In the book Atlas Shrugged, industrialist Hank Rearden invented a new type of steel called, strangely enough, Rearden Metal, that was twice as strong as steel but half as light, sparking a manufacturing revolution.

Now, carbon nanotube technology promises to do Hank an order of magnitude better, creating a composite material 250  times stronger and 10 times lighter than steel, that conducts electricity like copper or silicon and disperses heat like steel or brass.‘Buckypaper’: stronger than steel, harder than diamonds.

They call it BuckyPaper because it is made of buckytubes, or carbon nanotubes  stacked together in sheets.  The new discovery and creation of carbon nano-tech are named after Buckminster Fuller whose geodesic domes are structured similarly to the 60 atom carbon nano-spheres that sparked off the nano-revolution. 

Imagine the possible applications…cars, planes, architecture, weaponry/armor, tools, computers, electrical wiring…not to mention furniture, clothing…etc.

Oh yeah, don’t forget the carbon nanotube 14″ color screen that Samsung just created that is brighter, lighter, and FLEXIBLE… Samsung Demonstrates First Color Carbon Nanotube-Based Electrophoretic Display.

What a wild and glorious time to be alive!

Ecstatic Effectiveness to you!

Mark

Surfing the Future Shock Wave

Aubrey De Grey suggests that when we can extend human life for 30 years or so, that will give us another 30 years to figure out how to extend it another 30 years.  With the exponential increase in technology, it might just be that those born in the 21st century live to see the 25th…

Finnish patient gets new jaw from own stem cells

Scientists in Finland said they had replaced a 65-year-old patient’s upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty tissue and grown inside his abdomen.

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