Toyota Hilux Champ

 

Budget Friendly, Rugged, Reliable, Fully Customizable, 2.4L diesel automatic best one by far for hauling mass, if RV conversion or adding bulking vocational conversion to cargo trailer, its the best value in the world for a compact reliable truck & I want one so much I am writing about it on my blog to ask Toyota to make it available in the USA or contact me to help me buy one in America, I am willing to pay for it, outright, its insanely amazing in so many ways, its a halo car designed for developing countries with poor quality roads, can you imagine how cool it would be in America, where there is nothing like it, such a cool design, so many possibilities when tuning it to adapt the back cargo area to whatever use case required or desired, its amazing! 

We are talking about $12,000 base model with 2 liter gas engine & manual transmission

Then $13,200 for 2.7 L model with automatic

Then $14,650 for 2.4 L turbo diesel with automatic, best one, the one I want & willing to buy asap

Counter Strike 2

25 years of experience in FPS fun, so popular on STEAM the gaming platform that it became a worldwide E-sports game, but I never played on that level, I am casual episodic gamer and over that same period of time I have only played 280 hours or a tad less overall :) I play for 30 minutes to an hour, some days of some months, then go many months without playing much, hence casual gamer. I also tend to game in bursts of sessions centered around a few days then get bored and stop playing for months, creating the strange sporadic average play. I almost always play CT or Counter Terrorist also 

Income Inequality Increasing

Canada, America, Japan, Italy, there are many former superpowers of great economic progress that a stagnating with shrinking middle class as the minority of opulent rich citizens of the same countries expand their wealth geometrically increasing it when they already live privileged lives literally wanting for thing or able to buy anything at a glance. These former economy miracle nations are now coasting on fumes like the Sega Corporation of Japan or the Dutch tulip bulb industry today as another example. 

This problem was made worse by globalization and unfair global trade. In American before 1960 for example, household appliances like stoves and fridges made during this time still work today or were made very robust and easy to fix or repair with readily available spare parts. In some ways this continued into the 1980s America when many companies shut down manufacturing plants in American & moved their manufacturing to Mexico, India, Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam, Chine, Taiwan, Hong Kong, or where labor was cheaper and the local governments streamlined setting up factories and manning them with people to work the production lines for pennies on the dollar wages compared to what Americans were being paid in terms of minimum wage or much higher salaries for more advanced jobs with more education and more experience.

What's more, in pre 1980 American the companies were run by engineers and scientists, but more recently all the same companies have executives that majored in business or finance, who effectively focus on increasing profits every quarter no matter what it hurts or kills or damages including its own employees or customers incredibly, but often still the case that nature or natural environment are used as a waste dump for chemical waste or similar emissions, the toxic substances released because it is cheaper to do it like that, dirty, eco toxic, as cleaning it up with polymer bead filtering operation and similar environmental control closed loop water systems would eat 1% of profit.

That 1% sacrifice in profits to clean up operations to less polluting or non polluting enough to drive the accounting major executive mad because they have a legal fiduciary responsibility to earn the most money possible for the share holders or people who own common stocks in the company or any kinds of stock shares. Oddly mostly the hyper wealthy billionaires tend to also own most of the shares of most of the companies worldwide, in part, how they amass so much wealth no matter if the economy going up or down, they also tend to either work with or own hedge funds.

Owning Too Much a Headache : Cautionary Tail To Young People, Teens, Children

 When you grow up avoid buying too many things, it costs too much and creates disorganized chaos every time you move, it's a headache. Look at home many people use their garage as a storage bin so they are forced to park in the driveway or on the street, so their cars are cold in the winter and super heated during the summer which causes everything to wear out faster in the most expensive rapidly depreciating thing that people own, all so they can store stuff they hardly every use in the garage that was deigned to hold a car or truck or SUV. 

