From: "William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@amaranth.com>
Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 12:08:43 +0800
To: Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com>
Subject: Re: carbon fibers (fwd)
In-Reply-To: <199705240207.VAA22060@einstein.ssz.com>
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In <199705240207.VAA22060@einstein.ssz.com>, on 05/23/97 
   at 08:07 PM, Jim Choate <ravage@EINSTEIN.ssz.com> said:

>> Subject: carbon fibers
>> Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 21:11:00 -0500 (CDT)
>> From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)

>> Reading all the discussions about Jim Bell, I became interested in
>> the carbon fibers that Jim allegedly planned to use to disrupt the
>> work of compiters.
>> 
>> I would appreciate if anyone explained me how these fibers work, how
>> small and thin they are, and so on. I am also curious when and how this
>> use of these fibers was invented.

>Carbon is commenly used in electronics because when compressed it
>generates a small voltage, ala your phone receiver.

>It can be both a insulator or a conductor depending on how one fills the
>outer valence band. Because its 'natural' state is -4 (it has 8 positions
>and only 4 are filled with electrons) it makes a fair conductor. Yet, it
>is not listed in most Activity Series for metals. I believe the idea is
>that since it is a reasonable conductor that when it falls across
>parallel lands on the pcb of a cpu it will short the lines. This would
>not only affect the reliability of the data because of current leakage
>but might in some cases cause an actual failure because of incorrect
>voltage or current.

In reading the complaint Jim was using a copper coated carbon fiber mesh
that was then to be processed (probably cut up and ground) into a fine
pouder so it could be delivered airborn. I think that the critical
ingrediant was the copper coating and not the carbon itself though it
should have an additive affect for the reasons mentioned above.


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