btw - http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update26/Update26.1.html http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update26/Update26.1.html From 1996 part of the claim about ma

btw - http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update26/Update26.1.html http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update26/Update26.1.html From 1996 part of the claim about making centimeter lenths of carbon nanotubes within the year and a mention about spooling them. Smalley claimed that the spooling was just around the corner as well. Carbon nanotubes have a billion dollars or more per year industry for some time and have had over a billion spent on R&D. We are now at about 1000 tons per year for total world production and the common lengths are usually a millimeter or less. Centimeter lengths are still rare. Nanocomp technologies is one of the main companies working with longer than millimeter or centimeter lengths and making a few tons per year of those lengths.