Take Only What You Need

A little older and a little wiser, looking back on life, there is great pause for reflection about what worked well and what did not. I was blessed with wealth and confused on drugs and alcohol and bombarded with ads on YouTube before I went premium for $25 per month, I spent a lot of time and money buying things on Ebay and Amazon and have more stuff than I can easily keep track of. My wife in order to stay sane continually reorganizes things in our home which is the equivalent of hiding them from me because I remember the last time I saw them in the position where I placed them as a visual kinetic movement storage 3D volume memory, not when she says, hey I put x over here now and this is the new location for it, often times I forget when tired what the new location is, especially if its been a long time since I last accessed it. I think you get the idea. Having too many things can be a headache of wasted time looking for stuff, when it might be more cost efficiency or time efficient to just get another one. I have been forced to rebuy things over and over again because my older one was lost in translation when moving, or in our storage bin, or under stair storage or places I rarely visit. It's almost like I need a computerized barcode inventory management system. I often when looking for something wonder WTF, I remember it being over here and it's not there anymore. Frustration, anger, stress, anxiety, all of that can be avoided. 

BUY LESS and ENJOY WHAT YOU HAVE ALREADY! 

VFD Vacuum Fluorescent Displays

 Superior brightness, dimmable, multiple color options, they last a long time, some can go 200,000 hour with auto-dimming. Notably Toyota used a VFD as the speed display in the 04-09 Prius II in bright green that was inverted and the light bounced into a mirror for the drivers eyes, giving the impression that the displayed information was much further away in the middle of the firewall near the base of the front window, so that it was much easier to look upon quickly without taking your eyes away from the road ahead, not nearly as slick as a HUD displayed on the window, but close, and our 1996 microwave oven has a superior multi color VFD display with 8 bit microcontroller able to scroll text across the display, the coolest VFD I have ever seen but not nearly as bright as the one in our 05 Prius that I drove for 17 years.

Nixie tubes were an example of a cathode display, perhaps a technological precursor to the vacuum fluorescent displays. I believe that cold cathode fluorescent backlight tubes of perhaps 1mm or 2mm or 3mm in diameter arrayed behind LCD screens in early flat screen computer monitors and televisions uses a similar design in terms of electrical ionization of phosphors. In a VFD a glass housing containing cathode wires in front of the information display panel bombard the information display panel phosphors with electrons causing them to glow. If the VFD controller varies the voltage to the cathode wires then the information panel glow can be dimmed or brightened. This entire setup like a vacuum tube, is held inside a rectangular vacuum pressure glass ampule with wires bonded through the glass in a hot melt manufacturing process where they use a fluorescent inspection tool to check for stress fractures in the glass, as the VFD has to be annealed like other glass produce to remove heterogenous stress boundaries that the prolonged heating during annealing causes to relax and melt back together into homogeneity. I skipped a lot of the steps in VFD making because one, I never made one, two I only researched them after they stopped being used in products and replaced by stupid segmented LED displays that are shorter life and where one segment of LED tends to burn out before the others distorting the displayed information which I find extremely annoying. 

Replacing the LED display in a microwave oven requires taking the entire controller off & carefully unsoldering it, procuring a replacement, then carefully soldering the new display onto the control logic board, not something an average person can do, and if you took it to a repair shop they would charge more to fix it than the cost or replacing the microwave oven with a newer model. This in wealthy countries often the case, it costs more to fix your older appliance than it dose to replace it with a new one. Can you say designed obsolescence? The euphemism that device manufacturers used is Lifecycle Analytics. Even as a kid my father Ken told me, in the 1960s manufactures learned their lesson when they sold Americans things that last 50 years or more, so they only make 1 sale to that person, and have to charge a lot more for such things to generate enough revenue or profit to stay in business. 

