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2005-10-21 Science & Technology

Stronger Than Steel, Harder Than Diamonds

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Posted by DanNY 2005-10-21 07:57|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Way cool!!

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2005-10-21 09:21|| 2005-10-21 09:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Buckypaper and transparent aluminum.

What tech level are we at now?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-10-21 12:41|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-10-21 12:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Are we getting to the Diamond Age now?

ObConspiracyNote: Isn't Ben Wang afraid of getting his door kicked in by the steel industry?

As one of the most thermally conductive materials known, buckypaper lends itself to the development of heat sinks that would allow computers and other electronic equipment to disperse heat more efficiently than is currently possible.

Or maybe a hoard of overclockers?

Posted by eLarson 2005-10-21 13:34|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2005-10-21 13:34|| Front Page Top

#4 cooooool

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-10-21 15:23|| 2005-10-21 15:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Superior FSU Press Release. Note that it's all could, might, in a few years. On the other hand the U of Florida has increased egg production in this years hen brood by 3.2% with only a 2.23% increase in feed input.

Posted by Shipman 2005-10-21 19:18|| 2005-10-21 19:18|| Front Page Top

#6 America's pre-emminence in materials science technology, quite simply, whips @ss. Between MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems), DLC (Diamond-Like Coatings) and nanotube based composites, we are headed into a golden era of structural and mechanical innovation.

I firmly believe we still have the ability (for the next few decades) to reverse the last century of unknowing (and knowing) environmental rape.

Imagine a large (inert gas environment) swimming-pool sized tank of nano-robotic dissasembly devices that are able to deconstruct materials on an atomic or moleculer level. Dump in a circuit board, an old couch or an entire refrigerator, it matters not, and collect the component elemental materials at the tank's outlet.

Were I Bill Gates, I would buy up every single landfill in the world and merely await the nano-disassembly technology to turn each of these dumps into literal goldmines.

At one point, before strict EPA enforcement, Palo Alto's sewage sludge contained enough gold (from IC fabrication and PCB contact etching) to make its reclamation rather profitable. The same allpies to all of our landfills. They represent tremendous lodes of pre-refined materials that merely need to undergo separation once again.

The space elevator, room temperature superconductors, palmtop supercomputers and so much more await us, if only we have enough brains to avoid outsourcing the skills to create them.

Posted by Zenster 2005-10-21 20:09|| 2005-10-21 20:09|| Front Page Top

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