ewbrownv comments on The hard limits of hard nanotech - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ewbrownv 08 November 2010 05:09:42PM 1 point [-]

Indeed. An even bigger constraint is energy consumption - natural life forms operate under absurdly constrained energy budgets compared to machinery, which sharply limits the materials they can be made of and the performance they can deliver.