Back to episode — Episode 2698 CWSA 12/23/24
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oming into the country so it just becomes too persuasive when you get down into the details. So I don't want to be that persuasive on something that is uncomfortably identifying certain groups of people as troublemakers. Now I know that's not the intent. The intent is just to have secure borders and protect ourselves. But when you talk about it as an anecdote it takes your brain to a different pla…
← Previous segment →tually bought that because I'm listening. I'm thinking yeah Iran is ready for negotiation because of what Biden did. China's ready for negotiation. Yeah yep. And Russia's ready for negotiations. It's kind of true. It's kind of true that Biden set it up for a one-two punch. But then he also dropped in that when they took over the military wasn't in good shape but so they've strengthened the military. Everybody says that but could it be that the big play is military spending and the best way they can get Trump to do military spending is say you did a great job on this negotiating. Glad you got that done. We set you up. You know we got you ready for success so you took it home. Thanks for that but we set you up for that. And but we all agree that we have to spend massively to rebuild the military. And then the military is happy. The military industrial complex says oh you get to spend massively to buy new stuff from us. Okay we like this president. So it could be that as long as you're on the page of we're going to spend massively for new weapons everybody likes you and you can be president. So I don't know. I don't know how DOGE is going to save money if the military industrial complex is going to be fed. So we'll see where this goes but that was a heck of a surprising conversation.
Meanwhile you'd be surprised to know there's a new battery breakthrough: sodium iron ion batteries. So a sodium ion battery would use more common m
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aterials and not these rare things that have to be mined in the Congo. And they're not quite up to lithium performance but they made a new tweak by adding some sodium vanadium phosphate with the chemical formula of NaxV2(PO4)3 which is exactly what I was going to suggest. I was like have you tried the sodium vanadium phosphate? And then they'd say no we haven't and I'd say you should try that. You…
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