superart, the fan was correctly identified as a Comair Rotron. Just tried it out tonight at 24V (surprisingly quiet for the vast amounts of air being moved), 12V (not bad but it whines a bit) and 6V (twitches but does not move).
Bladerunner, sorry about the pic size. I'll try to shrink things, but I've been in a bit of a hurry so you get the raw pic from the camera (no post processing). Been trying to watch three kids, work enough to keep my job and then do something to keep my sanity (watercool). Yeah, yeah, excuses stink, but you get what you pay for.
As for YOUR fan, Bladerunner, where in the world did you get a DC fan of that size? I have several AC fans of that size (with fewer blades), but nothing that I'd be able to slow down to a tolerable noise. Are you using that on an outside radiator!?
Now, as for the carbon circuits... that 80GHz was not a full CPU. It was a set of test circuits. As far as I've read, researchers cannot yet make a design with that process that can support 100 million transistors yet. The next set of materials being really looked at for any near-future mass-production is Silicon-Germanium. Anything with carbon is at least 15 years out, not 10. It's not just knowing how to make something. It's also knowing how to make ten million of them at a profit, and that takes a significant infrastructure that includes a rather vast supply chain of material vendors, tool vendors, etc... Fun research, though.