Propriétés électriques des nanotubes :
> Les nanotubes ont une conductivité supérieure à celle du cuivre (et 70 fois supérieure à celle du silicium).
> Le nanotube de carbone a la plus grande mobilité jamais mesurée : 100 000 cm².V-1s-1 à 300 K (le précédent record étant de 77 000 cm².V-1s-1 pour l'antimoniure d'indium).
> Les nanotubes de carbone sont supraconducteurs à basse température.
> Les nanotubes de carbone permettent de réaliser des transistors à un niveau de miniaturisation jamais atteint jusqu'à maintenant. Des chercheurs d'IBM ont d'ores et déjà réussi à créer un transistor sur un nanotube.
> Les nanotubes de carbone pourraient également permettre de réaliser des émetteurs de champs (d'électrons, en d'autres termes) à l'échelle du nanomètre.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanotube

Renewable Energy Access.com :
> Poids des câbles en nanocarbone 6 fois plus faibles que les actuelsCreating a 21st Century Grid [Construire le réseau électrique du XXIième siècle]
(...) The other technology still in the research and development phase is the “armchair quantum wire,” made from tubes of carbon 100,000 times thinner than a human hair, called carbon nanotubes. When these nanotubes are made into a larger wire, they can conduct electricity far more efficiently and over far greater distances than the copper wires used today.
A leading researcher of carbon nanotubes, Dr. Wade Adams of the Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, says that these nanotube wires can theoretically conduct 100 million amps of current over thousands of miles without much loss in efficiency. Today's wires conduct around 2,000 amps of current over hundreds of miles, with about 6 to 8% of the electricity lost in the form of heat.
According to Adams, these armchair quantum wires will also be one sixth the weight of current wires and so strong that they won't need support mechanisms. That means new transmission lines would be less conspicuous, and perhaps not as controversial to communities and interest groups concerned about their impact on the landscape.
“ That enables us to carry, say, electrical power from vast solar farms in the desert to the Northeast, or maybe from wind farms in Montana or North Dakota down to Florida – and in fact, even from continent to continent, ” says Adams.
Of course, transmission lines made from carbon nanotubes are about 10-15 years away from commercialization. But if brought to scale, these new lines could transform how the nation, and indeed the world, transmits large amounts of renewable electricity. (...)
http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/re ... y?id=50519
> Et câbles hyper résistants = > donc moins de pylones (on peut plus "tirer dessus").