Badger Nadgers writes: The British designer, thought to be in his 60s, worked in-house for Sinclair Research and oversaw the creation of its home computers in the 1980s.
I hereby propose to build a Ship Canal from Texan floods to the Californian wildfires
It's just water in the wrong place.
Forms a second "liquid wall" to complement the first one, for which it can it provide the large quantity of rock for the Mexican wall.
Improves the transport infrastructure, Handy income from the shipping to pay for it.
Mulitple birds, one stone.
I hereby claim my free T-shirt.
But as the number of spots increases, so does the number of distances and angles between the spots on their face, thus increasing the system's accuracy
We could call it nature. Or bogs, or peat moorlands. We've already got them so no need for installation, autonomous or otheriwse, Still needs very little maintenance, doesn't need your solar panels, rainwater is collected into an inherent reservoir so doesn't need pumping into the soil. And a lot cheaper than $25,000 a pop.
Even if you could manipulate the environment, the optimum value isn't necessarily current. What environmental variables do you adjust to what values to allow for the maximum population (assuming that's a good thing)?
The clue for me is the opening paragraph referencing dementia, where there is a degraded cognitive function but feelings and sensory abilities are unaffected.
(inherent bias on a "news for nerds" site acknowledged)