He had a  stereo amplifier from the 1960's that cost $1000 back then, was still working in the early 2000's even with a lot of hours on it. Eventually some of the robust well made in American transistors burned out, so it took it to a local electronics repair shop on a Saturday and took me with him. At the repair shop the repair technician said "Here's is the deal, if we used really high quality Allan Bradly American Made long life transistors they are about $20 each and you need 12 plug labor to install them after removing the old ones, or I can use some cheaper made in Asia transistors than only cost $3 each plus the same cost for replacement labor, what would you like me to do. My dad whet with the cheaper option, but then it burned out 5 years later. We then went to the Trading Musician in Seattle and found a better older amp with low hours in minty conditions for $100 and it still works today :) 

I grew up visiting many homes because my parents were relators and being observant I noticed that many home appliances made before 1980 just keep going. I asked a family friends who was a product design engineer about this and he said "Back before 1980 computers were not able to do FEA or finite element analysis as well as they can now, so manufacturers built in more tolerance or made everything stronger, thicker & heavier back then to make sure they would work until the warranty ran out. Over time they figured out how to use the least amount of metal possible or in well made examples that last a long time you have to pay a huge price premium, so you can still today buy really well made long lasting stereo amps made from raw materials in New York, but that famous company charges many thousands of dollars for their amps. 

Everyone says how energy efficient LED are compared to other technology, but exceptional examples of Sodium Vapor Lamps with long life well made magnetic ballasts were know to get 200 lumps per watt of electrical energy since the 1970's. Take that LED you stupid bunch of rare earth nonsense. I hate blue white 6500 K led, the blue light garish and ugly and reminds me of hospitals, I don't want that in my vehicle or at home. I like 2000K warm sunset beautiful flame fire color, orange red colors, or even 3500K bright white or 3000K warm white, and even 4200K greenish light ok, its that 5500 to 6500K blue white that is super annoying. Now there are interesting purple pink colors above 7000K that I also like. How can I be so color specific with preferences, well given that the eye is more sensitive to brightness and contrast than it is to colors, its probably down to why high CRI HID lams or short arc xenon bulbs are used in LCD and DPL projectors with more lumens or higher brightness. 

I know that LED projectors exists, but lasers are superior in terms of brightness and way long ago & even today the short arc xenon in its brightest format used in operating theaters, clean rooms & in IMAX projector systems. The coolest bulb design of all time goes to the Microwave Sulfur bulbs, where yellow sulfur held inside a rotate quarts sphere of thick fused quartz, where microwaves from an adjacent emitted excite the sulfur into a plasma that emits millions of lumens of pleasing light color light :) There is an airfare museum with a few of these microwave sulfur bulbs that are so bright that they used polished metal optical pipes to move the light around the facility to distributed it, such that a few microwave sulfur bulbs are able to illuminate the entire inside of the giant building complex with optical fiber like polished metals tubes pumping the light around. Amazing. 

Even high CRI LED exist, where the manufacture color bins the LED chips. LED chips are made on large wafers like computer chips, but they sprinkle a mix of phosphors over the blue UV LED chips so that the UV light energizes the phosphors to emit white light of different color temperatures depending on the phosphorus used or how many different colors of phosphors are applied, but because of irregular application of the phosphor, some of the LEDs have slightly different color temps, so a optical sorting testing system can separate them into groups with closer color temp colors, called color binning, but doing that takes longer and costs more, so high CRI professional LED for printing and studios and color accuracy, cost a lot more like photography bulbs. 

Giant Crystals into Trillions of Transistors

Imagine an alumina ceramic electric furnace filled with ultra high purity chunks of silicon, heat under a gas blanket of argon to keep the 3000F melt from reacting with air oxygen or moisture. Ironically air contains argon, this is how gas companies pressure swing concentrate argon, then compress cool & bottle it for use in TIG welding or similar as a shielding gas for the same reason, it prevents air from reacting with the super hot metals created by the electric arc formed during TIG (Tungsten Inert Gas) welding.

