Or you could buy the water rights for their current value.

Ever since COVID, we've seen a shortage of microchips.
This shortage is not resolving itself.
We have the people and skills here in this country to build these fabs (for the most part, it's not like we're North Korea).

Shouldn't there be sufficient economic incentive for Intel, TMSC, etc etc to JUST DO THIS?

Why do we have to give them a dollar of tax payer money?

Shouldn't these companies by PAYING taxes?

And compared to many of you I assure you I'm on the radical right (not really, but anybody who isn't aligned with Bernie, AOC, etc is radical right these days).

Yea, and when they do this it's not part of the evaporative loop.

The water to which they supplement with anti-oxidizing agents is circulated from the AC units to the external coolers over and over and over for years upon years.

Think of it like your car. You car has a water loop. And to that they added a bunch of chemicals to prevent it from freezing in the winter, and to help reduce corrosion of the components it comes in contact with. But in the lifetime of your car you might flush the engine coolants 3-4 times.

If you wanted to make heat loss a little more efficient, you could install a 2nd "clean water" tank, and a spray nozzle that pointed at your radiator. Then, when your engine was hot, that nozzle would come on and mist the radiator. When that water evaporated it would take a lot more heat away than just plain air. But that water isn't treated past being filtered.

This 2nd water usage is what this article is pointing at as the "waste of water." The water that is run across the external cooling coils, to be evaporated to increase the amount of heat a smaller radiator can remove from the inner water loop (that stays the same water for years and years on end).

Could they install larger air coolers? Maybe.
Could they recycle the water they run over them for evaporative cooling? Well ... it does rain out ... somewhere ...

BTW: Evaporative cooling is common on pretty much any building of scale. Your large commercial office buildings likely use an evaporative cooler as well. Hospitals. Large hotels.

I think the true performance benefit of the larger / older database engines isn't as much on the read side but the write site.

A lot of new / simple database engines have very large locking domains. ie: when you insert a row, does the engine lock just the blocks the rows going into lock? Or the whole table? Or the ENTIRE DATABASE (yes, early mongo DB, I'm looking at you).

And who is blocked by that lock? Do writers block writers or do they block readers too? (and can readers prevent a writer?)

That's where Postgres is going to shine over more simple DB engines. Not so much on how fast they can read the database for 1-5 users. But what happens when you have hundreds of inserts a minute second from multiple users.

Actually, there is a way to make this work that doesn't use or share your device ID with the web site checking to see if you are human.

And, actually, it's based on an ITRF standard.

If you'd watch Apple's video, you could learn how!

Again, if you watch the video ...

For this to work, your device has to have an iCloud account. Apple doesn't share any of the details of this iCloud account with the web site, but seems to consider this a "good indicator that this device is attached to a person."

They also have systems on their end that can look for "bot like behavior."

So if you setup a "farm" of iPhones (each with an iCloud account), in theory ... apple could build systems to detect bot-like-behavor (many many token requests on the same iCloud account) and deny the token signing. This should force the site back into presenting a legacy CAPTCHA.

If you watch the video from apple, they will step you through the IETF standards they are using to accomplish this.

iCloud is involved to say "this person is a human."

iCloud does not give out any information that uniquely identifies you, or even your phone.

All it's doing is proving you are a real human, not a bot.

Carter signed a treaty saying that the US wouldn't build that type of reactor.

I'm pretty hard right. But this "feels like a job for the UN." A few "breaders" aka "recyclers" aka "refiners" positioned ... somewhere somewhat neutral that could reprocess the worlds waste into fuel again. Highly HIGHLY staffed by people from lots of nations and heavily monitored to make sure everybody knows what's going in and out of the place.

The place ... is a sticking point I know. You'd almost need to make "UN Island" somewhere where you felt like no single country owned the recycler.

I think you're thinking about it wrong.

Every EVERY method of power generation has a footprint. And a waste product. Including wind and solar.

Nuclear power plants take a considerably smaller footprint (literally land footprint) per GW of generation ability compared to Wind and Solar. Which means we can leave the rest of the land quite literally to nature.

And the waste product, while it requires careful management, is actually of such limited volume you can consider storing it ALL in a hole in the ground (ie: yucca mountain). You can't even fathom that with used windmill blades (that are build of a composite we don't know how to recycle yet) and solar panels (that we are also struggling to learn how to recycle well).

I've seen figures that if I powered my entire high energy life off of nuclear power, my waste FOR MY WHOLE LIFE would fit in a coffee cup. If you do the "waste refinement / recycling" they talk about here, it shrinks to 1 cubic inch.

Yea, am I "leaving something to my future generations" to manage. But, it's like ... 1 cubic inch.

That seems pretty damn responsible compared to everything we're doing now.

City people learn of the term "soil compaction," and assume that because they just learned the term, that it's a new problem! And time to freak out! And decide that they, in their great all-knowing-ness will have to provide a legislative solution.

Soil compaction is decades old. Farmers are well aware of it. They know how to farm to minimize it. They know what to do if the problem gets too bad to reverse it. It's not new.

So, I actually ... talk with the power companies here in Iowa. And this is just ... inaccurate.

