alt Hacker NewsIt'd work fine if you just ionize everything; easy to separate then. Just hilariously inefficient given the amount of energy required.
It'd work fine if you just ionize everything; easy to separate then. Just hilariously inefficient given the amount of energy required.
And even if you can collect those ions to relatively high purities. It is not often particularly useful. Most of the mass is probably carbon, silica, oxygen, hydrogen and so on. In the end not that much value there compared to virgin or other sources.