AmpBenzScientist @AmpBenzScientist@qoto.org

@PawelK it's a great accomplishment. Hopefully it fully frees up the hardware.

Nutcracker Challenge hopefully finished.

@lupyuen Glad you got one. I'm sticking with my Braveheart.

@lupyuen I'm working on the map files for the elfs. It should help things go much more smoothly than it is currently going. I'll upload them when I'm finished for tonight/this morning. I'm hoping to knock all the blobs out. Next is going to be the fun part.

It's not a simple process, in action, and it can be rather hazardous to health and the environment. The upside is that it doesn't have to be this way. Factories that recycle Lead from car batteries are specialized to minimize exposure to workers and produce high quality lead in high yields. The amount of lead that is recycled to use in new batteries is approximately 80% of all lead batteries sold. A big reason for this is that Lead is toxic and 10 kilograms of lead, sulfuric acid and salts of lead are very bad for the environment.

@Ozzy98 @thunderdragon900 And the 110% yield fallacy appears. There will always be loss but purity and capacity don't have to be included in this statement. If I were to recycle electrical wire, I could get a higher purity than producing from regular Copper. The redemption of recycling a closed system is that the more difficult to separate contaminants are going to be in very low concentrations.

@thunderdragon900 the chemical energy disassociates due to entropy. This is the shortest answer. Many metals can be "won" back by an application of Electrochemistry. Unfortunately this requires the battery to be destroyed to do. It will always take energy to recycle. This is not as much of Newtown Physics as it is separating the ions. Chemistry can be used but it requires energy to produce the reagents and purity the metal.

@thunderdragon900 With a simple example of a common battery, the lead acid battery, it is easier to explain just how these cells degrade. The lead exists in two forms, elemental and an oxide. Electrons flow from one electode to the other with the help of an electrolyte. Commonly the lead acid batteries die due to a single cell that brings the voltage down to an unusable level.

@thunderdragon900 Yes they can but it's not magic. The different Chemistries have different characteristics. These are called secondary batteries (because they can be recharged). Over time the chemical reactants become unusable. The Physics behind this is very important. It's actually Electrochemical Engineering but it's Physics (and Chemistry).

@thunderdragon900 Usually it's an industrial process as Lithium is not something that can be toyed with.

@lupyuen Forgiveness is the only true path forward. " An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind."

I'll swallow my pride and salt my wounds. Belligerence will not make anything better. The only afterlife I believe in is an ethereal collective consciousness that was our finger print on the world. I'd rather make it a better place.

@lupyuen I guess it's time to make the decision to swallow more poison or make a bloody mess from one of the men behind it.

@lupyuen I will have to do something. Someone has ended their career before it even began. Or 10 to 15 people have. To hell with the consequences, they need to beg for their sins.

@thunderdragon900 Yes it is.

@lucifargundam brother-in-arms is probably "брат по ору́жию" in the Lingua Franca.

Being 190cm, 85kg, 7% body fat and having a couple decades of weight training behind me doesn't help.

@lupyuen I just came out as homosexual and I'm facing accusations from women. Covid-19 recovery today feels like full contract kickboxing. Every breath is painful but not at all labored. A fitting theme for life.

@lupyuen I hope it's not the threat of violence, imprisonment and victimization that I often face in the free world. Fuck authority and the hell they justify raining down on the people they are supposed to protect.

@lupyuen I've waited so long for this moment.

@namark Damn