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timtyler comments on How probable is Molecular Nanotech? - Less Wrong Discussion

45 Post author: leplen 29 June 2013 07:06AM

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Comment author: timtyler 29 June 2013 09:41:18PM 2 points [-]

It's very unclear in most of the discussions I read about these Nanofactories what's going to power them. What synthetic equivalent of ATP is going to allow us to out-compete the ribosome?

Er, like most factories, nanofactories will probably run off the grid.