• @[email protected]
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    41 year ago

    I imagine that the best way to make money would be if you manage to build a rm rudimentary still.

    I feel like moonshine would be relatively easy to do and a great way to make profit of no one kills you before.

    Distilled alcohol is quite rudimentary to produce but only appeared late in history. Plus it is great for leisure application, food conservation or medicine.

    • Flying SquidM
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      11 year ago

      How do you get the materials for a still with no money?

      • @Intralexical
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        11 year ago

        Surely you’ve got a pot or something to cook your food in, right? Stick a leaf or a hollow log over it or whatever. Seriously… Money is fake, and literally everything is materials.

        • Flying SquidM
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          -11 year ago

          Sorry… how is a leaf over a pot the same as a still?

          • @Intralexical
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            21 year ago

            It’s a condensation surface on which vapours revert to droplets in a liquid state due to the colder ambient air-cooled temperature of the leaf compared to the gaseous medium and heat source below it (and therefore lower vapour pressure immediately next to its surface), allowing the condensate/distillate to be collected and funneled for disposal, recycling, consumption, and/or another stage of distillation, and, in this case, producing an increasingly concentrated azeotropic water-ethanol solution which you can sell for the big bucks.

            …Slightly simplified, of course. You may in fact need multiple leaves over pots, or even a couple leaves bent into funnels/chutes, and possibly even one pot over another pot.

            I.E., By definition, a leaf over a pot is a still, as long as you put it at a slight angle and leave a small hole at the edge so the distillate can be collected. ­— Again: Physics provides, money is mostly an illusion/labour optimization mechanism, and sheet metal might be convenient for this use case but literally everything is materials. … If your only thought on how to produce a technology yourself is “Who can I pay for this?”, then, yeah, you’re not thinking in the right lines to get there.


            On another note, I like your username though. Did you know they do like pump jet lifting body action stuff in the air? Really cool.

            • Flying SquidM
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              -11 year ago

              I do know that, yes. I love the fact that some squid can fly.