From: avatar (avatar@renegadeclothing.com.au)
Date: Sun Jan 12 2003 - 21:11:13 MST
You can also make oil and plastics through plants of course.
http://www.csiro.au/promos/ozadvances/Series4Oil.html
Towards Ascension
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Eugen Leitl" <eugen@leitl.org>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 7:26 AM
Subject: Re: TECH: 3D Printers == Santa Claus machines
> 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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