Scotch as in the tape, not the whisky

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Cake day: July 26th, 2023

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  • In any major catastrophe they are abandoned and likely the meltdown and other issues could render whole areas uninhabitable. Might be manageable in certain power loss scenarios… but anything major and sudden like if you’re country suffered a nuclear attack or a major natural catastrophe and you survived I’d stay away from nuclear plants or chemical processing facilities.

    this isn’t chernobyl anymore, we have safe nuclear plants that have excellent emergecy shutdowns (the control rods are held up by electromagnets, and in a power loss they would instantly fall down, stopping the reactor)

    with chemical companies, the idea is the same, but since they’re handled by private corporations i wouldnt trust them that much with safety shut-offs in case of power loss. at most they’ll have a backup battery and a diesel generator, which in a solar flare EMP will get destroyed too















  • wha wha what

    no, it’s an organic solvent like ethylene carbonate/propylene carbonate + some other stuff, which have a boiling point of 230+°C ( 446°F)

    heating up batteries is (mostly) fine (under controlled scenarios with known good batteries, spicy pillows can always happen with bad batches) as long as the plastic holding them together doesn’t melt

    you physically CANNOT make a lithium ion battery with water because lithium reacts with water

    from the wikipedia page

    Lithium reacts vigorously with water to form lithium hydroxide (LiOH) and hydrogen gas. Thus, a non-aqueous electrolyte is typically used, and a sealed container rigidly excludes moisture from the battery pack. The non-aqueous electrolyte is typically a mixture of organic carbonates such as ethylene carbonate and propylene carbonate containing complexes of lithium ions.[45] Ethylene carbonate is essential for making solid electrolyte interphase on the carbon anode,[46] but since it is solid at room temperature, a liquid solvent (such as propylene carbonate or diethyl carbonate) is added.