Known as the Czochralski Method of growing large single crystal boules, later cut into wafers, then subjected to hundreds of processing stages at Chip Fabs to make computer chips like CPU, GPU, SOC, as common examples of cutting end integrated circuits or the brains of computers, tablets, smartphones, laptops, desktops, servers, even all the integrate chips in modern automobiles which each contain more than 100 chips, the same reason that the global chip shortage during COVID19 supply chain disruption caused many automakers to stop production of cars, trucks, SUV, buses and other modern vehicles with ADAS, computers like the ECU or engine control unit, VSC vehicle stability control, ESC electronic stability control, LKA or lane keep assist, RSA or road sign assist, Pre-Collision Avoidance, Adaptive Radar Enhanced Cruise Control, AHB automatic high beams or any of the other such systems, all of which make use of digital computers linked over OBDII networks in the car & its famous dash connections that allows a diagnostic tool to be plugged into to a newer vehicle to determine what is wrong if the MIL or master warning light illuminated on the dashboard indicated a problem. On the OBD tool you get codes you can look up online to find what they mean. Genius Gordon Teal pioneered optimizing the large single crystal production & designed many early advanced versions of such furnaces.

These giant boules of silicon single crystal have weigh up to 600 kilograms yet can be held by a single 1mm thread of silicon at the top since silicon has incredible tensile strength but also super brittle worse than most kinds of glass, so the thread of silicon holding the heavy boule can be broken by tapping it with a metal tool, the same way you could easily shatter a glass screen cover over the smartphone screen by hitting it with a metal tool hard enough. You can ad a protect glass screen cover over the other glass to act like a sacrificial protective layer so that it cracks instead of the screen glass if you drop you phone on a sharp rock or metal or something hard enough the crack the screen. See the following collection of images as a Dynamic Island image via the following link (https://waferpro.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/growing-silicon-ingot.jpeg.webp)

From Wikipedia

Czochralski method, also Czochralski technique or Czochralski process, is a method of crystal growth used to obtain single crystals(monocrystals) of semiconductors (e.g. silicon, germanium and gallium arsenide), metals (e.g. palladium, platinum, silver, gold), salts and synthetic gemstones. The method is named after Polish scientist Jan Czochralski, who invented the method in 1915 while investigating the crystallization rates of metals. He made this discovery by accident: instead of dipping his pen into his inkwell, he dipped it in molten tin, and drew a tin filament, which later proved to be a single crystal. The process remains economically important, as roughly 90% of all modern-day semiconductor devices use material derived from this method.

The most important application may be the growth of large cylindrical ingots, or boules, of single crystal silicon used in the electronics industry to make semiconductor devices like integrated circuits. Other semiconductors, such as gallium arsenide, can also be grown by this method, although lower defect densities in this case can be obtained using variants of the Bridgman–Stockbarger method. Other semiconductors such as Silicon Carbide are grown using other methods such as physical vapor transport.

Friendship Collapse: Inside Anti-Social Screen Debacle

Record amounts of time online, alone, by themselves, a fundamental fact about American life, objective fact that Americans are more alone than ever, a loneliness epidemic not just in Japan but all around the world where people stare at smartphones instead of interacting with other people. Not that technology the only issue, but the rise of the car meant more people could drive away from downtown into the suburbs effectively privatizing American lives along with television which dominated leisure time sitting on the couch staring at a TV.

Years ago when Meg & I were first dating in and around 2010 we started noticing that when patronizing a restaurant other people, families of mom & dad & children, were all sitting at the same table, but no one was talking with each other & everyone in the group was staring into a smartphone doom scrolling social media or similar, not exactly reading wikipedia. My optimistic youthful naive view of giving everyone handheld computer to make everyone more intelligence turned out to be dreadfully wrong, since that is now what people are generally doing with their smartphones, though you can learn a language with DuoLingo app for example, on your smartphone.

Housing prices nearby are 20X higher than wage increases over the same time period or expensive but not nearly as bad as Toronto Canada which is 10X worse housing prices out of sight with average incomes lower than that of the poorest state in the USA, Mississippi. When you adjust Canadian Dollars to US dollars the average wage in Canada only $30,000 while a decent home near Toronto costs $15 million. I wing & complain about local homes that sold brand new back then for under $100K that now sell for $1. something million, when its literally 10X more expensive for the same near Toronto, in Canada. 

Can the loneliness epidemic be explained away by increasing smartphone use alone? No, there are many social factors that come along with the use of social media. Teens today are hopeless, more depressed than ever before. People in their twenties are dating less, 20% less than ever before. People in their 30's are getting married less, more are calling marriage old fashioned and out of date institution, and people in their 40's have fewer children. 

