Sunday, December 26, 2010

It's Time for the Top-Down Approach

When we look at a top-down approach in nanotechnology we see that we are limited by what we have and cutting it down until it fits into what we want. This is useful in one sense, but it's very wasteful. So we more often try to use the bottom-up approach. In the end it's very important that we do look into finding ways of mass producing in the bottom-up approach. One reason this is important is in the development in the mass production of very high tensile strength carbon nanotube ribbon. This is important because it could drastically reduce the cost of space travel, and allow us to conquer the heavens just like we conquered this planet. Well I just went to Powells and bought a bunch of books so I'm going to be busy for awhile.

Tensile vs. Shear Strength

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