Saturday, October 12, 2013

Next Big Future: Calculations show carbyne chains will be twice the...

Next Big Future: Calculations show carbyne chains will be twice the...: Carbyne will be the strongest of a new class of microscopic materials if and when anyone can make it in bulk. If they do, they’ll find car...

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If you can make it in space, it can serve well for your solar sail.  Try to imagine a solar sail that weighs nearly nothing, but can pull a 70 ton spacecraft on a trip to the planets with no propellant necessary.

This can be used on a solar sail for the connectors that will be needed.  A sail will need tendons and masts and so forth.  The use of such materials as these, if perfected, would mean that this auxiliary equipment needed for the sails will be as light as the sail itself, which will be only nanometers thick.


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