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posted by on Wednesday February 22 2017, @05:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the like-a-really-complicated-spider dept.

The "missing link" in Australia's carbon fibre capability, a wet spinning line (below), has been launched today in a ceremony at Waurn Ponds just outside Geelong. Carbon fibre combines high rigidity, tensile strength and chemical resistance with low weight and is used in aerospace, civil engineering, the military, cars, and also in competitive sports.

Only a handful of companies around the world can create carbon fibre, each using their own secret recipe. To join this elite club CSIRO and Deakin researchers had to crack the code. In doing so, using patented CSIRO technology, they've created what could be the next generation of carbon fibre that is stronger and of a higher quality.

[...] The wet spinning line machinery takes a sticky mix of precursor chemicals and turns it into five hundred individual strands of fibre, each thinner than a human hair. They're then wound onto a spool to create a tape and taken next door to the massive carbonisation ovens to create the finished carbon fibre. The CSIRO/ Deakin wet spinning line was custom built by an Italian company with input from the organisations' own researchers. The company liked the design so much it made another for its own factory and the the CSIRO/ Deakin machine has been described as "the Ferrari of wet spinning lines".


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  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday February 22 2017, @09:09AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday February 22 2017, @09:09AM (#470073) Journal

    Voice of America. Just the same as yours, they are all liberal propaganda nonsense

    Heh, what we call "liberal" [wikipedia.org] downunder is on the right spectrum of the politics. Centre-right but right alright. Since they can't govern by themselves, they are in a sorta perpetual alliance with the "national party" [wikipedia.org], which are righter then the liberals. So sometimes, govts of this extraction can take excursions a bit far from centre.

    On the left - labor party and the greens (which are lefter than the labor).

    In any case, the USian "liberal" views would be seen on the right of the political spectrum in Australia.
    The state-owned ABC has a show called "Planet America" - what happens there really has a whiff of outlandish for aussies, especially after you elected the orange one.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by fido_dogstoyevsky on Wednesday February 22 2017, @09:28AM

    by fido_dogstoyevsky (131) <axehandleNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Wednesday February 22 2017, @09:28AM (#470079)

    In any case, the USian "liberal" views would be seen on the right of the political spectrum in Australia.

    An American I know once said that one downside of visiting Oz is that at home he's a (small "l") liberal, whereas on this side of the pond he's a conservative.

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  • (Score: 2) by SunTzuWarmaster on Wednesday February 22 2017, @02:21PM

    by SunTzuWarmaster (3971) on Wednesday February 22 2017, @02:21PM (#470162)

    I shared a room at a conference with a Aus student for a week. He wrote a paper on AI for StarCraft, so he was pretty okay ;).

    During the week we debated politics and political structure significantly (30+ minute car ride each day). It really highlighted the different philosophies of the different cultures to me. A debate might go something like:
    "We in Aus believe that everyone should have access to the internet, regardless of economic conditions, geographic location, etc."
    "We in US believe that nothing is given to you, but that you should be free to buy the internet without discrimination in the marketplace."
    "But that would leave some people without the internet."
    "They will choose how to spend their money."
    "But what if they cannot afford it?"
    "They will probably choose to spend money on other things."
    "Everyone should have access to the internet."
    "What if they don't want it?"
    "Huh?"
    "There are people that do not want internet access."
    "Like who?"
    "Like the Amish, homesteaders, retirees, the technologically ignorant, those without computers, my parents."
    "Your parents?"
    "They worked long/hard and retired to a quiet mountain cabin. They hunt a good amount of their own food, split their own firewood, and draw water electrically from a well. Their leisure activities revolve around community, hiking, and the outdoors. They do not want internet in their home."
    "But all people should have internet. They need to be connected!"
    "They are connected with the post office, and can drive to town to get internet. More importantly...
    WHO ARE YOU TO SAY what the citizens should want? Should non-optionally pay for? Would you force people to buy a product they don't want, at the point of a gun? Would you additionally force them to subsidize others?"
    "But that's crazy! The Government can realize economies of scale in order to drive down cost and make it cheaper for everyone. Private businesses require profit, which is an inherent inefficiency in the system."
    "I agree. However, America is about CHOICE. The internet system evolved organically, with regulatory oversight. It is not perfect. However, it was funded 100% by people that wanted it and were willing to pay for it. That means that some people, such as early adopters, paid LOTS, while others, such as late adopters, paid LITTLE. This is inherently UNFAIR. However, every one of those people made a CHOICE, and personal freedom, if not efficiency or fairness or equality, was maximized. In America, we have decided to maximize personal freedom instead of efficiency in the services available to citizens."

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @02:43PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @02:43PM (#470178)

      Nice piece of fiction, you show promise.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @02:45PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @02:45PM (#470181)

      Nice dialog, but it's far from complete/correct. How come every car for sale in the USA now has a backup camera? My choice is to not have one (because I know how to look around before backing up) and I don't have that choice anymore.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @03:07PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @03:07PM (#470202)

      Seems like an authentic American, bringing guns into the discussion for no reason.

    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday February 22 2017, @06:42PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday February 22 2017, @06:42PM (#470335)

      > we have decided to maximize personal freedom instead of efficiency in the services available to citizens

      Name one community which has always been on the wrong end of those lofty goals...