439 Trash to Hydrogen Fuel with La Aurora Emerald 1903 and Blantons Single barrel

MIT finds a very interresting way to generate hydrogen. They smoke the La Aurora Preferidos Emerald 1903 and sip Blantons Single Barrel bourbon.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/breakthrough-hydrogen-fuel-production-uses-3-unlikely-ingredients/ar-AA1JaiKI?ocid=winp2fptaskbarent&cvid=1351c95e324d423b9da6f1de95cc88bc&ei=79

 

Episode Transcript

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Welcome to our newest episode. In this episode, we'll have the Lara-Rara Emerald 1903 with it, Blanton's Single Barrel Bourbon.

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Oh yeah!
["You're Hanging Out With Bill and Darryl with cigars, liquor, and more."
["All Right, Well, The Lara, uh, Preferidos Emerald 1903 is a 5x54 double per per

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effecto and has an equatorium Sumatra rubber, Dominican Republic, uh, binder and fillers.
MSRP is $25.
["25 Bones! That's a special one.
["This are Go Big, Go Home episode apparently."
With it, we're gonna have the Blanton's Single Barrel Bourbon.

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SRP, at least in Texas, is 93, and is bottled at 93. I don't think that's coincidence.
["93 for 93.
["So, yes, part of not being allocated anymore is that we're getting more of everything, not just some of the lower stuff.
["You get everything.

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["Get it on the shelf."
["But it's now 93. Now, I don't know what it is anywhere, actually, except right here, because last time I heard it was a SRP of 68.
["But that was years ago, and prices keep going up, so...
["Prises keep going up. Maybe 93 is normal? Maybe it's high because we're in Texas? I don't know."

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["I don't know, but I got a bottle, but I'm happy for the more plentiful part."
["Yes. Now, I had had Blanton's before, but I had never owned Blanton's before. So we got that."
["It doesn't matter if you've owned it or not, as long as you've had it, right?"
["I don't know. There's something about having it on your own shelf."

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["There is."
["And that everybody's gonna ask, do you have Blanton's?"
["We know Blanton's on their shelf." It's not like Blanton's is not reachable for us.
["But, I mean, honestly, for the most part, I'm not going to go there when the truck arrives, because five minutes after the truck arrives, they're all gone."

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["If it's there, when I'm there, boom. I got it. If it's not, I don't. That's a bill."
["It's just my time to go by, usually by an hour after the truck gets there, so... We'll do it again."
["Awesome. And you're a lot closer to..."
["Everything." Yes.

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["All right, what do we got on the nose for the Blanton's?"
["So, for a 93, it doesn't come off very hot on the nose."
["No. Not at all."
["I get a honeysuckle. It's like strongly honeysuckle, even more so than vanilla. This is honeysuckle for me."
["I can see where you're going with that. I'm not getting a honeysuckle per se, but I understand what you mean.

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["I like that you can take a good, you can get a good deep whiff of this and not send your nostrils."
["Right. So it's sweet up front. Then it comes in a little dry."
["And then it doesn't have as long as it finishes as most. It's not that long a finish."
["No. No. It's not that long a finish. So, along with the dry, there also seems to be...

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It's almost like some of that char is coming through.
["Yeah. Right. Just a little bit of a, you know, a little bit of a smoky type coming through."
["It's like a smoky tannock. Like a tannock, right?"
["Yes. Yes. It's pretty good. And it's bourbon. So, you know, you got some corn in there."

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["Yeah. Yeah. Got some corn in there. It's been aged for a bit.
["Right. Everybody likes blends, right?"
["Yeah. So, yeah, they really do."
["So this is dated, 512-25 from a stored-in warehouse 16 on Rick 28 from barrel 453.

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And they believe this is the finest bourbon ever."
["Well, yeah. Sure. Hope they do."
["I'm soo-mating."
["If they don't think that of their own liquor, something's wrong."
["Right. Right. You don't want, like, you wouldn't put on your bottle. Hey, there's better. But,
you know, we also have one."

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["There's, yeah. That's a marketing department you get rid of."
["That, you know it though?" And get or no. That would be funny.
["That would be hilarious. That's something you'd see on like a Saturday night live skit."
["Right, right, right. Like, on the side of the can of liquid death,
doesn't say, you know it's still just water, right?"

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["Hey, what, for 93 proof, that's got some pretty strong legs on that glass."
["Yeah. Oh, it's... I'm sure... I'm sure had I gone through
uh, large amounts of work, I could have found out more like, uh,
what the age is on Blanton's, because it's not age-stated, but everybody seems to know."

