This sounds like someone made minute, non-revolutionary advances on standard de-salination and described it as if they were the first person to invent evaporative desalination. People have been doing sun powered desalination for thousands of years.

Desalination, even by sunlight, is a power intensive process. The reason why it typically creates brine is not because we are too stupid to complete the process. The original method of pure, unaided solar took about 4 hours to take cups of sea water to make one cup of fresh water ( leaving about 1 cup of brine). If you use a standard fire based distillation you can make a gallon and a half by boiling 3 gallons of sea water and collecting the steam. in ONE hour, with no brine.

Instead, we create brine because:
1) It takes more power to evaporate the last bit of water from a brine solution than it takes to remove the first bit of water from regular salt water.

2) Moving the salt is much easier when it has a bit of water in it. It sticks to the container. (This appears to be the only thing they may have advanced on.)

3) The brine is not just table salt, but a mix of everything that was in the water. Mostly Sodium Chloride, but also any living things in the water, and some bromine, magnesium, calcium, sulfates, strontium, fluoride and yes, some lithium. This will be all mixed up, not nicely separated out. A lot of work to get anything useful from it.

This comments looks like it was written by an AI. It is one long line with a single period, is not quite a full understandable sentence, and has 3 lines after the main part of text that is not connected to anything.

When your power plants are non-existent or unreliable, a power source you can purchase and maintain becomes a wonderful choice.

Similarly, people living in a homestead situation do the same thing. Alaska cabins almost all have solar and often have wind or a water turbine.

For centuries panicky fools have spread alarm about things affecting the mind. Comics, D&D, porn, sugar, etc.

Real effects tend to be strong enough to easily detect within a year. Often immediately or at least within a day. One dose of LSD instantly affects you and some times some of those effects are permanent. Rabies takes no more than a year, usually 3 months or less.

Things that are not detectable in a couple of years tend to have minimum effects and are often reversible. Diabetes for example takes decades and if you see a doctor regularly you are told you have 'prediabetes' before then. (Exceptions for things like pregnancy related diabetes and transplant medication induced diabetes).

The AI human drones continue to overestimate how AI is going to affect jobs. They will not be firing more than 5% and they will be generating more than that number of jobs in hardware production. Just ask Dell about how many chips they are selling to the AI people.

Humans brains are expensive (approximately 1/2 a million to raise to 18 years old) but the equivalent in chips costs multiple millions.

We are cheaper than the machines.

Is this because Caltech failed to manage it appropriately or because Trump wants to take money from Caltech and give it to a more Trump friendly group

This is a great new feature - what MAGA citizen does not want the government to have his information? Don't you trust them?

Can I patent insulting someone on the internet?

Because I think it could become really BIG.

At one point only the top 10% got an undergraduate degree. Then, a college degree was the path to a wonderful future. Not because the degree was helpful, but because only the wealthiest, smartest or hardest working people had one. Regardless of whether you were rich or smart, a college degree was an easy way to signify you had advantages that would ensure your success.

Over time, a college degree became more common. Now, about half the population have one and it literally means nothing. For a while, a Post Grad degree of some kind had the same kind of significance.

But now, about 15% of people have a Masters. That means you are not in the top 10% any more. In some states, 18% of people have one (Massachusetts) .

Apparently, they have become so common that a Masters means a lot less then it used to.

We may need a new signifier of hard work and intelligence. (Don't worry, the wealthy will always be able to prove they are in the top 1%)

The problem is not that we do not recycle, but that we do not reward recycling enough nor do we punish the creation of non-recyclable waste. Solution: Tax the crap.

7 types of recyclable materials:

Type 1: PET: Most common and very recyclable
Type 2: HDPE: Common and recyclable.
Type 3: PVC: Poor attempts to recycle creates toxins. Most do not even bother. Very rarely recycled
Type 4: LDPE: Styrofoam, very rarely recycled
Type 5: PP/ Polypropylene: uncommonly recycled.
Type 6: PS/Polystere: (egg cartons) Very rarely recycled
Type 7: Other /everything else. These things are never recycled because it is a catchall term - type 7 is not one chemical.

Type 1 and Type 2 are the only ones that recycle more than 10%. Type 5 might someday graduate to more than 10%, but not yet.

Solution:
Tax the stuff that is NOT recycled.
No tax at all for Type 1 and 2 plastics. (PET and HDPE)
50% tax on type 5 plastics (PP)
100% tax on all other types of plastics

Note, instead of passing a law that taxes by type of plastic, better to make the law state that the tax rate is determined by what percent of the plastic produced over the past 5 years was actually recycled.

This will encourage people to change which plastic material they are using, punishing them for choosing types 3,4,6 and 7, and encourages the use of types 1 and 2 wherever possible. If this changes our the mix by only 5%, that would be worth it.

As a bonus it raises cash which could be used to fund recycling, while also encouraging the plastic makers to research how to improve recylcing.

Honestly, examples like this are a counter argument. They make me think downcycling is a better idea than recylcing.

Most people would rather a bottle end up as a park bench than continue to make more bottles. Each bottle has a high chance of ending up in a land fill forever while the park bench is something that could last for decades and should theoretically replace other materials, such as iron or wood, freeing them up for better uses.

1) Firing skilled, expensively trained military people because they are trans.
2) Firing skilled officers because they disagree with him.
3) Promoting a bunch of Yes men.
3) Ignoring good advice to build smaller and cheaper to instead build huge things with little military value. We need a fleet of frigates armed with a thousand drones, not a pie in the sky battleship.
4) Wasting hard earned credibility and assets on a war to get a new 'anti-nuke' treaty with Iran - after HE blew up the one Obama made.