Humanity. Ugh. No matter the opportunity, we’ll find a way to mismanage and exploit it.
Disagree man, I wrote a paper on biochar in college. Oxygen is a bitch chemically and if it’s around, certain necessary things just don’t happen.
Still the concept of zapping is solid.
Moving as best we can to cash transactions with local people.
While you probably do have some biochar there, your yield will be higher if you build a biochar reactor. A 55 gallon steel drum, a 30 gallon steel drum, some stove pipe, and you’re set. The key to making biochar is to heat it to 600 degrees in an oxygen free environment. This leaves a stripped carbon skeleton hungry for nitrogen compounds to bond with. If you want more details about the design I’m referring to here, just let me know!
The current state likely isn’t abject scarcity, and hopefully it never will be because as the degree of scarcity increases, the behavioral guidance from enculturation and social mores melts away. A person can see it in stressed animal populations, and well, at the end of the day, we’re just monkeys with lots of intellectual dressage.
Resource scarcity brings those behaviors back regardless of the cultural distance from those times it seems.
My stinging nettle seedlings are looking good. I’m so excited! The amaranth seed heads are looking good too after a summer of growth. Both are excellent additions to the pig food. Next step, bring them both to scale! #homestead
Not at all, if the victim is a child, blame the parents. Otherwise let people live and die as they choose. Legalize it all. As a society we have to stop protecting people from their own ignorance and/or stupidity. Spend enforcement and incarceration money on education. Ignore the education at your own peril.
Router based no logs VPN, Veracrypt local file storage if you’re paranoid about a raid, rock on!
Those shoes are just awesome.
I think shared exit ip addresses are key. You can choose anonymity or not with entries into platforms or sites, but permanent identifiers are destructive to privacy, be them IP, BSSID, IMEI, MAC, etc.
I guess this means that you are happy with the money you make for the skills you possess and effort you exert? It also means that the profit margins the company has are reasonable in your opinion? I think some unions have become lumbering regulatory monsters, but there are no limits to how much business will starve workers to increase already ridiculous profit margins.
In diesels the overhead cam driven common rail injection at exceedingly high pressures paired with variable geometry turbochargers has vastly improved efficiency in the last few years. I’m of the opinion that the systems would be more reliable if fewer electronics and sensors were used though. In my thirty years I’ve seen engines go from the 2 million mile no problems CAT 3406B to the 1 million mile no problem Detroit Series 60 to the modern $40k rebuild at 500,000 mile, thousands per month in diagnostic bullshit we have today. I have no problem with emissions controls, modern emissions systems are solid, but the electronics are a constant, expensive problem. I’m excited about the development of single stroke combustion engines, they look promising, this “liquid” piston engine looks like a rendition of the old oil burning, compression losing rotary engines from the 1970’s though. All that having been said though, the key to transportation efficiency is energy scavenging. It’s physics, potential energy to kinetic energy and back again with as little heat as possible. Whether you use a battery or a pressure vessel or a spinning mass in a vacuum to recover and store energy, as long as any vehicle has friction brakes that are engaged outside of an emergency we’re not doing as well as we could. I get what you’re saying though, maybe a relatively simple car getting 40 mpg and lasting a long time is good enough for now.
Admittedly it had me concerned. The only explanation I can offer is that after so many years of soaking in caffeine my body just said enough is enough. The inflammation started in the furthest bodily extremity with the lowest blood circulation. I suspect bad things could have happened if I hadn’t figured out the cause.
I drank coffee strong and in plentiful quantity until after 30 years my feet started swelling up, equilateral edema. I cut the caffeine using decaf and the quantity, presto! No more cramps or edema.
Dirty windows make for clean living.
$0.38 to $0.53 depending on demand, usage, and time of day. California. Solar and hydro baby! Otherwise $1500/month for power.