Costs in Carbon Nanotube Sheet Manufacturing Hurting Safety

The incredible properties of carbon nanotubematerial to make trucks, school buses and
technology means light weight material,passenger cars with it, although that will surely
transparency and strengths 50-250 times that ofcome in time.In the case of school buses most
steel. This means added safety to aircraft, cars,school districts are strapped with cash and cannot
buses and trains. It also means tremendousafford to replace buses due to budget constraints.
efficiencies in fuel.Indeed such material maybeIndeed, the high diesel prices are putting even
used to build houses, bridges and buildings in themore of a burden on the transportation divisions
path of potential storm surges from Superin school districts now, as well as city buses. The
Hurricanes or over Earthquake faults. Since it cansafety in the future will come from buses being
be very flexible it maybe the perfectless top heavy and therefore fewer will tip over.
material.Unfortunately the costs to produce aThe efficiency in fuel costs will come from the
single carbon nanotube sheet is presently soincredible reduction in weight.Right now the cost
expensive that any material made will befor a carbon nanotube sheet is very high,
immediately allotted to the very most importanthowever in five years that may not be the case
uses. For instance Space Ships, Presidentialand in ten years carbon nanotube sheets will be
Limousine, military aircraft, bulletproof vests ormass-produced by most industrialized nations.
testing its properties in labs. Therefore it will be aThink on this.
long time until we have large amounts of the