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America's Largest Grid Operator to Data Centers: Bring Your Own Power or Get Turned Off First… (www.gadgetreview.com)
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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's natural gas as opposed to coal gas - if you heat coal in an anerobic environment, it is refined into a flammable liquid + gas. Fun little science demonstration

They used to use it for lights everywhere, and it left soot all over the walls. Silly putty was invented to clean it off of wallpapers, but then they added dye and it became silly

I don't have a problem rebranding it as fossil gas, but the name natural wasn't green washing. It did occur naturally, and it is a hell of a lot cleaner than what was used before

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Point of order, you're thinking of play doh, not silly putty.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're right, I was thinking of play dough

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Silly Putty I think was an attempt to make plastic that failed and they went "well it's kind of fun to play with, we'll sell it as a toy?"

wikis the pedia

Rubber. It was an attempt to make synthetic rubber during WWII rationing. Found to be pretty useless but kind of a fun toy.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 1 day ago

Haha I actually was curious how it came to be after your comment, but didn't get around to looking it up myself. Neat