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    our world is about to change BIG TIME!!!

    GRAPHENE ! google it. will replace gold in computers and other e systems.

    will replace motherboards.

    is 1 million times faster then the fastest chip.

    will transfer one Terabite in one second.



    It is a ultra conductivity material.

    can be manufactured to one atom thickness (one millionth the thickness of a human hair)

    can be easily reconfigured with a simple lazier.

    It's real and it's here now

    You need to learn about this. Be ahead of the game.

    I believe it may well affect gold values by eliminating industrial necessity.
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    Is graphene more expensive to purchase than gold?

    I hope it can easily be recovered from boards, and have some scrap value

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    Its carbon so not much scrap value.

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    Graphene has been known for years, the break through was resent, they have basically figured a way to nano tech it. the value is in the use tech patents. The change will be much bigger then the silicon chip. It may well rank with the wheel.

    It will revolutionize solar, electronics, batteries and who knows what all.

    This all depends on weather and how much advancement our nannies in Washington and the corporations let us have.

    The power co is not going to allow a $1000 solar roof to cut them out.

    The major advancements were made by the university of Georgia sooo my guess is, exclusive rights will be sold to some one.

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    There may be some resistance from manufacturers to adopt this tech change right away. Companies that have invested huge amounts of money in machinery and equipment to manufacture products using existing tech, will not want to scrap the lot and start again. Yes I agree it will be the future, but not starting now.

    It's a bit like the hydrogen fuel cells for vehicles. A great tech advance, but trying to get hydrogen storage into existing fuel stations is just not going to happen without billions and billions of dollars from the fuel companies, to refit there existing stations. It would affect profits negatively to rebuild all existing fuel stations. Like your comment about power co's not allowing cheap solar systems, it's about the profits of existing companies being strongly defended.

    Huge manufacturing companies will resist this change if they get the chance. New emerging companies may adopt this tech from the start as they don't need to scrap existing systems.

    Either way, it will be the consumer that pays, and nano tech won't be cheap for many, many years to come.
    I can only imagine the price of a couple of nano tech, graphene AA batteries for my remote, more than the stereo cost me
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    Quote Originally Posted by snapperhead View Post
    There may be some resistance from manufacturers to adopt this tech change right away. Companies that have invested huge amounts of money in machinery and equipment to manufacture products using existing tech, will not want to scrap the lot and start again. Yes I agree it will be the future, but not starting now.

    It's a bit like the hydrogen fuel cells for vehicles. A great tech advance, but trying to get hydrogen storage into existing fuel stations is just not going to happen without billions and billions of dollars from the fuel companies, to refit there existing stations. It would affect profits negatively to rebuild all existing fuel stations. Like your comment about power co's not allowing cheap solar systems, it's about the profits of existing companies being strongly defended.

    Huge manufacturing companies will resist this change if they get the chance. New emerging companies may adopt this tech from the start as they don't need to scrap existing systems.

    Either way, it will be the consumer that pays, and nano tech won't be cheap for many, many years to come.
    I can only imagine the price of a couple of nano tech, graphene AA batteries for my remote, more than the stereo cost me
    Just my cynical 2 cents
    and....I was going to say the same thing. Even tho its out it will be a few year before its used in computers. It will have to be tested and most likely rolled out in servers first (higher costs in gear than a $300 laptop) but for the switch your talking billions if not in the trillions to do a full switch on how they are made unless they find a way to use the gear they have now and convert it...still high costs and down time.
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    our world is about to change BIG TIME!!!

    I dont think this will replace the Gold in computers one bit. It might replace the Copper though. Parts in computers will still need to be protected from corrosion.

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    I've never seen corroded graphite carbon. The replacement of gold will depend on price and quantity available. They have been trying to find a sutible replacement for gold in electronics for ever. you have to read about this stuff to half understand what it is capable of.

    Imagine an I c chip and the hair size gold transmitter wires now imagine one, 1 million times smaller transmitting one million times faster and 300 times stronger then steel.

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    At least they wont be substituting every bit of gold for carbon. Gold is such a dependable element for contact points and critical electronic component joins (like gold finger and pin connections).

    I can see that once they have developed hyper speed, nano tech components like IC's, all the other components that support the chips will need to be completely reworked, or reinvented to cope with the new speeds and sizes. It made me think of having a Hayabusa engine installed into an Indian scout chassis, it just couldn't cope and just pushing the starter button would tie that bendy frame into knots. Let alone trying to stop it, if you make the first corner.

    I agree it will happen for us (well you, because I am older than the Himalaya mountains), but it's going to take some time before it makes it to consumer type products.

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    The smart ones won't resist if it can be proven cheaper and better. Carnegie steel was know for ripping out machinery that was months old when a significant advancement was made.

    Being the one with the first license could make it so you are up and running while others are still getting set up. the big unknown is cost and availability of graphene
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    Quote Originally Posted by olddude View Post
    I've never seen corroded graphite carbon. The replacement of gold will depend on price and quantity available. They have been trying to find a sutible replacement for gold in electronics for ever. you have to read about this stuff to half understand what it is capable of.

    Imagine an I c chip and the hair size gold transmitter wires now imagine one, 1 million times smaller transmitting one million times faster and 300 times stronger then steel.
    Yes a UK company has made this tech ..But still it's a reasearch thing....As with all tech they have spent millions of hours and pounds so will not give too much away as they don't don't realy want to follow through just sell the tech and take the money and run (As is in the UK-Get rich quick- if it's not the way it turns out - iv'e got the money -bye).

    British - seen this many times - Manchester university (11 miles away did the first computer) - Internet (WWW) 2 British guys - WOW


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