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["Well, we know it's at least two."
["Yeah. Thanks."
["And, you know, this isn't the only band of, of uh, or label of Blanton's that there is."
["Sure, there's a bunch of others."
["There's a crap ton, and there are, there are some unicorns out there that people
strive and they work to get-

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["Right, the Japanese find, yeah. Yeah. The green bottle."
["Yeah. And, and you know that, that makes it adventurous in and of itself."
["It is funny. We really just need something to do. We've got too much fair time on our hands.
Me, I spent it smoking and drinking on the back porch."
["Are you, are you saying this is a first world problem?"

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["This is so a first world problem."
["Hey, some people collect, you know, birds in a picture book, or through a spy glass,
["Right. And some people collect whiskey."
["And some people want every one of the plans to finish out the entire horse running series."
["I don't know how many there are. I think seven. I don't know.

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But the lids, the caps, whatever the corks, the toppers,
they're all in a horse in a slightly different position.
So if you put them all against each other, it looks like they're running.
Like somebody in 1910 made a flip book, and you can see the horse running if you
kept redrawing it over and over again.

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["Hey, those are awesome."
["They are awesome, but they're a little dated."
["You realize we're dated, right?"
["Yeah, I mean, compared to that, we're young."
["Geologically speaking. We are young. I think we've talked about plans. Everybody loves plans.
["Oh yeah, anybody said anything bad about plans."

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["Well, there's really nothing bad to say about plans, except that, you know,
when it's allocated, it's freaking hard to get older. I mean, it does have a very distinctive
bottle, unique bottle. You're not going to miss it. You see it on, you can see it on a shelf.
["Movies?"
["The other end of the room. Yeah, plenty of movies. It's been lots of movies.

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I don't know how many songs it's been in, though."
["Are you including whiskey?"
["The word whiskey counts, I feel."
["No, no, no. Plant is the name."
["I know. I can't think of one."
["I don't think I've heard it in a song. Does it mean there isn't one, though?"
["No, yeah, no. And if you ask AI, there's probably hundreds of them. They'll just make up."

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["That would be awesome. Hey, AI, could you make a song about plans?"
["Yeah. Then do that a hundred times so I can say there's a hundred songs about plans."
["Absolutely. Absa freakin' lulu."
["So what do you think of the La Aurora?"
["Okay, so this is, I think, generally listed as a medium mile.

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I think that's about where it falls for me as well."
["It's a medium. Yep. It comes in the radio."
["I like the retrohale. Retrohale's nice. It's not going to be really aggressive. It's really nice.
Otherwise, my primary flavor is sort of like a campfire paper.

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Like you're burning paper in a campfire. It's not your normal paper like you normally taste.
It's kind of like a campfire paper.
["See, I think when we had these before, I described it as burnt cardboard."
["Oh, did you? Yeah. Okay. But then there's a baking spice in the back.
You know how much I love those?"
["You do." And it's pretty mild because this is a medium mile. So it's not strong spices.

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["But it's not. It's not a... Okay. If I remember right, this is a little bit...
This is on the scale they put it on. I think they put it on a little bit
bolder than medium."
["Really? I think it's a medium. I think it's a medium mile."

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["When I picked them up, I don't remember. I looked at it then. I don't remember.
If I had my journal with me, I could tell you. Yeah, because I wrote it down."
["I didn't do that either." Because, I mean, we've smoked everything from
mouths to bolds and we've settled into really liking the mediums. Both of us have.

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And having gone through so many and and and and smoke so many different varieties and kinds and
you know, things everybody has to things people can't find and stuff like that.
I think what that has allowed us to do is to take some of these more, you know,

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to for us it scaled down whereas for a lot of people it is that...
["Yeah, maybe." That's probably more bold. We're just we've got a we've got a
palette that has absolutely no problem with the bolds so it doesn't bother us because this doesn't
come across bold to us. Maybe. So I could buy that.

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Yeah, sort of like I'm a pyro. Do you have any of the only times I've been burned?
When I get burned, I'm not reacting. Do you remember first time you got burned as a kid?
So we're sitting around here screaming around and you can't get enough ice on it.
We took the ice off. It hurts even more. Now I get burned. I'm like,
oh, that might blister. Yeah. I might have to do something. Yeah, maybe the same thing, right?

