glen wrote:
Yeah but ... What would be even better would be to design the automation such that it's scale free, at least a little bit. I'm thinking something like this:

https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202409330

The simply term "automation" could imply VERY large machines, like 3D printers stretched over acres of land, picking and manipulating the little things. Or it could imply a collection of a few large machines, many meso machines, and lots of micro or pico machines all orchestrated to metabolize old panels and regrow new ones. *Then* it would look more sustainable to me.


another name for grey goo but at the meso scale?

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_the_Lifemaker

when you see the kind of shite I read as a young man and can maybe guess how that influences my nonsense clear into today.



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