What's that old saying, 'A clean desk is a sign of an idle mind' ... surely it's enough to just sweep it all off into bins twice per decade, and the same applies to shops - once you've covered the walls with hooks and nails for hanging stuff, filled all shelves and stacked high all benches, where else can you put stuff but in piles on the floor? ... even if by nature you're a spreader, square footage presents a constraint, eh ... spreaders should not hang out with pilers, really, my wife is a piler, extreme case, absolutely no regard for seismic risk or structural integrity, not even chronological order sometimes, at least i can predict with my own that the newer stuff will tend to be nearer the top
Never worked with graphite, outside of pencils where it's mixed with clay ... and the little tubes of lock lube, got one of them around somewhere ... hmm, this seems odd at first glance - 'Water vapor is a necessary component for graphite lubrication' -
en.wikipedia.org
The dirtiness of coal comes from the massive quantities in which it is dug and burned, the volume of graphite used is unlikely to ever get anywhere near those amounts ... plus it's not just getting burned, many of its uses are not consumptive - looks like they could make lithium ion batteries in such a manner that they could be entirely recycled? ... cases and all, make stuff so it can be unbolted and buttoned back up with freshly ordered materials inside
Used the sawzall the other day, V28 Milwaukee bought sept'07, early lithium ion model they don't make any more, works as good as new, probably doesn't have same total capacity but still did a lot of work on the way down to half charge according to the four-light gauge ... first day in '07 with the hammerdrill i was doing rebar holes into concrete, i wore out before the first battery did ... if that Musk fellow would make me a pickup powered this way it would be greatly appreciated, i have a design awaiting his convenience, fwiw - four scaled-down locomotive motor/wheels on portal-gear type stance, that permit sixteen or eighteen inches clearance to the absolutely flush square watertight underbelly, sort of like a space-age Unimog but made practical with the elegance of simple design and materials that don't decompose at quite the same rate as my Ford |
