Why do music lovers choose Live 365 over other music sites? More stations, more variety, and more choices! How can you make a great thing even better? Find out more at Live365.com slash VIP. Live 365. End of the Revolution. Thank you for listening to Liberty Tree Radio dot 4 mg dot com. MainMilitary.com has a large selection of pistols and rifles suited for your needs. Are your local stores sold out of ammunition? Call or visit them today for prices on hard to find ammo and bulk ammo orders. You don't need to worry about having a military surplus store in your area because MainMilitary.com is the only store you'll ever need all from the comfort of your computer. Visit them online today at MainMilitary.com. That's Main, like the state, Military.com. I had a dream the other night that understand. A figure walked in through the mist with a flip lock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat and speaking low to me he said, we've fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations this legacy we gave. In this the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. The tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money is spent, your children must attend a school that doesn't educate, and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number and you've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. and your daughters visit doctors. So their children and people, your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you will fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? Oh, sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right, and pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he'd vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trampled, each God given right, we only watch him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep, and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Is this still the land of the free? Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is the evening intelligence report. I'm Mark Hornky. And this is Joe from the Carolinas impersonating butter knife. Or maybe it's butter knife impersonating Joe impersonating butter knife. If I did it well, how would you know? It could be from anywhere, dudes. Well, you're listening to us on the Intelligence Report here on LibertyTreeRadio.4MG.com. You can read it from talkradio.com. We're on AM and FMI Crows stations. CB base stations. and UltraNet Technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska Hallmark Network from the top of Maine to the bottom of Florida from the bottom of Florida, Pacific, Arkansas, the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Big Chugga, Nebraska, a whole bunch of Wyoming twins, the third, the fifth, the fifth, and the 13 sisters in West Side of the state, Colorado. Good evening. and the left coast out there with a great state of Jefferson. We're waving to you guys. We turn them back to the east. Darkness before us. We sweep across the plains, leap over the deep, dark waters of the Mississippi and land at the Smokies. We're the restaurant crews, Grandma teams, OK teams, and the Maville Grandma Consortium bringing us the Golden Spike. Big 8 is dark, medium temperature is here. We got the moon out right now, but a little haze up there so it might keep some of the heating that we got from today. What's it like in your neck of the woods? What's jumping off the wall? What's the date? It is 26th December 2014 is the day after Christmas which means that I'm eyeball deep in leftovers. I'm probably going to be eating leftovers for about three weeks. So, well, you know, I don't mind. I try not to like the turkey and all that kind of good stuff. It is Friday evening. It is the last hour of the day and the week for the Intelligence Report and that makes this Quartermaster's Corner and the last quartermaster's corner of 2014. So it is dark here of course being past 4.30 in the evening local time. We had a fairly pleasant day. It was in the 50s and we've got cloud cover so we probably got the same cloud cover that you've got. We could probably you know, bouncing IR beam all the way from my area to yours just off of the cloud cover if we were good enough at that sort of stuff. So, it has been, in my opinion, a fairly quiet week on the international front. It is interesting to see even further lows on the retail fuel prices. I saw $1.95 gasoline here today and $2.80 diesel. It is a little bit silly that the diesel is more expensive than the gasoline, but that's been the case for quite a while. I may choke out a little bit, that's because part of my Christmas loot includes pistachios and I've been eating too many of them and they kind of sabotage me. So if I suddenly start to sound like somebody's strangling me, no, it's the pistachios having their revenge. So you will have to just jump in and rescue me. So, we have some regular sorts of quartermaster type things. As we have done in the past, I'm going to warn everybody about gold mine electronics. Because I watch these guys and I spend way too much money with them. And they have some interesting stuff, but they are treacherous. They bet their prices all over the map. They have coupon codes for freebies, but by goodness you've got to get that coupon code in there because they're sure not going to give you credit for it if you don't remember. And they play some games with the shipping, so keep an eye on the shipping and decide whether to let an order go through. That being the case, They, once again, remember how I have warned you in the past that if they have a quantity limit on something, it's not because they're running out. It's because they're buried under a ton of that stuff. You've heard me say that before, right? Did I do this, Mark? Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Right. If they say quantity limit 5 or something like that, that means they've got about 15 bazillion of them on hand. For months now they have been bouncing the prices all over the place right now They are offering a package of five of those acetate cloth adhesive tape rolls And they do advertise this stuff is 570 Fahrenheit rated so it is high temperature tape I got some of that a little while back at a very very low price I'm willing to pass up on it until they give me a good price so they gave me a good price. They are currently offering five of those rolls for three dollars which means sixty cents a roll and that is a reasonable cost. They have tried to get as much as three dollars a roll for that stuff. So you know if people are playing games when they'll ask you for three dollars and then they'll ask you for one dollar and then they'll price something back up at $3 and then it's 60 cents and then it's $2 and it's just all over the place. That means they bought it for a dime. But if you have any use for a high temperature tape, and who doesn't, that is a possibility right now. They are offering this stuff at five rolls for $3, and it is acetate adhesive tape. It looks a lot like black duct tape. It's a narrow roll, and we have mentioned that before at Goldmine. Other items at Goldmine, once again, this little 5 battery rechargeable pack is on sale at $1.50. This guy is nickel metal hydride. and it consists of five AA batteries all in a shrink wrap envelope. You can use them together as a 6 volt pack or you can cut them apart and desolder the tabs. Bear in mind they will be soldered tabs, not button style. But at $1.5, for what amounts to five AA nickel metal hydride batteries. That is not a bad price. So if you have a use for nickel metal hydrides, you will have price them out at something approaching a dollar apiece probably as the best available retail prices. A buck and a half for a five pack works out to 30 cents. So that is a decent offering. As always, check the shipping that they want to stick you with. Here is something that has cycled in and out. and I think this is a useful item. They have some of these 10 watt LED plates. Now when they say plate, don't imagine something the size of a dinner plate. These are rectangular and flat and definitely not, you know, button style, which is why they call them plates. But the active area is about a half an inch square and it's mounted in a plastic carrier that's also then mounted on a metal plate. And so the whole thing is about an inch and a half square all told. These guys are rated 10 watts. These are 12 volt or 9 to 12 volts and they draw 1 amp. If you've ever played with these guys, they are bright. What you will remember if you are of an age is they will remind you of nothing more than the insanely bright slide projectors that all of us used to have in our houses or at least be occasionally exposed to at family gatherings when vacation slides and so on were being shown. Well, I think that all of us probably have visual memories of spots in our eyes from those lights. These will do the same thing. They will remind you of the same thing. If you fire up one of these things from a laboratory bench power supply to try them out, you will look to see if the ceiling is getting bleached by the light because it is that bright. Of course it won't, but you would think maybe it should be. What they are offering is two of these guys for $10. It is a slightly unusual offer in that they're offering you one warm white and one cool white in a package. So you get one that's kind of yellowish in hue and one that's kind of bluish in hue. Both of them fundamentally white, both of them useful as general illumination sources but with somewhat different color temperatures. Ten dollars will get you one of each. Now, there is a common electronic package called the TO220. And if you are not familiar with those, the people that are, you know, solder heads will say, oh yeah, YSPK explaining the TO220. Well, if you're not familiar with those, when you say TO220, you are specifying one of the most common packages. TO220 looks like generally a little black plastic sugar cubey thing. It is about a half an inch square and maybe an eighth of an inch thick. It has three wires coming out of one side and a metal tab coming out the other side. The metal tab is to be used as a heat sink. This is a very, very common package for devices that have to dissipate a certain amount of heat and which need three leads. You can get voltage regulators The 7800 series is the most well known common ones, but there are others that are 3 pin devices and typically you will get them in a TO220 package. Standard versions, the 78 series and their equivalents will run you about 39 to 59 cents a piece and come in various ratings. A 7805 will work at 5 volts and a 7812 will work at 12 volts and so on. If you connected a 7812, which is a cheap and common part to these guys, then what you would have between those two devices is a system that will accept DC current anywhere from about 10 volts up to about 20 volts will power this device and provide you with an immense amount of light. If you used one of these regulators, you could use these in automotive applications too. Bear in mind that your car's 12 volt system does not run at 12 volts. It runs at everything from 10 volts to 15 volts, depending on how fast the alternator is spinning and the condition of the battery and all sorts of other things like that. So you cannot connect a 9 to 12 volt device like this to your automotive system and expect it to survive very long. the moment your engine controller decides that it wants to charge a battery and spins up the voltage to 14 or 15 volts, it's going to fry this 12 volt device. If you connect to one of these little 7800 series regulators with this device, then it will withstand those fluctuations in voltage. So with two simple devices, one of these and a 7800 series or one of the low dropout variants or what have you, you will have a lighting solution that will do a terrific job either under automotive conditions or other off grid conditions. I think this is a very, very useful sort of thing to snap up if you're doing anything off grid or even just, you know, mobile surgical uh... configurations uh... you know anything that runs off of twelve volts needs a lot of lightness small place that sort of thing these would be an ideal solution so uh... goldmine electron electronics is currently offering to these guys at ten dollars and that is a good price