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Quantum Wires
Silverlancer writes "Room temperature superconductors have often been a hallmark of far-future science fiction. But fortunately for us, they're here today, according to MIT's Technology Review. Richard Smalley, winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for the discovery of the buckyball, is currently heading a project to produce a prototype carbon nanotube superconductor. They've already produced some wires up to 100 meters long--the only thing left to do is figure out how to produce only a certain type of nanotube, the "5,5 armchair nanotube," that conducts so well that it can be considered a superconductor."
...welcome our carbon-nanotube masters!
And with the decreased load on electrical power consumption we might now be able to decrease the rate of nuclear contamination from power plants.
Impressive, most impressive.
Hehehe.... His name is Dick Smalley....
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