You're welcome! Another use of nanotubes I've read about would be in the so called space elevator. They didn't mention it in the article but I wonder if that might not be another application. I've also read there are serious health issues associated with the production of these nanotubes. Hope that doesn't derail them before we can actually get to use them!
Yup. Nanotubes, in theory, are 600X as strong as steel of the same weight. We should be able to run an elevator to geosychronous orbit and beyond. That's the real payoff.
If the nanotubes break of and form dust, it would have health issues similar to asbestos dust. No company would dare to make or use them for fear of lawsuits. The trial lawyers would salivate at that prospect.
I've heard that, too. But what I read was about buckeyballs, not the tube configuration.