Link Of The Day: Carbon Nanotubes turn radiation into electricity!

[athelind]

Nanomaterial turns radiation directly into electricity - tech - 27 March 2008 - New Scientist Tech

Can we get a "whoa"?

Combine this with the nantenna, and it's looking like nanotech is going to bring about dramatic transformations in energy production and distribution.

Comments

[tombfyre.livejournal.com]

Woo, its about bloody time they got that tech off the ground. ^^ I've always thought it would be way more efficient to collect the power directly, rather than all this heat to mechanical energy stuff. Too ancient a method, methinks. :)

Maybe thats the kinda power plant I'll be working on in the future. :D

[araquan.livejournal.com]

Now we can all have those atomic-powered cars they promised us in the '50s!


Except They will never let us have them.

Still, there are some interesting possibilities here, to be sure.

[tephra]

Hmm. I think that gets clipped and added to my notes for my last NaNo novel.

Here's hoping it's something that actually gets developed and we see some production in a decade or so.

[eggshellhammer.livejournal.com]

This is one of those moments when - it's like when you're playing Alpha Centauri and that voice suddenly booms out, "YOU HAVE DISCOVERED ATOMIC POWER".

This is big.

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

You know, yesterday on Radio2 - the BBC no less - we were told that a recording of a voice made in the 1860's on what was probably a phonautograph - and existing as a wavetrace on a piece of blackened paper - had been reproduced as an audio signal. They then played this wavery indistinct female voice singing "Au clair de le lune". Not Impossible. Improbable, certainly but not impossible. Back in 1973 they broadcast a show called the Graphophonists thet claimed to be the public revelation of a cache of long hidden cylinder records. Improbable, certainly but not impossible. And this? Improbable, certainly but not impossible.
I can't help but consider what day it is come Tuesday.
Am I just a cynical old fool? Improbable, certainly but not impossible.

[hafoc.livejournal.com]

This is just peachy. But it sounds too self-contained and restrained to be proper Mad Science for a Better World. Oh well, nothing's perfect.