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You had so many bolder cigars. You're like, yes, kind of meet him.
Yeah, it's kind of milk toast. This is not strong. It's just
also the same thing for the whiskies, right? Well, both of us, we like higher proof whiskies.
93 is not a high proof to us. No, but it's for a lot of people. It is for a lot of people. So,

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you know, everything's relative. So, you know, coin phrase.
Especially you're really good. More Einstein, you know. So, going back to the cigar for a moment,
I also get a little bit of a wood in it as well. Little bit. Just a little. I'm focusing on the

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baby spices. I'm not a Ford flavor by any means. I think the burnt cardboard is more of the Ford
flavor. But yeah. I did a little bit too much on the retro. Did you?
But it's still not that bad. But it still didn't hurt. So, I'm all happy. I'm all happy with that.

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Did you get more from a retro hell than you did the draw? Yeah. Well, that's
when you say baking spices, I'm not getting baking spices on the draw. I get it on the retro hell.
Yeah, you go. So, okay. Yeah, no, I'm not getting pepper on the retro hell.
It's it's if you like doing retrohails, barrel, it's a really good retro hell to do. It is. It's

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lovely. So, the band on the emerald is, of course, a background of green. Yes. It comes in a aluminum
tube. A very nice one. And this is a perfecto shape. The tube is a perfecto shape. Yeah.
I think you paid pretty good amount of money just for the tube. Yeah. Yeah. I bet seven bucks of

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it's a tube. Maybe. Are you throwing the tube away? Me? Yeah. I've already got two of them.
Are you throwing it away? I don't know. Yeah, see exactly. You know, you paid for it.
Now you're like, Oh, man, oh, check throughout this one away. Yeah, I know. And they're actually
pretty nice tubes. They fit together really well. Oh, extremely well. I think you could

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take this 30 feet down and still not have water in it. Well, I don't think that'd be the case, but
it's a pretty solid tube. We could try it in the pool out there. Absolutely. Put it down at the
bottom, bring it up, let it dry off and see if there's any water in it. It's a it's a it's a very
type fit. Yeah, it's very nice to put a you put a humidified cigar in there. I think it's going to

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say humidified for a little bit. Yeah. Put a couple of those hydrated crystals in there.
Yeah. The whole the whole presentation is I mean, it's all about excellence. Yes. The whole series
that they have of these I especially love seeing the blue. Oh, yeah. They see all those blue

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perfecto to the sapphire sapphire. Yes. Thank you. See all those blues lined up.
Has just gorgeous at the greens the same way. And it's all kind of a metallic paint. It's not like
flat. It's metallic gloss really comes really comes through. And you take the cigar out. It's

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got a it's not a dark wrapper, but it's you know, it's a little darker the medium.
Oh, it's this is yeah. It's Colorado at least. And the the band on the on the tube, they've got a
band that's exactly like the band on the cigar. And they are the same size. Yeah. Very good job.

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Talk about perfection. It's fricking. It's a perfecto. It's yeah. It's a double perfecto.
Harder.
Is what it is. Oh, and not to mention the nice white ash coming off of it. Nice. I know you
like that contrast. I do. It has been a perfect burner. Yeah. The drink draw is interesting.

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It it definitely has changed. And the draw that drink after the draw definitely changed the
blend. It adds something fruity to the blend for me. Okay, let me do a do a little rinse and then I
want to do a drink draw a draw drink. Okay, I'll go with you. It does change it. Yeah. That's nice.

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I like that. Yeah. Now it does make it come off a little hotter. But that's probably because the
back goes opening up your all your taste by the way. It makes it come up a little hotter. But then
it'll fruity something. And it makes yeah like a well like a like a almost like a cherry, right?
Almost like a like a dried cherry thing. Yeah. And it's not specifically

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cherry finished last longer as well. It's just it's very interesting. I like it. That's good.
I like this. I like this. The drink draws good and the draw drink is good. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome.
Yeah, it's interesting. Because it's a mouth cigar to influence the liquor that strongly

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I'm kind of surprised. It's also a 93 proof purpose. Yeah. Yeah. It's not like it's trying to
influence 120. Maybe maybe that helps. Yeah, that may be part of it. Yeah. All right.
Why don't we come back with some technology after the break and it's oh yeah. Yeah, we should

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probably do that. And it's very smooth. The vent deblends is very smooth. Yeah. So that's good.
Let's see that. All right. We'll be back.
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and at bill underscore c l n. So let's do the midpoint. No, we actually don't really need to

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do a midpoint. We've been talking about the whole time. Yes. No old fashioned. No, it breaks the rules.
I'm not gonna make it does break the rules. So no old fashioned and I don't know if you know it.
Okay, here's a midpoint for you. I was able to move the band. Yeah, there's a double perfect
ole figure. So they put the band. I was gonna let the listeners figure that out for themselves.