comments did i run you completely are just was uh... you know one of the things about the just going back a little bit with the uh... Different batteries sometimes they offer the chargers are they offering the charger package and like a charger package separate for the Nike and all the nickel hydride No, that's just a standalone offer is one of these little six volt battery packs consisting of five double A's Shrink wrapped together. So there is no offered specifically for that Well, sometimes, again, if you look through the different inventories, they'll have a periphery of a wide range. In fact, they seem to be accumulating more, I've noticed, of the without battery chargers for nickel hydride, NiCAD, et cetera. So you probably can find a pretty good price on them right now if you search around just to have spare chargers on the shelf that work off the wall or can be adapted quickly to work off your solar cells. So, if you're looking for a solution attached to that, shop around into the battery carriers or the battery chargers that they do have. And the other industrial supply points have similar packages. Just something as a heads up because we can, you know, again, set up an entire system from pieces here, pieces there. Go ahead. Okay, over on Sportsman's Guide, they are advertising a truckload sale on ammunition. And some of their prices are not too bad. Some of them are uninteresting things. I personally am very much uninterested in the steel-cased ammunition. There are people who can use that. I'm not one of them. They do have a few items, however, that I think are of general interest. For instance, they are offering a 250-pack of 12 gauge double odd buck. Now these are reduced recoil which also means reduced muzzle velocity but if you ask me I'm not going to want to stand in front of either standard or reduced muzzle velocity double odd buck. They're offering 250 round pack of this for $152 for Buyers Club and $164 for non-members. That's not bad. We have the dollar or round price threshold for double lot which is quite ridiculous but has been the case for a long time. So 160 for 250 of them is less than that and not a bad offer. We have seen better offers than that but that's not bad. They're also offering 1500 rounds of 223, 62 grain FMJ. at 570. They're calling this a clearance and they do not mention the shipping cost. That's not a terrible offer, but I have a better one for you. Over at plygunsandammo.com. We've mentioned these in the past, but not recently. One of the things they are offering is SADU, that is Romanian Manufacture, modern new manufacturer 223, this is 62 grain SS 109. This is brass case, annealed boxer primed the whole nine yards, FMJ 62 grains. They're offering a thousand rounds of this at $300, well, $299. With flat rate shipping, however, they also have a better offer. That was at $0.30 a round, which is a pretty good price for a conventional $0.55 grain and an excellent price for $0.62. At a similar price, they are offering 1,500 rounds for $500 for the case, but here's the cherry on top. If you buy the 1,500-round pack at $500, they are offering free shipping. Free shipping is nothing to sneeze at when you're talking about ammunition because those are heavy packages and they have to go by ground typically. and so there will be some additional expense if you visit BuyGunsAndAmmo.com They are offering the SADU 223. Modern style manufacturer. This is NATO spec SS10962 grain. All that kind of good stuff. Either of those offers are at 30 cents a round. But if you buy the 1500 of them for $500, free shipping. We like free shipping. Comments? Especially again, like I said weight and the idea is depending how far away you are depending on the system that's used by that shipper that company for shipping Guys you're looking at 30 40 50 dollars The more of the bigger the order the more weight moves so free shipping on an item like that is a definite plus that takes a big chunk off the cost The other thing is again more ammo is better as we've been saying two two three three oh eight Shock on 40 caliber 45 90 millimeter. Just keep putting it on the shelf You're not going to lose a penny on any of it. We know that Yeah, these guys are based in Georgia, so they're in the southeast pretty central. You are too Well, southeast is down that that lower right hand corner So you know if you're in the middle or off on the left hand side the shipping is not a trivial matter There we go. Oh, I've got some I've got a car keypad helper here forgive me back Anyway, one of the other things here too is that right now if you're going to be picking up ammo watch for cans, tractor supply has actually been picking them up, showing up with some brand new virgin cans in mix sizes. Price will vary too, but they've got them in stock. One of the things we had them show up here, BK, literally in hours they were sold out. As soon as everybody found out they had the ammo cans, everybody just slid in. My youngest son was in there buying them, he picked up a few. And in the time it took for him to go to the other end of the store and come back, half of them were gone. How surprising on those. Well, these are brand new. Actually about mid-range, I'd say about like $13, $14 apiece for the brand new 40 millimeter can. These aren't the 50s. They're bigger than a 50. Actually, a 50 will fit inside these. These are for the 40 millimeter grenade or therefore the 30 millimeter rounds. But they're not marked for any particular lot. They're definitely a standard can and there's about 20 different in service right now. So this particular can's a little deeper than a 50, a little wider by an inch, and just a little longer. I would assume, like I said, could be 30 millimeter, could be a 40 millimeter grenade, depending on how they're stacking and storing it. But it's definitely their good cans. It's not the only ones they're getting. Some of them are getting 50s. Again, this is new production, overrun, nothing unusual about them. Straightforward, standard US military cans, good fresh paint job, good steel, they haven't cheaped them out, and exactly what you're looking for. That kind of sounds like