The Hydrilla and algal bloom mentioned in the article have been plaguing freshwater lakes near us for years. They effectively killed off several reservoirs heavily used by families and swimmers. The beaches are often roped off and people are warned to not let children wade in the water.

One of the reservoirs now has a permanent installation of an oxygenator pumping air to the bottom to let plant and animals not get choked off, but not sure it’s working.

The most reliable system (against natural causes, political, and financial strife, as well as future-proofing) would be local microgeneration.

This sounds like a huge boondoggle.

Was reading an article about creation of a large public beach. It only sat 2ft above sea level and often washed over in high tide. The developers bulldozed sand from the sea side to bring it up to 12ft. But they had big troubles with wind blowing the sand inland. It almost scuttled the whole project.

So they planted hardy native grass that grew roots toward the water. It mitigated the dust problem.

Wonder if a similar thing can be done with native desert vegetation to solve this problem.

In earlier drone shows, they moved the drones into position to make the image they were going for, so navigation and collision avoidance was an issue.

With 7500, it feels like they can just set up a pixel grid in the sky, never move the drones (other than adjusting for wind), then just change the colors to get the image they need.

I’m getting one of those chargers installed at home next week. The giant mushroom cloud you might see is nothing to worry about.

Same size as paper ones. Thin, perforated metal. Came in two gradations. Taste-wise, couldn’t tell the difference. When opening to clean, it slid off so you could wash it, then compost the coffee as usual.

Pretty handy. But somehow, I managed to dump them away. Went back to paper.

Unbleached, round paper filters. Come in 300 packs. Goes into compost bin along with grounds.

Had metal, reusable ones, but accidentally tossed them out.

Team Aeropress here.

Good to see Keurig try to cut down on plastic waste, but if they really wanted to make an impact, they could open-source the design of the pods so all the alt-cup manufacturers could switch as well. It may be counter-intuitive, but the more options customers have, the more machine sales and goodwill Keurig will create.

It warms my heart to hear young folks not buy into the infinite treadmill of consumption.