Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com Newsgroups: sci.space.policy,sci.astro,sci.physics,rec.arts.sf.science Subject: Re: Paper published on producing arbitrarily long nanotubes. Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 16:08:14 -0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 54 Sender: Jim Pennino Message-ID: References: <5qor8d-mk5.ln1@mail.specsol.com> Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="db4120ef82bbc153014637d4cd15a795"; logging-data="27446"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/d89NtsC2WwhXcyMAOQycS" User-Agent: tin/2.2.1-20140504 ("Tober an Righ") (UNIX) (SunOS/5.10 (i86pc)) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IsDkDWOsSXQRSyp3XzXOq45+RoY= Xref: csiph.com sci.space.policy:57480 sci.astro:59084 sci.physics:594492 rec.arts.sf.science:24985 In sci.physics Robert Clark wrote: > Ok, I was engaging in a bit of hyperbole there. But even if these methods > could produce arbitrarily long nanotubes at 1/10th the maximum measured > nanotube strength, this would be a major change in materials science. > > Bob Clark Only in a few niche applications where weight and strength are competing parameters. For the vast majority of things there is no incentive to build them from nanotubes. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Finally, nanotechnology can now fulfill its potential to revolutionize > 21st-century technology, from the space elevator, to private, orbital > launchers, to 'flying cars'. > This crowdfunding campaign is to prove it: > > Nanotech: from air to space. > https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/nanotech-from-air-to-space/x/13319568/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > wrote in message news:5qor8d-mk5.ln1@mail.specsol.com... > > In sci.physics Robert Clark wrote: >> American Journal of Nanomaterials >> Vol. 4, No. 2, 2016, pp 39-43. doi: 10.12691/ajn-4-2-2 | Research Article >> From Nanoscale to Macroscale: Applications of Nanotechnology to Production >> of Bulk Ultra-Strong Materials. >> Robert Clark >> Department of Mathematics, Widener University, Chester, United States >> http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajn/4/2/2/index.html >> >> Next stop: the space elevator. > > Nope, the next stop would be ANYTHING practical. > >> Bob Clark >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Finally, nanotechnology can now fulfill its potential to revolutionize >> 21st-century technology, from the space elevator, to private, orbital >> launchers, to 'flying cars'. > > The lack of flying cars has never been a materials problem. There have > been lots of flying cars built. > > -- Jim Pennino