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RSX Type-Slow · 06-20-2009, 01:27 AM

So while searching black holes on the web (yea wayyyyyy nerdy stfu) I came upon this interesting contribution to science.

Scientists have developed a "carpet" like thing that absorbs %99.955 pecent of light.

Science is COOL!

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-9855485-1.html

malloyboy1 · 06-20-2009, 01:30 AM

pretty cool i guess

**Got Insulin?** · 06-20-2009, 01:30 AM

That's pretty cool. The Dawknass!

The Captain · 06-20-2009, 01:31 AM

ha, the other thing doesnt even look black compared to it.

RSX Type-Slow · 06-20-2009, 01:33 AM

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Originally Posted by The Captain

ha, the other thing doesnt even look black compared to it.

i thought the same thing. It was the darkest thing ever till scientists bitch slapped it with the super dark nanotubes

99blazer · 06-20-2009, 01:37 AM

It would be cool if they could use it for solar. The futures power is in solar!

RSX Type-Slow · 06-20-2009, 01:54 AM

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Originally Posted by 99blazer

It would be cool if they could use it for solar. The futures power is in solar!

although it absorbs almost all light, the future in solar power is all about chlorophyll (derived from plants). Scientist could use this black material for advances in thermodynamics or thermo insulation. But for solar energy, it could be used as a photovoltaic film.

check it out it's really interesting

http://www.greentechgazette.com/inde...-breakthrough/

mcperson2k · 06-20-2009, 09:46 AM

Ill take a pair of window shades in that please

keep the damn light out in the mornings!

215ek · 06-20-2009, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by mcperson2k

ill take a pair of window shades in that please

keep the damn light out in the mornings!

heard that!

Holy Hair · 06-21-2009, 04:41 AM

+2, i want

DPancoast · 06-21-2009, 09:50 AM

That's crazy lookin

Scapegoat · 06-21-2009, 10:02 AM

thats neat... i was watching or reading something about those nanotubes and they were thinking of using them to eventually build an elevator system out into space. apparently the carbon tubes are way stronger and way lighter than steel cable.

DPancoast · 06-21-2009, 10:14 AM

Now that would be wild

Scapegoat · 06-21-2009, 10:37 AM

couple links about the tubes being used for an elavator

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/busin...0588/index.htm

http://www.physorg.com/news151938445.html

doesn't seem like a relatively new idea either, here's a link from 2002

http://www.space.com/businesstechnol..._020327-1.html

DPancoast · 06-21-2009, 10:44 AM

So if it absorbs light... Does it heat up too?

Scapegoat · 06-21-2009, 10:51 AM

good question... from my limited (one class) in astronomy light photons lend energy to atoms when they strike the electrons. this results in a color being given off. This is what allows scientists to deduce the elemental makeup of stars, planets and gaseous bodies in the universe. A lack of light reflection, to me, would denote there is no energy transference to the carbon nanotubes... which means they are not heating up as they are not taking on that additional energy.

granted, you leave anything out in the sun it heats up... so i pretty much went against everything i just said haha

so in short, i'm really not sure... but my explanation sounded intelligent and i'm sticking with it

DPancoast · 06-21-2009, 10:58 AM

I just think it would be interesting if it didn't heat up, to upholster an interior with it!

Scapegoat · 06-21-2009, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by DPancoast

I just think it would be interesting if it didn't heat up, to upholster an interior with it!

hmm... that'd be pretty neat. i wonder if it'd be possible to get the same consistency as leather.

i'm sure a plain fabric would be possible. But i see something more like a flexible "Carbon fiber" kind of thing as possible.

but i'm no scientist...

cool info on the wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_nanotube

i love science... i really wish i applied myself in school and got a physics degree like i had wanted... i'd probably be working on this **** if i had.

Scapegoat · 06-21-2009, 11:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 99blazer

It would be cool if they could use it for solar. The futures power is in solar!

Quote:

Originally Posted by RSX Type-Slow

although it absorbs almost all light, the future in solar power is all about chlorophyll (derived from plants). Scientist could use this black material for advances in thermodynamics or thermo insulation. But for solar energy, it could be used as a photovoltaic film.

check it out it's really interesting

http://www.greentechgazette.com/inde...-breakthrough/

zing!

Solar cells
Solar cells developed at the New Jersey Institute of Technology use a carbon nanotube complex, formed by a mixture of carbon nanotubes and carbon buckyballs (known as fullerenes) to form snake-like structures. Buckyballs trap electrons, although they can't make electrons flow. Add sunlight to excite the polymers, and the buckyballs will grab the electrons. Nanotubes, behaving like copper wires, will then be able to make the electrons or current flow.[

DPancoast · 06-21-2009, 11:14 AM

Yeah science like this is cool.

06-20-2009, 01:27 AM	#1
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Scapegoat TST Ruined My Life! Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: stop looking at my gold Member #1208 iTrader: (1)	thats neat... i was watching or reading something about those nanotubes and they were thinking of using them to eventually build an elevator system out into space. apparently the carbon tubes are way stronger and way lighter than steel cable.

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Scapegoat TST Ruined My Life! Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: stop looking at my gold Member #1208 iTrader: (1)	couple links about the tubes being used for an elavator http://money.cnn.com/magazines/busin...0588/index.htm http://www.physorg.com/news151938445.html doesn't seem like a relatively new idea either, here's a link from 2002 http://www.space.com/businesstechnol..._020327-1.html

06-21-2009, 10:51 AM	#16
Scapegoat TST Ruined My Life! Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: stop looking at my gold Member #1208 iTrader: (1)	good question... from my limited (one class) in astronomy light photons lend energy to atoms when they strike the electrons. this results in a color being given off. This is what allows scientists to deduce the elemental makeup of stars, planets and gaseous bodies in the universe. A lack of light reflection, to me, would denote there is no energy transference to the carbon nanotubes... which means they are not heating up as they are not taking on that additional energy. granted, you leave anything out in the sun it heats up... so i pretty much went against everything i just said haha so in short, i'm really not sure... but my explanation sounded intelligent and i'm sticking with it