Episode 89 – Carbon Nanotubes
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English - October 25, 2019 05:00 - 42 minutes - 34.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingNatural Sciences Science space rockets solar system planets astronomy telescopes Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In his 1979 novel, Fountains of Paradise, Arthur C Clarke imagines a cable stretching from the Earth's equator to Geosynchronous orbit. He called it a "space elevator" and imagined it would be constructed from continuous pseudo-one-dimensional diamond crystals. Bangalore based NoPo Technologies is now commercially producing Carbon Nanotubes. Could this material, one day be used to construct Clarke's space elevator?