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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Oil is honestly an amazing product, chemistry wise there is so much we can do with it and energy wise it’s a extremely concentrated and easily transported form of energy.

    Energy wise one liter of oil is equivalent to 10 person working for a day !

    I repeat, using one liter of oil is like having 10 “slaves” working for us for a day.

    Its easy to see why oil became the base of our modern civilization, and easy to see why we don’t manage to stop using it even though it’s destroying us.

    Source - How much of a slave owner am I ?






  • Energy is only a fraction of the issue and easily solvable, I’m not a 100% certain but I think that some mines are even powered with renewables energy.

    The main issue is tailings, millions of cubic meters of toxic, sometime radioactive, full of heavy metals mud. The tailings are piled up behind dams that regularly breaks and contaminate entire regions.

    Even of the dams don’t break it is still hundred of square kilometers of land that is contaminated for millennia.








  • I can guarantee if the story is true or not but my father talked regularly about a neighbor that he knew when he was a kid.

    The neighbor was a ballet dancer above 2m tall and was driving an old school mini.

    To be able to fit in it he removed the front seat and was driving sitting in the back seat.