maybe that's overrun. Right, that's what I said. They allow for 10 to 20 percent overrun. Usually they'll snag part of it, the government will. That's traditional. It's like with socks and everything else. They'll do about 20 percent over and the government will take five at least. That leaves the difference in the production run or whatever they want to overrun to go to open sales. These are nice, well, they're brand new. They're virtually unissued, unused. for any particular task. They've not been painted as far as nomenclature or anything like that. So it's a good buy. And it's the first time around for the cans, which means whatever you put in it. That's the first time it's seen or smelled any nitrocellulite or any, you know, baker or whatever the material is that they're using for powder. And they'll be good for a long, long time because they're fresh production. OK. How are we doing on time? Are we going to be doing a drawing this evening? Oh no, not this evening. No, no, we won't be until next week. So we're good. We've got time. Go right ahead. Okay. All right. Well, that means that this is time for fun with technology with your host, Butterknife. Okay, we'll clear the decks first. Does anybody want to speak before we get started on a big topic? Three, two, one. Okay. All right. I have been having some fun over on YouTube. and I have discovered a new channel or a new to me channel even though it's been going for a while and I've been getting rather excited by this stuff. I'm sure that all of you share my predilections and get excited by all of exactly the same things and therefore I decided I would share this with you. There's a fellow there named Robert Murray Smith. It's one of those hyphenated names. This fellow is a chemist and he likes to show people how to do interesting things with graphene. Now, what is graphene you might ask? Mark, are you actually familiar with graphene? Do you know what that is? Go right ahead. Okay, carbon is one of the more interesting elements that we have available in the periodic table and that's because of the nature of the bonds that it forms. Now, we will all be familiar with a material called graphite. We are also all familiar with a material called diamond. Depending on how you bond carbon atoms to each other, Not even counting all the weird and wonderful things that you can do with cyclics and organic chemistry and so forth, you can get different substances. For instance, if you bond carbon in a regular three-dimensional lattice, you get something called diamond, which is extremely strong and hard and very useful for all sorts of industrial things. Eventually we will develop the technique of building great big sheets of diamond and we will have many useful things to do with that. Right now the best we can do is produce lots and lots of little itty-bitty pieces and mostly we use those for abrasives. Another form however of carbon is called graphite. Graphite is interesting because it is a useful lubricant for an awful lot of things. Why is it a lubricant? Because of its crystal structure. The way it works is that if you bond carbon atoms together in a flat sheet, they will form a hexagonal pattern. And these hexagons will bond with other hexagons and form a whole big mesh of hexagons all in a big flat sheet. If you have a whole bunch of these things in a clump, they are all lumped together. All these sheets are kind of lying on top of each other like sheets of paper in a pack of, you know, in a ream of paper. But what's interesting about them is that while they are very strong in their hexagon, they are very weakly bonded to each other. So all these sheets lie on top of each other but they will slip and slide very easily relative to each other so that makes them a useful lubricant because if you put graphite into the intercesses in two pieces of metal for instance, don't do this in your AR because graphite does not like aluminum. you put it, say, in some steel assembly, like for instance a lock, it's one of the favorite lubricants for locksmiths. When you apply a shear force to a particle of graphite, it will shear very, very easily and that will constitute a lubricating effect. Okay, very low energy input in order to get it to slide makes it work like any other lubricant that you might have. Now, this has been useful for many things and it has been an industrial material for that reason for a very long time. But This demonstrates how primitive and crude we humans are. We're barely figuring out the most fundamental things. Back in 2004, some people did an interesting experiment which resulted in them getting a Nobel Prize in 2010. This is very, very recent stuff. What these guys did, these are a couple of physicists in the UK, is they used some very expensive and exotic materials to do something that nobody had ever done before. They used a pencil and some scotch tape, which they call sticky tape, and they attacked a piece of graphite. Now, we will be aware that pencils don't have actual lead in them. What they have is a core of clay and graphite, right? So, if you make a mark with a pencil, what you're doing is you're making a smear of graphite on the paper. but that graphite is many many many layers of this hexagonal structure. What these guys did was they took a little speck of graphite in that fashion and they stuck a piece of scotch tape to it and they pulled it off. and that peeled apart the piece of graphite and split it in half. And then they stuck another piece of tape onto the smaller piece and they pulled that apart. And it pulled apart the sheet of graphite again into an even smaller half and they just kept doing that over and over and over again until they eventually got down to a layer that was one atom thick, which is what we call graphene. And strangely enough, these two guys fooling around with a pencil and a piece of scotch tape produced particles of graphene which nobody else had ever produced. Can you imagine? In 2004 somebody did something that had never been done before in history and earned a Nobel Prize for it by fooling around with a pencil and some pieces of scotch tape and pulling apart a piece of graphite and