Topic: hey storm, Interesting article on Nano tubes... (Read 2680 times)

Sirgod · « **Reply #20 on:** March 13, 2004, 10:30:47 am »

More then happy too. The manufacturing methods are pretty interesting also in that article.

Stephen

ActiveX · « **Reply #21 on:** March 13, 2004, 10:37:19 am »

Image the uses in starships...

Sirgod · « **Reply #22 on:** March 13, 2004, 10:42:50 am »

mostly in the frames, although Storms building a planet idea comes back into play, by using this stuff to tether asteroids together. Incredible stuff.

stephen

ActiveX · « **Reply #23 on:** March 13, 2004, 10:45:59 am »

How flexible is it?

Stormbringer · « **Reply #24 on:** March 13, 2004, 11:02:06 am »

This stuff is the only thing we have that is strong enough to build a cable reaching a space satelite from the ground. The cable can be used to get a "car" up to geosych and back. This should be much cheaper than rockets or shuttles. The forces acting on the cable including the car are dampened by additional tethers attatched to out rigger satelites. A manufacturing facility and even a shipyard is near the space end. Ships are built in orbit and never have to deal with the gravity well. Thus they can be as large as we like. As an added bonus the thing generates electricity as it cuts the magnetic field or rather its dampers do.

Stormbringer · « **Reply #25 on:** March 13, 2004, 11:11:42 am »

At least some forms of it must be flexible; they envision making superconducting powerlines with it. And of course the space elevator was proposed using carbon nanotubes.

ActiveX · « **Reply #26 on:** March 13, 2004, 11:23:18 am »

Might get to build my starship afterall...

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