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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I shave DE and this is an amazing idea. I currently use a sharps container, but this is so much more fun.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Even with fission, nuclear is a panacea of energy with almost no waste for modern reactors. I can see there being an initial rise in energy costs to get those projects built out though. If they are phasing out nuclear, that would be dumb.

Additionally, researchers at MIT recently found that you can evaporate water without heat, so that should hopefully be a thing in the near future.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I was about to write back that we are not far off the advances to make these affordable and then did a google search and found that you can get a distilled unit on Amazon for $180 that is capable of making a gallon in 5 hours for about $.45 worth of electricity. That is far less than what it costs to buy distilled water at the store, which is around $1 a gallon. If you look at this from a break-even analysis, you technically start to reap the rewards of ownership after about 800 uses since the first 400 uses basically cost you $1.45 per gallon, then the next 400 costs you $.45 per gallon, but you are recouping that extra cost over the $1 retail price, so by the 800th use, you are getting water at less than half the price of the store.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Not necessarily. It just requires excitation at a molecular level. You can get creative with your source. They have been playing around with low energy methods like LED or even just using the sun, geothermal, etc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (10 children)

Distill water, then add minerals back into it, and bottle in glass, profit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What if that tent was firing rockets though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Shouldn’t we get their side of the story?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Use the methane and solar to fuel the facility. Capture the emission and reuse them in fertilizer as well. Have the facility be a one-stop-shop, which produces the feed from hydroponics. The VR for a cow is not going to be that difficult. Just project fields in front of them. The treadmill can just have bearings and not require power. If anything they can be used to generate it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I hate to provide such a short answer to such a well written response, but perhaps shit lagoons aren’t the only way to process manure cleanly. Also, I’m not convinced that we can’t use high rise facilities for these animals and give them a matrix type experience. Each animal gets a cell, treadmill, VR screen/googles, and feed. Something along those lines.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Upon further research, it seems we should simply stop most cow production and move to ostriches for red meat.

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