that's 1.6 grand of solar panels btw
RT: https://nicecrew.digital/objects/41af7d74-5d6f-4f03-8488-f8cae3ecb5bf
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Everything about boats is 5 to 10 times more expensive than the normal version.
@weknowwhygary @CobaltSasquatch wait until you hear about the US taxes on solar panels just generally
@WandererUber @weknowwhygary @CobaltSasquatch I think you mean subsidies
@egirlyuumimain @weknowwhygary @CobaltSasquatch no I don't. A Chinese panel costs almost 3x in the US than what it costs anywhere else
Solar panels are based because they've created a colossal industrial demand for silver that will make me rich. Therefore I support removing all taxes, tariffs or whatever on chink panels so the people can be enabled to install them on every surface imaginable.
@Hoss @WandererUber @CobaltSasquatch @weknowwhygary Tbf its probably just the tariffs every green power is the most subsidized industry there is.
The best green power comes from glowing green rocks. Nuclear comeback tour gonna be lit.
@Hoss @CobaltSasquatch @weknowwhygary @WandererUber Those don't count
Brb shoving a reactor in my rv
@Dudebro @egirlyuumimain @CobaltSasquatch @weknowwhygary @WandererUber @Hoss That's always been my dream ..
@Dudebro @egirlyuumimain @CobaltSasquatch @weknowwhygary @WandererUber @Hoss But thanks to Nixon, America's thorium tech still looks like this instead of something ya could throw in a truck..
I have a real conflicted opinion about Nixon because he signed off on a lot of bad policies but was allegedly ultra based in private. Surely this was somehow Kissinger's fault.
The Nixon tapes are a window in to a soul that was too based for his time even.
*Advisors arguing about the war*
Nixon: Why don't we just nuke the gooks?
*uncomfortably long silence*
Kissenger: Mr President...that may be excessive
*Advisors arguing about the war*
Nixon: Why don't we just nuke the gooks?
*uncomfortably long silence*
Kissenger: Mr President...that may be excessive
@CobaltSasquatch @Hoss @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain Aye, He had a lot of great aspects, but, like all the others, he was swayed by bombs that Mox reactors could make rather than the infinite power, lack of waste, and amazing efficiency of thorium... Plus, Thorium reactors don't give the US an excuse to invade, because they cant be used for enrichment..
@HonkHonkBoom @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain @Hoss thorium reactors fail deadly and that's their major problem (not that that stopped Russia from building RBMKs)
@sapphire @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @egirlyuumimain @Hoss I thought the whole idea of Thorium (salt) reactors was that they cool and stop themselves without continuous power flow somehow? Wasn't there some type of freeze plug or something or other that would drain the molten material if the power went out?
@WandererUber @sapphire @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @Hoss Thorium reactors are soyence psuedo magic gobilty gook
They seemingly do anything and everything, but are somehow unable to be built. See also cold fusion
They seemingly do anything and everything, but are somehow unable to be built. See also cold fusion
@egirlyuumimain @sapphire @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @Hoss >soyence psuedo magic gobilty gook
don't take this the wrong way but you say this a lot about most things more complex than a shovel...
don't take this the wrong way but you say this a lot about most things more complex than a shovel...
Sometimes I'll see a car, or a computer, or hell even a coffee maker, and I'll think to myself "3000 years ago that was in the fucking ground. Some guy woke up one day, looked at a rock and started changing it. We eventually changed rocks so much that we could turn them in to this stuff" and even with the benefit of a White IQ it seems like some low level sorcery
@CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain @Hoss it took 4.4 billion with a b years for life to go from rock to pointy rock
It took less than 1/1000 of that to go from pointy rock to iPhone
It took less than 1/1000 of that to go from pointy rock to iPhone
@sapphire @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @Hoss Really makes you think if it really is a billion years old doesn't it
I wonder what went through the head of the first guy that found copper and realized if he put it in a campfire and then let it get cold it would hold the shape. We talk about advancements in technology but copper weapons were the start of empire building. You take that away and we're all sitting in a forest eating squirrel bits
@CobaltSasquatch @egirlyuumimain @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @Hoss @sapphire According to some legends which may be true, Joseph of Arimathea was a tin trader, who travelled to Britain on a metals trade in the 1st Century. Though the Iron Age had been well underway for a milennium or so, bronze certainly never lost its basic usefulness - and hasn’t ever not been a pretty hot commodity
@KingOfWhiteAmerica @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain @Hoss Bronze is much easier to work and superior to pre-metallurgy iron in every single way except iron is fucking everywhere
that's why the Bronze Age Collapse happened, Greeks learned how to work iron and instead of the palace controlling who gets a nice sword, every swinging dick barbarian could bang out a shitty cast iron sword in their back yard
that's why the Bronze Age Collapse happened, Greeks learned how to work iron and instead of the palace controlling who gets a nice sword, every swinging dick barbarian could bang out a shitty cast iron sword in their back yard
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@sapphire @KingOfWhiteAmerica @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain @Hoss Yeah, Iron is everywhere, but it doesn't just fall out of rocks with heat like tin and copper.. There's the whole chemical process in smelting that likely took many lives to figure out..
@HonkHonkBoom @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @KingOfWhiteAmerica @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain @Hoss yes, that would be an expansion of "Greeks learned how to work iron"
if it was easy there wouldn't have been 3000 years of bronze before there was iron.
if it was easy there wouldn't have been 3000 years of bronze before there was iron.
@sapphire @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain @Hoss Though steel has mostly supplanted bronze, beryllium copper (aka beryllium bronze) is very nearly as strong as tool steel, and non-sparking - which makes it popular in mining and other industries where shit can explode in the presence of sparks; it also makes just about the best spring material of all known metals iirc. Copper alloys are great 🥂
@KingOfWhiteAmerica @CobaltSasquatch @Dudebro @weknowwhygary @HonkHonkBoom @WandererUber @egirlyuumimain @Hoss high carbon stainless steel really was the perfect goymaterial til they invented plastic: shitty, hard to work with but never corrodes and is dirt cheap and can be made by robots or browns