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A microcomponent recomposer is a production device that constitutes a standalone sub part of a [[nanofactory]].
It is something like an incomplete [[nanofactory]]. A microcomponent recomposer only contains the upper [[assembly levels]] beginning with microcomponent assembly (level III or IIb).

A microcomponent recomposer can hanle bigger parts that can be taken apart again - that is:
* [[Product fragment]]s out of many [[microcomponent]]s 
And in contrast to a full nanofactory a microcomponent recomposer can't handle smaller parts that often can't be taken apart again - these are:
* The many [[crystolecule]]s in microcomponents <br> (Note: After assembly microcomponents often can't be disassembled to their constituting crystolecules because of irreversible fusion of dense [[surface interface]]s. Also the possibly necessary vacuum lock in is much more difficult than vacuum lockout.)
* The many atoms / [[molecule fragment]]s in crystolecules <br> (Note: [[atomically precise disassembly|mechanosynthetic disassembly]] is more difficult than mere normal forward [[mechanosynthesis]])

As a consequence (unlike full nanofactories) everything that microcomponent recomposers can build they can take apart to the building bocks they made them out. Thus '''microcomponent recomposers are excellent recycling machines'''.
They shuffle existing that is prefabricated [[microcomponents]] into new configurations to create new different products from old ones (or from virgin microcomponents of an macroscopically ''external'' nanofactory).

== Misc ==

More general purpouse [[Microcomponent maintainance units]] may do the same job as a microcomponent recomposer but less efficient.

= Global microcomponent redistribiution network =

Microcomponent recomposers become especially effective when connected to a ''global microcomponent redistribution system''.
Main article: [[Global microcomponent redistribiution system]]

== Mobile ==

One could lug around around a bag of the most often used microcomponents - this is somehow comparable to a computer cache with the most often used dater nearest to the ALU. 

= Integration into normal everyday experience =

== Thing source and thing drain ==

Instead of packing microcomponent recomposer functionality into each and every surface of our environment it is probably more sensible to put them where we expect them. Physical locations are usually associated with functions.

 No one wants the ''immediate delete'' button right next to the ''save'' button.

E.g. '''The good old dustbin'''. It may be replaced with a microcomponent recomposer that is set to disassemble its contents when "a button is pushed".

Note: The other direction - general purpose ''production'' devices (e.g. the size of a laserprinter are probably more likely to integrate the full nanofactory functionality. ([[Regulations]]?...)

== The fridge and the freezer ==

The fridge and the freezer are further physical locations associated with a special use.
Especially at those locations full nanofactories are needed instead of just microcomponent recomposers.

What one usually expects to be in a freezer is food and medicine.
Since they Food and medical drugs (at least the non serious ones) absolutely need to be synthesizable locally.
Otherwise they need to be be carried in from afar which makes little sense - see below.

'''Food''' (made directly in the fridge) may contain nonpoisonous digestible microcomponents (made exclusively from e.g. periclase, calicte, appatite, DNA-meshworks, de novo proteins ...) but certainly not as a main component. Food is not made to be disassembled - its made to be eaten by humans or other forms of life. 

The same holds for medical drugs (that may be temperature sensitive)

'''Medicine''' will often come in the form of advanced medical nanodevices. those nanodevices may be standalone microcomponents (slowly degrading or nonderading but well egestable) - there's no need for a recomposer.

'''Why microcomponent recycling involving transport:''' (Main article: [[Recycling]]) <br>
It boils down to that everything that biodegradates quickly is not worth the effort of transporting in from afar.
The point of paying the cost of transport for microcomponents is: not to create even more non degrading waste which is more costly to get rid of.
Critical drugs will very probably be subject to intense regulations - thus no local synthesis.

= Thermal bunching =

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= Related =

* [[Technology level III]]
* [[Recycling]]
* [[Thermal bunching]]


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