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Cake day: July 11th, 2025
  • Heh. I’m reminded of the story of what happened when Donald Sadoway was pitching liquid metal batteries to the US Army. He was asked what would happen if a sniper were to put a .50 BMG into one of them. His response? “Well, it’ll leak a little inert non-toxic metal and then self-seal whereupon it’ll just keep working”.

    …We still don’t use those for reasons I cannot fathom, despite them being literally cheap as dirt and perfect for grid-level storage.

    Every time somebody talk about renewables, some twat also goes “but what about storage?” and has me screaming “WE’VE HAD THE PERFECT SOLUTION SINCE 2009, GOD DAMN IT!”.