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Apr 25, 2023Liked by Irina Metzler

Perfect phrase: displacing the problem

When I saw the title of this post, my first thought was "mud".

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Apr 25, 2023·edited Apr 25, 2023Liked by Irina Metzler

OK, off topic. After a conversation yesterday about making mead, I looked up some instructions which seemed very fiddly and technologically-oriented. Your wheelchair article inspired a search for how medieval people managed their fermentations with more primitive technology. This article about traditional bochet elicited an immediate desire to try it, unlike the modern recipes. "The Quest to Recreate a Lost and ‘Terrifying’ Medieval Mead" https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-make-medieval-mead-bochet

This recipe comes from a ~13th-century publication you're no doubt familiar with, The Good Wife's Guide (Le Ménagier de Paris) https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801462115/the-good-wifes-guide-le-menagier-de-paris/#bookTabs=1

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Apr 25, 2023·edited Apr 25, 2023Liked by Irina Metzler

This is excellent. Although I think it would’ve even been better had you expounded on the raw materials needed to make the batteries and the evils done to the miners in order to extract them. (This is barely touched upon in the final paragraph.) EVs aren’t a viable option, until the ‘battery problem’ is solved. And maybe not even then, as electricity doesn’t appear out of thin air. Years ago, I wanted an EV…until I learned more about them.

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