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by Derpdiherp 3642 days ago
And potentially creating a heap of new problems seems as there is a good deal of research which suggests that carbon nanotubes are genotoxic and carcinogenic.

Disposal of it could be just as costly as Asbestos with just as adverse side effects.

I fully understand that some people getting cancer is less of a problem than our planet becoming uninhabitable, but it most certainly can't be swept under the carpet and forgotten about.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23751780 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16686422 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20795897