getting the a single sheet of that hexagonal structure isolated from others. So that let them play with this piece of graphene, a single atom thick hexagonal layer of graphite is what we're talking about is graphene. And it has some very very interesting properties. One of them is that it is the strongest material known to man. Steel is not the strongest. Titanium is not the strongest. Graphene is the strongest material, believe it or not, known to man. If you could produce a sheet of graphene of a size that you could see, you know, like a sheet of paper, without flaws, you could grab that with your hands and you could not pull it apart. That's how strong graphene is, fundamentally. Now, no graphene that anybody's ever made is that strong. It's sort of like spiderweb, but that's because there are all sorts of flaws in the sheets that we have been able to produce so far. If you test the electrical conductivity of graphene, it is the most conductive substance we know at room temperature. that is its electrical conductivity is better per unit of cross-section. than gold or silver or anything at room temperature. This is really very, very interesting. That's if you measure it edge-wise. If you measure it cross-wise, however, it doesn't like to conduct at all because that hexagonal pattern of atoms resists motion perpendicular to itself, whereas it allows electrons to skitter along the surface from one hexagon to the next. very, very easily, meaning low electrical connectivity. So it is fascinating stuff and has a lot of potential uses on down the road, and we may have enough time this evening to talk about some of those uses or we may not. But this is a material that has tremendous potential and according to the corporate press is very complicated and difficult to produce in any kind of quantity. You can possibly do it without a bazillion dollar budget and so on and so forth. Unless of course you have a pot and a stove and a little bit of ingenuity in which case you can make all you want. How do you do that? Some fairly common chemicals can be used to produce a material called graphene oxide is one method. and you would think that carbon with an oxygen coming along, we know what that is, that's carbon dioxide, but in fact graphene will form a bond with oxygen and form something called graphene oxide which is soluble in water. So if you create graphene oxide using some of these common household chemicals or almost household chemicals, you can paint it, you can mix it with things, you can interleave it through fabrics, you can do all sorts of interesting things, and then you can unoxide it, you can reduce it. It is called a reduction process. This is chemists say oxidation has a mirror image, it's called reduction. And you can reduce that graphene oxide back to graphene and therefore as a result you can coat things with graphene even though you can't really handle the graphene and get it to cooperate and move it around you can move graphene oxide around you can paint it on things and then you can turn it back into graphene. So there's all sorts of interesting things you can do with that through simple technology. What sort of chemicals do you need to make graphene oxide? Well, the easiest way is to start with graphite. Good high quality graphite is mined graphite. The cylinders you get commonly are a byproduct of the petroleum refining industry and that is small particles. It's not very pleasant. It's not large particles and large sheets and so on. You can get a hold of some mined graphite fairly cheaply. Simple chemicals like sodium nitrate, sulfuric acid, and potassium permanganate. I'm not going to go into the procedure right now because I don't want somebody to copy it down inaccurately and make a cloud of poisonous gas. But I will point you at instructional videos that are more precise in just a moment. But using these fairly common chemicals and very simple laboratory equipment like the glass cooking pot and the stove, preferably outdoors, thank you very much, and a thermometer and a stirring spoon and things of this sort, you can produce graphene oxide all by yourself. You can actually produce very big, thick, heavy chunks of it. or using variations of it you can produce dilute solutions depending on what you want to do. The other thing you can do is you can produce graphene directly. You can start with a chunk of mined graphite and if you think about it all you're really trying to do is split it apart into slices. Well, there are some chemicals that will do that. One of them is plain old sulfuric acid. It will infiltrate in between the layers of the graphite and kind of pry them and peel them apart and help you produce graphene. You will have to assist it a little bit with some mechanical agitation, generally an ultrasonic cleaning device, which you can by easily almost anywhere for a few dollars will help. One of the materials that people have used to break down graphite into graphene is common dishwashing detergent. Why? Because detergent does a really, really good job of glomming onto surfaces and kind of sticking there. This is what it does. It surrounds clobs of grease, for instance, and helps you clean things. Well, it also does a good job of wiggling into tight spaces and prying things apart if you get it warm and you agitate it. So you can use plain old dishwashing detergent, some graphite, an agitating mechanism like an ultrasonic cleaner and break this stuff up and vibrate it a little bit and warm it up a little bit and you can produce graphene. So there are lots and lots of different ways to produce graphene. And you can see them described and demonstrated on Mr. Murray Smith's YouTube channel. Get on YouTube and search for Robert Murray Smith. That's M-U-R-A-Y dash Smith. You'll find something on the order of 300 very, very interesting videos of varying quality. The oldest ones are miserable quality. He had a lousy webcam and one of the audio channels was bad. If you aren't listening on stereo, you will hardly be able to make out the audio. If you are listening on stereo, then one ear will be full of static and the other one will be understandable. later videos