Part of the investment will be used to install high-volume composite carbon fibre manufacturing equipment.
And yet the central tunnel is bare carbon fibre and you have elbow-room aplenty.
The advantage of this approach is that it retains the basic fibre-plus-matrix structure of the material.
Work on the fibre-optic underground cable network will start immediately and be 90% complete by 2014.
Carbon fibre is replacing steel and aluminium in products ranging from aeroplanes to mountain bikes.
Recent research has confirmed that foods containing fibre reduce the risk of bowel cancer.
In all nearly 40 miles of fibre optic cables will be used for the live show.
The telco has also revealed that its Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) technology now reaches four million homes.
Putting an electronic switch at the junction between two optical fibre cables slows the signal down.
Who was there to caution against the mad stampede of telecoms firms into fibre-optic cable?
Although Enron made markets in it, fibre-optic backbone is not really a fungible commodity.
One, says Mr Bane, is if the fibre-optic capacity glut turns into a supply shortage.
Farmers cultivate the toquillales and harvest the stems before separating the fibre from the outer skin.
For that is the number that will be important if we decide to lay more fibre.
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Figures, collected by the company, show less fibre in the atmosphere than the standards would allow.
The complex skeleton of HB-SIA is constructed from carbon-fibre composites formed into honeycomb and sandwich structures.
The new fibre optic broadband would make internet speeds 10 to 40 times faster than normal.
The upshot was a huge increase in the number of competitors and of overlapping fibre-optic networks.
Similar calculations would probably apply to the investment in fibre-optic cables better suited to rising demand.
He has also signed fibre-building alliances with several big local electric utilities, including Boston Edison.
The fibre composite materials have their roots in the world of Formula 1, among other areas.
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The advantages of carbon-fibre were exploited by the AMG engineers in the design of the monocoque.
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OMV, an oil and gas company, Voest, a steelmaker, and Lenzing, a maker of cellulose fibre.
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When the fibre grew too long to be stable, it would break in two.
Carbon fibre is made from thin threads that each contain a number of carbon filaments.
But more is needed: many want an optical-fibre backbone to reach every corner of the country.
In the 1950s Stephanie Kwolek invented Kevlar, the synthetic fibre used to make bullet-proof-vests.
But Crystal Fibre's director, Michael Kjaer, is sanguine about the potential of the company's product.
Carbon-fibre belts prevented the rapidly spinning parts from flying apart under their own centrifugal force.
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