Preprocessing step 1 (gem-gum factory)
- Resource material gets filtered/cleaned. Contaminants are removed.
- Liquid phase (and maybe gas phase) processing is involved here.
- Significant heat can be generated from moving to machine phase. This energy is potentially recuperable.
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Resource molecules are transferred from liquid phase into machine phase and back in several purification stages.
At the end of the process the resource molecules stay permanently in machine phase.
Source of release of heat
Due to moving from liquid phase to machine phase the
number of degrees of freedom of motion of resource molecules get reduced.
In other words the resource molecules get bound and restraint in their translator and rotatory freedom of motion.
In physical terms that means that the entropy in position space gets reduced.
And since entropy can not ever go down (only in the statistical average that is) it must reemerge in impulse space.
That is in thermal motion aka heat.
So machinephaeeification can generate significant amounts of heat.
Intuitively one can maybe think of this as squeezing out degrees of freedom.
The energy that is needed for the by machinephaeeification released heat
must be supplied as free energy in directed mechanical motion.
Recuperability
Generated heat emerges/occurs localized.
So right after release it is still free energy. It is not yet dissipated bound energy.
And thus it can potentially be partially recuperated by means of well designed close-by diamondoid heat pump systems.
Questions
- How small can / should the intermediate remixing reservoirs be made?
- How much energy dissipation will come from repeated multistage remixing?
How much minimizable? How much recuperable? - Which temperature to run this at ideally? Roomtemperature? Close above freezing point?
Side-note on entropy and phase-space
Note that the physical units of entropy (J/K) and action (Js) (~ phase-space-volume) have different physical units yet they are closely related ...
For closed systems:
- At the quantum-limit of incompressible phase-space-volume:
Reducing position space necessarily increases the impulse space and vice versa (like a seesaw). Heisenberg principle. - Reducing entropy in the position space necessarily increases entropy in impulse space and vice versa.
Though this happens at any temperature far from the quantum limit.
In statistical physics entropy can be derived from summing (integrating) over all the combinatorially possible microstates in phase space volume.
One uses the partition function (in German "zustandssumme" translated literally: statessum - as in: sum of states).
