Sorry for the the silly subject line but I've got a question.
How hot can a carbon nanotube be while still keeping it's structural strength? And how strong is that tube in normal conditions?
I keep thinking about fishing rods, lasers and star wars whenever I read about carbon nanotubes, so if anyone has any information to stop my daydreams, please share.
Is it just me or is there anyone else out there that sees this as more than one problem.
Oil has been an easy energy alternative, with a nasty side effect. The Enviroment. Many of the energy alternatives to oil that are available are bad because they solve one problem and create two more.
- Coal. Wow, that's not a pollutive energy source att all!
- Ethanol. Food vs energy. How do you work that one out?
- Biodiesel. Same as above...
- Cellulose-derived ethanol. Cost of producing energy vs amount of energy made available == ?.........
- Thermal depolymerization. Eh?
- The rest of them: PLAIN ENGLISH PLEASE?
I agree, Rei(parent poster) brings up a few interesting alternatives, but they are only interesting because they are headers with completely empty pages in my book. More info please.
What are the energy alternatives with the least amount of problems attached?
Blueray is ALLREADY an established professional format. If you look a little bit beyond the consumer market you'll find it's a very healthy alternative for high(er, or just normal) definition video recording. Every time I read one of these Blueray == PS3 posts I want to scream across the interweb "ONLY IN YOUR LITTLE HEAD!"....
Sorry for being rantish, but PS3!=blueray. There's more to the technology than a gaming machine. Then again, betamax had it's professional use as well. We still have loads of betamax's offspring as standard formats for the television industry. But the above paragraph still holds. To some degree.
Seems like The Topic still holds true, history might just as well repeat itself. But it doesn't have to. And I'm in no way affiliated with Sony the global corporation.
Again, Sony already has good usage of blueray, take a look at the broadcast market, their XDCams. By the look of things it seems most people think Sony is only Playstation. It's not. Not by a long shot.
No, people hate the USA because you seem to think that your laws are valid everywhere. The rest of the world is not like you. So go take your patented AIDS pill and hope that it is in the economic best interrest to find a cure.....
Bah, I see the RIIA taking people to court, trying to shut down P2P, as a means of keeping control of the market. Let's say people have an opportunity to check the contents of a CD before they buy it.....
If there is 1 good song on it, would you at all bother to buy the CD? I wouldn't. But if the CD was great I'd buy it in a heartbeat!
Same goes for movies.
As to the case at hand, you go girl, teach them a lesson about the power of the little woman against the big moneygrubbing bastards!
They also have the broadcast market. That's the people that make television programs.They've already made this thing http://pro.sony.com.hk/product_showprod.php?path=f ormat,5,subformat,8,product,125&id=125, wich uses blue-ray, and a number of other products. And those hve sold pretty well.
In other words, they already have a market for blue-ray. It won't be killed by microsoft and intel. It might have less of an impact than it could but it'll still make syne a hefty wad of cash.
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Sorry for the the silly subject line but I've got a question. How hot can a carbon nanotube be while still keeping it's structural strength? And how strong is that tube in normal conditions? I keep thinking about fishing rods, lasers and star wars whenever I read about carbon nanotubes, so if anyone has any information to stop my daydreams, please share.
Is it just me or is there anyone else out there that sees this as more than one problem. Oil has been an easy energy alternative, with a nasty side effect. The Enviroment. Many of the energy alternatives to oil that are available are bad because they solve one problem and create two more. - Coal. Wow, that's not a pollutive energy source att all! - Ethanol. Food vs energy. How do you work that one out? - Biodiesel. Same as above... - Cellulose-derived ethanol. Cost of producing energy vs amount of energy made available == ? ... ... ...
- Thermal depolymerization. Eh?
- The rest of them: PLAIN ENGLISH PLEASE?
I agree, Rei(parent poster) brings up a few interesting alternatives, but they are only interesting because they are headers with completely empty pages in my book. More info please.
What are the energy alternatives with the least amount of problems attached?
Puhlease......
Blueray is ALLREADY an established professional format. If you look a little bit beyond the consumer market you'll find it's a very healthy alternative for high(er, or just normal) definition video recording. Every time I read one of these Blueray == PS3 posts I want to scream across the interweb "ONLY IN YOUR LITTLE HEAD!"....
Sorry for being rantish, but PS3!=blueray. There's more to the technology than a gaming machine. Then again, betamax had it's professional use as well. We still have loads of betamax's offspring as standard formats for the television industry. But the above paragraph still holds. To some degree.
Seems like The Topic still holds true, history might just as well repeat itself. But it doesn't have to. And I'm in no way affiliated with Sony the global corporation.
Again, Sony already has good usage of blueray, take a look at the broadcast market, their XDCams. By the look of things it seems most people think Sony is only Playstation. It's not. Not by a long shot.
No, people hate the USA because you seem to think that your laws are valid everywhere. The rest of the world is not like you. So go take your patented AIDS pill and hope that it is in the economic best interrest to find a cure.....
Bah, I see the RIIA taking people to court, trying to shut down P2P, as a means of keeping control of the market. Let's say people have an opportunity to check the contents of a CD before they buy it..... If there is 1 good song on it, would you at all bother to buy the CD? I wouldn't. But if the CD was great I'd buy it in a heartbeat! Same goes for movies. As to the case at hand, you go girl, teach them a lesson about the power of the little woman against the big moneygrubbing bastards!
They also have the broadcast market. That's the people that make television programs.They've already made this thing http://pro.sony.com.hk/product_showprod.php?path=f ormat,5,subformat,8,product,125&id=125, wich uses blue-ray, and a number of other products. And those hve sold pretty well.
In other words, they already have a market for blue-ray. It won't be killed by microsoft and intel. It might have less of an impact than it could but it'll still make syne a hefty wad of cash.