Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 7 days agoWhat’s an obscure but concrete technical fact that keeps creating preventable issues in the real world?message-squaremessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1123arrow-down11
arrow-up1122arrow-down1message-squareWhat’s an obscure but concrete technical fact that keeps creating preventable issues in the real world?Iconoclast@feddit.uk to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 7 days agomessage-square72fedilink
minus-squarekbal@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up95·7 days agoHundreds of years of burning coal has spread mercury compounds all over the land, so that quite often when they build a new dam for hydroelectric power it’s dissolved into the water and ends up concentrated in fishes that people eat.
minus-squareTollana1234567@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up11·6 days agoalso its organic mecury, which is more toxic than the metallic form.
minus-squaresad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down3·7 days agoI dunno man, sounds fucking woke to me
minus-squareUpgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·6 days agoits all big alchemy immortals trying to keep mercury’s benefits under wraps
minus-squaresad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 days agoI KNEW Qin Shi Huang was still around, fucking us from the past!
Hundreds of years of burning coal has spread mercury compounds all over the land, so that quite often when they build a new dam for hydroelectric power it’s dissolved into the water and ends up concentrated in fishes that people eat.
also its organic mecury, which is more toxic than the metallic form.
I dunno man, sounds fucking woke to me
its all big alchemy immortals trying to keep mercury’s benefits under wraps
I KNEW Qin Shi Huang was still around, fucking us from the past!