So does Sodium. But do you notice how table salt doesn't burn in water?

There's no lithium metal in lithium /ion/ cells. The whole lithium catching on fire thing is to do with them having a rather volatile solvent as part of the electrolyte (something similar to ether).

Which is why they are trying to remove cars in Helsinki (LA), not in all of Finalnd (california).

North part of Finland has much lower density than parts of CA. I'd imagine a car is even more essential there.

Only modern, pressurized aircraft. Cave tech like the DC-3 are made of aluminium, have square windows, and have no problems. Even ones that have been flying for 70 years.

Historically cable lacing was done with waxed cotton. Since WWII more nylon and polyester, as they wear harder and don't burn as good, don't like water, etc.

I'd imagine NASA uses some kind of space age stuff.. polyimide or some sort of fluoropolymer, but who knows, maybe cotton has better extreme cold weather performance.

We'll run out of oil long before they ever get fusion working.

Dream on. What do you do when someone doesn't want you pulling cable across their property? (You won't be able to get the government to force them.)

It's besides the point really. Without government you'd be pulling the cable down a road made of mud and shit anyway.

No one designs cars to do that.

Yeah, because the only alternative to American style inequality is Soviet style inequality, right?

Slavs ran the show, if you didn't notice.

CA still out-manufactures every other state. second place is texas, Though CA has a bigger population.

It's had some decline in manufacturing, sure, but it's never going to be like detroit. Hell, even if they quit making things entirely - CA will never be detroit, between IT, hollywood, tourism, service BS, etc.

That's kind of a bullshit complaint. Do you currently plug your phone into a USB A to USB B adaptor, to a USB B to USB mini B adaptor, which is plugged into a USB mini B to micro B adaptor? (yeah, I skipped some USB variants).

No? then shortly you'll just have a USB micro C cable / charger, same as how you have a micro B cable / charger now.

I know, one more USB connector to have an adaptor for... But this is how the mini/micro and even old USB 'A' should have been from the beginning.

There's nothing worse than having to blind mate USB, and having to flip it four bloody times before it works. (except maybe blind mating 'F' connectors, or sometimes D sub..)

Well, the Molex bit is kind of a stretch, to me. They make connectors for _everything_, not just aerospace. I'd imagine aerospace is a pretty small amount of their business?

Looks like molex runs about 10% of the global connector market. 70% of which they generate outside of the US. Kinda surprised me their share is that small.

I think defense and areospace use more connectors by Amphenol, or Cannon (now ITT). At least they did 40 years ago.

140 characters comes from Europe, 30 years ago, FWIW.

But when concrete sets, it does so via reabsorbing the CO2, right? So it should be a net neutral (minus CO2 from the fuel to cook the limestone in the first place).

CaCO3 + heat -> CaO + CO2 (in air)

Add water, get Ca(OH)2, which reacts with CO2 from air to set... back as CaCO3 and water..

Or did I miss something?