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"The Grinder" Universal Recycling System

Strangelove

Strangelove

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"The Grinder" Universal Recycling System


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"As Deoradh, it is your final duty to go into the Grinder and become one with all the people. But do not be afraid, for your legacy will live on in your memory files as your implants are transfered to your successor clones. And though your current bodies will be ground into a fine paste, the Great Maker will sort you out in the Otherworld.â€
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It would likely be built into the ship, interconnected with the reactor. That way it could draw on the reactor's heat for hot column cracking (smelting) as well as water extraction (evaporation), and the heat needed to accelerate decomposition. So much of the system would simply appear as pipes running in and out of the reactor housing.

The rest of the system would placed in sub-section of engineering where the monitoring console, storage tanks, and of course, the crusher/seperator device taking up most of the room. Nothing fancy, just a boxy machine like something you'd see on an assembly line. I'd imagine a small conveyor belt style system so they can feed materials at a steady pace, rather than risk jamming the system by dumping whole piles in at once.
 
You should separate metallic and organic materials before any "grinding" takes place. The mechanical and chemical processes used to break down metals and organics should be completely different.

Metals should simply be melted down. Organics should be dissolved in oil-based solvents or something.
 
Yangfan said:
You should separate metallic and organic materials before any "grinding" takes place. The mechanical and chemical processes used to break down metals and organics should be completely different.

Metals should simply be melted down. Organics should be dissolved in oil-based solvents or something.
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They are different, hence the two separate subsections of the system. The fusion-electric smelter and hot cracking columns on one side, the biomass recycler (decomposition chamber and water extraction systems) on the other.

These systems have to be small enough to fit on most vessels. Hence their maximum processing capacity (size of pipes, etc) is limited, so some systems would need help to process larger ship parts or human bodies. Hence the grinding/crushing unit. There is only one grinding/crushing unit for the two sub-systems simply because it would be more space and cost efficient to use a single tool for two purposes.

However, the said unit doesn't actually break down both metal and bodies at the same time, simply because trying to filter one out from the other is more trouble than it's worth. I've edited the post to (hopefully) clear up confusion.
 
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