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Exactly my thoughts. That nanotubes are the best option, but are still far from feasible from an engineering standpoint, has been publicly well known for some t
by sgustard 13y ago
Exactly my thoughts. That nanotubes are the best option, but are still far from feasible from an engineering standpoint, has been publicly well known for some time. But if you're Google you can generate press just from your water cooler talk. For actual design work on space elevators check out http://liftport.com http://liftport.com.
- christemmer 13y agoWould graphene be a good alternative, especially if it becomes more mature a lot sooner in the mainstream market?
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- cdash 13y agoThis is just from what I have read on the internet, I am not by any means an expert. As far as I know, graphene is just as good or a little bit better than currently producible carbon nanotubes. There are a few other materials out there such as colossal carbon tubes and something being called carbyne ( linear acetylenic carbon). Carbyne as far as I know is supposed to have better properties than any of the others but is only a predicted material from computer simulations and some small traces of it supposedly found in interstellar dust. So far, there has been no real success in creating it in a lab.