[mikewarot]

I completely fail to see how carbon fiber could be used to build what is essentially a vacuum vessel with 16,000 psi compressing it. You're basically counting on the compressive strength of the matrix it's embedded in to resist the forces involved, the fiber can only help resist cracking a bit.

It's pushing on a string... to me, that's just nuts.

Someone has to have a good explanation on how I'm wrong. If not, that makes it even more tragic.