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  • That’s great and all, but not all batteries need lithium. When another battery technology gets mature enough to surpass lithium based batteries, then we’ll still be stuck on old tech cause the government is subsiding it.

    This also reduces the incentive for making more lithium efficient batteries.

    Subsidies can help, but they need to be more generalized so they don’t create issues moving past current tech. Heck, look at how much trouble we’re having getting past oil, that’s a perfect example.









  • Look up Paul Sellers on YouTube. You’ll have to pull up his backlog, cause he’s pretty old and doesn’t do as many project videos anymore. There’s also a ton more “hand tool only” woodworkers on youtube, but I found that he’s an easy one to watch.

    He shows you how to bootstrap a workshop from nothing with just hand tools that you can ebay for not much.

    You can start with smaller projects that you can not worry about much, and then work your way up to “dining table for life”

    Just build a small box with a couple drawers out of the hobby boards at your local hardware store. Try to stick with harder woods like poplar, oak, walnut, etc. They’re a little more expensive, but they’re easier to work with cause they don’t smoosh so much when you try to cut them, and building small things doesn’t take a lot of wood.

    You’d be surprised just how accessible woodworking is. You just have to be ok that it’s going to take a lot longer if you don’t have a giant workshop full of high end, expensive machines.