How about firefighting? You could immediately extinguish any fire by teleporting the oxygen away from it.
…and online shopping could take a further chunk out of the bricks and mortar crowd. Food deliveries might even supplant supermarkets.
If we can teleport at an atomic level of detail, we essentially have nanotechnology. Just need the plans, the raw materials, and enough speed.
Why sit? Do it on an incremental basis as you go about your day. Just pray that the targeting algorithm is really, really good.
300 billion tonnes and the atmosphere is back to normal! Plus, if you teleport it into a crystalline form, you have a cool building material.
Thanks for supplying my next philosophical question to ponder. If an artificial intelligence is so powerful that it can teleport shit right out of your ass as you go about your daily routine, is it distinguishable from God?
Specific bacteria, fungi, acarians, insects and arthropods can be selectively exterminated (and this time it’s impossible for them to adapt). But we may need a bigger AI to keep track of all those critters that need killing.
What kind of range are we dealing with? Could we teleport food and supplies to a Mars outpost? Teleport valuable minerals out of the asteroid belt? Send a probe to a nearby star system? To a distant galaxy?
Also, use it for medical treatment. Teleport all of the HIV out of an AIDS patient’s body. Teleport oxygen and other nutrients into a stroke victim’s brain.
For some reason, I’m imagining them doing it together…
Not a problem if you have rocket motors on a more-or-less conventional spacecraft. The teleport receivers would take the place of fuel tankage.
If you need a transmitter at the sending location, you can’t just continually transmit a stream of plasma from the centre of the sun into the chamber of your rocket engine, so you’d have to step back a little and transmit streams of fuel, oxidizer, etc, to your rocket engine. I imagine a tank farm with high-speed pumps feeding transmitters that send to the rocket motors.
And, unless we can do that sort of infinite-loop falling-acceleration thing and pluck the material out when it’s reached an appropriate velocity, we might need very-high-speed pumps. The fuel components would have to be accelerated to match the speed of the spacecraft.
I’m not sure that simply teleporting the reaction mass to an appropriate exhaust velocity relative to the spacecraft would help; wouldn’t that simply result in the spacecraft continuing to coast away from it? Isn’t it the acceleration imparted by the force of the expanding gases that actually shoves the rocket ahead? So any non-burning reaction mass teleported into a rocket motor would somehow have to exert force on the rocket motor if it was to shove the thing along. So maybe we’d have to accelerate the reaction mass to faster then the spacecraft, in the direction of its motion, so that it can push it along…
Teleport multiple sources of hydrogen to a single point and you have fusion. Useful for both a space drive and a power source. A tactic used in the novel ORA:CLE to create fusion explosions.
Rapidly teleport an object back and forth too fast to perceive into a moving destination in the air and you can simulate flight. Seen in Terry Pratchett’s Strata.
Teleport wine into a glass, you have a never-emptying wineglass. Seen in Niven’s Flatlander.
Nonetheless, this could be something BIG.
Two of the major energy management problems we have, given today’s technology, are in the areas of transporting energy from one place to another, and storing energy for future use. Hence, all the current research efforts in building better batteries and fuel cells, and so forth.
If Dr. Hypothetical’s Amazing Teleportation Invention can really rearrange CO[sub]2[/sub] and water into hydrocarbons efficiently (that is, substantially all of the energy you have to put into it goes into the hydrocarbon bonds, rather than being wasted somehow), then I think Dr. Hypothetical is really onto something BIG.
I wonder if you could power the teleporter by teleporting energy sources from extraterrestrial sources. Fuel for nuclear fission, maybe. I don’t know how efficient this would be and whether the fuel would cost less energy to move than it would supply, but I suppose that depends what it means that the teleporter “doesn’t violate conservation of energy”. My physics is really rusty, but wouldn’t the energy required to accelerate an object such that it’s effectively teleporting be infinite?
Perhaps we could make deserts habitable by teleporting enough water and whatever else is required to get it started.
Amazon’s drones would seem a little outdated.
Dr. Edward Teller, one of the fathers of the atomic bomb, never met a non-military use for a mushroom cloud he didn’t like. One of his pet projects (cancelled, thankfully) was using a few megaton detonations to dig artificial harbours. Obviously there was a slight, albeit glowing, problem with this plan as it stands - but with the teleporter ? Just send rocks inside other rocks from a safe distance. Everything blows up sky high and you’ve got a tunnel, a harbour, a mine, a road, what have you.
Asteroid mining ? Now practical, you could even power the “minerals back” teleporter by burning hydrogen clouds and such.
Or do it the other way around and solve any amount of landfill, nuclear waste, sewage, rubble disposal problems by flinging all that shit straight into the Sun. If the device can be miniaturized, you could mount it on a leaf blower kind of thing. Zwip, zwip, all that dogpoop and the crisps packets and the lager cans and the ciggy butts, go meet the Sun ! Bonus point if the teleportablower is powered by sun panels 
Missed that part. Hideo Kojima just creamed his pants. NANOMACHINES, baby !
No need to throw it all away! Just use the teleporter to disassemble the waste by teleporting one set of molecules or atoms at a time into suitable receiving containers. It’s a variation of the mining system. Out come bricks of carbon, sulphur, iron, aluminum, etc, and tanks of hydrogen, chlorine, oxygen, etc, etc… of course, you’d still need to power the thing. Probably easier to get at the raw materials too.
Treat obesity and manage hunger strikers at the same time. Teleport chyme from the duodenum of Gleason, to that of Gandhi.
The evil of the one act is balanced out by the good of the other act.
IMHO.
Assuming the system saw a government, even if an imperfect one, as legitimate, what would happen if the government gave a list of everyone with a warrant to the system? Would it teleport 100% of everyone who is wanted to holding cells?
You could do mass arrests on a level never dreamed of.
Similarly, all those second amendment folks can hold rallies today, but there’s not an actual possibility that the government could take all of their weapons. Now, if the government were to agree that the second amendment no longer applied, to, say firearms of a design created after 1780, then poof, all modern firearms vanish and are swapped with revolutionary war era muskets.
On the bright side, police wouldn’t need to carry firearms. A teleport designator would be far more effective than any handgun. Threaten a cop, he draws his TD and fires (he doesn’t bother to give a warning). Suspect is beamed instantly to an armored holding cell.
You apparently missed the part of the OP which stipulated that living organisms cannot be teleported successfully.
Nice one. It’s a shame we can’t relocate the wildlife without killing it, but even so, this has to be a comparatively clean way of building things compared to using heavy site machinery (and especially compared to the nuclear option).
Anywhere within the solar system with comparative ease (but watch out for that conservation of momentum) - outside of the solar system with slightly more difficulty (because we know less about the target location) - I guess the cost of sending something to Alpha Centauri would be greater too, but not hugely greater - the payload travels as a complex superneutrino at c.
That’s not how it works - the teleportation isn’t instantaneous - the matter is dematerialised at one point, then transmitted and rematerialised at the location, but that transit takes place at the speed of light.
The transmission can’t be interrupted or intercepted in transit due to the inherent nature of the process - it does theoretically still exist while in transit, but does not interact with anything.
Further points of interest: any ongoing process in the subject is suspended while in transit - a teleported clock does not tick until it rematerialises at the other end. This includes things like nuclear decay, although nobody really knows why.
Living organisms can’t be transported without killing them (or in the sole case of elephants, occasionally delivering them alive, and evil), but foodstuffs can be moved this way (because teleportation kills, teleported food behaves in most ways quite similarly to food preserved by Gamma irradiation).