Re: Nanotech garbage processor?


On Mar 1, 11:43=A0am, John Devereux <j...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I suspect it would be counterproductive to have some kind of
"universal dissassembler" that examined each individual atom,
identified it, then used the appropriate tool to remove it
(somehow). The energy requirements would be enormous.

Or might this be the initial steps to making a universal assembler?
In a way, reversing the process others are trying to achieve and thus
achieving their goal faster this way. As any child which is easier to
do, ripping something apart or putting it together.

And I wonder if you would really need more than two approaches to
ripping apart atoms. One approach for the strongest bounded atoms
which the robotic arms are made of and another approach for all the
other atoms. And I am not talking about ripping apart atoms as in
tearing them apart into their component parts but separating atoms
from each other. Nor am I talking about everything being done by the
same robotic arms, but breaking up the process in stages and having
different robotic arms for each stage. One pair (or trio?) of robotic
arms ripping atoms from atoms. One long series of robotic arms to
move the individual atoms along to the depository. One set of robotic
arms to identify just one element type and picking it and only it out
of the stream of individual atoms streaming past it. A set of
identifying and diverting robotic arms for each element. And for
solids, one set of robotic arms assembling the atoms into rods. For
gas or liquid atoms, they could be just dumped into a vat tank.

Of course you could use nanotechnology to enhance a more
"traditional" process. Grinding to dust, dissolving, filtering etc.

How so?

Scott Jensen

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