We prefer the term Earthicans

That's fine for creatures which are able to communicate via high pressure air waves in the range of 2kHz - 14kHz... You insensitive clod.

Heh, in my day, enemies of the US could by top-notch military technology directly from the Commander in Chief of the US military.

Ghandi was a genius, albeit an evil genius...

Ghandi realized that his forces could not match the British on the battle field, so he changed the rules of the battle to fit the strengths of his army. Hide under the umbrella of "non-violence".

Straight out of "The Art of War"... "Attack where they cannot defend, defend where they cannot attack."

The writers of the article made the fatal mistake of stating "you can't". Which combined with our proximity to an improbability field, means not only "you can", but that someone will. Or more likely, someone already has...

You can't conceive that anyone who might want to consider the environmental impact of anything could possibly have a valid opinion
Here in California, we cannot get a transmission line from a desert solar station to a nearby city.

The problem is that most rivers of any size have a large delta area of brackish water, not a thin region of fresh/salt water.

Environmentalists would have a cow if you tried to put electrolytic plates into either a river or the ocean. They'll probably say it makes the rivers run backwards or the ocean currents to turn 90 degrees or some such thing.

It is kind of interesting though, even Tesla did some work on "magneto-hydro-dynamics". I read some stuff on thermo-magneto-hydro-dynamics a few years back.

Now if you could teach men to understand the meaning transmitted in "the look" directed at him from his wife, then you'd be somewhere.

I think my dog understands the meaning, but he either can not or will not communicate the meaning of "the look" to me. It would likely involve tearing my face off.

That's an interesting correlation.

I find it easier to measure the "tooth to tattoo" ratio. Having been an EMT in a past life, I've observed that those who have more tattoos than teeth have a much higher likelihood of dying in an emergency room. Granted this is just a loose hypothesis based on my random observations. YMMV

Welcome to the real world...

Try to manage the whole work-life balance. At least until you can change your career to something where moving around a lot is part of the job. I spent three years in agriculture, and lost about 50 pounds. I'm currently taking classes for a career change to geology.

Oil on plastic works as fly-paper. Once the fly touches the oil, it cannot fly. It starts to squirm until a wing touches, then it ain't going anywhere. Soapy water works too.

A neighbor attached a 10 inch glass disk to an old style computer box fan, and it turned about 15 RPM. He positioned the disk so that it dipped into a half plastic milk carton of vegetable oil. A lamp was positioned to shine on the glass. On the first night, the tank was completely full of bugs (mostly moths), and it looked like mud.

What I want to know, is the details of the digester, what is the reaction that produces electricity. How do I make that part?