The actual headline reads "Micro-Machines Help Solve
Intractable Problem Of Turbulence."...
Looks like very primitive nanotech to me...
this is not nanotech - not even primitive nanotech.
{four reasons why nanotech and microtech are different}
[Do note, however, that microtech is quite likely to be helpful,
both as an enabling technology, and as an interface technology.
--JoSH]
Interface technology? No way, unless nanosystems get built one at a time, are therefore so expensive that it would be worthwhile to use top down made devices to unreliably connect to bottom-up made devices.
Enabling technology? Other than building cheaper and better STMs and chemical and biochemical instrumentation - do we really need microtech? Drexler has argued that since we have already moved around individual atoms using macro (STM) equipment, the micro world could (and should) be skipped (and I agree with him).
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