Mark Jones wrote:
Rex B wrote:
Actually, the http://www.livescience.com/ has a lot of very interesting
articles. I bookmarked that one.


What we really need is a device, perhaps nanobots or a miniature black-hole (or
a combination of the two), which is fed garbage and it spits out elemental
matter. Then there'd be no resource shortage ever... only an energy shortage.

This ultimate recycling machine has been proposed in physics research
and may have been mentioned in sci.physics.research. It's a Large Mass
Spectrometer, binning vaporized osmium, boron, carbon, copper, and all
other elements into bins as the charged atoms (ions) fly past The Big
Ass Magnet. Some designs operate out in space.

Doug