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[Ryan Champion]

Massive lurker-forum wise here, been playing BattleTech stuff since 4, but that's another story.

Here's the link: http://www.gizmag.co...romuscle/30217/
Here's the abstract link: http://onlinelibrary...304064/abstract

It's vanadium dioxide.
Jet-turbine-component tough, and now it's quite possibly
usable as artificial muscle(above 150F, shoutouts to Triple-Strength Myomer!)
that dwarfs current means of locomotion power density-wise, as of December.
For instance, modern high-end diesel combustion engines are
about .65 kilowatts a kilogram for power-to-weight, this stuff is ~39 Kw/Kg.

Compare that to the General Electric GE90 jet engine(i.e. the Boeing 777 turbines, lol): that's 10 Kw/Kg.


The future is now, and it may very well be war; knock on wood.

Edited by Ryan Champion, 03 April 2014 - 12:07 AM.