Mobile phones and laptops power revolution

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Yeah, years and years out. I don't think anyone has found a cost effective way for mass producing and using nano technology.
 
Depends what you call cost effective.
People may like to pay a very high price for the convenience of not charging their mobile phone, perhaps thousands of pounds to start with.
 
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Depends what you call cost effective.
People may like to pay a very high price for the convenience of not charging their mobile phone, perhaps thousands of pounds to start with.
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Necessity versus luxury would merit most people not paying that much. Consider current top of the line phones are about $600 USD if you get them out of contract...and most people scoff at paying the $200 for in contract.
 
There are enough people who buy phones studded with diamonds/ made of gold costing more than a carbon nano tube circuit I would have thought.
 
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There are enough people who buy phones studded with diamonds/ made of gold costing more than a carbon nano tube circuit I would have thought.
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Those are modified versions of mass produced devices in most cases, using mostly transitional and currently existing manufacturing processes. And they are designer devices, bought by people that have such an excess of money it doesn't matter.

They've been talking about nano technologies for over a decade, yet I am not aware of any hitting consumer levels. This technology is years off from being available for anything resembling a sane price.

Really what needs to be addressed is the battery - it hasn't really advanced much in the past couple of decades.
 
One problem is that the wiring within a chip is already "10,000 times thinner than a human hair", so where's the savings?
 
It is still grossly impractical and difficult to make carbon nanotubes... and to make them of consistent quality and consistency.

Functional carbon nanotube structures are still grown in a lab... and our ability to mold and utilize them is more akin to Stone Age flint-chipping than Medieval blacksmithery... and to make them practical, we'll need to get the processes up to Industrial style cast molds.

I'd say five to ten years, at least, before we can see a practical application along these lines... and even then... probably another decade before they become commercial.
 

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