Cow farts worth Billions, more even,
I was told something interesting the other day, that it is possible to turn Cow farts into Diamond.
I didn't tell the guy right off I though he had been drinking too much, well we were in a bar. But I had talked to him before and he always knew what he was talking about in the areas we discussed and we got into a few deep ones, Super Strings even.
Anyway I jotted it down on a coaster and looked it up when I got home. And yes people are making diamond with methane. No one as far as I could find out isn't actually collecting Cow farts, but they are almost pure methane.
What I did learn is that there is a process using methane and low heat [well 600 degrees], the other process for making artificial diamonds uses extreme temperatures and pressure.
Diamond is grown in layers. The race now is to grow the layers faster. One report I read had it up to 100 microns and hour.
But it was the practical things that will be done with the new product that caught my eye, intrigues me a great deal. Imagine diamond coatings on your eye glasses, windows, paint your car with it, even flooring, bearings for machinery, the list goes on.
Diamonds as we all know are the hardest substance, material on this planet.
I think this is really exciting, it offers an opportunity to clean up the air on this planet. And in the process we get diamond in about any shape and form we want.
This also clears up a question that's been rolling around in the far back dust bins of my mind.
Years ago I read some Jewish stories, their histories, folk takes whatever one might call them. In one it said that when Adam was ejected from the Garden in Eden that he didn't leave empty handed; he carries a book with him. Adams book contained all the knowledge he needed to go forth into the hostile real world. The book was made of Emerald, ruby, and diamond if I remember correctly, Gem anyway, the pages were made out of gem. I learned not that long ago, a few years back, the spot on the grocers counter where the laser reads the bar code, it looks like glass. It is not glass but instead a synthetic clear ruby. Glass would scratch in a short amount of time, ruby doesn't.
Then there is the other biblical story about the new Jerusalem floating down to earth with extremely long , very tall, and quite thick walls of emerald, ruby, and diamond. So it looks like the science is there to allow such creations, it has just taken us a very long time to reclaim what we once knew.
Anyway; I'm excited about this new process, we can soon have diamond coated everything, forget very soft shiny Gold that quickly wears away, Diamond never wears out.
Think of micro-scopic thin diamond threads, to weave cloth out of; even if you couldn't ear it there are other more commercial applications where thins could make good use of a coating of diamond cloth, electronics, electricity, power generations businesses, general manufacturing businesses. Diamond will make the best bearings for industries huge machines.
BUT; First think cheap, methane is in an over abundant supply and we could stand to get rid of the things used in this process, methane, carbon.
Diamond Films:
This is the first one I read, good info:
http://www.highbeam.com/library/docfree.asp?DOCID=1G1:9280459&ctrlInfo=Round19%3AMode19b%3ADocG%3AResult&ao
Here are a couple more
http://www.azom.com/details.asp?ArticleID=2207
See section 2 part way down the page, this has formulas written out.
http://idol.union.edu/~malekis/ESC24/KoskywebModules/sa_q.htm
About the old process, how to Grow a Diamond in 3 days: click on the link
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/10/60II/main616666.shtml
You can Yahoo or Google or Ask dot com for more if you see the excitement in it I did, still do.
Don't ya just love learning new things?
I didn't tell the guy right off I though he had been drinking too much, well we were in a bar. But I had talked to him before and he always knew what he was talking about in the areas we discussed and we got into a few deep ones, Super Strings even.
Anyway I jotted it down on a coaster and looked it up when I got home. And yes people are making diamond with methane. No one as far as I could find out isn't actually collecting Cow farts, but they are almost pure methane.
What I did learn is that there is a process using methane and low heat [well 600 degrees], the other process for making artificial diamonds uses extreme temperatures and pressure.
Diamond is grown in layers. The race now is to grow the layers faster. One report I read had it up to 100 microns and hour.
But it was the practical things that will be done with the new product that caught my eye, intrigues me a great deal. Imagine diamond coatings on your eye glasses, windows, paint your car with it, even flooring, bearings for machinery, the list goes on.
Diamonds as we all know are the hardest substance, material on this planet.
I think this is really exciting, it offers an opportunity to clean up the air on this planet. And in the process we get diamond in about any shape and form we want.
This also clears up a question that's been rolling around in the far back dust bins of my mind.
Years ago I read some Jewish stories, their histories, folk takes whatever one might call them. In one it said that when Adam was ejected from the Garden in Eden that he didn't leave empty handed; he carries a book with him. Adams book contained all the knowledge he needed to go forth into the hostile real world. The book was made of Emerald, ruby, and diamond if I remember correctly, Gem anyway, the pages were made out of gem. I learned not that long ago, a few years back, the spot on the grocers counter where the laser reads the bar code, it looks like glass. It is not glass but instead a synthetic clear ruby. Glass would scratch in a short amount of time, ruby doesn't.
Then there is the other biblical story about the new Jerusalem floating down to earth with extremely long , very tall, and quite thick walls of emerald, ruby, and diamond. So it looks like the science is there to allow such creations, it has just taken us a very long time to reclaim what we once knew.
Anyway; I'm excited about this new process, we can soon have diamond coated everything, forget very soft shiny Gold that quickly wears away, Diamond never wears out.
Think of micro-scopic thin diamond threads, to weave cloth out of; even if you couldn't ear it there are other more commercial applications where thins could make good use of a coating of diamond cloth, electronics, electricity, power generations businesses, general manufacturing businesses. Diamond will make the best bearings for industries huge machines.
BUT; First think cheap, methane is in an over abundant supply and we could stand to get rid of the things used in this process, methane, carbon.
Diamond Films:
This is the first one I read, good info:
http://www.highbeam.com/library/docfree.asp?DOCID=1G1:9280459&ctrlInfo=Round19%3AMode19b%3ADocG%3AResult&ao
Here are a couple more
http://www.azom.com/details.asp?ArticleID=2207
See section 2 part way down the page, this has formulas written out.
http://idol.union.edu/~malekis/ESC24/KoskywebModules/sa_q.htm
About the old process, how to Grow a Diamond in 3 days: click on the link
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/10/60II/main616666.shtml
You can Yahoo or Google or Ask dot com for more if you see the excitement in it I did, still do.
Don't ya just love learning new things?
posted by The Emperor at 11:56 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home