Insect protein can be close to ungulate protein in nutritional value, but much more efficient in terms of feed -> protein yield. just as importantly, insect farming uses hardly any water.

Consider the Dyson Sphere, which involves breaking down an entire planet and using it to build a shell around a star. Because of the star's heat and strong gravitation, the Sphere can absorb and destroy any amount of household dust, even over billion-year spans of time, without losing suction, and without use of any external power sources. But even the traditional Dyson customer base has balked at the high price, and not one order has so far been placed, even in Beverly Hills or Qatar.

We're talking about the federal government here. It no longer has to abide by this "Constitution you speak of, and if you invoke it in a court case, the feds can declare your argument "frivolous" and ignore it.

But shouldn't an observatory's name suggestion be something relevant to astronomy?

This would be the ultimate in PC stupidity. I would rather name an asteroid after Neil deGrasse Tyson. Not only is he a more worthy honoree, but an observatory should suggest honorees that are relevant to their own science.

Truman administration baby here (you know, the guy who dropped those big bombs). You're lucky in not having had to look for work during the Carter administration.

Japan needs to ask for the help of international experts. There is a ton of unutilized nuclear expertise just in the US who could be a part of this effort.

Methane may be a more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2, but it also breaks down much faster.

OTEC is yrt another technology that Greens lauded and promoted until the instant some contemplates actually building it. Note the venom with which they are greeting this tiny pilot project. THIS, not labor or official regulation, is why anything edgy and cool has to be built in China

According to this article, I died sometime in 1986. So this is what Heaven is like? I thought it was just northern Arizona.

The eco-nut problem in Germany is actually even worse than in the US, and it doesn't end with having Green Party representation in Parliament. In Stuttgart, they have even been protesting against high-speed conventional rail.

Arizona 101 in Phoenix.

But what about that long section that follows I-5? Implementing this piece as a cut-and-cover tunnel in the die-straight median would probably be cheaper than the pylons. Elevated track would be best for the urban sections where tunneling under existing infrastructure would be prohibitively expensive.

150 years ago, large numbers of people decided to go one-way to California. An easy decision, you say? There was no Silicon Valley and no Hollywood. The northern part of bear-infested wilderness, and the southern half was uninhabitable because it had no water supply.

Power the ship with a fission reactor, and you can use the fuel load, in combination with your water supply, as emergency shielding. The reactor will also come in handy when you get there.