Nanobot dangers - pollution
- From: Rory McLean <rory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:43:19 -0000
As has been pointed out to me, pollution by nanobots can take a
number of forms, and I wont try and deal with them exhaustively.
A basic problem involves work that the nanobots are doing for
you. This work may well have several steps, and some of the
intermediary steps may produce things that you don't want to have
around in the environment. If the intermediary product either
escapes from the processing, or the nanobot breaks-down for some
reason, you will need to ensure that the environment can handle
it.
A second problem is what happens to nanobots that break-down. You
might have scavenger nanobots which remove these from the
environment, but this will probably take time, and some may be
missed. Hopefully the number of nanobots will fall below the
pollution threshold for the environment. But, if you are going to
lose some, you'll want to know a lot about their break-down and
decay modes. Any decay mode which produce unwanted effects on the
environment will have to be avoided.
Note that 'environment' in the above is a matter of where the
nanobot is functioning, and might vary between inside a human
body, through a body of polluted water, to a sealed and guarded
chamber wrapped in thermite - different environments have
different requirements.
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Rory McLean
rory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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