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They put they put the band dead center. So it's at the fat point. So it's very easy to slide it
off because it gets narrower immediately because it's it's at the fattest point. It works well.
You're not gonna you're not gonna scrape any of the wrapper. You're done. It definitely works
very. Yeah. Another reason to love the perfectos. I love the perfectos. It's my favorite. Absolutely.

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I don't even need it to be a double perfecto. I don't know your perfectos fine. Yes. Yeah. Regular
perfecto. I love that shake. The double. But we know losing tobacco. You know, you have to
you have to be good at being a roller. Oh, I imagine to do that. You can't you're not you're not

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getting somebody fresh on the line doing that. No, no. And I think that's why they did it.
Imagine me and you tried to do this. We would f it all up. I think that's why they did it.
Because only a few can roll it. It's the best quality roller, etc.

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You know it. Yes. Yes. All right. Yeah. There's no midpoint to cover. Really. Okay. Yeah. We
we've gone on. But I mean good.
Pering. I'm trying to say, trying to say, okay. So, breakthrough hydrogen fuel production.

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And three unlikely ingredients. Actually, one of them is really funny. And it's the it's actually
what caught my eye the most. I love it. Well, I so I didn't actually read this. So this is kind of
this is kind of my first time. So you have picked my curiosity.

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All right. Well, people at MIT have found a way to produce hydrogen gas with a smaller carbon
footprint by combining recycled soda cans with seawater and caffeine. Yeah. Most current methods
Oh, hydrogen fuel production are less eco friendly due to their reliance on fossil fuels.

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But MIT study found that its alternative manufacturing process could be applied
at an industrial scale. That's don't get me wrong. I actually do have some issues with this as well.
But well, I'm not going to dwell on that too much. I will say it later. Well, they're saying
right off the bat, they think they could go that they think this could be industrial. Yeah.

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Wow. That's a whole statement right there. So the researchers calculated the carbon
emissions associated with sourcing and processing aluminum, reacting with seawater for hydrogen
production and transporting at the fuel stations. They found that for every kilogram of hydrogen
produced, the process would generate 1.4, 5 kilograms of carbon dioxide over its life cycle,

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9.5 kilograms fewer than traditional fossil fuel based methods. One kilogram of hydrogen could take
a hydrogen fuel cell car, 37 to 62 miles. That's quite a range isn't it? Yep. Of course, it also
depends on if you're in a Tesla or a Prius. Yeah. Or a Hummer. And they calculated the cost of
their fuel production as $9 per kilo. Now, that doesn't give me no much of a much of a

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reference. So firstly, it's already three times more expensive than gasoline.
But that's neither of there. This is just the beginning.
Nine, nine dollars per kilogram. Yeah, it's a lot. It's still a lot. Well, they are recycling
aluminum. Aluminum's expensive to recycle. Here's the thing. Aluminum's already recycled.

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They're a tune of 80%. We do the best job of recycling aluminum. All the things that we try
or do recycle. Aluminum and copper are the best. Oh, but we really wanted to do aluminum. Yes.
Because aluminum's expensive. Yeah. It's an investment of electricity is what it is. Yeah.

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So the studies assessment centered on using recycled aluminum as it saves a significant
amount of emissions compared to mining for aluminum. Well, okay, but shouldn't you include
the cost of the original aluminum when it comes to your carbon footprint? I feel like you're
skipping that part. Now, I guess the answer is, well, we skipped that part because this is a

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reuse item. So they count that when they made the soda cans and we count it, you know, the
so okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, because that cost has already been taken up by the manufacturer,
the aluminum for the soda. Sure. So no, I'm all good with that there. But I mean, you still have

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three times gasoline. Okay, so here's the key. Sea water, the salt in the sea water proved
valuable due to its ability to sustainably precipitate gallium indian, a rare metal alloy
that effectively removes aluminum's protective oxide layer. So in case you're not familiar,

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aluminum does corrode. Oh boy. Like all the other like all the other metals. But what happens is
it corrodes to the point of 30 angstroms, which is thin, and then that protects it from corroding
any further. Yep. So basically, they added the gallium indium. And then that takes off the layer
that now you can attack the aluminum. And that was that's important. Otherwise, you spend a lot

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of time trying to attack a little bit. Trying to break that layer. So that exposes the metal
when combined with sea water. And then as oxygen causes aluminum to instantly form a shield,
that won't readily cause a reaction, caffeine helps speed it up. And I'm like, of course it does.