are better. Even later videos after that he apparently seems to be reasonably affluent and he built himself a little laboratory specifically for experiments with graphene and graphite and other interesting things and making web videos all about it. He demonstrates at least a half a dozen different methods of producing graphene oxide and probably three or four mechanical methods of producing graphene and a whole bunch of other things that you can do with it. For instance, you can create a conductive ink using graphite and graphene. Why is that interesting? With simple printing technology, which, you know, as simple as an ink pen, if you wish, or a paintbrush or a stencil and a roller, a silk screen, what have you, You can print very complex conductive patterns. Would you like to print a fractal antenna, for instance? That's the sort of antenna that makes your cell phone work properly in such a tiny, tiny package. Have you wondered recently why a cell phone works as well as it does without a 6 inch or 18 inch or whatnot antenna sticking out the end? That's because of something called a fractal antenna, which is usually a printed circuit board. Well, you don't have to add your printed circuit board to build a fractal antenna. You can do that with conductive ink and simply print it on a piece of paper if you want. And bingo, you've got an antenna. want some very interesting and complex shapes, print them on a piece of paper and then bend the piece of paper around. You've got something even more complex than what you can do with a printed circuit board. If you would like to build a radiant electric panel in your house, take some of this conductive ink and just paint a big square and attach electrical leads to one end or the other. Set the thickness correctly and you can have a 50 or 100 watt panel. Stuck to the wall of your house with you know just a few thousandths of an inch thickness it is as You know no mechanical equipment whatsoever no moving parts Nothing it just comes out of a can you just paint it right on there there are all sorts of fascinating things you can do with this and It all comes down to graphene which comes from graphite which you can break up in that fashion Now, there are even more interesting things. For instance, there is a material called Super Sand. And what Super Sand is, is standard old garden variety sand, but what you do is you coat it with graphite. And once you've done that, you have created a surface area of graphite, or of carbon, that dwarfs even activated carbon. That means that a pound of this stuff, even though most of it is sand, has some acres of surface area. It does a terrific job of absorbing metals, for instance, and organics like, for instance, Roundup that we're starting to find in our rainwater, of all things, and cleaning that water. So if you create Super Sand that is sand with graphene coated all over it, you can produce a water filter that has almost zero material cost and yet does a terrific job of filtering water to make it potable, drinkable, safe for humans. If you mix in, if you do it with a graphene oxide process, that is you're rinsing graphene oxide through the sand and coating it in that fashion, You can mix together some sodium nitrate or some silver nitrate along with the graphene oxide, coat the sand with both of those materials, reduce both of those materials so that the silver nitrate becomes silver and the graphene oxide becomes graphene. and you not only have a filter which removes chemicals from water but also kills bacteria and viruses pretty much on contact and will not develop algae problems and so on because of the antibacterial aspects of the silver. So this is a technology that's got some very, very practical applications. And if you think about it, just a few ounces of carbon, if you efficiently convert that to graphene oxide, go ahead and coat sand with it and then break it back down into graphene, is going to be an immense amount of water filtering capability. You can do the same thing, you can use this for various other items, techniques as well, but probably if, I would say that SuperSAND is probably the single most practical and useful thing you might use graphing for right now. On down the road they're talking about building semiconductors out of it and you can imagine what might be possible from say RC airplanes or call them drones if you like. If you could build large sheets of this stuff, can you imagine having wings that are a few molecules thick on the skin and just filled with foam or aerogel or something along those lines. But for right now Super sand is more than enough justification to get people, I think, very, very excited about this neat stuff called graphene. And there are other methods of making it. You do not need to make graphene oxide and reduce it. You can also make it directly. That's called a top-down approach. You produce the graphene oxide and reduce it to graphene. Another method is you can make a sugar solution, coat the sand with a sugar solution and then just cook it with heat over a well-documented procedure. certain temperatures for a certain time and stir it continuously and then raise the temperature and stir it some more and things of this sort. I am again not going to run through the list because A, it would be boring, B, I'd probably get it wrong, and C, you would probably copy it down wrong. I will simply point you once again to Robert Murray-Smiess channel where he describes all of these things. But for the cost of some sand and some sugar and a stainless steel container and a thermometer, I guess, and a lot of attention because if you're sitting there doing this thing manually and monitoring it, you're going to have to sit there for some hours watching it and stirring it and so on. You too can produce super sand with nothing more than sand and sugar. So... Among all the different and various procedures, and there are a half dozen or so methods of making graphene oxide, and several methods of making graphene from the bottom up, starting with carbon and catalyzing it with sand, You can probably find one that suits your fancy and is suitable to the technologies with which