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Vinyl record production has finally joined the modern age
Viryl has developed a first-in-the-industry: A steamless system [for creating vinyl records] that will make massive boilers and piping systems a thing of the past. Not only does it obviate some of the costs and permits previously involved, but it also becomes a more environmentally friendly process. Vinyl record pressing has finally bootstrapped itself into the modern age on all counts and stands to encourage new pressing plants to support vinyl's resurgent popularity.
Traditionally, the molds used to stamp out vinyl discs are heated by steam which is delivered to the press from a boiler. Viryl's steamless module electrically heats water to the desired 285 degrees Fahrenheit so the molds can melt pucks of PVC into a record. This new method of heating, removes gas, the boiler and extensive plumbing from the equation.
This new setup is a closed system that can live right next to the press, allowing for a smaller footprint in your workspace. It also reduces water waste, although you'll still need cooling lines. One of the biggest factors here, though, is that no boiler means none of the treatment chemicals used to keep a boiler in working order, so the environment wins. A setup that requires less square footage could also make Viryl's new presses a more attractive solution when space is limited or at a premium. Existing customers luck out as well, since it's possible to retrofit presses with the new option.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Thursday December 06 2018, @11:35PM (4 children)
Very much this. It's perhaps ironic, but it is a case of the technical inferiority of vinyl actually making it largely immune to the marketing machinations that crippled the quality of other formats.
>If the proposed solution to a problem is a tax, then it is just an excuse to tax, not a real problem.
May I offer an alternative?
If the desired goal is to tax, then any problem, real or imagined, presents an opportunity to do so.
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Friday December 07 2018, @12:53PM (3 children)
"May I offer an alternative?
If the desired goal is to tax, then any problem, real or imagined, presents an opportunity to do so."
While I don't disagree, that has a slightly different focus. It refers to the desire to tax, mine is referring to whether or not a problem is real.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Friday December 07 2018, @02:51PM (2 children)
It's more than a slightly different focus, it's a logically incompatible statement.
Yours says: if tax, then no problem.
Mine says: if tax, then someone wants tax. (Nothing implied about problem.)
Seems to me there's far too many taxes that have been implemented as (usually ineffective) "solutions" to real problems for your statement to be even passingly true.
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Friday December 07 2018, @04:10PM (1 child)
I see what you mean. I have changed it slightly to emphasize more what I meant, as I was implying something about the problem, as well as the desire to tax. I think I could word it better, and will consider it further. :)
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Friday December 07 2018, @09:19PM
I like it.
It does feel like it's almost something really punchy, but no improvements spring to mind. Best of luck with it.