On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Eugene Leitl wrote:
> See convergent assembly.
>
> > able to make everything but we might be able to make useful machines
> > nontheless. We could make probes for nanomedicine out of these.
> > Moreover, we may only require few types of standard parts to truly useful
> > structures.
>
> The idea has merit. Structural bulk and coarse structures could be
> deposited by a very controlled polymerisation. This increases
> processivity by orders of magnitude and vastly decreases heat
> dissipation.
>
Strictly speaking it doesn't decrease the heat dissipation, it
simply shifts most of it in time and location to the polymer
subunit synthesis stage. The only thing that decreases the
heat dissipation is coming up with very efficient reaction
steps. I'm not positive about this, but I think that may make
the reaction probability go down, so the synthesis rate would
be slower. So you can produce it "fast" if you can stand the
heat or produce it "slow" if you are short on energy.
Robert
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