{"id":1443,"date":"2010-12-04T04:23:19","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T10:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2010-12-05T18:16:13","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T00:16:13","slug":"eurospaceward-conference-day-1-post-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1443","title":{"rendered":"2010 EuroSpaceward Conference – Saturday morning (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

And we’re off.\u00a0 Markus Klettner,\u00a0Executive Director\u00a0of EuroSpaceward, is giving the kickoff address.\u00a0 He is talking about why we are having this conference.\u00a0 His rationale is to help humanity become a Type I civilization<\/a>\u00a0and a Space Elevator (and all of its associated technologies) is a key to making this happen.\u00a0 EuroSpaceward brings together leading scientists & engineers, supports research on mechanical properties of CNT and expects cross-fertilization of ideas & activities in order to achieve a breakthrough in growing ultra long (m) CNTs for the development of the SE mega cable.\u00a0 Here’s a news flash – a European Strong Tether Challenge?\u00a0 EuroSpaceward is working on this.\u00a0 More details later…<\/p>\n

Next up is Dr. Vessilin Shanov from the University of Cincinnati.\u00a0 I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Shanov at the recent workshop held at the U of C last October and it is a great pleasure to be able see him again.\u00a0 His talk is about developments at the U of C including growing CNTs that approach 1 inch in length this past January.\u00a0 He is NOT talking about why CNT growth seems to stop and the CNTs detach from the catalyst saying he doesn’ know why and it is the “Million Dollar question”,\u00a0 With respect, I would call it the “Billion Dollar question”.\u00a0 CNT applications he is discussing include tiny biosensor electrodes, ‘dry’ adhesives, etc.\u00a0 They’ve patented the name of the type of CNTs they grow; “Black Cotton”.<\/p>\n

Coffee break…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And we’re off.\u00a0 Markus Klettner,\u00a0Executive Director\u00a0of EuroSpaceward, is giving the kickoff address.\u00a0 He is talking about why we are having this conference.\u00a0 His rationale is to help humanity become a Type I civilization\u00a0and a Space Elevator (and all of its associated technologies) is a key to making this happen.\u00a0 EuroSpaceward brings together leading scientists & […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}