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Originally posted by Flaming Homer@Oct 19 2005, 04:07 AM
What about the longevity of these "TV's"?
what about newspaper collecters, will these things still be running in 20 years? what do they run on, a battery?
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I'm not exaclty sure how they make these "TV's" but I'm interested. The specialization I'm actually in (Electrical Engineering, specializing in nanotechnology and electrical materials, and photonics and electromagnetics) does alot of stuff like these.
How long these TV's will last... like any other electronic, depends on how much wear and tear you put on it I guess. Not mention, going by the ol' engineering saying, if it ain't broke it doesn't have enough features
As far as I know (I could be wrong) these would be done using carbon nanotube transistors and probably something to do with thin films. If you asked me in a year, I'll know alot more since I'm under consideration for working for a prof this summer researching thin films and nanotechnology.
The other thing is that these electronics can easily be recycled and reused, not to mention that they're made up of a far larger resource then paper.
What would they run on? I'll take a wild guess and say that if the device doesn't draw alot of power, I'll say solar power. Recently in (Japan? Germany?) they got the efficientcy of a solar cell (ie. photovoltaic cell) over 50%; before, the max they'd get is probably 7 or so. With the way research is going into photonics and electromagnetics, I wouldn't be surprised to see solar cells start reaching very high efficientcy percentages.
Whats particularly interesting is if this idea is picked up, I wouldn't be surprised to see Alberta among the world leaders in newspaper TV's and other nanotechnology devices. After all, we are home to one of the top nanotechnology facilities in the world, and the nanofab here at UofA is hitting large and the corperate funding astrinomical. As far as I know, many private, both small and large, have been pouring funding into NINT to use their facilities. Almost every day, you hear of someone else donating a couple million to this facility.
