More Important Things

[mundens]

Things I've seen on the web over the last two weeks that are far more important than either Kate & William's marriage or Osama Bin Laden's death. (Since when did the births, deaths, and marriages section become the headlines anyway?)

• Angela Belcher of MIT describes "growing" better batteries and solar cells with no toxic by-products using viruses

Comments

[elfs]

It's a shame that the graphene paper article says the material maxes out at 63 kilopascals. We need it to be at least 130 kilopascals of tensile strength to make earth-to-orbit cheap. (Yeah, yeah, I know, there are other uses for 63KP-strength materials, but without a space elevator we're never getting off this planet.)