Graphene-Fed Silkworms Produce a Super-Strong Silk That Conducts Electricity
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Re: Graphene-Fed Silkworms Produce a Super-Strong Silk That Conducts Electricity
#2Use for a skyhook?
A skyhook is what? Dirt cheap way to mass into earth orbit. How? Put a weight on a string, attach the string at, maybe, the equator of earth, put the weight into orbit, and let the centrifugal force of the weight keep it in orbit and keep the string tight.
Then to put mass into orbit, let it crawl up the string from electric power conducted from earth in the string.
Main problem: Getting a sufficiently strong string!
Re: Graphene-Fed Silkworms Produce a Super-Strong Silk That Conducts Electricity
#3Use for a skyhook ? A skyhook is what? Dirt cheap way to mass into earth orbit. How? Put a weight on a string, attach the string at, maybe, the equator of earth, put the weight into orbit, and let the centrifugal force of the weight keep it in orbit and keep the string tight. Then to put mass into orbit, let it crawl up the string from electric power conducted from earth in the string. Main problem: Getting a suffici…
I doubt this would be anywhere near strong enough for a space elevator. And i think a sky hook is something else
Re: Graphene-Fed Silkworms Produce a Super-Strong Silk That Conducts Electricity
#4Use for a skyhook ? A skyhook is what? Dirt cheap way to mass into earth orbit. How? Put a weight on a string, attach the string at, maybe, the equator of earth, put the weight into orbit, and let the centrifugal force of the weight keep it in orbit and keep the string tight. Then to put mass into orbit, let it crawl up the string from electric power conducted from earth in the string. Main problem: Getting a suffici…
I doubt this would be anywhere near strong enough for a space elevator. And i think a sky hook is something else
There are a lot of science fiction uses of "skyhook" this is one is them.
Re: Graphene-Fed Silkworms Produce a Super-Strong Silk That Conducts Electricity
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
I doubt this would be anywhere near strong enough for a space elevator. And i think a sky hook is something else
There are a lot of science fiction uses of "skyhook" this is one is them.
A skyhook is generally a space elevator that doesn't go all the way to the ground, and so doesn't have to be quite as precise about orbital velocity and the like.
Re: Graphene-Fed Silkworms Produce a Super-Strong Silk That Conducts Electricity
#6So ummm, what kind of nutrition does graphine have?
Re: Graphene-Fed Silkworms Produce a Super-Strong Silk That Conducts Electricity
#7This calls for an evolved Spider-Man storyline :)
Re: Graphene-Fed Silkworms Produce a Super-Strong Silk That Conducts Electricity
#8Did you know that rubber conducts electricity ? Ok it's conductivity is 10^-14 s-m, but if faced with a kragagooogle volt of potential, it will conduct. Carbon fibre conducts rather better... which can be a worry if you are in a sail boat in a thunderstorm.. but to be a useful conductor we are looking for 10^6 s-m or better, better than, or close to copper. What does this stuff do? The article does not relate.
Re: Graphene-Fed Silkworms Produce a Super-Strong Silk That Conducts Electricity
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are a lot of science fiction uses of "skyhook" this is one is them.
A skyhook is generally a space elevator that doesn't go all the way to the ground, and so doesn't have to be quite as precise about orbital velocity and the like.
I thought a skyhook was one of those things you send the apprentice kid to the stores for, like tartan pain, spirit level bubbles, long stands and a weight with no point? Maybe even a left handed screwdriver...
Re: Graphene-Fed Silkworms Produce a Super-Strong Silk That Conducts Electricity
#10This calls for an evolved Spider-Man storyline :)
And a Carbon-Spidey(Silky??) vs Electro sequel.