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How does microgravity help in nanofabrication?
by ColanR 7y ago
How does microgravity help in nanofabrication?
- checktheorder 7y agoIt may not be the microgravity that's the major help, but the hard vacuum. Deep space is the biggest, best clean room there could ever be.
- lkschubert8 7y agoWouldn't you have to deal with radiation that you are normally shielded from in Earth`s atmosphere? That may be more difficult to shield from than producing a normal clean room.
- checktheorder 7y agoI would bet that it's easier to design an orbital or moon-based structure (depending on whether production benefits from or suffers from microgravity) that's heavily shielded with lead, than it would be to create a deep-space-class hard vacuum in a volume of space on Earth suitable for large-scale industrial processes. It's a simple matter of not making the structure airtight. Given the volume and mass payload capabilities of the upcoming Starship/Superheavy, cheaply lifting bulk quantities of lead into space may actually be a reasonable proposal in the next five years rather than ultra-expensive pie-in-the-sky fantasy as it was during the age of disposable rockets.
- klyrs 7y agoThe thought of handling toxic, corrosive liquids in zero gravity is terrifying.