Not only has the EPA forced the retirement of older fossil fuel plants, the bulk energy consumers only want to buy "green energy." And they don't consider Nuclear energy to be green, so ... we just shutdown a nuclear plant because none of the bulk consumers wanted to buy that energy. Point is: everybody has the impression that the "evil power companies" just build the power plants they feel like. What is being built is actually far FAR more driven by customer demand than anybody realizes.

Meanwhile wind and solar farms are going in like mad. Has the farmers upset, because you can't farm under a solar farm. And they see great farmland getting covered by solar. But still they go in.

The "risk" is we don't have bulk storage systems and/or sufficient backup fossil fuels to handle the hot / not windy day.

The inflation in farming isnâ(TM)t being driven much by the farmers.

The live in rural areas, in red states. They stopped caring much about Covid in the summer of 2020. Honestly, I live here, and work with farmers. That spring there was some attempt to social distance when buying parts and supplies.

Also, most farmers live on their farms. So, they have been working from home forever. (Itâ(TM)s one of the reasons why farming as partially survived the green agenda. You might not like all the farming practices, but these people are literally raising their own kids in an industrial zone. They are highly motivated to both use the chemicals they need for yield, yet keep it out of the ground water their own kids are drinking).

Weâ(TM)ve been dealing with a shortage of fertilizer since last fall. Nitrogen fertilizers are literally âoebuiltâ from consuming a large LARGE amount of natural gas. The spikes it pricing of natural gas due to ⦠not wanting to frack and build pipelines ⦠has considerably restricted the supply. And ESG isnâ(TM)t helping, even if you can get a license to drill, will a bank loan you the money? (ESG is political redlining)

Labor shortages at animal processing facilities early in Covid also caused some issues in the pipeline. Because in summer 2020 plants were unable to take animals, farmers slowed down their breeding programs. Because you can only keep so many animals on site. So if you canâ(TM)t move out the full grown ones, you have to stop making new ones. The lack of breeding in 2020 is starting to finally show up as reduced animal heard sizes for sale now.

Ukraine, also, is not helping. Many grains have an amount of âoesubstitutability.â So, Ukraine grows a lot of wheat. But you can feed a cow on corn or wheat. But you can only make bread from wheat. So, the cereal / bread companies are pushing up the price of wheat (for human consumption) which then makes things like beef production shift harder into corn and drive those prices up too. And this repeats across many MANY commodities and products.

  Also, the idea that US farmers should just grow more wheat is kinda non-starter. Most farmers have their seed ordered several months before they plant. The US market had their seed bought and plans set for 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine. There simply wasnâ(TM)t a lot of acres that were in a position to pivot.

I could keep going ⦠but this seems like enough.

> Well, may be that is why he had to buy Twitter and go private.

This is just such a shocking mis-understanding of the SEC settlement.

SEC's problem wasn't that Elon makes short public statements that effect stock price on another company platform.

SEC's problem is that Elon makes short public statements that effect stock price.

The SEC isn't going to feel any different about that if Elon owns twitter, or if I owned twitter or if twitter were a public company.

Apple worked really hard to secure the phone well. And when your phone is JUST the phone, it's very hard to get into without the passcode. All that works really well. Every law enforcement agency all the way up to the FBI was pissed, and there was real talk a few years ago about mandating backdoors.

And Apple, years ago, would sorta admit that they needed to secure iCloud more.

And then they went ... quiet about that.

If you were paying attention you've known for years that the uncomfortable compromise has been: it's ok to keep the phones that secure as long as you hand over the backups on request.

If you are worried ... turn off your iCloud backup and back your phone up to you Mac with an encrypted backup.

But this ... this has been obvious FOR YEARS to anybody who paid attention.

There has been a pretty steady decline in ethanol subsidies over the last decade. And most farmers are actually very much in support of their removal.

The biggest "subsidy" that remains is mixing mandates. Adding a % of ethanol to your petrol gas helps it burn cleaner (less smog). Many states have a mixing mandate (so, you know some % of the pump gas sold will have to be ethanol). But the price supports and subsidies are mostly gone (at least compared to where ethanol was a decade or more ago).

The biggest farming "subsides" that remain are programs like crop insurance programs (you document yearly your yield, and they insure 85% of your average output ... this helps small farms not fail in years there are weather related crop failures), and CRP (which pays farmers to NOT FARM acres that are environmentally sensitive to farm). If you want to question if the rates they pay for crop insurance are properly matched to the payments of the program, I'm up for that conversation. But, I'd also point out that most flood insurance programs are federally backed and equally upside down (fewer payments from the insured than cover the costs of the loss). That opens a much larger can of worms around how in MANY MANY sectors of our country we have structured "insurance" and pensions in ways that they payment out will not be covered by the payments in, and then just transferred that loss to the US Treasury.

In Summer of 2020 there were some unusual payments after COVID wrecked the commodities market for a few months, and suddenly found themselves with commodities that they could not sell at any low price, but had payments and bills that were dependent on actually being able to move product (even if at a minor loss). Farmers know there are times they "loose money" on their products. They kinda ... build themselves to be able to handle that. But there were many stories of farmers literally with truckloads of a commodity on the road, and the truck being told to take it back to the farmer. Big difference between "I'm going to loose $x on this, but at least I can cash flow some bills" and "I just can't sell anything ... at all ..."