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CRN Announces Conference Speakers
Early Bird Discounts
From Basic Nanotech to MM
Visions of the Future
The Future, Actually
Trends in Violence
Talking Nano at WorldFuture 2007
Foresight Names New President
Feature Essay: Figuring Cost for Products of Molecular Manufacturing
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On Cost Of Molecular Manufacturing
Chris,
I think that you left out one of the most important sources of cost reduction: Reusable Nano-Blocks.
For any one product:
All of the material cost,
Almost all of the energy cost,
And a big chunk of the IP cost
would (should?) be incorporated in the cost of the reusable nano-blocks. So the cost of any one product would be reduced to the cost of designing that product out of reusable nano-blocks plus a little bit.
So if you are able to reuse each nano-block lets say, about 1,000 times, you could build thousands objects for the energy and material cost of only few objects made with non- reusable nano-blocks.
If we design the system to reuse nano-blocks you minimize the ecological footprint of the manufacturing sector yet maintain most of the incredible design potential of Molecular Manufacturing. And because we want all the people on earth to have this technology, minimizing it's ecological footprint should be a primary goal.
Posted by: jim moore | July 01, 2007 at 09:17 AM