heard that there were 450 foreign workers in the factory and they all got taken out by ICE or border, I guess ICE, and 450 of them. It was basically the whole factory I think. But what I assumed was that it was probably Hispanic workers would come across our southern border. It's funnier than that. 300 of them were actually South Korean nationals. So they moved the factory over here and then they moved their workers over here and they got away with it until now. How in the world did nobody narc for completely violating the spirit of the agreement? That's pretty funny.

So when you see the South Korean companies do some sketchy things and you hear some sketchy things in their government, which you hear often, it does make me wonder about all those scientific breakthroughs that get announced. Is it possible that they're corrupt as hell in every way except for science? Maybe. Maybe.

Well, I would hate to go more than a day without telling you there's a breakthrough in batteries. So this is funny. There's one breakthrough cancels out the other breakthrough. So an MIT research team figured out how to recycle lithium ion batteries so effectively that it would almost be a miracle. So with they use some kind of Kevlar-like electrolyte. So you don't need to know what that means but basically it wouldn't be that different from batteries we have except this one material would be different. This Kevlar-like electrolyte. But that when you did that, when you're done with it, when the battery is to be recycled, it says, I don't believe this, but it says you just drop it in a solvent and the whole thing falls apart cleanly and you can just easily recycle it.

So can you imagine that our batteries would go from these eyesores on the planet to we don't know what to do with them. Could they actually turn into oh just drop it into solvent? Ah it's gone. It's already gone. I don't know. That feels a little bit optimistic. You know not only because the entire manufacturing process would have to change to this Kevlar-like electrolyte. I don't know how easy that is. But to cancel that out entirely, there's another company according to Interesting Engineering that has a whole different kind of battery. It uses a cohesion inhibiting new liquid electrolyte, which I'm guessing makes it not applicable for dissolving like that other battery. And this one is so good that what it will do it'll do 500 miles on a single charge and it'll recharge in 12 minutes and it will last 186,000 miles. So that would kind of get it over every hump. But could you drop it in a solvent and dissolve it? Maybe not.

So my only point about the battery stuff always is not that any one of them will be the one that's going to come to the market because most of them will not but that there is really major improvements in that market that are guaranteed to happen just because there's so much happening. We just don't know which ones will rise to the top. So big thing is coming in batteries just so you know.

All right. How do we do? Oh, pretty good.

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