I wrote:
This is interesting, but the discussion of a 10 megawatt Laddermill
seems unrealistic.
"Unrealistic" is the wrong word. No doubt there will be progress in
carbon filament cables. I guess I meant that this thing will require
the development of new technology, whereas the inventor seems to be
claiming that it could be implemented in the near future, even on the
megawatt scale.
Speaking of progress, IBM announced nanotechnology that might allow
memory devices built from single molecules. You don't get any smaller
than that! See:
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/22254.wss
We have finally approached the limit described by Feynman in 1959 in
his lecture "there's plenty of room at the bottom." Not any more, there isn't.
- Jed
