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A research team from Tsinghua University in Beijing has developed a fibre they say is so strong it could even be used to build an elevator to space.
They say just 1 cubic centimetre of the fibre – made from carbon nanotube – would not break under the weight of 160 elephants, or more than 800 tonnes. And that tiny piece of cable would weigh just 1.6 grams.
"This is a breakthrough," said Wang Changqing, a scientist at a key space elevator research centre at Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xian who was not involved in the Tsinghua study.
The Chinese team has developed a new "ultralong" fibre from carbon nanotube that they say is stronger than anything seen before, patenting the technology and publishing part of their research in the journal Nature Nanotechnology earlier this year.
"It is evident that the tensile strength of carbon nanotube bundles is at least 9 to 45 times that of other materials," the team said in the paper.
But hey, it's China, please consume with a medium-sized boulder of salt.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Friday October 26 2018, @05:32PM (2 children)
We gave China preferential trade treatment so they could catch up with the modern world, we trained and educated all of their elite so they could be just as smart as us, we looked the other way when they took our ideas/intellectual property so they could produce everything the same as us, now they have more trained people with newer and better equipment and they can outpace us in discoveries. We handed them the century on a silver platter.
Now the chickens are going to come home to roost and we will need to deal with the Chinese century and whatever comes with it. Genocide/sterilization/subjugation of the peoples of Africa, SE Asia, the Pacific Islands just like they did to Tibet and Muslims in China. Extreme surveillance and personal credit scores to shut down dissidents and threats to the oligarchy. We created the greatest totalitarian powerhouse in human history, and they are just hitting their stride.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 1, Troll) by linkdude64 on Friday October 26 2018, @10:07PM (1 child)
The next few years will certainly be definitive for the future of humanity. Either China will be suppressed now, or become a much more difficult force to deal with, later. I personally think someone like Trump is the only sort of leader we can have if we want to stand a chance - not just him, personally, but whom he is appointing to positions dealing with trade policy. Another Obama will simply capitulate at every opportunity as happened for 8 years. I am not sure how closely you have followed this administration's trade dealings, but even if you disagree with Trump for logical or illogical reasons, the oncoming trade war with China, and the people who he has put into the positions to orchestrate it, are nothing short of competent and capable Americans acting in their own best interests, which are the best interests of the country. It is more heartening than anything I have seen come out of mainstream politics in years. It is not too late for them to be effectively neutered - they have no military might to speak of, and until they completely secure Africa, which they have yet to, proxy wars would still be the likely way of routing them from the continent. If only Europe were not committing cultural, political, and economic suicide, they would be more useful in working toward that objective. I pray the EU is destroyed and each individual country can begin realizing again that self-interest is healthy.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Friday October 26 2018, @11:01PM
I have been trying to follow it pretty close. Peter Nevaro seems to be on top of things, he's also a Democrat, not that it matters as long as the job gets done. I follow several of the guys who write about Chinese foreign policy, and they say that the trade wars so far have already ruined China's plan of being self-sufficient by 2030.
Have any good sources, I would like to read more but hard finding sources these days.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam