecule.

Do that a lot and you end up with a carbon nanotube.
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Reply #15 on: April 29, 2005, 05:49:14 am
Lol.

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Reply #16 on: April 29, 2005, 06:53:50 am
on a side note, nanotubes have nothing to do with nanoprobes. so the title of this thread is WRONG!
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Reply #17 on: April 29, 2005, 07:16:08 am
Ah, suck ma unimatrix.
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Reply #18 on: April 29, 2005, 01:31:53 pm
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Originally posted by Bobboau
orbital elevator.


Not likely - at least until we finally put or electro-magnetic theories in their proper place.
It's not widely spread, but electro-magnetic fields were misinterpreted/used for years.
(You gotta know what the characteristics of the signal will be, then you can solve the Maxwell formula, and from that you can figure out the characteristics...

...so you have to "guess what" and see if things match up.
It's like a snake biting its own tail, and it was misused for years.)

The problem with the orbital elevator no one solved so far is what effects it will have on the atmosphere.
You put a constant spike into the ionosphere shortcircuting it.
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