For years we have been storing energy in very insufficient batteries that cannot store a ton of electricity and now thanks to nanotechnology we are eventually going to be able to create nano batteries. nano batteries are very compact batteries down to the molecular scale and because they are so compact they can store a…
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Carbon Nanotubes- The Future of Metals
Ever since medieval times, we as humans have always sought out to find the strongest metal to construct things with and in the future so it is predicted that carbon nanotubes will be the strongest metal. First off carbon nanotubes are a nano-structure that is comprised entirely of the elemental carbon. The carbon is not…
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Buckyballs- The Molecular Structure of Our Future
In the universe, different molecules have different structures. The structure and the different atoms make it what it is. For instance, a water molecule (H20) has two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. It also has a V like shape and those properties are what makes it water. With nanotechnology, scientists can manipulate different atoms…
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Reverse Engineer The Human Brain!
Another incredible advancement in nanotechnology could be the discovery of how to reverse engineer human brains. A reversed engineered brain will be a lot stronger than our brains now. We will be able to think and remember everything like computers. We will literally have photographic memories. With the advancement of storage devices that we see…
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Will Nanotechnology make People Immortal?
The medical possibilities of nanotechnology are amazing, but some scientists and futurists believe that it will lead to the greatest medical breakthrough of all time “immortality.” One of the greatest scientists and futurists in the world -Ray Kurzweil – believes that nanotechnology will be able to make humans immortal by around the year 2040. He…
Continue Reading »Nano Batteries are the Future of Energy Storage
For years we have been storing energy in very insufficient batteries that cannot store a ton of electricity and now thanks to nanotechnology we are eventually going to be able to create nano batteries. nano batteries are very compact batteries down to the molecular scale and because they are so compact they can store a ton more energy.
Nano technological Scientists like Ray Kurzweil believe that we will have advanced nano batteries by the year 2030 and the amount of energy they will be able to store will exponentially rise every year. We actually already see nano batteries being used today. There used in devices such as iPods/iPhones/iPads and they are also used in various devices like watches, and even some Portable computers like laptops and netbooks. But just imagine what these batteries will be like in 20 to 30 years and how much energy they will be over the store.
The more and more we learn about the carbon structure and how we can implement them at the batteries the better the nano batteries will become. Some scientists even predict that we will have a battery that will be up to run a car for a full week! Imagine how that would impact the car industry and even any transportation industry like airplanes and trains and even space travel throughout the universe. Nano batteries could ultimately change our lives.
We really need an alternative to the fossil fuels and nano batteries could provide strong enough batteries and fast enough charging so that we could just use electricity we already have hybrid cars but their batteries are very weak and a partially run on gas. Some of our cars are electric but they can only hold a certain amount of energy because the battery takes up too much space the car or is just too insufficient. I even think that someday we could have cars with solar panels on the so the battery charges outside so you can drive. The nano battery would be so powerful that it could almost never have enough energy. I believe that someday we will never have to buy gas again and it will all be a electric and mostly solar powered.
Nano batteries are truly the future of energy storage and they’re going to greatly impact our lives in the 21st century and beyond. Our world is becoming too dependent on fossil fuels and we need more advanced electrical appliances to take us further.
Carbon Nanotubes- The Future of Metals
Ever since medieval times, we as humans have always sought out to find the strongest metal to construct things with and in the future so it is predicted that carbon nanotubes will be the strongest metal.
First off carbon nanotubes are a nano-structure that is comprised entirely of the elemental carbon. The carbon is not what makes a nanotube unique; it is how the carbon atoms are arranged within the structure. The carbon nanotubes are cylindrical and they extend like a tube. When you have enough carbon nanotubes placed together you get a metal sheet that is about 10 times stronger than steel and a little less than half of the weight. In the Industrial Revolution, the invention of steel changed almost everybody’s way of life. We can compare the product of carbon nanotubes to the revolution of steel back in 1800s. It will have just as much as an impact on the adventure steal, if not more of an impact on our lives than steel.
It will completely transform our lives and a material like this will do to our modern economy and the way people live. It will completely transform our lives and make life on earth different for humans. Carbon nanotubes will change our ways of transportation and our use of energy. Energy because it is lighter than steel we will conserve a lot more gas, and transportation because we will make more powerful machines by using a better material.
In the Industrial Revolution, the invention of steel changed almost everybody’s way of life. We can compare the product of carbon nanotubes to the revolution of steel back in 1800s. It will have just as much as an impact on the adventure steal, if not more of an impact on our lives than steel.
