LENR will make people independent of the state/industry.
I have long strongly suspected this. S/I will go other than quietly.
LENR will make people independent of the state/industry.
I have long strongly suspected this. S/I will go other than quietly.
That is awful.
The average retail cost of electricity in the U.S. is $0.16 /kWh. 1 MWh is $160. 142 MWh = $22,720. 1 bitcoin = $26,010. So if bitcoins fall below $22,000 they will not be worth mining. Let us hope that happens. They were below that for most of 2022. Click here on the 5 year tab:
This is a good one to hook up to your 300MW wind turbine
An estimated 23 million people worldwide live on ground contaminated with potentially dangerous concentrations of toxic metal-mining waste, such as lead, zinc, copper and arsenic. Researchers analysed how waste from 22,609 active metal mines — and seven times as many abandoned ones — is distributed by rivers and deposited in floodplains. "Whether those people will be affected by that contamination, we simply can't tell with this research," says ecologist and study co-author Chris Thomas. "But there is agriculture and irrigation in many of those areas." Crops and livestock can accumulate high levels of harmful metals.
An estimated 23 million people worldwide live on ground contaminated with potentially dangerous concentrations of toxic metal-mining waste, such as lead, zinc, copper and arsenic. Researchers analysed how waste from 22,609 active metal mines — and seven times as many abandoned ones — is distributed by rivers and deposited in floodplains. "Whether those people will be affected by that contamination, we simply can't tell with this research," says ecologist and study co-author Chris Thomas. "But there is agriculture and irrigation in many of those areas." Crops and livestock can accumulate high levels of harmful metals.
I have visited a coast wetland in Perú that is literally an accumulation of arsenic rich copper mine tailings ongoing fo 60 years, and people feed cows on the grass that grows in it. It has high concentrations of everything toxic, and no one bats an eye. Peoples that evolved in the Atacama desert have a natural high tolerance for high levels of Arsenic. Life adapts to everything, given the chance.
high tolerance for high levels of Arsenic.
There was a wide use of arsenic compounds, at one time, in wood preservatives, paints, wallpapers, and wall/plaster fungicidal washes. They helped to make damp buidings habitable - by preventing the growth of toxic molds and reducing insect infestation. We didn't all die of arsenic poisoning (although some historians seem obsessed by the idea that Napoleon Bonaparte died of arsenic poisoning from the furniture paint and wallwaper in his room, when in exile).
Since the gradual removal of "toxic" compounds from the domestic setting (lead paints, copper arsenate treatments) we have seen a huge rise in mold-related illness - particularly in countries with damp climates (such as the UK). Although this can be partly tackled through improved building techniques (materials, moisture control, ventilation) I think there is still an urgent need for the development, and widespread use, of "safe" fungicidal treatments.
There was a wide use of arsenic compounds, at one time, in wood preservatives, paints, wallpapers, and wall/plaster fungicidal washes. They helped to make damp buildings habitable - by preventing the growth of toxic molds and reducing insect infestation. We didn't all die of arsenic poisoning (although some historians seem obsessed by the idea that Napoleon Bonaparte died of arsenic poisoning from the furniture paint and wallwaper in his room, when in exile).
In the late 1950's a factory in East London making 'Lin-Crusta' arsenic-impregnated wall coverings and as a sideline arsenic fly-papers closed down, and post-closure some of the workers started to fall sick. The cure for their ills was found to be micro-dosing with more arsenic.