From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Feb 25 2000 - 07:27:57 MST
EvMick@aol.com writes:
> > breakthroughs that I re-call. One was Nitinol, which also was supposed to
> > power civilization.
>
> That's the 'memory metal"?.....that always seem kind of a 'gimmick' to
> me...but come to think of it...nitinol might have micro or nano
> applications...
It is used in some robotics (I know a robotics class here at KTH built
spiders using nitinol wires that were heated by sending current
through them - fairly slow and easily breakable spiders, but a cool
concept) and a few other applications. But I never heard anybody call
it a power source.
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