Now looking at the US dollar & the crooked evil Federal Reserve manipulating the fiat currency dollar, noting that prior to 1973 the US dollar was backed by Gold metal Au, that shinny lustrous soft jewelry metal, it works miracles on electrical contacts to prevent corrosion, so does platinum, palladium and rhodium. Perhaps the real tax rate when you consider all taxes in America closer to 50%, in part driving a loss in the middle class of America, of course made worse with global trade especially with China run by the CCP the most unethical government in the world. Inflation of the dollar just another kind of tax. 

The societal costs of screens dominating peoples free time are extraordinary. People today have more social anxiety, more social phobia, are afraid of taking time and effort to meet up with someone, afraid the conversation will be boring or it will not be worth their time. People today are afraid they will never be able to achieve the American Dream of Home Ownership, many young people do not even think they will be able to buy a car in locations in America where the car is the only practical way of getting around, incredibly. The moral, mindset and outlook of the youth of America so bad that teen suicide rates are on the rise in America. 

Ask yourself how many school shootings have happened in America? The symptoms of societal decay are everywhere & have never been greater than when shoved the internet into peoples hands over 4G LTE and 5G more recently in the form of smartphones which are more than just a handheld super computer, they are also our phones, text platform, social media, camera for image or video capture, calculator, calendar, email, browsing, shopping online, there apps for smartphones that turn a smartphone into 65 different devices that you would have had to buy separately in the 80's, now its all in one in rounded rectangles of glass with computer chips inside called SOC or system on chip, mostly made by TSMC using ASMLS best equipment, of what Apple calls M1 through M5 so far or Apple Silicon. 

We not only have an anti-social trend emerging, there are dehydration, kidney failure, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, cancer epidemics overlapping as uncontrolled climate change causes the weather to become more imbalanced or crazy, as if the entire world going crazy as more people withdraw into lonely isolation. What is the silver bullet. I spent a lot of time not using my smartphone theses day, leaving it in my pocket and only using it when required. 

Now I shoot YouTube video with it, so in this sense I use it more, and lately I have been studying Japanese on DuoLingo on my phone so my screen time is up, but in general its less than 15 minutes per day. When Meg & I are out & about together, we rarely tough our phones, though her DEXCOM G7 uses the iPhone 16 Plus as its information display interface for the related App to stream blood glucose trends, log food and insulin intake, so forth, her phone is part of a medically essential type 1 diabetes life saving technological setup or kit, so she uses her phone a bit more in this way. 

When I am online, it's publishing blog posting or uploading YouTube or often posting to X. It requires a laptop and keyboard. I can't easily do the same on my phone, the touch screen too small & finger fumbling, it is just so much faster on the laptop, a MacBook Pro M2, that the iPhone 14 acts like video camera most of the time and my series 8 Apple Watch just a glorified overpriced fitness tracker :) The inductive charging runs circles around Fitbits I previously owned with their weird charging cables. Speaking of weight when apple switched to USB-C, my iPhone 14 still lighting but Megs iPhone 16 Plus USB-C. It seems like everything is going to USB-C. For more than 20 years USB-A was a miracle. Like the headphone jack on iPhones that let wired earbuds work, I really miss that, though I got some awesome wireless bluetooth earbuds on Amazon for under $45 that sound fantastic. 

Streaming, imaging trying to explain that to a pirate in antiquity! Today so many people watch YouTube videos or similar content online. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, its many platforms like Disney+

Where is the original, what ceases to be the original, the studio captures the movies after editing and so forth, they have the master copy, usually digital these days, its big data at first, but then H.264 like JPEG for videos compression allows HTML5 streaming on YouTube for example, much more data efficient, which is cheaper for Alphabet Inc to stream, from cloud computing or server clusters in racks in data centers that use millions of watts of electricity. The internet uses more power than some medium sized countries and data online doubles every 12 hours. What is your brain doing with all of this? 

