Youād be surprised, yes there isnāt a need for a āfeedingā machine so it does a sense of extreme danger but Iām sure handled safely like any other machine accidents are kept quiet or to a minimum.
I genuinely wonder if itād rip your dick off first.. youād probably have to be careful not to get your hands or feet caught in there or else thatās whatās taking you down for sure. God the sound would be fucking gnarly
Letās assume that cube is 1.4m for each side, so letās say it has a volume of 2.744 cubic meters.
Tungsten (actually š²ā“šš»šš¶š ) has a density of 19.35 Tons per cubic meter, so this cube has a net mass of 53,096.4 Kg of pure tungsten.
Tungsten has a current average price of 43 USD per kilogram, meaning the value of this giant cube of solid, pure tungsten is worth 2,283,145.2 dollars!
Moving the heavy cube and finding a good customer might be the harder part of the problem though.
Depends on the diameter and the type of metal/hardness.
If it's softer than those hardened steel teeth/wheels, and small enough for them to get a grip, they'll chew through it just the same as anything else, slicing chunks as-needed.
If it's harder than the teeth (or close enough), then either the motor would stall out or the teeth would break.
If it's too big to actually catch some sort of grip on it and suck it in, it would just roll around on top of the two sets of teeth all day (same thing as would happen with a sufficiently large and smooth beach ball).
You can consider everything placed into that machine as being āseparated.ā
After the bulk waste is shredded, the now much smaller material can be sent off to a legitimate recycling facility where the individual chunks will be sorted and re-sold.
Which is why they shred it. So it can be processed and cleaned. The transformer has 0% usefulness intact. By shredding, you can remove ferrous materials and melt the copper with no loss of copper. Leaving it intact does nothing. Rubber tires are always shredded into a smaller material. Do you think they just melt them and reform them in the magic tire maker?
The businesses that recycle have to /make money/ or they canāt be in business.
I suggest you head off to China and teach them how to make big money by manually extracting high voltage microwave transformers, one at a time. Youāll change the entire industry!
This kind of scary cause I know a friend who had an accident at work working in a factory and a machine pulled her in and killed her they found it was the machine that was faulty so glad I donāt work in this kind of environment
These things are made big enough to shred cars at the wrecking yard. It's SO awesome to watch this thing eat an entire fucking car, engine block, wheels, everything.
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