Galvorn is real!
Researchers at the US Air Force and NASA have announced a new material, which is lightweight, flexible, stronger than steel, at least as conductive as copper, and black. There are almost limitless applications for this stuff, everything from turbine blades to wiring harnesses. The designers decided to name it after the wonder-metal invented in Nan Elmoth by Eol the Dark Elf.
http://www.thecooldown.com/green-tec...tronics-copper |
The link is kind of vague, but it sounds like it's some variety of carbon fibre or graphene. Certainly they say outright that it's made from carbon, which makes this quote:
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Copper itself, of course, has no carbon. I assume the reference is to the carbon footprint resulting from extracting and refining copper.
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I was quite tickled by the description of copper as "rare and expensive" - I mean, compared to some things I guess, but it's the eighth most-mined element, and a lot easier to extract than most of the more abundant ones (which would be why we as a species worked the copper/tin alloy bronze before we even got to iron). Also the article's sentence structure managed to imply that copper being used in electronics is a new finding from the Galvorn people, which is just hilarious. :D Looking at DexMat's own blog, what they're doing is just renaming their "aligned carbon nanotube materials" to Galvorn(TM)(R)(Patent Probably Pending). It looks like this is an emerging field (probably inspired by the graphene discoveries a few years back), so Galvorn doesn't seem to be an obvious fake. What it is... Quote:
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