Electric Bikes or Hub Motor Electric Bicycles

1200 MPG equivalent biological battery motor assisted fuel economy on a Typical 500 watt hub motor e-bike with 500 Watt Hour battery pack & 5 levels of PAS pedal assist selected by user

Twist as fast with half the effort the e-bike gives anyone the ability to go places even if they are not fit enough to ride a regular bicycle or older with knee pain or excess body weight. This means that e-bikes are a breakthrough in mobility by enabling more kinds of people to ride bicycles instead of always relying on a car. 

I can easily ride our Lectric XP 3.0 folding cargo bike to the grocery store & back & have plenty of cargo capacity for 2 large bags of groceries. This would be exceedingly difficult to do on a normal bicycle because of the high mountain where our home is located, which requires riding up a 469 foot hill with no bike lane to get home, not only scary, but really physically demanding, requiring elite bicycle fitness to accomplish, especially if carrying two full bags of groceries. 

Sure a fair weather operation, no fun in the rain, but who wants to always use a car when you can explore like a kid again, back when you rode your bicycle all over during summer break, do you remember? 

E-bikes give older adults like me, I am almost 42 & not as fit as I was in my 20s anymore, but still actively stay in physically good conditions doing Les Mills Body Combat in VR, sessions of PT lately twice per week, hiking, riding bicycle, even e-bike on my rest days since its so much easier :) 

Removable 14 AH 48V battery pack means you can carry spare batteries for more range. With the twist throttle along on flatter routs that's 30 miles of range of 60 with pedal assist. Additional batteries can be stored in a bag or box on the rear cargo rack. No insurance, no license, no registration, its freedom without all the costs of cars. 

If it was covered with a canopy, it could be an all weather option as many electrically assisted recumbent bicycle also have flexible solar PV sewn into the sun rain cover canopy & can also be more aerodynamic & more stable. 

Gold the Dark Side of Industrialization, Heat Death of the Universe in Billions of Years

To keep the light on & party happening the OECD, our carbon based energy scarcity means billions of people live in radical poverty, as other elite people fly around the world in private jet aircraft they own like toys of rich men almost a trope for most of human history. The billionaire are the Kings of today because of how they wield political & economic power worldwide. 

The act of living increases entropy. Think of a typical American Family with a 2500 square foot house on 1/2 acre of land with a big green lawn front & back where the barbecue propane fueled meat cooker located, a lawn mower fueled by gasoline with a small air cooled carburetor engine of about 5 hp that spins a metal blade fast to cut the grass. In the garage two newer cars, a power sports toy that also runs on gasoline. The home features a 200 amp utility panel, many power outlets, high speed internet, water, natural gas plumbed in to heat air and water, sewer or septic to drain away waste from two or more toilets that flush fresh water with poo and pee, many sinks, a dishwashing machine, clothing washing machine, a clothing dryer machine, vacuums, TV's, computers, a microwave oven, an oven & stove top with many burners, any number of smartphones even old ones in a drawer, probably stuff they own stored in the garage with their cars like bicycles, skis, snowboards, scooters, motorcycles, or seasonal decorations. They probably own investments, have a 401K or IRA or Pension & live like a king from antiquity, literally wanting for nothing needed, all their lives basics are more than covered redundantly, they even have a wired in natural gas backup generator & portable emergency gasoline fueled generator, their barbecue runs on a 4.6 gal 20lb painted steel propane tank with a brass safety valve used to fill it & dispense propane to the regulator which turns down the pressure before it enters the jets or burner in the grill. This my friends, the American Dream requires 6 kilowatts of energy 24/7 for each person in that house, so a Typical family of Mom (female XX, & Dad (male XY) with children (XX or XY for girls or boys), so 4 people, that's 24 kilowatts 24/7 for that kind of ultra privileged lifestyle that few Americans appreciate and most of whom also take it for granted completely unaware that this is radical wealth compared to the global human average living conditions. Can you imagine the total lifetime emissions of people living like Americans living the American Dream? 

Even the end of world war three unknown since it has not started yet, but who will survive hard to know because of this. You do not know what you do not know until you know and we cannot know what will happen during world war 3 because it's not happening yet, but many people sense it coming like me. 

