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A Canadian company rethinks atmospheric-water generators


Happy Now?: Will the chance to generate drinking water
from the air make consumers smile?

The escalating cost of electricity has sent a growing
number of consumers in search of ways to generate
electricity at home. Element Four, based in Kelowna,
B.C., Canada, is betting that with bottled-water
consumption increasing and aging water distribution
systems, water will be the next commodity consumers will
want to produce at home. The company has done what it
says is a top-to-bottom reinvention of the
atmospheric-water generator—a device that pulls water
from the air by cooling it to the point that
condensation forms and then keeps it sterile for
drinking. 


Element Four’s WaterMill is a 300‑watt generator that
makes up to 12 liters of drinking water per day—enough,
it says, for your typical North American household. At
Kelowna’s rate of 6 U.S. cents per kilowatt-hour, the
cost comes to about 3 to 4 cents per liter

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Here's a graphic illustration of how the presidential election turned out. These are the results by county, with color reflecting the percentage that voted Republican (red) and Democrat (blue).

Here's what it looks like when the counties are scaled by population size; the smear of reds is greatly diminished.

It's striking how the emptiest places in the country are enriched with fervent conservatives. People are always fretting over how conservatives are outbreeding liberals, but it seems to me that that actually works in liberals' favor — as communities become larger and more interdependent, as people grow up aware of social support systems, as their numbers create richer opportunities for education, there's a trend towards embracing liberal values.

Of course, there is the alternative explanation:

Whatever the explanation is, I want more blue in these maps. There are more election cartograms to peruse.

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It would seem to me that in most cases, if a 49-year-old man intended to sexually abuse a 16-year-old girl and she stabbed him, the cries of “self defense” would be deafening.  Under most circumstances, if a 16-year-old girl was sent to jail for 2 to 2 1/2 years because of stabbing a man who attempted to sexually abuse her, there would be public outrage.

So why silence now?  Is it not self defense when you’re working as a prostitute?  Are we back to the legal system’s “prostitutes can’t be raped” theory?  Does this dehumanizing, misogynistic and rape apologist myth now apply to children, as well?

Even worse, the prosecution openly admits that the girl’s claims of kidnapping and attempted rape are credible:

he man she killed seemingly without a doubt had intent to sexually harm her.  The prosecution accepts that the girl’s story is credible.  And both the defense and prosecution admit that if the case had been allowed to go to trial, she would have likely been acquitted. 

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It occurred to me, as I sat there watching an interracial couple banging, that jacking off in a hotel room was not unlike the larger experience of campaign reporting. You watch two performers. You kind of like it when one of them gets humiliated. You know they’re professionals, so you don’t feel much sympathy for them. You wish you could participate, but instead you watch with a hidden envy and feel vaguely ashamed for watching. You think you could probably do as good a job or better. You sometimes get a glimpse, intentionally or not, of society’s hidden desires and fears. You watch the porn week after week, the scenes almost always the same, none of them too memorable. The best ones get sent around the Internet.

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Gay Bugs Breed

newscientist.com —
Homosexual copulations are common in insects, where they pose the same conundrum as in mammals: what evolutionary advantage, if any, might such apparently fruitl

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OGla
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Bugs are so gay.

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  dynelol
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  They're doing it for the attention.
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  Edwaldo
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  I'm still waiting for the church's public denunciation of gay bugs.
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hyperionshift
21 minutes ago

Did they also study female bug interactions? ...not that I'd be interested in such things...

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  skatastrophy
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  I'd like to see pics of two bugs trying to scissor
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Eshestun
21 minutes ago

These comments are going to turn into a shitstorm so fast....

Ohp, too late.

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