From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Sun Jan 12 2003 - 13:26:13 MST
On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 ABlainey@aol.com wrote:
> What we need now is a tank full of dissolving enzymes or Nano machines that
> break down the failed products into their constituent polymers. With a clever
Right now you could just burn them. Just like your shopping bag.
> bit of polymer filtering we could build a system that could recycle faulty
> gadgets into new ones.
The next approach is to use catalytic hydrogenation, producing synthetic
oil. Make precursors from it, or use it for hydrogen generation.
> Or taking the trend for new improved mobile phones, etc., you could
> throw in your old one and the latest model pops out of the machine.
> It's a bit of a technological leap from the santa machine, but what a
> glorious system it would be.
By the time you can do that by nanodisassembly there will be no cellular
phone nor the hand holding it to throw into the recycler.
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