you are comfortable. So, take a look at that YouTube channel. And if you are anything at all like old BK, you'll become very excited and spend many, many hours sniffing through watching some of these videos. Because he does some very interesting and exciting things. And he does some boring things too. But mostly he does very interesting and exciting things with graphite and graphene. He's also fooling around with super-capacitors, which is a particular interest of old butter knife. I personally think the lead acid battery is a primitive and crude thing and I would like to see it replaced as an energy storage technology by supercapacitors, but we aren't quite there yet. It is possible that graphene will prove to be the breakthrough in the supercapacitor that will allow us to store useful amounts of energy capacitively instead of by the electrochemical cell that we call a battery. But that will be a little wise down the road or pending a technological breakthrough. But you know, that breakthrough could happen any day now. And there are people experimenting. And the key to experimenting is of course getting your hands on some of the materials and it need not be hideously expensive to do that. If you go to any of the chemical companies and seek to buy graphene, they will charge you approximately one bazillion dollars per pound for the stuff. But if you want to make some of your own, all it takes is common materials like graphene and graphite and dish soap graphite and sulfuric acid or graphite and sodium nitrate or just plain old sugar water and a turkey cooker and a lot of patients. So one last time, YouTube channel take a quick search through look for Robert Murray mu r r ay that's mu r r ay dash smith and start at the beginning and just run through. He has gone to the trouble of creating a number of playlists, so you can select topics of interest, you can select a playlist that discusses ultracapacitors and one that discusses graphene directly, and another that discusses how to make graphene and graphene oxide, and others that discuss conductive inks and so on and so forth. So take a look there and you will find out what OLPK is most excited about this week. Thank you very much. Excellent. And again, there's a number of different tech videos, virtually any subject guys that you can imagine. Oh, jobs of them. Somebody else has already done the work. All we have to do is tune in and then cherry pick what you need for a particular task. You bet. And a lot of those are just plain fun even if you don't have a practical application. I love guys like NerdRage and Applied Science and so on and so forth. I just watch those things for fun. Well, one of the things that another application for the carbon is a lubricant, especially in its micro fine spec, would be for, again, zero or minimal tolerant surfaces that are working or for non-binding. Certainly it would be smaller tech, but even with larger objects, something, you know, an applied material that can be uniformly used to coat an area where you've already come up with a zero point for tolerance with regard to variation from one flat surface area to another. A coating or material of the type that we're talking about, the material that of course is working as a technical lubricant in reality, it's wearing the surfaces uniformly so that they don't change or distort. It would still eventually wear. Everything wears. Atrophy catches up with everything. It's duration, its ability to perform for a longer period of time within these consistent tolerances make for a lot of special applications in electronics and also in, for instance, timekeeping with some of the unusual technologies that people have come up with in the last 50, 60 years reapplying. other elements of electronics, crystals, things of that nature, and combining them. So this is kind of interesting in that it could be used also in a, and I'm sure it has as a matter of fact. There were several carbon coating systems that they came up with. There were probably variations on this years ago that were the first to be purchased with it. In the past, I have lamented the loss. There was an outfit that was well reviewed by a lot of the gunwriters back in the 80s called Rice Gun Products. that a lot of people liked. It was a graphite based bore lube and it was well documented to add 100, 200 feet per second to rifle barrels. You know, you run the same ammunition through with and without the bore loop and you would see these differences in the chronograph readings. It was nothing more than a graphite coating. You would scrub your barrel, absolutely squeaky clean, swab this stuff through. Dry it, fire one shot through, and you would have a surface that would not take letting very fast and would, you know, greatly reduce the friction through the bore. That company seems to have vanished, but you can buy a graphite lubricant by the gallon. It's called slip plate, and I suspect that it's the same stuff. I think it's basically just graphite with a petrochemical carrier. So, you know, I have a bunch of slip plate for other purposes. I have not run firearms related experiments with it, but I wouldn't be surprised if that isn't exactly the same material as the old rice bore lube. And if so, that means it's dirt shaped because, you know, you can get a gallon of slip plate for 30 or 40 bucks, brand new. Yeah, the important thing is, especially if it's a carbon element lubricant, it might actually work better in the sand slash dirt slash desert environment being, again, a dry lube from the beginning. We experimented with variations on material like this years ago. There were a couple of different dry lube companies. With the M60 machine gun, we had excellent results. We didn't really get a chance before some of these product lines just seemed to disappear, but the M60 is a persnickety beast on occasion once it starts to carbon up, like the M16. With the M60, we found that we had excellent results. As far as I know, for the longest period of time, of course the 60s have been phased in favor of the MAG58. the MAG58 is a Browning design but still the same basic lubricant requirements would mean even better