#paper solution

[mochiiniko]

someone get these kids some therapy asap

[reasonsforhope]

"As the world grows “smarter” through the adoption of smartphones, smart fridges, and entire smart houses, the carbon cost of that technology grows, too. 

In the last decade, electronic waste has become one of the fastest-growing waste streams in the world. 

According to The World Counts, the globe generates about 50 million tons of e-waste every year. That’s the equivalent of 1,000 laptops being trashed every second. 

After they’re shipped off to landfills and incinerated, the trash releases toxic chemicals including lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury, and so much more, which can cause disastrous health effects on the populations that live near those trash sites. 

Fortunately, Franziska Kerber — a university student at ​​FH Joanneum in Graz, Austria — has dreamed up a solution that helps carve away at that behemoth problem: electronics made out of recyclable, dissolvable paper. 

On September 11, Kerber’s invention “Pape” — or Paper Electronics — earned global recognition when it was named a national winner of the 2024 James Dyson Awards. 

When she entered the scientific competition, Kerber demonstrated her invention with the creation of several small electronics made out of paper materials, including a fully-functional WiFi router and smoke detector. 

“Small electronic devices are especially prone to ending up in household waste due to unclear disposal systems and their small size, so there is significant potential to develop a more user-friendly end-of-life system,” Kerber wrote on the James Dyson Award website. 

“With this in mind, I aimed to move beyond a simple recycling solution to a circular one, ensuring long-term sustainability.” 

Kerber’s invention hinges on crafting a dissolvable and recyclable PCB board out of compressed “paper pulp.” 

A printed circuit board (PCB) is a board that can be found in nearly all modern electronic devices, like phones, tablets, and smartwatches.

But even companies that have started incorporating a “dissolution” step into the end life of their products require deconstruction to break down and recover the PCB board before it can be recycled. 

With Kerber’s PAPE products, users don’t need to take the device apart to recycle it.

“By implementing a user-friendly return option, manufacturers can efficiently dissolve all returned items, potentially reusing electronic components,” Kerber explained. 

“Rapidly advancing technology, which forms the core of many devices, becomes obsolete much faster than the structural elements, which are often made from plastics that can last thousands of years,” Kerber poses. 

PAPE, Kerber says, has a “designed end-of-life system” which anticipates obsolescence. 

“Does anyone want to use a thousand-year-old computer?” Kerber asks. “Of course not. … This ensures a sustainable and reliable system without hindering technological advancement.”"

-via GoodGoodGood, September 13, 2024

[kwillow]

Question about posting asks: How much is too much?

I get more than I can draw for. I want to answer people's questions instead of ignoring them if I can't draw something, but at the same time, I don't want to flood dashboards with a bunch of non-art posts. I can't seem to answer an ask with anything less than 3 paragraphs of words word words, so that doesn't help matters.

Sometimes I bundle a bunch of asks together into a single post, but I worry that's not a great way to answer them either, since it's probably more onerous to read through 10,000 words at once instead of shorter chunks (assuming one cares to read my character ramblings at all, ha).

Would it help to have a dedicated tag so people can block the text-only posts if they don't want to see them? Thus far I've been trying to tag all non-art posts as #text, but maybe it would help to have something more specific. A tag for character/lore asks and one for... anything not that, perhaps.

[lg-everything-else]

Hollow Bugs 8

[asparklethatisblue]

printer: hey there’s a small issue you need to look into so I can work, how about you find your set up manual and we-

me, fighting tears: understandable, have a good night

[lucydacusgirl]

You absolutely can tell when clothes are bad quality but like. Where are you meant to buy clothes that are good quality.

[majorpepperidge]

Watch out New York, it's the Power Throuple™

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

me looking up a reference photo for a painting: uggghhhh that's so many colorsssss

[bookshelfdreams]

Hold Fast by hoc_voluerunt / @cuddlytogas

Stede Bonnet is free at last, and on his way back to his love. As "Captain Thomas Edwards", he'll learn a lot about sailing and emotional availability, and perhaps even make a name for himself as the man either brave or foolish enough to hunt the legendary Blackbeard. But rumour has it that Blackbeard may be the opposite of welcoming, if and when he ever catches up... Obligatory overly-long post-season 1 reunion fix-it fic, feat. slow burn reconciliation, more historical accuracy than you wanted, and plenty of piratical action.

[greennoobartist]

Can I ask what drawing app or system you use to make your version of Shadow on? I love to draw, but I don't have any online drawing system, only good ol' paper, Tumblr, and my computer's photobooth utterly destroys quality.

I use my phone and Clip Studio Paint :)

But like, here's how i draw: i HAVE TO draw it on paper (if I draw it digitally it completely sucks) and then i just trace it digitally and color it :) I was using my pc for Clip Studio Paint a while ago but it started to be a bit challenging to get my pc out everytime i want to draw, so i was able to make a scrappy stylus for my phone and then installed Clip Studio here. I try to draw digitally, but it doesn't work. So i make the sketch on paper and then trace it on my phone :)

The only downfall of Clip Studio Paint is that, if you want to use it for free, you have 30 hours a month. Every month it resets, but in one month you can't use it for more than 30 hours for free. I think that for unlimited you have to pay. Not really a downfall but I didn't know that until it was too late XD (wtf is this timer up here? Oh well, ig it doesn't- *you have reached your monthly limit*- ah shit so that's what it's for)

It's not professional, but it's still fun and im working on improving :D

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

The thing that sucks about knowing the context for a popular ship redraw meme or incorrect quote is watching people be so so incorrect about it and just having to sit there, gripping your thigh, reminding yourself of your values

My personal problem is the quote from "Everything Everywhere All At Once": "In another life I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you"

Because every day EVERY DAY even with ships I love, I watch people use it as a "Oh my god isn't it so tragic that these two characters are forced to suffer the horrors or to be ripped apart when in their heart of hearts they want to be living domestically and doing laundry and taxes?"

