with a cylindrical nanostructure. Nanotubes have been constructed with length-to-diameter ratio of up to 132,000,000:1, significantly larger than for any other material. These cylindrical carbon molecules have unusual properties, which are valuable for nanotechnology, electronics, optics and other fields of materials science and technology. In particular, owing to their extraordinary thermal conductivity and mechanical and electrical properties, carbon nanotubes find applications as additives to various structural materials. For instance, in (primarily carbon fiber) baseball bats, golf clubs, or car parts, where nanotubes form only a tiny portion of the material(s).
Not to be confused with Carbon fiber.
Spinning Carbon Nanotube
So now i understand the graphite shafted driver better (poor thing, dormant for years)
I received word yesterday from Ben Shelef, CEO of the Spaceward Foundation (the group that organizers the Space Elevator Games) that this year’s Power-Beaming competition has been postponed until March/April of next year.
The Strong-Tether portion of the Space Elevator Games is still scheduled to be held at the upcoming Space Elevator Conference.
As more news becomes available, it will be posted here and at the official site of the Space Elevator Games.
Add comment July 21st, 2010
New LaserMotive video…
A new video about Team (Corporation) LaserMotive has recently been created and posted on the LaserMotive website and YouTube.
Though it’s not directly relevant to a Space Elevator, they do talk about power-beaming - a technology that an SE will certainly need. Plus, these guys are the Space Elevator Games champs (for now!) and it’s good to see what they’re doing…
Add comment July 19th, 2010
June is Space Elevator month
I’ve written about the NASA MICI (NASA Minority Innovation Challenges Institute) before (here), telling you all about a video which had been posted on this website. This video showed portions of the competition in several of the recent NASA Centennial Challenges.
That’s all well and cool, but Ben Shelef, CEO of the Spaceward Foundation (organizers of the Space Elevator Games) has just let me know that, at the NASA MICI channel, “June is Space Elevator Month“. Two presentations relating to the Space Elevator Games have already been posted and two more are on the way. And, if you login to the site while a presentation is underway, you’ll be able to interact (via Chat) with the presenter, asking questions in real-time.
The presentations that have already been posted are:
The Space Elevator (Ben Shelef) Robotics and the Space Elevator (Dr. Antonio J Soares)
Upcoming presentations are:
Photovoltaic cells and the Space Elevator (Dr. Antonio J Soares) - June 21st, 3:00pm US Eastern time Lasers and the Space Elevator (Dr. Antonio J Soares) - June 28th, 3:00pm US Eastern time
The ‘catch’ to all this is that to register to view these presentations, you must be a professor that is “…currently employed at a university or college located in the United States” or a student that is “…(a) a US Citizen currently enrolled at a university or college or (b) a non-US Citizen who is currently enrolled at a university or college located in the United States. “ If you don’t fall into either of these categories, you can apply for login permission (you’ll see how to do this on their website).
This site and it’s videos are there to encourage participation by US students and faculties in the NASA Centennial Challenges program. If you qualify (i.e. are a faculty member of student meeting the MICI requirements), then I would highly encourage you to sign up for this. We are always looking for more competitors in the Space Elevator Games and the majority of teams that have registered have been university-based. The more the merrier!
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