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http://www.nature.com/news/2005/050815/full/050815-8.html

just a little update on the manufacturing side of things with some interesting facts...

The ribbons are transparent, flexible, and conduct electricity. Weight for weight, they are stronger than steel sheets, yet a square kilometre of the material would weigh only 30 kilograms. "This is basically a new material," says Baughman.

 

[Jill Sandwich]

Thank you for the carbon nanotube update.

 

[Tommie Hu$tle]

Laugh now but when you have 84 year old men jumping around matrix style with their nanotube hearts don't say anything to me.

 

[Phoenix]

Countdown to body armor and military aircraft made from carbon nanotubes...

 

[Sagitario]

This technology can't come soon enough...

 

[FightyF]

Countdown to body armor and military aircraft made from carbon nanotubes...

Or 360 faceplates.

The future is going to kick all sorts of ass.

 

[Kleegamefan]

I just want the CNT HDTVs....



So funny, though, that it turns out CNTs might really cure cancer :lol

 

[HomerSimpson-Man]

Countdown to body armor and military aircraft made from carbon nanotubes...

Not before my $700 HDtv's dammit!!

 

[Nerevar]

and become the next big leap in transistor technology

 

[Ecrofirt]

So how much cheaper will CNT HDTVs be in comparison to what's out today?

And when are they hitting the market?

 

[Kleegamefan]

Before this advance in CNT creation, the TVs were said to cost as low as $400USD to produce.....

Of course they won't sell for that much but if they can make lots and lots of them easily, then the promise of <$1000 HDTVs will be a reality...

The very first FED will the the Toshiba SED, which goes into pilot production this month in Japan....they will go on sale early next year and CNT FEDs should be about a year behind the Toshiba SED and just about everybody is developing them, including:

The Tiwanese Govt.
Motorola
Hitachi
Pioneer
Matsushita
Sony
Samsung


And some small startups too....

 

[FightyF]

and become the next big leap in transistor technology

How about that stuff HP was researching? Or was that carbon nanotubes?

 

[Kleegamefan]

HP is actively involved in carbon nanotube research....dunno if that was what you saw, though...

 

[sc0la]

1 Space elevator pls

kthx

oh, and nano cars for super effciency

edit: god damnit I knew this would turn to TV talk

Buckminster would be appalled

 

[Evenball]

Laugh now but when you have 84 year old men jumping around matrix style with their nanotube hearts don't say anything to me.

What a strange image that brings to my mind.

 

[Triumph]

...so when can I buy my killer robot plated with nanotube armor?

 

[Zaptruder]

fuck body armor. Just gimme my CNT skingrafts already.

 

[Tommie Hu$tle]

...so when can I buy my killer robot plated with nanotube armor?

But how effective will it be against nanotube bullets? It's like Havok vs. Cyclops.

 

[DarthWoo]

1 Space elevator pls

kthx

oh, and nano cars for super effciency

edit: god damnit I knew this would turn to TV talk

Buckminster would be appalled

Yeah, the space elevator is my most anticipated application of this. I was reading an article about it in some trade magazine my father gets. The author was commissioned by some administrative body to do a study on how feasible the thing is, but unfortunately it seems as though it will be at least another ten to twenty years before we see one. Another interesting but unrelated technology that would apparently go into the space elevator is a huge laser that would be mounted on the anchor station, which would power the crawlers by shining on some special photocells pointing back down at the Earth. The lasers actually haven't been successfully built either, but they're pretty close.

The article even went into some detail on how relatively insignificant the threats from ribbon disasters would be. In the worst case scenario, where terrorists detonated a bomb on a crawler that was nearing the counterweight, thus severing the ribbon at the top, the counterweight would fly off into space, and most of the ribbon would burn up as it came down. What was left wouldn't be all that hard to clean up in the long run.

The best part of it all is that, with the first elevator built, the costs of moving objects into space would decrease from the current ~$200,000/kg to about $200. Having one elevator up would make building additional elevators even easier, and once you have a few elevators up, the payload costs drop significantly further.

We can start building space warships!