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A New Wildfire Watchdog

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Just thinking about the crew of people needed to tramp around to change all those batteries is exhausting, and to actually do it would be prohibitively expensive and impractical. A hundred years ago, centimeter-scale tilt switches used a conductive blob of mercury rolling along a glass tube to close an electric circuit.

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Will an EV-Filled World Pass The Sulfuric Acid Test?

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The minerals that contain sulfur often also tend to contain toxic metals like mercury, arsenic, and thallium. By the 1950s, the world had exhausted the most easily available sulfur deposits. The process also spews out wastewater that contains hydrogen sulfide , which has similar toxic properties to carbon monoxide.

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