performance from what is already a good design with the Browning system. Right, remember that graphite is bad for aluminum so you want to keep it away from conventional ARs but if you should have one that uses something other than aluminum in its receiver then you might get some benefit from a graphite lubricant but you don't want to do it on a standard AR with aluminum because Apparently it attracts moisture and forms some sort of acidic reaction and causes some pitting on aluminum. Not on steel, but it does on aluminum. You know one component or another because typically an electrolysis type response is what it sounds like Or maybe it maybe it forms carbonic acid from atmospheric ingredients or something whatever it is Graphite is a bad idea for aluminum, but it's great for steels and other other metals Well the interesting thing about this you know again The experiment would be isn't that doesn't sound like it's that complicated after take a look at the page rest away I must have all these videos The reason is, again, to be able to produce the lubricants and actually apply it as a lubricant process. Remember guys, we have to start looking at sub-production technology, not mass production. We're talking local, backyard, garage, home production in all categories. It's like I was talking about during the Choraboc. Something as simple as coffee. How long would it last? Most people won't have the discipline to slow down or back off on how they use coughing. So, it would be one of those import items that progressively if everything were shut down or cut off would disappear. No, I'm sitting on my pile of coffee. I'm chirping away at it. It's standard rate until I hit the wall. That's just the way it's going to be. Then we have to have a solution to replace it and that's another backyard industry. Right, but all of this graphing technology that Murray Smith talks about is backyard technology. It is glass containers and heating and so on. Some of it requires very high temperatures depending on what you're doing. The magic sand, the super sand from sugar requires rather high temperatures. But most of this stuff is fairly modest temperatures, low pressures, that kind of stuff and you can produce this very, very interesting molecule that has any number of not yet discovered applications and uses. The immediate one, however, is Super Sand. And if you can produce tons of water filtering capability for the price of pounds, and you can do it with backyard technology, then you are way ahead of the game. One of the other things here too is the basic components and assemblies. If we're looking at high temp, remember there's a lot of different material components. Pyre decks, glass vessels and components that can take heat. The older style Pyrex containers, the older style American made with this USA on it. Guys, that's space age glass, so to speak. The other thing is lab component. beakers and vessels are available and actually pretty cheap if you look around. There is surplus in that area and it's one of those things where we need to be building up the technology. I save all coffee corrupts for that reason. If you take a look at a lot of these fun projects, the coffee maker pots, you know, either stainless or the glass, remember they're designed to handle heat. Right, if you don't need extraordinary temperatures, they're borosilicate glass just like anything else and they'll do the job. They're already there in force because people usually, the machine breaks down, typically the coffee pots arrive. I've got boxes of them and everybody puts them over in the recycling bin. Well, I've got it to the point now where I have a whole case of all of the exact same Mr. Coffee vessels. They are perfect for whatever project we are doing. If you are doing production, it is good to have a consistent vessel or containment technology. When you are measuring people, they are looking at it and they can do it automatically. It virtually comes down to sense. Calibrations, which is still critical, usually they can get it pretty consistent after a while when the person operates over and over and over with the same equipment. Consistency is kind of nice whenever you can provide that. It doesn't mean you can't make do with a dozen different vessels and containment technologies to get the job done because we'll work with what we've got. But start thinking about this stuff now because other people are not. If we think about when it's cheap, down the road when it's not available, we've got it, others don't, we're ahead of the curve. If you experiment with these techniques and tool up, to the small extent required, and the requirements are quite modest, tool up in advance, then you'll be in good shape later on when you have more time than money. Exactly. And that's what's going to happen here at the Progressive... Well, eventually your time can be converted into whatever the money of today is, which is really cool. So, think ahead. And by the way, think ahead. Next week we have a drawing. You can go to LibertyTreeRadio.4mp.com. $10 will get you into the drawing five times guys. We've got the t-shirt that's been signed by all of our hosts. We've got everybody else out there doing their part. Pitching in with other technologies. We've got several leather items, several gun items as far as support items to pitch in. You should have another package here tomorrow but I don't understand. So we're going to have a big, big draw coming up on, well, just after the first of the year, next weekend. We'll be back. Meanwhile, we are hidden this weekend. God bless the Republic. Death for the New World Order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. We are on the march post, day and night. Ura! Quartermaster Friday is over for us for the moment, but it doesn't end yet. Guts shows and ham fest this weekend, guys, even though it's just after Christmas. There's some scheduled. Get to it. See what they're laying around. Thank you, BK. We'll be back next year. It's a tall old tree and a strong old tree. But yes, we are the sons of the Haver, biker, boys, be the liberty tree. 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