Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Current Events
Lego
20 billion Lego bricks are produced yearly, Lego was started 1934, and they have been building Lego non stop since then, every single day. There are approximately 5 hundred billion Lego bricks, It is one of the most successful industries in the entire world. It is the toy of the century, but still, not many children out there can tell me what its made of, and what happens to it after its been thrown in the trash.
It is made polyethylene, just like plastic bags, so it will stick around for thousands of years after you die. Why? Because polyethylene is not biodegradable, it will not rot, and it will not be turned into sand through wind erosion. You can't melt it, and it is not recyclable. So now the world is filled with polyethylene products that will stay there forever, polyethylene is so indestructible, it would survive a nuclear war.
20 billion Lego bricks are produced yearly, Lego was started 1934, and they have been building Lego non stop since then, every single day. There are approximately 5 hundred billion Lego bricks, It is one of the most successful industries in the entire world. It is the toy of the century, but still, not many children out there can tell me what its made of, and what happens to it after its been thrown in the trash.
It is made polyethylene, just like plastic bags, so it will stick around for thousands of years after you die. Why? Because polyethylene is not biodegradable, it will not rot, and it will not be turned into sand through wind erosion. You can't melt it, and it is not recyclable. So now the world is filled with polyethylene products that will stay there forever, polyethylene is so indestructible, it would survive a nuclear war.
Current Events
Carbon Fiber
Carbon Fiber is stronger than steel, lighter than aluminum, flexibly, and still strong at high temperatures. It can be considered as a plastic or as a metal, but it is the material of the future. However, nothing is perfect. To make carbon fiber carbon is bonded together from microscopic crystals into a yarn form, when it is put together to make the material we know as carbon fiber. This process is completely man made and is not found in nature, this means that it is very expensive. However, I think in the future it will become cheaper and it will be used in everything we see, touch, or use. Currently, it is used in racing, fast cars, planes, and military technology. The price now of some of the best carbon fiber in the world is 700 euros per kilo. Now to compare that to aluminum, which is 5 euros per kilo. That's quite a big difference. However, my theory stands, that if technology gets more advanced it will be cheaper to make carbon fiber and is will be used in everything.
Carbon Fiber is stronger than steel, lighter than aluminum, flexibly, and still strong at high temperatures. It can be considered as a plastic or as a metal, but it is the material of the future. However, nothing is perfect. To make carbon fiber carbon is bonded together from microscopic crystals into a yarn form, when it is put together to make the material we know as carbon fiber. This process is completely man made and is not found in nature, this means that it is very expensive. However, I think in the future it will become cheaper and it will be used in everything we see, touch, or use. Currently, it is used in racing, fast cars, planes, and military technology. The price now of some of the best carbon fiber in the world is 700 euros per kilo. Now to compare that to aluminum, which is 5 euros per kilo. That's quite a big difference. However, my theory stands, that if technology gets more advanced it will be cheaper to make carbon fiber and is will be used in everything.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Current Events
Graphene
Graphene is a man made metal than it extremely thin, it is also 200 time stronger than steel. This material is made of carbon atoms put together in a honeycomb pattern. This does not exist in nature and can only be made in a lab. Grqphene is so thin that it would take 3 million sheets of it, one on top of the other and it would only be a millimeter thick. This futuristic material was made by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, for making this material both have received Nobel Prizes. In the future this material will be used in batteries and other electrical appliances due to the fact that it is a very good conducted of electricity. It is also suitable for touchscreen devises. To this day scientists are still experimenting with this material.
Even though grapheme is such a important material, not many people know about it, and even as I type this the spellcheck it telling me that no such thing exists.
Graphene is a man made metal than it extremely thin, it is also 200 time stronger than steel. This material is made of carbon atoms put together in a honeycomb pattern. This does not exist in nature and can only be made in a lab. Grqphene is so thin that it would take 3 million sheets of it, one on top of the other and it would only be a millimeter thick. This futuristic material was made by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, for making this material both have received Nobel Prizes. In the future this material will be used in batteries and other electrical appliances due to the fact that it is a very good conducted of electricity. It is also suitable for touchscreen devises. To this day scientists are still experimenting with this material.
Even though grapheme is such a important material, not many people know about it, and even as I type this the spellcheck it telling me that no such thing exists.
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