Based on the difference in reception of my two comments in this chain, I don't think people realize that this was a sarcastic comment with a link to examples of exactly those things being found in bags of lump charcoal, shopping with a broader comparison of the properties of the two.
In my own personal experience, having cooked with both, I prefer lump charcoal lit with a chimney. I've never found rocks, metal, nylon rope, or PVC left behind in my Weber.
But well, that's just like, my opinion, man. The article opens with this disclaimer: "One has to be careful about generalizations here because each brand is different."
I have indeed not cooked with all brands of briquets nor all brands of lump charcoal, so same disclaimer applies to my opinion.
Obviously anyone is allowed to like what they like, and it's not that hard to produce good food when you grill/BBQ/Smoke on almost any fuel you prefer, but there is a lot of FUD in these comments about Briquettes. They provide a clean, consistent, repeatible heat, for a very low price.
This topic, like so many that touch on food in some way, gets bogged down in weird superiority complexes. I People can't just let people have different (usually read "wrong") opinions when it comes to food.
You'll note that one person expressed their opinion on lump. I responded with my contrasting opinion. Only one of those two comments got downvoted.
-edit- In case it wasn't clear, I don't think lump is bad. I prefer briquettes because they produce good, consistent, results (for me) at a low price. My link was meant to push back on the idea that lump was somehow "better/higher quality" than briquettes. I'm sure that one can buy cheap, poor quality briquettes that are bad in all kinds of ways. But obviously it's also possible to get bad quality lump (even if that is not representative of all brands).
My brother used it to keep getting alcohol while he was home bound due to complications from diabetes. He was able to hide his consumption from us during the last few months of his life because Drizly delivered for him.
I'm not attacking them or anything, I'm sure there are people out there who are home bound who love to get a bit of a tipple now and then for whom such a service is wonderful. It just wasn't in my family's case.
The Salton sea is the home of a huge lithium deposit, and it's unlikely that anything but geothermal and lithium mining will happen there in the near future. Certainly not "restoration" to what it was when it was accidentally created.
My understanding is that the lithium in the salton sea is relatively less accessible than other nearby lithium deposits, such as the new mine starting up in northern Nevada. Sort of nearby I suppose.
Between that and the increasing availability of sodium ion batteries it may never actually be economical to mine the Salton Sea, especially considering people actually live nearby and would be affected by the mine; unlike the mines in northern Nevada.
They'd be mining the brine in which the lithium is dissolved as well as constructing geothermal plants to take advantage of the temperature of the liquid.
The thing is.... all the failed reproductions of LK-99 were based on the leaked version of the paper, which according to the authors is missing some information/steps for production. They said they would publish the complete/final version of the paper in 2024, waiting to see that.
I thought that at first but the comments don't really have that AI stink to it or the 3rd world scammer reply chain aka (person 1: does anyone know anyone who can help with. my crypto purchase? person 2: hello sir, mrs heather, i have purchased her services on whatsapp and i could not be happier. i made my money back and then some).
Maybe the people replying are quote unquote normies? aka not the younger generation or terminally online twitter users?
edit: i noticed alot of the usernames have 4 numbers at the end. could be bots. or is this just how youtube recommends usernames to people now?
Much depends on whether your systems were running BSD-style RPC services.