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Of course it of course, aluminum and people have the same issue with caffeine. I think that's hilarious.
Oh, that is awesome. I love the caffeine speeds up the reaction. Do you have some sort of
enzyme or catalyst? Yes, yes. Yeah. Cathy. Oh, that is great. That is great.

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Yeah. Yeah. So I like that. So they think they can scale it up. And yeah, nine, nine dollars,
I think is probably their work. Because if that's the long term scalability, then that won't work.
Well, that's that's what they said, right? The team calculated the cost of their fuel production

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that that is nine dollars per kilogram. So that can't be what they're asking in the future.
And no, no, if you could do it to if you get the economy of scale, that it will reduce that cost.
Yeah. But I mean, fuel cells are expensive to begin with right now, right? Because they're not

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at scale. Right. So heck, I mean, you kind of take care of a couple of different things.
Maybe not the caffeine part, but you're reusing aluminum cans or really any type of aluminum.
Yeah. We're just going with the easy reset. We're reusing aluminum.

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And something we're at plenty of salt water. So boom.
Now they do mention that the process is cost of nine dollars per kilogram is comparable to the
price of hydrogen generated with other green technologies such as wind and solar. That's impressive.
Okay. So they're going to go down from nine when they scale. So that means this

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is pretty good. And so far, these materials do seem scalable. And readily available.
Those are some wins. Absolutely. Yeah. The the the galleom indium is not in
cans to make hydrogen fuel cells. Boom. Although my favorite was still when,

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you know, we got the fusion generator in the back to the future car and he just threw bananas
and trash in there. I'm like, perfect. Any organic material, right? Yep. That's what we really
wanted. That's what we do. Well, we need something that will take anything organic or in our game.
Right. So that's that's nice.
Heading clear. Everything's organic. So that's nice. This would be I think this would be possible.

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I don't need to cover the other couple paragraphs. Really. But there's more details
about some specifics that it might be good if you care a lot. But I thought that was interesting.
Both the caffeine accelerated the process and that it's already comparable to other green

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technology productions of it and produced a lot less CO2 than the the methods that use
fossil fuels fossil fuels. Yeah. No. Great research and using readily available
chemicals. Yeah. We found a way to do something my rare earth. Whoo hoo. No kidding there.

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It's awesome. I really want to see more fuel cells, more hydrogen fuel cells. I really do.
I do too. I loved what I heard from Toyota. I love that idea of the backpack
fuel source that you could just make that the battery for everything. I love that idea.

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Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. All right. That was pretty fun.
Caffe made it faster. That's awesome. It's hilarious. It's so scary.
Caffeine. Wears it up.
Yeah. We just don't clean out the cans. Shred them up and there you go.

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Yes. Don't rinse your cans. We need that. That's actually really cool.
There is some really, really awesome stuff that comes out of MIT.
Oh, yeah. Unfortunately, the mass majority of it never makes it to production.
Yeah. Well, it probably does eventually, but it's the real is it's from my MIT by the time it's done.

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Yeah, but just folks working on it increases our knowledge around it.
Yeah, exactly. And that helps the next people that come along and the next and it just it
eventually snowballs. We stand on the shoulders of giants. Absolutely. Absolutely.

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So pretty cool. And I'm a fan. I mean, we're both clear. We are clearly both fans of technology.
We don't even talking about them for six years now, especially some something that uses waste
streams, although the caffeine is probably not a waste stream. No, uses mostly waste streams.

(30:32):
Yeah. And and something that we, well, the luminums of waste stream, the salt water is
something we can readily get. Right. It doesn't take a whole lot to purify salt water. And I have
to use plants in California and Houston. Can we have one in the Caribbean and I've worked there?

