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Have you made simple mistake on your original comment?
That source is about the use of dried luffa, a cucumber like vegetable.
You commented about
dried sea cucumbers
From the Wikipedia article on sea cucumbers, “they are marine animals with a leathery skin and an elongated body … found on the sea floor worldwide.”
Thus me having asked for a source.
Same content on archive.ph.
Great post! Thanks for this.
"Ninety percent of the world doesn’t need to reduce their [personal] emissions, but most readers of The Washington Post probably do,”
*same article on archive.is.
Somehow I always think of the migrant boats crossing the Mediterranean. I hope events are unrelated.
The first advise is get expert help.
Find a civil engineer or a structures engineer and ask them.
That crack does not look good. If I remember correctly cracks with more than 1mm gap should not be ignored.
If you don’t want to follow any of the previous advise, carefully monitoring for movement on the crack on a medium to long timeframe is, IMHO, the most irresponsible you can be.
Better for what?
Moving parts and complexity makes it more prone to failure.
Also, how much energy do you need to keep this working? It’s not said on the website.
Granted, both kettle and this zori trade energy and complexity/failure-potential for convenience. Much more so the zori. How much is unknown. On the simple, less-energy end, you’d use an electrical resistance in an insulated jar.
All electric kettles will fail at some point. They have moving parts and are designed for obsolescence.
In my place I use a kettle that allows me to boil 1 cup of water. The filter mesh has failed long ago but the water does not have hardness. Instead I use a small improvised cap to keep the flow of vapour to the cut off thermostat (usually at the bottom of the handle).
