Comments on: Nanocomp Wins Air Force Grant to Make Carbon-Nanotube Wiring for Aircraft http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2008/03/26/nanocomp-wins-air-force-grant-to-make-carbon-nanotube-wiring-for-aircraft/ Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:44:48 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Chris Gates http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2008/03/26/nanocomp-wins-air-force-grant-to-make-carbon-nanotube-wiring-for-aircraft/comment-page-1/#comment-9908 Chris Gates Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:09:49 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/2008/03/26/nanocomp-wins-air-force-grant-to-make-carbon-nanotube-wiring-for-aircraft/#comment-9908 Theoretically carbon nanotubes are 62 times stronger than steel under tensile load. Flywheel energy storage system/device, built with carbon nanotubes wire, wound as current kevlar flywheels, could easily meet the 100MPGe automotive X-Prize. Key is coming up with a way to create large volumes of CNs. Theoretically carbon nanotubes are 62 times stronger than steel under tensile load. Flywheel energy storage system/device, built with carbon nanotubes wire, wound as current kevlar flywheels, could easily meet the 100MPGe automotive X-Prize.

Key is coming up with a way to create large volumes of CNs.

]]> By: Wade Roush http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2008/03/26/nanocomp-wins-air-force-grant-to-make-carbon-nanotube-wiring-for-aircraft/comment-page-1/#comment-9826 Wade Roush Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:36:34 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/2008/03/26/nanocomp-wins-air-force-grant-to-make-carbon-nanotube-wiring-for-aircraft/#comment-9826 The idea of carbon nanotube cable reminds me of an idea floated by the recently-departed Sir Arthur C. Clarke. This visionary communicator not only proposed the idea of geosynchronous satellites, but was one of the first to outline the concept of a space elevator anchored to Earth by a long, strong filament. In "The Fountains of Paradise" (1979) Clarke described the space elevator cables as being composed of "continuous pseudo-one-dimensional diamond crystal," but carbon nanotube cables might fit the bill equally well ;-) The idea of carbon nanotube cable reminds me of an idea floated by the recently-departed Sir Arthur C. Clarke. This visionary communicator not only proposed the idea of geosynchronous satellites, but was one of the first to outline the concept of a space elevator anchored to Earth by a long, strong filament. In “The Fountains of Paradise” (1979) Clarke described the space elevator cables as being composed of “continuous pseudo-one-dimensional diamond crystal,” but carbon nanotube cables might fit the bill equally well ;-)

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