The benefits of nonmonolithic structures
(wiki-TODO: Add image of a motorblock base-part as example image for a one-single-purpouse specialized part that cannot really be repurposed or easily partially repaired by sub-component replacement.)
For disassembly and (recomposed) reassembly:
- just much faster
- more energy efficient
- much better support for recycling
Especially the last point, recycling, seems important
in face of the potential for a severe gem-gum waste crisis.
In more detail:
- No need to (slowly) mechanosynthesize slightly different parts anew. Just (speedily) recompose existing ones.
- Much greater speed of microcomponent recomposers compared to mechanosynthesisform scratch in gem-gum factories.
- Wear is much more granually and gradually managable in repair and partial disposure to disposabe
Of course, there can and will be significant overhead in volume, mass, and (only one time to invent) complexity
but nanoscale makes this overhead more tolerable and viable.
Good example for an analogy in electronics may be how digital electronics, due to miniaturization, eventually started
replacing specialized hand-cafted special purpose analog circuits
(that sort-of had to be every time to be invented anew; there are reusable rules too of course).
Examples for monolithic Special purpouse parts at the macroscale - potentially replaceable by discrete part systems at nanoscale
At the macroscale …
… we e.g. do NOT have things in direct analogy to mechanical PWM converters
(i.e. standard electronic element bases circuits that do pulse with modulation followed by smoothing to do efficient energy conversion).
Side-note: These converters are used to shift voltage down/up but keep it as an ideal voltage source or to create ideal current sources.
See page: PWM converters
… we have ultra specialized one-off products like e.g.
the innards (especially frames) of mechanical watches, gearboxes in vehicles, motors invehicles
… we have special purpose highly non-trivaial non-standard element in: – non continuous chain drives bicycle switch assemblies ( of nonstandard mechanical elements) – continuous but friction based continuous velocity transmissions (e.g. contacting rubber cone rollers. – escapements optimized for slow energy release but not for maximal efficiency (the ticking sound indicates that)
Related
- Gem-gum waste crisis
- Recycling
- Diamondoid waste incineration
- Gem-gum waste dissolution
- Hot gas phase recycling cycle
