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- latrosicarius, on 03/16/2009, -0/+9Oh great... yet another use for nanotubes. We need to boycott this crap -- they're gonna put us out of business!
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The steel industry
The textile industry
The semiconductor industry
The superconductor industry
The communications industry
The battery industry
The pharmaceutical industry
The cancer industry (?)
... you get the idea - jordanlgta, on 03/16/2009, -1/+8I thought CNT was a television station in Liberty City.
- sirellyn, on 03/16/2009, -0/+6I'm a bit concerned about obsolescence as well. Some of the new advances have been great, but others have been new products that are simply designed to expire faster than old products. Rechargeable batteries are one good example.
All the new generations of batteries, they don't have a "memory effect" but they do age. You can renew batteries that have a memory effect however, and they function just as well as new. Such as alkaline batteries. This seems small but people want to move over to electric cars because they are cheaper. People forget you have to replace your "rechargeable" batteries after about 5 years, costing you thousands. Not to mention throwing them in the dump.
Not everything is an improvement. - staffa, on 03/16/2009, -0/+6Standing between us and a space elevator is the ability to cheaply manufacture carbon nanotubes.
Anything that successfully commercializes carbon nanotubes is a good thing. - greenlightison, on 03/16/2009, -0/+5be really big?
- inactive, on 03/16/2009, -1/+5The "writer" of that "piece" needs to "lay off the quotes".
http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/ - latrosicarius, on 03/16/2009, -0/+4lol
- BorsKaegel, on 03/16/2009, -0/+4So, given this development, the Internet may eventually REALLY be a series of tubes!
- Barackalypse, on 03/16/2009, -1/+4Strictly from a material cost standpoint, this represents a 250x reduction in price, since copper costs about $4 per kg and carbon nanotubes cost around $150 per kg, but they need one ten-thousandth of the weight. I'd assume fabrication costs to be substantially more, but hopefully its still cost effective to do.
- bstew22, on 03/16/2009, -1/+4dugg for UC. woot!
- DiggMasterJ, on 03/16/2009, -2/+5 All of we have to say is that we are really looking forward to it.
- breadfred, on 03/16/2009, -0/+2Yeah, cause radio waves are only created by humans.
- latrosicarius, on 03/16/2009, -0/+2Yes. It can't not do anything.
- greenlightison, on 03/16/2009, -0/+2pubic threads
- Intercon, on 03/16/2009, -0/+2No.
- beckcomm, on 03/17/2009, -0/+2Go here: http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.aspx?id=9743 and watch the video of the CNT threads being spun. It'll blow you away!
- copypastry, on 03/16/2009, -0/+1CNT threads are actually useful?
And to think that women have been shaving and waxing them off for decades... - ozydingo, on 03/18/2009, -0/+1FTA: "a nano-antenna which transmits both AM and FM radio signals"
I am confused as to how a device could transmit one but not the other. - StankChz, on 03/16/2009, -0/+1First we get Brian Kelly, then we get rid of Nancy Zimpher, now this. UC is on a roll! Now we just need to fix the basketball team :(
We've always been a really good research university, but none of it ever makes the news. This makes me happy. - brettg102, on 03/16/2009, -0/+1That's my university :D
- Dan6963, on 03/16/2009, -0/+1Nanotechnology... is there anything it CAN'T do?
- threon, on 03/16/2009, -0/+1Stick some of those in your brain and you can control people with your thoughts.
- xsecretfiles, on 03/16/2009, -3/+4I read that as CNN to replace Anderson Cooper for some reason.................
- brainboy7777, on 03/16/2009, -0/+1"America's Top Whores"
- DrZmobie, on 03/16/2009, -0/+1It's not a big truck!
- infernoskull, on 03/16/2009, -0/+1women?
- Jakerzon, on 03/17/2009, -0/+1Very cool. Thanks for that.
- infernoskull, on 03/16/2009, -1/+2if they can pick up radio signals so easily does that mean i could be riding a plane thats outfitted with these wires instead of traditional copper wires, and by using radio signals, hack into the plane?
- beckcomm, on 03/17/2009, -0/+1Oh, for those you need to see the original UC news release and you get pics and VIDEO! Go here: http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.aspx?id=9743, and watch the video of the CNT threads being spun. It'll blow you away!
- Dan6963, on 03/16/2009, -0/+1Get a digger laid?
- Tiak, on 03/18/2009, -0/+1WTF?... I'm not sure if you're kidding or not, but I just googled to be safe and I can't find a single source claiming FM radio makes birds fly into windmills, or a single reason anyone would think that makes sense.
- hydroplane, on 03/16/2009, -2/+2buttsecks
- StankChz, on 03/16/2009, -1/+1Oh yeah, we Bearcats do some cool ***** after we graduate, too.
http://www.cheaparral.com/
That monster was created by UC grads :D - gkiltz, on 03/17/2009, -0/+0This assumes there is any available spectrum space to put them in!
In most of the world's major cities, there isn't!
Where there is, the density of points to transmit to is too low for economic viability! - Sheethappens, on 03/16/2009, -1/+0It was created from a CNT fibre? Where are the pics of THAT???? HAHAHA!
- LilJimmyNordin, on 03/16/2009, -2/+1WHAT kind of threads? Last I heard, those were called 'hairs'.
- williepepper, on 03/16/2009, -8/+2WTF, just whot we need, more radiation.
When will they learn this stuff is bad for the environment.
It makes birds fly into windmills, it's been provan over and over.
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