On Sat, 23 Jan 2016 08:16:14 -0800 (PST), giles wrote:
[...]Me and a couple of other guys are currently in the early planning stage of a project to convert a couple hundred pounds of Lake Michigan beach sand into steel using a fifty-five gallon drum, a bunch of refractory clay, and a few pounds of thermite.

What a hoot!

g.

Wait - you can make steel out of beach sand now?
That just sounds wrong, but then again, I know nothing about Lake Michigan
"beach sand".

Carry on...

/daytripper (who doesn't quite know what to make of all this activity
here...