The liquid, which the Palo Alto Fire Department has deemed to be a nonhazardous mixture of borax, lye (also called sodium hydroxide) and green dye, spilled out of the Tesla office at 1501 Page Mill Road onto Hanover Street.
You don’t want concentrated lye, but diluted lye is safe enough to make soap. My question, and I’m not the only one asking in this thread, is- is a mixture of borax and lye a good coolant for a supercomputer?
I guess you could argue that the green is so they would recognize a coolant leak…
The lye concentration used to make soap is rather nasty if it gets on your skin and you don’t deal with it immediately.
Source: I’ve made a lot of soap from scratch.
Elon does not care about laws and it’s been shown over and over that he doesn’t have to.
When the penalty is a fine, it isn’t a penalty to the rich.
“Cost of doing business.”
He obviously does, he’s not storing it anymore after spilling it out now is he?
How is lye nonhazardous? Can’t it cause serious chemical burns? Maybe it’s just in low enough concentration that that’s not a concern.
You don’t want concentrated lye, but diluted lye is safe enough to make soap. My question, and I’m not the only one asking in this thread, is- is a mixture of borax and lye a good coolant for a supercomputer?
I guess you could argue that the green is so they would recognize a coolant leak…
The lye concentration used to make soap is rather nasty if it gets on your skin and you don’t deal with it immediately. Source: I’ve made a lot of soap from scratch.
Okay, now I have more “why” questions.
Water cooling for a set of computers. Additives prevent bacteria growth.