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Graphene is the future and Brazil is the largest country that has this resource, it could be the best country in the world.

dtx1 3y ago
Isn't graphene just carbon?
ur-whale 3y ago
I thought Graphene was just a form of Carbon, and mostly produced from regular carbon through some sort of process. Are you saying Graphene can be found in nature?
binarymax 3y ago
Graphene (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene) is manufactured from carbon. You don’t pull graphene out of the ground, you manufacture it in a lab.
- neuronexmachina 3y ago
  I've been playing too much Dyson Sphere Program lately, my first thought was "you just need to combine graphite and sulfuric acid in your chemical plant": https://dyson-sphere-program.fandom.com/wiki/Graphene https://dyson-sphere-program.fandom.com/wiki/Graphene Looks like that's sort-of a real thing? https://www.americanscientist.org/article/mass-producing-graphene https://www.americanscientist.org/article/mass-producing-gra... > Researchers at Rutgers University are making sheets of graphene out of ordinary graphite flakes and some sulfuric or nitric acid.
  - seaal 3y ago
    Always nice when games introduce you to real life concepts. Shout out to Greg Tech: New Horizons, often leading me down a wikipedia rabbit hole.
  - klyrs 3y ago
    Even if you could just magically make a reel of graphene with this graphite+sulphuric acid recipe, it wouldn't help one bit in chip fabrication. You need to build things layer by layer; there's only one place where a bulk material is used, and that's the substrate.
r3d0c 3y ago
lol.. unless brazil is the only country in the world with carbon, this is absolutely not true
neuronexmachina 3y ago
Assuming you mean graphite (which can be used in graphene production), it looks like Turkey might have even more reserves. China, Madagascar, and Mozambique also have pretty significant graphite reserves: https://www.statista.com/statistics/267367/reserves-of-graphite-by-country/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/267367/reserves-of-graph...
wigster 3y ago
its made out of sellotape/scotch tape and pencils! ;-)
cassiogo 3y ago
I belive you are thinking about Niobium and not Graphene
dudeinjapan 3y ago
Brazil is the world’s third largest producer of graphite, behind China and Mozambique. Our current most reliable graphene production methods start with graphite and exfoliate it into single layers of graphene.
moffkalast 3y ago
Even if that were true, countries where most of the wealth is dug or pumped from the ground are the worst places to live because it can all be be easily extracted by foreign companies who pay a cut to the dictator directly and the people have nothing to threaten the laughably rich autocrat with.

dtx1 3y ago

Isn't graphene just carbon?

ur-whale 3y ago

I thought Graphene was just a form of Carbon, and mostly produced from regular carbon through some sort of process. Are you saying Graphene can be found in nature?

binarymax 3y ago

Graphene (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene) is manufactured from carbon. You don’t pull graphene out of the ground, you manufacture it in a lab.

neuronexmachina 3y ago
I've been playing too much Dyson Sphere Program lately, my first thought was "you just need to combine graphite and sulfuric acid in your chemical plant": https://dyson-sphere-program.fandom.com/wiki/Graphene https://dyson-sphere-program.fandom.com/wiki/Graphene Looks like that's sort-of a real thing? https://www.americanscientist.org/article/mass-producing-graphene https://www.americanscientist.org/article/mass-producing-gra... > Researchers at Rutgers University are making sheets of graphene out of ordinary graphite flakes and some sulfuric or nitric acid.
- seaal 3y ago
  Always nice when games introduce you to real life concepts. Shout out to Greg Tech: New Horizons, often leading me down a wikipedia rabbit hole.
- klyrs 3y ago
  Even if you could just magically make a reel of graphene with this graphite+sulphuric acid recipe, it wouldn't help one bit in chip fabrication. You need to build things layer by layer; there's only one place where a bulk material is used, and that's the substrate.

r3d0c 3y ago

lol.. unless brazil is the only country in the world with carbon, this is absolutely not true

neuronexmachina 3y ago

Assuming you mean graphite (which can be used in graphene production), it looks like Turkey might have even more reserves. China, Madagascar, and Mozambique also have pretty significant graphite reserves: https://www.statista.com/statistics/267367/reserves-of-graphite-by-country/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/267367/reserves-of-graph...

wigster 3y ago

its made out of sellotape/scotch tape and pencils! ;-)

cassiogo 3y ago

I belive you are thinking about Niobium and not Graphene

dudeinjapan 3y ago

Brazil is the world’s third largest producer of graphite, behind China and Mozambique. Our current most reliable graphene production methods start with graphite and exfoliate it into single layers of graphene.

moffkalast 3y ago

Even if that were true, countries where most of the wealth is dug or pumped from the ground are the worst places to live because it can all be be easily extracted by foreign companies who pay a cut to the dictator directly and the people have nothing to threaten the laughably rich autocrat with.