Discussion of 80 Gigapascal super material potential for energy and space | NextBigFuture.com

Icarus Interstellar Spaceship designer Adam Crowl has provided more analysis of the potential of the 80 Gigapascal carbon nanotube bundle material. Nextbigfuture wrote this material which has been made in a chinese lab. The material is 20 times stronger than Kevlar. The material would enable flywheel energy storage with jet engine or rocket like energy density. Adam Crowl indicates super flywheels would be better than rocket fuel when oxygen is factored For carbon nanotube material, with a density of about 1,800 kg/m3, and an operating maximum stress of 54 GPa, that means a specific energy density of 7.5 MJ/kg. For The post Discussion of 80 Gigapascal super material potential for energy and space appeared first on NextBigFuture.com.