War very expensive, kills a lot of people, many of the problems the war seeks to solve remain unsolved after the war is over, but much else damaged by war, many innocent people are killed, roads & building & power plants & power polls & transformers at substations, natural gas pumps, water pumps, much of the internet & power services are gone during war because it damages those systems as strategic targets, in drone warfare, in biological warfare, in chemical warfare, with nuclear bombs set off, look what happened to Japan in Hiroshima & Nagasaki when the US bombed both locations with nuclear weapons to end World War Two. 

Do you wonder why so many famous people were traveling to Epstein's island of ill repute? To buy the Ovaries of African women, to get the highest quality Stem Cells for elite medications & expensive treatments available to the hyper wealthy worldwide. They also get them from umbilical cords & aborted babies, but that is not enough supply. Perhaps they championed abortion to get more stem cells. Many more questions remain unanswered. 

How do they traffic more than 100 tons of gold out of Africa illegally into Swiss refineries of Gold? How are members of the Swiss industrial base & government affiliated with the questionable child labor gold? Does the bright economy of Switzerland rely of exploiting artisanal miners in Africa, many of whom are children in dirty unsafe conditions, very unfair trade. Shame of you who like me own so many electronics with batteries containing conflict cobalt mined by children in the DRC, controlled by rebells holding AK47 rifles to slave labor enforce forced child labor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, thousands of times more cobalt in every BEV or battery electric vehicle battery pack lithium ion batteries. 

Entropy, fuel burned into air pollution long ago, the easy crude oil already gone. Peak oil already happened, but now we have synthetic fuels made from natural gas & coal, from dump gas, sour gas, bio gas, compost gas, swamp gas, sewer gas, we can make synthetic gasoline & diesel & jet fuel from captured tube in but to bag pipe system at dairy farms or CAFO. 

Computers, operating systems, board logic, CPU chips connected with gold wires to gold plated pins that plug into the motherboard holder with a matching set of connections arranged so that every CPU pin plugs into corespondent hole in the mount, then a tension bar clamps the connections as it is lowered & secured. Thermal paste applied to the heat spreader or cover of the CPU chip, metallic, it transfers heat energy to the heatsink, typically a machined aluminum heat spreader with a brushless motor fan that blows cooling air into the high surface area heatsink so that heat energy transfers from the chip into the air, the hot air expelled into the case, then fans in the case expel the hot air into the room where the PC operating. 

Entropy, More Energy, AC has to pump the heat somewhere, so does your fridge, it transfer heat to the room where the fridge is operated, that's why you hear the fridge compressor operating in cycles, so it can pump the heat to the external radiators under or behind your fridge that you should clean of dust periodically so they work correctly :) 

Most personal computers are desktops featuring a power supply to convert AC grid power into DC 12V & 5V & 3.3V into the 24 pin connector attached to the motherboard, mounted to a case with standoffs & screws, you have a solid state hard drive that plugs into its slot and then screwed down to secure it, similarly the graphics card with its GPU & memory plugs into a mainboard slot, secured with a screw, power cables from the PSU are routed directly to the graphics card 6 & 8 power pins, the high end NVIDIA stuff can huff down 300 watts at a full tilt, and you better have a big case to fit a giant graphics card like that high end NVIDIA stuff ideal for discrete graphics gaming on STEAM for example :) That's an online gaming platform for PC gamers. At every stage there is a lot of heat, say HEAT DEATH OF THE EARTH

Gold can be dirty or cleaner, but all mining emits pollutants, some have captures with filters & polymer beads & HEPA like super fine RO membrane filters, the water running off the mine can be cleaner than the natural water nearby if its filtered enough by expensive technology that requires regular replacements & cleaning & maintenance. There is no free lunch in Physics. 

