Pesky buckyballs (was argonne lab info) (Score 1)

Pretty exciting stuff, until you get halfway down the article and discover that they made it with buckyballs. Doen't eople realize that there is no large scale (ie greater than a few hundred molecule at a time) process for making these things, after more than 15 years! Sure they're amazing, but at thousands of dollars a milligram, there isn't much use. When we can either a) find a large scale production method for either fullerenes or nanotubes, or b) make a proper nanoassembler, that will be one thing. Until then, all this talk is even less meaning full than those 1950s Popular Mechanics articles that proclaimed flying cars for all within the decade...