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scootz - 9/4/13 at 01:08 PM

... I've put my order in (get your dibs ready!).

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blakep82 - 9/4/13 at 01:15 PM

Only really good for insulation I suspect....
I've heard of aerogel before, but adding carbon just makes it better!

snakebelly - 9/4/13 at 05:11 PM

you'de have to add ballast! oh hang on thats me then....

coyoteboy - 9/4/13 at 05:34 PM

I suspect it won't be good chassis material

Aerogel is spectacular stuff.

tegwin - 9/4/13 at 07:07 PM

Carbon nano tubes are the way forward..... If you have DEEEP pockets

snakebelly - 9/4/13 at 07:14 PM

Unobtainium aerogel tubes, that'll be the badger!

Confused but excited. - 9/4/13 at 08:45 PM

quote:
Originally posted by tegwin
Carbon nano tubes are the way forward..... If you have DEEEP pockets


Not if you get it off scootz.

[Edited on 9/4/13 by Confused but excited.]

coyoteboy - 10/4/13 at 07:06 PM

quote:
Originally posted by tegwin
Carbon nano tubes are the way forward..... If you have DEEEP pockets


Not unless there's been some leap forward in manufacturing them at realistic levels since I last looked, or any great increase on data about them being used as composite matrix filler

Slimy38 - 10/4/13 at 07:42 PM

quote:
Originally posted by tegwin
Carbon nano tubes are the way forward..... If you have DEEEP pockets


All it needs is the Henry Bessemer of the carbon world though, and we're sorted. The material itself is fairly common (apparently) it's only the fact that at the moment it takes some really clever geek with a microscope supergluing the atoms together that costs money.

coyoteboy - 11/4/13 at 07:37 PM

It's very easy to make large amounts of short ones quite quickly, it's very hard to identify how to put them to good use or make long ones.