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Comment Re:What do you want us to do about it. (Score 1) 58

I'm not going to be one of those people who say humans didn't play a role, but seriously. Good luck fixing this. How much energy is needed to raise the world's ocean temperatures by 0.1F

Or 77,002,800,000,000,000,000 Calories (aka Kcals), which is equivalent to ~91.7 quadrillion Jack Daniel's bacon cheeseburgers from TGI Friday's. (which are amazing, btw)

Comment Lemme show you tha door... THERE'S THA DOOR! (Score 1) 211

by Jogar the Barbarian (#65290191) Attached to: Bluesky Can't Take a Joke
There's few movies I've laughed as long and as hard as I have in Stallone's magnum opus, Oscar. It won two Razzie awards that year. I couldn't care less! If you're a fan of screwball comedies or of stage plays stumbling onto a movie set, you've got to check it out. It's also one of the very few movies that has Tim Curry not playing a bad guy.

Submission + - Scientists may have discovered how to extract power from the Earth's rotation (scientificamerican.com)

Submitted by Baron_Yam
Baron_Yam writes: No more burning fossil fuels, playing with fissile material, damming rivers, erecting wind mills, or making solar panels. All of our energy needs could potentially be supplied by the angular kinetic energy of the Earth — and because of the mass of the planet, doing so would slow its rotation down by a mere 7ms per century.

Normally this would be considered impossible as the Earth's large and uniform field does not induce a current in conductors, but researchers believe that a hollow cylinder of manganese, zinc and iron can alter the interaction with our planetary magnetic field and allow the extraction of energy from it. So far, the results are positive but still below the level where they cannot be explained by multiple possible causes of experimental error. Further research is required to confirm the effect.

Comment Ghost towns (Score 1) 57

by Jogar the Barbarian (#65228745) Attached to: The Curious Surge of Productivity in US Restaurants
While I like the quiet, it's a little depressing to go to a take away restaurant and be the only customer there. Especially knowing that not that long ago, it would be moderately busy at this or that time of day. Meanwhile, the drive-thru stays busy... I can't even strike up conversations with the staff to break the monotony because they're rushing to fill the drive-thru orders.

Comment Re:There's no "cleaning it up" (Score 1) 30

Not even 10 years... (published April 11, 2023) https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.weforum.org%2Fagenda....

Led by 2018 Stockholm Water Prize winner Bruce Rittmann, the team uses a specially modified membrane known as MCfR that causes a reaction in water, to attack the chemical composition of PFAS particles it contains. The water is then treated by microorganisms in a special reactor (MBfR) to break down the remaining pollutant particles, which possess among the strongest carbon bonds in chemistry. “We use the MCfR to knock off a few to all of the fluorines, and then we hand that water with those compounds over to the microorganisms in the MBfR, and they finish the job,” said Rittmann.

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