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Chapter 1: What is the simultaneous sip and why is it important?
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It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's about to happen now. Go. Go. Well, I dare say the luckiest person watching this show is the one who just said they're folding their laundry. There are very few forms of entertainment that go with folding your laundry better than this. It's really the ultimate laundry folding show. Well, let's talk about all the things.
We'll talk about some science and we'll get into the politics. I know you're waiting for it. But apparently scientists, according to interesting engineering, some Penn State scientists People found out how to get the lithium out of the ground, or out of the rocks, I guess, in a super efficient way. I didn't realize how hard it was to get lithium.
You got to do stuff like drain a lake and work through the brine and all that. But apparently they've developed an electrochemical process, which is so efficient, it could completely change the economics and the mining process.
So you can imagine that the U.S., for example, if they found this efficient way that apparently doesn't have a downside to extracting the lithium from ore, maybe we can do more of it in the U.S. without the mining that kills people. Well, as you know, refrigeration hasn't changed much in many decades, but now there's a new breakthrough. Thermogalvanic something. Thermogalvanic
Now, I don't know what that is, but it sounds impressive. And apparently it's really efficient and it's practical. So you might see a big change in refrigeration. That's kind of a big deal. If you think about how much air conditioning and refrigerating add to our energy load, imagine needing a lot less of it. The equivalent of how much you'd save in energy, it's got to be big.
I mean, if your refrigeration cost went down by 50% for at least new stuff, pretty big. Well, I tried to... Oh, here's another one. According to the brighter side, and Mario Nuffall is talking about this, so scientists now have a drug that repairs myelin. That's the protective sheath around nerves. Now, why is that important?
Because if you can repair myelin, you can repair MS, strokes, and brain injuries. So you can repair nerve damage and brains. There might be a way to fix your brain. Because apparently that myelin repair is a big deal. It can even restore lost vision. and maybe other brain functions. Wow. So that's a really big deal if it works.
So I decided to do a semi deep dive into the California water situation because I was trying to figure out, is it really true that all it took was Trump to say, turn that spigot and then suddenly California would have all kinds of water and we could do all the farming we want and Is that true? Because it doesn't feel like that could be true.
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Chapter 2: How is lithium extraction evolving?
You know, his energy will be right. People will conform to it. It's all good. But I don't know if he did anything for California water, and I have no idea how the tariffs are going to shake out. But he will take credit. He will take credit. And that is exactly the right play for a leader. It would be so weak if he said, well, we've made these changes, but frankly, we can't tell if they work.
That might be honest. but I don't need that. I wanted to say it worked. If we can't tell one way or the other, say it worked. Anyway, at the same time, there's a big change in imports regarding something called de minimis shipments. Now, I didn't know this was a thing, but apparently, until it was just changed...
If you were shipping into the United States something that was worth less than $800, you didn't have to go through the same customs and duty payments. So now that sounds like just a good idea, right? If it's a small package, you don't want to have every little package, have to go through customs, and it would just slow everything down. So it seems like a good idea.
Let's make the small packages that aren't worth much money. Let's just have them skip that laborious process. Here's what happened. You would not be surprised. China and probably others are gaming the system like crazy. So if they have, let's say, a container full of parts, instead of saying, hey, I have one container full of parts that's worth a million dollars,
they will package each of the parts as sub $800 pieces and they'll treat them all as their individual packages under $800. Oh yeah, the container is full. It's the same container, except if we put them in individual packages, every one of them skates under the line. So apparently Trump administration just put a stop to that. I don't know what's replacing it because you probably do need some way to
At least get the little stuff through without all the work. But I guess that was a gigantic thing. So the people who work in that business say everybody knew this was a problem. Trump just fixed it. And it's a big deal. We'll see. So Trump apparently did an airstrike on ISIS in Somalia. Yeah. There's some ISIS planner, I guess, senior ISIS attack planner.
And Trump says, we will find you and we will kill you. And then he released the video of what looked like the bombing attack that took out that ISIS attack planner. Now, I do like it. when Trump takes on a leader and makes sure all the other leaders see it. I'm talking about ISIS leaders, not the European leaders. But I like this. And I like where he says, we will find you.
Because the we will find you part is the only thing that gives the bad guys comfort. Well, they'll never find me. And Trump's saying, we'll find you. And then he finds somebody and he kills them. And you'll probably find some more people and kill them. So the thing that Trump knows he needs to fix is the we can find you problem. Everybody knows we can kill people. Like that's no news.
It doesn't change anybody's thinking that we do kill people. It's a war. But if you say we can find you every time, well, that might have some impact on their leadership transitions.
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