this is a fairly big deal

The Biden Administration Pledges to Phase Out Coal Power Plants

I mean, West Virginia is going to elect a MAGAt senator to replace retiring Senator Manchin anyway, so politically, why not do the urgently necessary thing here? As massive changeovers go – and this is a massive technology changeover – 12 years is pretty reasonable, and the technology is absolutely there, so let’s goooooooooooo

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this is hard to make in tinkercad

So I have this old palm sander, no idea where it came from, it’s a French-made Black & Decker with parts from West, and I do stress West Germany, which tells you how old it is. But it still works!

And it’s got this rear-facing vent that throws a lot of dust out, but no bag, even though there absolutely is an attachment point for some sort of accessory, so I made an accessory to connect it to a standard friction-fit vacuum cleaner hose. It clips in as original accessories would’ve done, and then you just insert a vacuum cleaner hose. Plastic hose, preferably – I don’t know how well it’d hold up to something heavy and metal. But for lightweight hoses it should be okay I think.

This isn’t the sort of thing TinkerCAD is good at doing. Or at least, I’m not good at doing it yet. But I got there and it works! I learned some things and the next time I do something like this it’ll definitely be different and hopefully easier.

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