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Seems like at last some of the carbon nanotubes tech breakthroughs we read about here on hacker news have started making an impact.

• narrator 2y ago
  Don't be too excited. They are as toxic as asbestos. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/carbon-nanotube-danger/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/carbon-nanotube-d... And, more recently, airborne nanotubes are leading to cancers: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-019-0472-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-019-0472-4 Soon they'll be as common as microplastics and vastly more deadly but hey, cool new gadgets!
  • webprofusion 2y ago
    You definitely shouldn't eat or breathe anything inside a battery. Agree they should be disposed carefully.
    • Brian_K_White 2y ago
      You shouldn't coexist with things like asbestos. It's either ignorant or disingenuous to try to equate that with don't drink the drain cleaner.
    • Log_out_ 2y ago
      man that car accident + fire,will definatly not buy that
    • narrator 2y ago
      You shouldn't eat or breathe building insulation either, but we banned asbestos there. Anything where inhaled microparticles = cancer should not be in any consumer product. Yeah, benzene in gasoline, but the body can metabolize that. Carbon nanotubes stay lodged in tissues forever.