Graphene, have you heard of it, did you read page 30 of The Good Weekender, a Fairfax supplement, if like some here you avoid reading the Moaist Times because it does not match your doctrine then you may be unaware of what it is
Known to exist as a product of graphite, it was only discovered how to separate it in 2004, since then research has gone ballistic, it cannot be seen by the naked eye in single sheet form as it is only an atom thick, its carbon atoms arranged in perfect honey comb pattern, so dense that the smallest gas atom cannot penetrate
Examples it can be used in are
Transparent super thin flexible screens, batteries that charge in seconds,smaller faster computer chips, reinforcing (as it is super strong)
'There will be uses for this material that will blow us away" quote Cathy Foley chief of CSIRO Materials Science
A recent article that made me aware of graphene
Also i have read old editions of Practical Mechanics and if half their articles came true then the world would be a different place
There is a fine line between "Hobby" and "Madness"
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There is a fine line between "Hobby" and "Madness"
Dont forget Popular Science and Popular Mechanics with their 'take' on the matters of the era and the forecasts they made on the 'World of Tomorrow'.
I did have a copy of one of those printed for November 1942(my birth year) and the USA was by then in full War mode and it was interesting to go back to pre war days to get a feel of the attitude of then and how it changed post December, 1941.
I stand unequivicably behind everything I say , I just dont ever remember saying it !!
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