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Yeah. That's what I really want. You can have them up and down the border. Oh, absolutely.
I mean, why not? Big ones, small ones. Right. Well, we don't know is, you know,
what other types of waste does this produce? Oh, yeah. Yeah. We don't know that. But that's

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okay. We'll get there. Oh, make something from that waste stream. Absolutely. It's the thing to do.
Hey, while you're doing that. Okay. Anything else to say before we rate this?
I, yes. Oh, oh, what happened? The look on your face for those who don't see the look on his face

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says something happened. Well, so I think this is a primo pairing. Oh, you know, when you were
going on about the drink, drawing the dry drink, and I was thinking a similar thing, I was wondering
if one of us might say it. I was going to hedge, but I could go with you. I was going to, I was
going to wait and see if you were going to say it. But right. Then you were, you were starting to

(32:04):
get that. Yeah. You know, let's wrap it up thing. And it's like, no, I have to say it. We could,
we could have done it in the wrap up here. It didn't have to be outside of the wrap up. But
yes, I was on the fence. And if you're going to jump on the other side of the fence,
I could definitely be convinced to go with you. It was a very good pairing. Although it is a cruel,
cruel pairing. Yes. It is a very expensive primo pairing. Yes. Yes. But the good news is we can get

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both of these right at almost any point in time. The little roars haven't been allocated in quite a
while. Yeah. Oh, and they're beautiful. Yeah, beautiful. I'm just not going to be spending 25
hours of stick very often. So it does, it does create a barrier to entry.

(32:57):
Okay, sure. But you know, sometimes you got it. Sure. Yeah. Like now. Especially when you're
doing a podcast about this. Yeah. Like, like we had one now. And the reason we have a few extras
of these is you brought them to the big smoke. Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah, that was my offering, which
tends to be our go bigger go home day. Right. Yeah. We you get something nice.

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Yep. Yeah. And this was my this is my offering for for our little big smoke. And I I like them.
Okay. This she worked. Yeah. Now this cigar stacks up against others. Let's see where the
Blanton's lands. Hmm. Okay. Yeah. I have some problems now though. I have some problems.

(33:50):
Nope. I have some problems on my list. I do. All right. Okay. So, Darryl put the Blanton's in the
number eight slides just below the Russell Reserve single baron and just above the Eagle rare 10.
Nice. Yeah. I here's the problem. The art of the spirit to behind it. Yep. I think I like better.

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Hey, you're the one that did that. I know that's why I said I have a problem, but that's all right.
I'm just going to move on. I got to move on. I apologize to the
Apojis the artist spirit guys later. Yeah. The the Garrison brothers, the EH Taylor,
even the Russell Reserve single baron that tried above it have a lot more depth in their flavors.

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Yeah. Then the Blanton's does. But I I actually do agree with the Blanton's above the Eagle rare.
For sure. The Eagle rare isn't that complex of a flavor either, but I this one.

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Well, it's three more proof, which which doesn't do anything. But no, I I like the.
I like the feeling of of of
it comes across as, you know, given you a feeling when you first take it in of something that is a

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higher proof, but it's not and it winds up being smooth. And so I know it sounds dumb,
but the description I would give it over the Eagle rare is it it seems cleaner.
Oh, I don't know how exactly to explain that, but it's a dumb word. So don't bother.
Okay. Well, clean clean a dumb word bill really likes this cigar. I do. This boy landed in a

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number two spot double two beating out the Perdomo 20th anniversary.
And number three now and hiding just behind the Manor War Pureo authentic home in Duro,
Corona. Yeah, I couldn't I couldn't go. I couldn't push it to the number one slot. That's about as

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far as it went. Still, you beat out some fan favorites. Yeah, it beat out the Armada beat out
the blue eyed Jack. Well, I didn't do the Tom five on the liquor. Okay, so you go ahead and do
the Tom five on that. I'll show you.
Five AJ Manor War Armada number four. Evan Shura, blue eyed Jacks revenge number three Perdomo 20th

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Maduro. Laura, Emerald 1903 number two and the Manor War authentico Piro, Corona.
About a boom. And number the top five on the on the whiskey's Garrison Brothers single barrel.
Number four about Conan's lineage. Number three, art of the spirit devil dog. Number two,

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1845 preemption reverence cast. And still number one remiss volume eight.
Nice. Nice. This was a good one and a primo and a primo pairing. I was on the fence, but this was
really good. You agreed and said, yeah, I'm like, okay, all right. I was I was on board well

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before the break, but I won't get to say anything. I'm gonna let it go. But you could tell I was
kind of excited about it. Yes. Yes. And Blanton have a great parent. It just both changed each other
and both to change each other to very pleasurable things. Yeah. Yeah. The Blanton's I've

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it doesn't matter to me if I have Blanton's or not. Yeah, I like it. But
yeah, there are other things that typically I'm gonna reach for. But the combination of these.
Yeah, I thought was awesome. Yeah, exactly. And they're both great on their own. And then they
were both great together. So that was right. Yeah. Oh, and our list says they were great.

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So all right, we are done. I feel better. Take it.