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Yeah, just wait 6-7 years and Moore's law should take care of it.
by titanomachy 8y ago
Yeah, just wait 6-7 years and Moore's law should take care of it.
- Latteland 8y agoOkay, that's a joke people. There's no moore's law for carbon nanotube extension (that I know of). There is an analog of electric battery price reduction over time, about 15-30% per year. Here's a graph of it - https://electrek.co/2017/01/30/electric-vehicle-battery-cost-dropped-80-6-years-227kwh-tesla-190kwh/ https://electrek.co/2017/01/30/electric-vehicle-battery-cost....
- wallace_f 8y agoOf course whenever we see a little bit of a pattern, we use a little bit of our ability with this language called math, and declare a law. Calling it a short-term pattern that may or may not continue into the future wouldn't help us feel smarter than the other people in the room.
- akho 8y agoYet it somehow helped you.
- thoughtstheseus 8y agoMaterial science is tough. Check out engine/turbine material science developments. It can take >decade to get new materials into planes.
- enraged_camel 8y agoYeah but isn’t that because aviation is an extremely highly regulated industry?
- adrianN 8y agoThose regulations are there for a reason. Safety is important. You don't want your space elevator climbers to fall down. A ripped cable would also be a pretty expensive accident.
- marcosdumay 8y agoAs a rule, the aviation industry auto-regulates first, and government regulators come later. That's the patter on most of the changes. So, not really. It's a highly regulated industry, but this is not the bottleneck.