NASA brief:
"NASA has awarded Rice University=92s Carbon Nanotechnology Laboratory a
four-year, $11 million contract to produce a prototype power cable made
entirely of carbon nanotubes.

-- Richard Smalley, Director, Carbon Nanotechnology Laboratory (CNL)

The project aims to pioneer methods of producing pure nanotube power cabl=
es,
known as quantum wires, which may conduct electricity up to 10 times bett=
er
than copper and weigh about one-sixth as much. Such technologies may adva=
nce
NASA's plans to return humans to the moon and eventually travel to Mars a=
nd
beyond."

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When they say "better", they say "faster"?
Going outer space is about weight! isn't it?



Regards,
Dennis Crawley
Argentina


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