Man's Next Migration

A undiscovered potential within carbon nanotubes has been discovered by scientists to be capable of producing electrical energy proportion to its weight. Thermopower waves create a temperature of 3,000 K from a reactive layer coating on the carbon nanotubes.

The process is said to be able to achieve 100 times greater than an equivalent weight of lithium-ion battery. It uses laser beams to ignite one end of the nanotube creating a fast-moving thermal wave that pushes electrons along the tubes thereby creating electrical current.

Researchers believe that they could maintain indefinite production of pwerand with the size of the carbon nanowires, arrays of the process could supply significant amounts of energy.  They also hope to use other reactive materials that could produce alternating current.

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