Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Graphite is key to green technology

I was reading some financial news and discovered something I was not aware of regarding the good stuff at the heart of my beloved pencils. Did you know that a key component of lithium ion batteries as well as fuel cell technology is graphite? The demand for graphite globally is expected to grow at at alarming rate. Amazing stuff.

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  1. Did you know that "Graphene" is a space age material that won the founder a Nobel Prize? It is found to be a super-conducting material that may revolutionize the electronics world.
    It was created in this hi-tech manner:
    1. find a chunk of raw graphite
    2. use some celophane tape to pull the graphite in half, over and over until you have one molecule thickness of graphite which is:
    GRAPHINE....don't try this at home kids without the proper supervision.

    Really...look it up. Aren't pencils the best?

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