Heh...and besides, if it's too expensive to build the whole plane out of
the stuff, at least maybe we could have nanotube spars! Anyone up for
500mph DS?
At 10:14 PM 12/25/00 -0800, Bill Johns wrote:
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>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> In a message dated 12/25/2000 6:54:20 PM Central Standard Time,
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>>
>> > When we can get nanotubes, we will have the ultimate
>> > reinforcing fiber. Really good graphite fiber has a modulus
>> > (stiffness) of about 400 Mega Pascals with an elastic strain
>> > to failure (stretch) of about 1%. Nanotubes are expected to
>> > have a modulus of around 1.4 Tera Pascals and 15% elastic
>> > strain to failure. We'll be making incredibly tough, stiff
>> > 4 meter planes that weigh less than 30 oz.
>
>> Wow! The article also includes a chart on the feasibility of various
uses for
>> nanotubes. Apparently, imbedding nantubes into a matrix gets the lowest
>> feasibility rating, listed as "science fiction" :-( And the cost is
...let's
>> see....$1500 per gram...so 30 oz. of the stuff would cost $1,275,000.
>> Perfect! Very high cost and a long wait! Put me down for 2 nanomoldies. :-)
>
>What did the first transistors cost anyway?? I got a
>bizillion of them in my watch.
>
>In time nanotubes will cost like carbon fiber does now.
>Capitalism is useful for some things, like providing us with
>neat toys.
>
>Live long, catch lift, prosper.
>
>Bill
>--
>Life is complex. It has both real and imaginary parts.
>
>Bill Johns
>Pullman, WA
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