>>13829106A lot of meta-material development and scalability is limited by energy. For example, creating large scale forests of CNTs which can exceed 53mm is impossible for two reasons:
1. The energy requirement to sustain its growth is considerable and the budget of the research team is limited.
2. The catalyst used to generate these forests initself is expensive to produce as its energy demanding to do. It also expires very quickly once introduced to a chamber where CNT material is available to create a forest.
Fusion unlocks energy abundance options. A small scale fusion reactor can be added to a university for example and meta-material labs can basically have in-house solvent producers that can then in turn allow for more creative experimentation of CNT forest growth that can exceed 53mm, with the ideal goal of reaching 100 centimeters or the holy grail of 1 meter in sustained, non-terminating growth. That energy abundance will also allow for the exploration of flexible CNTs that have all range of industry applications. Additionally, by solving the growth issue and having a large amount of it thereby, you can put it towards converting some portions of computing into graphene based transistors. Maybe for i/o or specific accelerators which would do some specific AI or inference task or maybe some rendering task, whilst the rest remains silicon based.
Graphene transistors can switch hundreds to thousands of times faster than silicon can and use FAR LESS power. Additionally, CNTs have intrinsic quantum spookiness where at the quantum level, energetic behavior leads to cooling rather than heating of the material despite the electron flow involved. Its fucking crazy, and its something that cannot be explored at scale without having an existent abundant energy source that can make this material in large volumes for experimentation.
Just think about it for a second; you turn on a CNT computer, more you crank, colder it gets: a cryo-arithmetic engine.
