Researchers power line-voltage light bulb with nanotube wire

Researchers power line-voltage light bulb with nanotube wire


Nanocables and nanotubes sound something right out of a science fiction novel. But it's starting to become a reality, these nanocables are about 1/6th of the weight of the normal energy conductive metal wiring that we use today, which may make you think "who cares? those little wires don't really weigh anything anyway" but guess what, airplanes care. Airplanes and vehicles care; even something that hardly weights anything, when in a high enough quantity can get pretty heavy and the lighter an airplane or other vehicle is the better it can do it's job. In the future this may be where we're heading, lighter and more efficient transportation.

The weight-loss is achieved by using the nanotubes instead of the traditional copper or other metals used in todays wiring, which can weight quite a bit with enough of it.