Ya, my first thought seeing that was if it was the US they might have gotten shot doing that. Both sides handled that well.

We're going to need a leopard breeding program so there's more food competition so they can stay lean and healthy.

When you fling a tonne of shit at the wall, somethings bound to stick.

The problem isn't vaping, but what you're vaping and with what.

Cheap vapes you might get contaminants from the vape itself which are unhealthy. They get very hot, and quality control on these things is abysmal.

The second problem is the actual liquid. What goes into these with all the flavor crap isn't regulated well and sometimes chemicals are being added that are harmful to us and cause problems, sometimes faster and worse than smoking cigarettes would have.

Now, if you have a good vape, and a proper vape liquid (probably neutral, no additives), it will be safer than regular cigarettes.

Alternatively you can bring up the time he filibustered his own bill that the democrats supported.

Ya, if you have a miner at home, it will reduce your heating bill. You just gotta find a good use for it when it's not cold outside, so something like supplementing your water heater as you mentioned would work ya.

I think there's merit in the idea. Someone makes an electric water heater purpose built for this and they build a miner card you can swap in/out as technology improves the the current one becomes obsolete. Uses the miner for primary heat, and when it's not enough uses regular electricity to make the heat.

If these are from the spoofing, I hope Ukraine already knows how to counter it in their drones. It would suck if they're susceptible to the same attack and Russia figures out how to do it.

I don't know if the output of the desalination is what we actually need or how much refinement it would need, but the salt output would probably still outpace our ability to use it. Sodium is just 1 factor of building these newer batteries.

e.g Tesla has a factory with a 40gwh storage output when fully scaled, and it's taken years to get there. Cells weren't the only factor in that.

Well ya we could definitely use the excess energy to desalinize and then try and find a use for that one plant that handles over capacity. Millions of people rely on it for clean water, but today we mostly just dump it back into the ocean which causes problems and isn't a long term solution.

It's just not a solution to the problem at scale, more like a band aid. But it could buy enough time to build more batteries.

I imagine so, but were talking about at best case of a 50% water 50% brine solution with reverse osmosis, and worse if it's a thermal desalination plant. It's a fuck ton of liquid, more than we could ever hope to use in a reactor like that.

Some other ideas are evaporate the brine and use the salt for roads in winter, but again, it's more than we could manage at scale, and salting roads isn't ideal either.

The salt batteries will be even cheaper than lfp, they just take even more space, but we got lots of space to put batteries.

That still leaves the brine problem. Youve just traded one for another.

Hydrogen wouldn't cause another problem.