wrbones
04-19-03, 06:20 AM
Yeah, I re-titled it.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/nanotechnology.htm
I needed a change of pace, and this stuff is more important than you may think.
This Tech has generated revenues of one hundred million dollars a year and in ten years some projections estimate that figure at 1 trillion dollars per year. To use an analogy, The cotton gin has already been invented, so to speak, with this tech, people are trying to build railroads and steam engines.
Time to do yer research and see if you can make an investment somewhere. This will make the industrial and computer revolutions look like a hiccup in our society. Some larger companies are putting quite an investment into this tech.
In addition, the military uses are almost endless.
How Nanotechnology Will Work
by Kevin Bonsor
› Introduction to How Nanotechnology Will Work
› Building with Atoms
› A New Industrial Revolution
› Lots More Information!
In the early 20th century, Henry Ford built a car manufacturing plant on a 2,000-acre tract of land along the Rouge River in Michigan. Built to mass-produce automobiles more efficiently, the Rouge housed the equipment for developing each phase of a car, including blast furnaces, a steel mill and a glass plant. More than 90 miles of railroad track and conveyor belts kept Ford's car assembly line running. The Rouge model was lauded as the most efficient method of production at a time when bigger meant better.
Nanogears like these may replace current manufacturing processes.
The size of Ford's assembly plant would look strange to those born and raised in the 21st century. In the next 50 years, machines will get increasingly smaller -- so small that thousands of these tiny machines would fit into the period at the end of this sentence. Within a few decades, we will use these nanomachines to manufacture consumer goods at the molecular level, piecing together one atom or molecule at a time to make baseballs, telephones and cars. This is the goal of nanotechnology. As televisions, airplanes and computers revolutionized the world in the last century, scientists claim that nanotechnology will have an even more profound effect on the next century.
Nanotechnology is an umbrella term that covers many areas of research dealing with objects that are measured in nanometers. A nanometer (nm) is a billionth of a meter, or a millionth of a millimeter. In this edition of How Stuff Will Work, you will learn how nanomachines will manufacture products, and what impact nanotechnology will have on various industries in the coming decades.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/nanotechnology.htm
I needed a change of pace, and this stuff is more important than you may think.
This Tech has generated revenues of one hundred million dollars a year and in ten years some projections estimate that figure at 1 trillion dollars per year. To use an analogy, The cotton gin has already been invented, so to speak, with this tech, people are trying to build railroads and steam engines.
Time to do yer research and see if you can make an investment somewhere. This will make the industrial and computer revolutions look like a hiccup in our society. Some larger companies are putting quite an investment into this tech.
In addition, the military uses are almost endless.
How Nanotechnology Will Work
by Kevin Bonsor
› Introduction to How Nanotechnology Will Work
› Building with Atoms
› A New Industrial Revolution
› Lots More Information!
In the early 20th century, Henry Ford built a car manufacturing plant on a 2,000-acre tract of land along the Rouge River in Michigan. Built to mass-produce automobiles more efficiently, the Rouge housed the equipment for developing each phase of a car, including blast furnaces, a steel mill and a glass plant. More than 90 miles of railroad track and conveyor belts kept Ford's car assembly line running. The Rouge model was lauded as the most efficient method of production at a time when bigger meant better.
Nanogears like these may replace current manufacturing processes.
The size of Ford's assembly plant would look strange to those born and raised in the 21st century. In the next 50 years, machines will get increasingly smaller -- so small that thousands of these tiny machines would fit into the period at the end of this sentence. Within a few decades, we will use these nanomachines to manufacture consumer goods at the molecular level, piecing together one atom or molecule at a time to make baseballs, telephones and cars. This is the goal of nanotechnology. As televisions, airplanes and computers revolutionized the world in the last century, scientists claim that nanotechnology will have an even more profound effect on the next century.
Nanotechnology is an umbrella term that covers many areas of research dealing with objects that are measured in nanometers. A nanometer (nm) is a billionth of a meter, or a millionth of a millimeter. In this edition of How Stuff Will Work, you will learn how nanomachines will manufacture products, and what impact nanotechnology will have on various industries in the coming decades.