If the fish are being poisoned by treated wastewater, i wonder what will happen to humans drinking the same.

https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/407949/anti-anxiety-depression-medication-wildlife-salmon

I don’t eat fish.

I really wish there was some sort of federal agency that worked on transplanting these dying species to New and protected habitats. I realize that sometimes this can end up causing invasive species problems, but there has got to be a way to do this as a compromise.

Not really surprising. Petro-plastic isn’t really recyclable. I’d rather they be incinerated than landfilled since they aren’t made of bioplastic.

The good news is that people are starting to get scared of microplastics showing up in their bodies. So we’re probably going to see paper, glass, and aluminum making a comeback.

I’d like to see a cost comparison. I’m guessing all that battery storage cost less than the price of a nuclear reactor over its lifetime.

Smells like bullshit excuses. The same article talks about “They want a buffer zone to protect their viewscape and other proposed developments in the area, like new housing and a gas station.” So they don’t have a problem with other construction kicking up dust or using water — just the solar farm construction.

I fail to see the “struggle”. It’s not like this stuff spews soot into the area or something. It’s innocuous.

That’s a relief! Thanks for posting this.

Sounds like a great way to get prions.

How about treating the sewage, returning it to the rivers or using it for gray water and then desalinating for drinking and irrigation instead?

The hydrogen economy is a boondoggle. Most of it is produced using natural gas.

I remember reading an article about how you could starch fabric to make it stiff as a board so robots could work with it to cut and sew clothing. You then wash the clothes to release the starch, and reuse the starch water to stiffen the next batch. But I haven’t heard anymore about it.

No. It’s not a solar panel. It’s photoshop. If you watch the video, the tech they are discussing is in the “two alligator clips connected to a dime size piece of material” stage.

There’s frequently a lot more to homelessness than just giving someone a place to live. Many of these people are mentally ill or addicted to something and cannot function or take care of themselves. There’s additional costs above just providing a place to live - like food and clothing and healthcare.

Inmates are supposed to be provided with services like meals, showers, uniforms, and healthcare so that’s part of the reason for the discrepancy in costs. I doubt there’s much addiction care or mental health care in prison though.

These people really need a better place to get help than jail. But we don’t have socialized medicine in the US, and that’s probably a huge contributor to homelessness. Just think if you couldn’t drown in medical debt, or could walk in to any clinic and sign up for addiction care or mental health assistance how many homeless people might not have ended up homeless.

Also I’m not aware of any major US city where rent or mortgage is $10k per year. A lot of cities are buying up old motels and providing support services and temporary housing. That seems to be a good start, but it probably costs more than $10k per year per person. And without free continuing healthcare a lot of people are going to end up back on the street.

We really should be installing neighborhood sodium batteries everywhere. It would help to capture residential solar and smooth out the grid. No more mass power outages during storms either.

“We cut down all the trees. But hey, we planted a spattering of moss. Totes the same!”

Plastics can be put in the dishwasher. But then you also have to deal with microplastics.

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This article reads like a press release.

Maybe don’t rely on other countries for your energy needs. We’ve seen how well that worked out with Saudi oil and Russian natural gas.

Pretty sure Adobe brick is made with poop. And it insulates well.