Happily, the EPA reports that 88% of newspapers are recycled--a high-energy process (transporting, de-inking, re-bleaching, shredding, pulping) but certainly preferable to altogether junking them.
This would put the creation of black holes firmly out of reach of any high-energy process occurring on or near the Earth.
Exploring the questions posed above: a geological high-energy process and one known to have occurred on asteroids is macro- or micro-impacts, which without question is a powerful process for weathering of materials and the production of regolith.
HERWIG (Corcella et al., 2001) is an event generator for high-energy processes particularly suited for detailed simulation of QCD parton showers.
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is a natural approach to simulate high-energy processes because MD offers detailed trajectories of the atoms as the system evolves after the radiation induced event.
Many macroscopic materials such as crystallites and high aspect ratio material can also be reduced in size through high-energy processes; hence, a balance between chemistry and dispersion energy is often required.
Fermi has been a tremendous success at examining some of the most high-energy processes in the cosmos, publishing a catalogue filled with details of the spinning neutron stars known as pulsars, and a wide array of "active galactic nuclei" - probably supermassive black holes.
Primary aluminium production is a high-energy consumption process, and improving the energy efficiency of smelters could be economically viable.
Schubert and Nestler (2011) fabricated 25 vol.% SiC (of particle size ranging 2 to 3 μm) reinforced AA 2124 MMC by powder metallurgy route, where the powder is compacted by hot isostatic pressing, after a high-energy mixing process.
15 In relation to these observations, it is important to note that protein synthesis is a high-energy consuming process 16 and energy deficiency worsens nitrogen balance.
