| With any new material mankind creates there is | | | | and critical needs and these materials will be costly |
| always the problem of what to do with it when | | | | to produce thus whatever we make out of them, |
| you begin to discard hundreds of thousands or | | | | would not be anything that was not extremely |
| millions of tons of it, for instance plastic soda and | | | | valuable and expensive itself. Meaning we would |
| water bottles, junk cars, tires or silicon computer | | | | not be throwing them away anytime soon and |
| chips and components. One new material on the | | | | certainly not in a public dump. |
| horizon is carbon nanotubes with so many | | | | Yet as we make more and more things out of |
| potential uses it will replace many of our favorite | | | | nanotubes we will need to have a recycling |
| materials we make stuff out of today. Carbon | | | | program, luckily nanotube construction is about |
| nanotubes can be made transparent; they are 50 | | | | the simplest thing in the world to reform into |
| times stronger than steel; they are flexible and | | | | another product as just about anything can be |
| can even conduct electricity. Obviously for a | | | | made from carbon nanotubes. In fact we maybe |
| material like that our world will never be the same | | | | able to take all the worlds pollution and make |
| and many of our current materials will become | | | | them into carbon nanotubes and then into things |
| completely obsolete. | | | | that we need, as we do we will need a program |
| Well, don't worry yet, as we still have about five | | | | to reform them when we are thru with them. |
| to ten years before we will have to worry about | | | | Think on this. |
| this. At first new materials will be used for military | | | | |