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Why Is Carbon Fiber So Expensive?

Turns out the manufacturing process is a massive pain in the arse. Also: I didn’t realise it’s been around since the 1960s.

Sun 23 Oct 2011 at 17:52   ·


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You are reading Why Is Carbon Fiber So Expensive?, a Microlog entry by MacDara Conroy. It is filed under Science & Nature, and was published in October 2011.

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