On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:58 AM, John Williams <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Nick Arnett <[email protected]> > wrote:> > > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Chris Frandsen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> I have blink feeling that this is a big deal. Any thoughts? > >> http://www.physorg.com/news184310039.html > > > > It caught my eye, too. If it really does all that they say, it will have > a > > tremendous impact. And the patent owner will acquire many of the dollars > in > > the world. > > I checked Nanopool's website, and one thing I did not see addressed > was durability. A 1nm coating of quartz just does not sound very > tough. One application they mentioned was coating corks for wine > bottles. I find it hard to believe that the coating will completely > adhere to the cork as it is jammed into the bottle, and then speared > with a cork-screw and tugged out of the bottle. (Incidentally, is > there any reason cork is used in wine bottles other than tradition? > why not a conventional bottle-cap? Is it just wine connoisseur > stubborness, "I'd never drink wine with a bottle cap!") > Screw-on caps are becoming more common, especially for white wine. I'm also seeing more and more plastic "corks." I think all that is keeping corks in use is, indeed, tradition. > > Another issue is silicosis. Small particles of SiO2 are known to cause > lung disease. I would not want to be a test subject for spraying this > stuff around the house or eating food grown or processed with it. Oh, but the article assures us: "the nano-scale glass coating bonds to the surface because of the quantum forces involved." And who can argue with quantum forces? Nick
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