You know that carbon nanotubes are very small and very strong, they do a lot of things almost perfect material. The increase in material science, this technique will allow us to build lighter vehicles that get better gas mileage, the stronger the aircraft structure, more powerful, and all other all.Indeed, our intranet style think tank often discusses Carbon Nanotubes, graphene coatings, and other high-tech materials which are just now hitting the scene. Of course, we are most interested in commercial applications.
Now then, let me tell you about a concept I recently came up with; carbon nanotube road blocks to be used in areas like Afghanistan where we are fighting insurgents. We can build a system which raises and lowers these road blocks so our convoys can get through. If we find insurgents are moving in the middle of the night, perhaps to plant roadside bombs merely leave the roadblocks down and in place. Since we can make these carbon Nanotubes very strong, very thin, you wouldn’t be able to see them as you approached.
Instead, you could have many strings of carbon nano tubes, perhaps only 100 Nanotubes thick, not much wider than a very thin fishing line across the road. The only difference is these fishing lines, would be 250 times stronger than steel. And if you thought the insurgents would most likely be coming on a motorcycle, you could put them across the road at about neck height. These carbon nanotubes would not only stop vehicles, they would cut right through them and make them unable to drive. Indeed they would cut through flesh like it wasn’t even there, shesh – I can hear the angry insurgents now; “that’s not fair!”
Remember, in this case we are dealing with terrorists, members of Al Qaeda, insurgents, or the Taliban and which are hellbent on killing US and NATO troops. And they love to plant their roadside bombs late at night. Of course, if we set up these carbon nano-tube roadblocks, they certainly wouldn’t be able to do that now would they? Please consider all this.Lance Winslow is the Founder of the Online Think Tank, a diverse group of achievers, experts, innovators, entrepreneurs, thinkers, futurists, academics, dreamers, leaders, and general all around brilliant minds.