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nomadluap
·2 years ago·discuss
You can pyrolize the wood by cooking it in an oxygen-free environment, cooking off almost all of the nitrogen and other nutrients and leaving nearly pure carbon in the form of charcoal.

Off the top of my head, for a given amount of wood biomass, you can get about a 70% ratio of product to fuel if you use a high-efficiency wood fire to cook the wood itself.

Then you can take that carbon, bury it in decommissioned open pit mines, or use it as a soil additive (biochar), where it will sequester the carbon for thousands of years and act as a fertilizer.

You could also pair the biochar with a fast-growing swamp tree (willow?), re-incorporating the char into the areas around the willow plantation to create a sort of artificial peat bog which could also be useful for water storage and filtration.
nomadluap
·2 years ago·discuss
I'm sure a lot of it is already spent in the form of reverse-mortgages on homes.
nomadluap
·2 years ago·discuss
I guess you could look at paper tape as a physical manifestation of redirecting terminal I/O to text files using > and < in the shell.
nomadluap
·3 years ago·discuss
Can you get gloves made from PTFE? I feel those would be the closest you could get to an "everything" glove.
nomadluap
·3 years ago·discuss
Use 99% isopropyl alcohol. Add in a teaspoon of table salt -- it won't dissolve in the alcohol and will act as a mild abrasive to help remove stubborn residue. Rinse thoroughly with water afterwards.

If you're really serious about your cleanliness, a desktop ultrasonic cleaner is also amazing for cleaning bowls and downstems. You can get them for a few dozen dollars from Amazon and the like.