And I have to sit there and think "No no you don't get it! That line wasn't the tragedy of the characters not having a better life where they can just be together. It's a different kind of tragedy! The main character didn't like her normal Chinese immigrant life of running a laundromat and dealing with taxes and her family in the USA. Once she learned about all of these different worlds, she began to feel even more like her current life was one that she didn't want. In fact, this life where the guy said that popular line was one where she chose not to go to the USA with him to build a life and love together and became a famous actress instead. She has been thinking about how her husband truly held her down and stifled her life. How if she hadn’t chosen him she wouldn't have had to deal with him and her life would be better and more exciting. And so she's talking to this alternate version of her husband who never became her husband, and she starts making a case for why this is the best outcome. After all, who would want to live in a laundromat and do taxes when she can be a movie star and have anyone she wants? And this is when he tells her that that life that she rejects, that she feels is lowly and one that no one would want, is something that he wants. He doesn't care that she's a famous actress now, he would have loved to just live a simple life with her, even if it was hard and taxing. And this moment in the movie is so so many things (things I'm not even doing justice to here), but it is also a major moment that highlights the disparity in these two characters (even if one isn't her og husband) and their desires.

The main character feels trapped in her life and that she never lived up to her potential. Her husband truly would want to be with her simply because of the bits where it isn't exciting. Even if they're poor and suffer hardship and do things considered simple and lowly, he would still like that life with her.

So yes every time I see this meme my brain screams "get out of here with your blorbos in an au who tragically can't live normally and domestically. Bring in your blorbos who love(d) each other and are messy and are on the verge of divorce and want different things in life, who have to make a choice in what to do about it. Give me your "person who feels trapped in this small life and wanted bigger and better things who lowkey resents the other who is just supporting them" x "person who understands this life isn't always easy or glamorous but is glad that they get to do it every day with this person, who would choose a life of love with them no matter what"

[iamthepulta]

The Twelve Principles of Circular Hydrometallurgy, (Binneman & Jones, 2023) are:

The goal is, essentially, that if you have an "ore" of a laptop, you'd be able to 'extract' and separate the gold, cobalt, copper, thallium, zinc, etc by exploiting their physical and chemical properties, with minimal waste products and minimal harm. The process is continuous, and most of the reagents in the vats can be reused, or don't harm the system.

For copper, we separate sulfides from unwanted minerals by exploiting their hydrophobic surface. Then they're converted into a CuSO4 solution that is purified, and then we're able to add electricity to the system to get copper to drop out of solution in a usable form (native copper).

So I think for this essay/location, I'm going to pick Reduce Chemical Diversity, because according to the diagram here, they actually did a pretty good job of only using hydroxide additives? It looks very simple and interesting. I'll also do Use Benign Chemicals because the mill is right next to the Great Lakes and I'm curious if there are problems there. I'll also do Maximize Mass/Energy etc because that's easy fucking fruit. I don't know why that's in this circle. It bugs me.

Preventing Waste is also easy fruit, and combine circular hydrometallurgy with Zero Waste Mining which is an interesting topic, but I hate how the authors of this paper discussed it.

[solidagold]

I'm sick and I spent the whole day drawing a comic about it but with no internet for my computer I can't upload it here. Sad!

[eating-the-inedible]

ROUND ONE: Nickel sulfate solution/Nickel plating solution vs. Paper

Propaganda:

Nickel sulfate solution:

it LOOKS SO DRINKABLE, IT'S THE FORBIDDEN CORDIAL, MMMMMHMHHHMHH, those people on tiktok who make uhh they call it flavoured water we call that cordial, whatever, those people on tiktok WISH they could make a flavour so enticing mmmmmmmmmmmmhhhmhmhmh. gonna admit half of this is simply because i was watching nickel plating videos at 2am one night and i was so out of it that seeing the plating solution which looked like a nice light green made my brain go oooooooo drinkable yes yes. i have no doubt it would taste like salt (?) and death but in my heart,,, it is the forbidden liquid <3 (or maybe it's fine and im just exaggerating idk i failed chem)

Paper:

Whenever i didnt want to do a test in school i would take a bite of the paper and its actually really good

If u eat schoolwork ypu dont have to do it

Who can resist drawing a little bicycle for example on paper and taking many happy bites out of it… its simply good fun.

It’s delicate and simple. Crisp. Almost like a wafer. And it has variety! You could draw or write all sorts of fun things to eat. Unfortunately actually eating it is less fun. 

its smell is just soo fulfilling, you know? like eating something without actually eating it. kinda like that type of bubble gum from willy wonka's factory. the kind of smell you could daydream about. also! it's warm!!! who doesn't love a freshly made home cooked meal? 

in practice, paper does NOT have a satisfying texture to eat. however, in theory, ooooooooo the crunch..... that delicious crinkling noise as the paper compresses under your teeth..... ooooooo

[lemongogo]

question . what do u guys do w ur old sketchbooks

[smurfy-schtroumpf]

My ADHD brain has been acting like a toddler lately so I decided to try a new approach...making a Vanity version of the Stitch Evilness Chart.

Each task has its assigned part of the drawing to color once completed.

Will this actually give me enough dopamine to do all my tasks? Guess I'm gonna find out.