Bitch Kitty Racing

Bitch Kitty Racing usually doesn’t update on Saturday or Sunday, but I wanted to share this: a carbon nanotube radio.

As a bit of a backstory, I researched the use of carbon nanotubes for hydrogen storage back in college, and quickly fell in love with the spiky little bastards. (I also need to disclose that I belong to the Cult of Buckminster, which means I become quite the zealot in the presence of large carbon molecules.) A nanotube is a single molecule comprised of carbon atoms which, as the name implies, forms a long tube. They are tiny-tiny-tiny, as the name also implies, being roughly two billionths of a meter wide and hundreds to thousands of times longer. They are super-light, super-strong, and super-cool engineered particles. Nanotubes are currently used in many industrial applications such as batteries, fuel cells, and electronics.

I found out about the radio on Adult Swim while watching Metalocalypse. I seem to have become far less of a science geek than I was in college, and for this I am glad. Hey, at least I wasn’t watching cartoons while stoned!