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Isn't this the long sought-after material necessary for a space elevator to exist?
by fudged71 11y ago
Isn't this the long sought-after material necessary for a space elevator to exist?
- adrianN 11y agoIt depends on the length of the individual tubes. Single tubes have awesome tensile strength, but a fiber made up of many tubes probably is a lot weaker because they only stick together via weak forces like van der Waals.
- dnautics 11y agoIt's not that cool. For starters the nanotubes are supplied beforehand, this is just using an electric field to position them. Secondly, the tubes are not necessarily bound or fused together at the end of the process. I think they go back to bring a powder.