Helium.
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And the fertiliser. Expect food prices to rise quickly in the summer.@SoftwareTheron @knowprose and I just saw a blib about a aluminum smelter that is shutting down capacity. Fun fun fun /s
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And the fertiliser. Expect food prices to rise quickly in the summer.@SoftwareTheron @carstenfranke plenty of manure in the White House.
Grab a microphone.
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@knowprose Sadly, it’s in limited supply.
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@knowprose Trump is a stable genius!
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Civilization is a complex beast. Thus, you shouldn't attack it with a chainsaw if you don't know what you are doing.
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@knowprose this is the massive downside of mega production points, centralized and globalized.
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@otfrom @jochenwettach @knowprose
I haven't seen "Distillers" tanker trucks around for many years - one source of CO2 was the brewing industry (it's not that difficult to liquefy at atmospheric pressure). Later they got it (and industrial ethanol) from the petrochemical industry.
Helium is from radioactive decay in the earth, and separated out from natural gas wells. It's scarce and any leakage ends up in outer space.
@Cadbury_Moose @jochenwettach @knowprose interesting list of US based producers from the epa here https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2020-05/documents/co2_map_050120.pdf
Looks like most produce from ethanol
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“I wonder what the middle east will do when we stop using oil?”
Yeah, apparently thats covered
(Edit: thats assuming there is anything left when this is over, of course)
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@neko @knowprose that's fine all the investors are pulling out of fantasy league AI and data centre projects as they're going to need a lot of capital to put out the US private credit dumpster fire.
The helium risk was well documented years ago, ditto fertilizer and food into the middle east. There are alternatives but they take time. Perhaps it's time people stopped covering fields in plastic coated gunk to pillage the land to grow stuff China has stopped importing
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Hey... you know all those "things made with silicon chips" that no one can afford to buy because the tech bros bought up all of them for the next two years?
Well now we're going to be making even less of them
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