Every wonder why automotive engines cannot be more fuel efficient? That is because the temperature difference between the air temperature & fuel combustion temp limited by the materials used in the engines construction. If the engine could lean burn the fuel hotter at higher temperatures it could be more fuel efficient with higher thermal efficiency like some of the best power plant turbines which convert mechanical energy inputs into electrical power with net system efficiency of higher than 50%, as do many Toyota Hybrid vehicle engines with efficiency focused ECO mode activated by the driver, the ECU runs a leaner fuel mix once the engine fully warm at its full operating temperature, or LEVEL 5 operation, where level 0 cold off, level 1 cold start, level 2 warm from running a few minutes, level 3 when engine coolant & oil & block are near full temp, level 4 when all the emissions controls are fully working, then Level 5 when system totally on after about 15 minutes of driving steady state at freeway speeds. But your cars 100kW piston engine sends 50% of the fuels energy out the tailpipe as heated pollutants like CO2, H20, CO, NOX, SOX, Particles, Fumes like HC, Soot, Metals & Oxides of Metals, all sorts of stuff, thousands of chemicals are present in vehicle exhaust, especially that of Turbine Jet Engines on Aircraft that have no catalytic converter and burn the jet fuel in a very dirty way that makes air quality near airports very dirty.

In nature animals eat plants, larger animals eat smaller animals, the Sun bombards the Earth with light & heat & infrared & ultraviolet that plants convert into sugars & starches & carbohydrates & some fats or oils & proteins. Trophic magnification means a small amount of mercury emitted taken up my small organisms becomes more concentrated as larger organism eat those smaller organisms & concentrate the mercury, finally into giant tuna fish at the top of that ocean food web system, then people eat the Tuna with the mercury which caused brain damage as mercury damages the glial cells & myelin of the brain tissue causing madness with higher exposure levels. Mercury metal a liquid, but as a salt it can enter people & other organism where it become a dangerous heavy metal toxin. This makes coal power emissions exceedingly toxic as they contain lead, arsenic, mercury, thorium, uranium, nickel, copper, aluminum, all sorts of other elements are present in coal that end up in the coal fly ash & particle emissions, all considered normal or naturally occurring in the minerals we call coal to dig up & burn dirty to make heat, steam to spin turbine generators to make electricity to sell over the grid to utility customers. 

Gold as money does not tend to lose value over time like common currencies like the USD or EURO

I like Gold the metal, other than copper its the only one with color naturally. Though heating stainless steel can get a nice golden cold, so can doing the same with titanium, you can get a whole rainbow of colors heating titanium camping gear :) I love stainless steel exhaust systems where the hottest parts near the engine header get so hot that they color oxidize beautiful :) 

When Jesus Christ was a man, a 1 ounce coin of gold bought about $3000 adjusted for inflation of nice all leather sandals, a hand made wool full body garment, in his time all fabric was hand made slowly & very expensive, as was leather hand made shoes. Even today artisanal goods like a samurai sword that takes 1 month for a talented expert blacksmith in Japan to fabricate mostly by hand from raw materials, to make the edge hard & sharp to hold its cutting edge while the tine of back of the blade flexible or softer, bonded into an exceptional art work example of sword making unmatched in many ways by any other means, but costly at thousands of dollars per example. The worldworldss finest paint brushes are about the same price as an ounce coin of gold today, around $3,300 dollars. Our 2020 Yamaha MT03 Motorcycle was $6000 out the door all said brand new back then, by comparisons. 

Gasoline fuels my 2022 Toyota Corolla LE Sedan Hybrid Synergy Drive. I just add 10 gallons & go 613 miles or get about 60 MPG amazingly, some 20-40% more fuel efficient than my wife's 10 Prius III which has a similar 2ZR-FXE engine & hybrid 2 motor generator drivetrain PSD setup, but Toyota tuned & optimized the core of this to shove it into the Corolla Hybrid since they sell 10 Corolla Hybrids for every 1 Prius for example. Our 2001 Audi A4 2.8 Quattro sedan or 13 Honda PCX150, they all run on gasoline, mostly ethanol free gasoline from The Grange in Issaquah Washington, but at $5.29 per gallon for regular, its not cheap fuel, but it also does not contain up to 10% ethanol from GMO fuel corn crops.