User blog comment:Deafro/Theory on Dust Manufacturing/@comment-4773581-20140112153919

...So they're ripping out parts of peoples' souls to make the refined dust? Well, now we know why SDC's labor conditions are under suspicion.

But seriously, in addition to the above problem, I highly doubt it's that simple, and the refining process you're proposing would, in all likelyhood, cause a serious factory-destroying accident 19/20 times. Dust probably doesn't even work in the way you're imagining, either, as the "does a little of everything" natural state you're proposing would undermine its initial effectiveness completely, and its initial effectiveness was what got it to be the super-resource it is today. And having to "bleed out" the different types of energy to use the dust is contradictory to itself, because how would they do that without dust and/or the technological advancements that came after dust? And some of the elements are even more counterproductive with the inclusion of the "charging" theory. Where would they get said elements from? Fire is easy, but the rest are a lot more complicated than "rub sticks until burn".