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Comment Recycling might help (Score 2) 124

Are dumps are full of neodymium from old hard drives, and lithium from batteries. You can take the magnets out of an old hard drive by boiling it in water, and using a pair of pliers with a jaw pushing on edge of the magnet, and the other on the edge of steel plate. Industrially, lithium could probably be extracted from old batteries by grinding them and soaking them in water to react the lithium

Comment Please Then, Send Me All of Your Money (Score 2) 126

I live on a fixed income. For the last few years, I have been trying to get my often-infected wisdom tooth out under Denta-Cal; they did not help me. I have been been trying to get housing under HUD, and have twice been taken off the wait list. The kitchen were I have been able to shelter until the apartment is emptied has been 50 degrees on average. My car, which I need to get to the hospital needs a lot of work. I have been having a lot of problems with Medicare and Social Security that cause me a lot of stress. I am now 60 years old--and somewhere in the back of my mind, even after 4 lung collapses, I dream of starting my life.

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