Looking into the future another way that carbon nanotubes could potentially bring to our lives is if we implement them into robotics and into computers. If we implement a metal as strong as carbon nanotubes into robotics and computers, imagine the efficiency of the computer parts? We probably wouldn’t directly use the metal that raw carbon nanotubes make but scientists are discovering more and more different variations that carbon nanotubes can be used as. For instance we have found a structure that is very similar to a carbon nanotube that is a better conductor of electricity than copper.
Carbon nanotubes will ultimately lead to space travel throughout the universe. We cannot travel the universe with very weak metals because of either intense heat or intense cold. We could eventually use carbon nanotubes on space shuttles to travel throughout the universe because of their diversity and strength.
Carbon nanotubes are very costly now to produce, but once we mass-produce carbon nanotubes in nano-factories (in around 30 to 40 years) the price of nanotubes will greatly decrease and will be more open to the public. Carbon nanotubes will revolutionize the human race and how we live our lives!
Buckyballs- The Molecular Structure of Our Future
In the universe, different molecules have different structures. The structure and the different atoms make it what it is. For instance, a water molecule (H20) has two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. It also has a V like shape and those properties are what makes it water. With nanotechnology, scientists can manipulate different atoms into customizable shapes to create new structures and therefore new things. One of these structures is the carbon buckyball. A buckyball is a soccer ball shaped carbon structure with 60 carbon atoms. If you combine enough buckyball structures together it would be twice as hard as a diamond. A diamond’s structure is very similar to that of a buckyball, but the buckyball is more compact which makes it stronger.
They can be used for multiple reasons. Computer parts, cars, machines, militaristic and universe exploration purposes. Buckyballs are going to play a key part in nano-materials and we will probably start seeing buckyball products and materials being massed produced. Just this one nano-structure once mass-produced will have a ton of impact on the world but imagine when we find new, maybe even more advanced nano-structures! The simple structure of buckyballs is going to have a ton of impact on humanity’s future and possibly change our lives forever. Just another great benefit that Nanotechnology will convey to the world!
Reverse Engineer The Human Brain!
Another incredible advancement in nanotechnology could be the discovery of how to reverse engineer human brains. A reversed engineered brain will be a lot stronger than our brains now.
We will be able to think and remember everything like computers. We will literally have photographic memories. With the advancement of storage devices that we see today, we will be able to store all of the information required. By reverse engineering the brain our thinking compcity will quadruple and exponentially grow as we gain more knowledge of parts and software for ourselves.
Eventually, we will be able to access the internet through our brains and download and record information. We will be able to re-engineer the brain from the bottom up with microscopic nanoscale computer parts. Ray Kurzweil thinks this will be one of the keys to unlocking the door to immortality. With the brain a thousand times faster, we will be able to m.ake even more amazing scientific discoveries.
Will Nanotechnology make People Immortal?
The medical possibilities of nanotechnology are amazing, but some scientists and futurists believe that it will lead to the greatest medical breakthrough of all time “immortality.”
One of the greatest scientists and futurists in the world -Ray Kurzweil – believes that nanotechnology will be able to make humans immortal by around the year 2040. He thinks that by that time we will have nanobots that will scout out organs and cells that need repairs and simply fix them. By doing that it will lead to long extensions of human’s lifetimes. With this kind of work going on now, Kurzweil says that by the mid-2020s we’ll be adding a year to our life expectancy with every year that passes. “The sense of time will be running in and not running out,” he added. “Within 15 years, we will reverse this loss of remaining life expectancy. We will be adding more time than is going by. And in 35 to 40 years, we’ll basically be immortal. I think that even the thought of immorality is very scary. I think some people would actually want to die, instead of living forever. Ray Kurzweil also said that immortality, once invented would pose a ton of complication to the entire world. I believe this to be true also.
Another incredible advancement in nanotechnology could be the discovery of how to reverse engineer human brains. A reversed engineered brain will be a lot stronger than our brains now. We will be able to think and remember everything like computers. We will literally have photographic memories. With the advancement of storage devices that we see today, we will be able to store all of the information required. Eventually, we will be able to access the internet through our brains and download and record information. We will be able to re-engineer the brain from the bottom up with microscopic nanoscale computer parts. Ray Kurzweil thinks this will be one of the keys to unlocking the door to immortality. With the brain a thousand times faster, we will be able to make even more amazing scientific discoveries.
The possibilities of nanotechnology are endless and as we enter this brave new world of discovery the human race with be voyaging one step closer to immortality. Immortality will change all of our lives and at the same time improve them. I truly believe that nanotechnology is the next revolution of science that will take us to places our ancestors could never have dreamed possible and as Gene Roddenberry from Star Trek said, “To boldly go where no man has gone before”. Immorality if it ever becomes real will be the biggest scientific breakthrough in the history of mankind!