Pic of the Day
Pic of the Day
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- Bluejam0
- http://www.theguardi…Bluejam
- fucking hell!********
- surely having that much plastic floating in the drinking water cant be goodautoflavour
- plastic is nasty.inteliboy
- Yup. Like they give a fuck about health over profits.
Money really is the root of all evil******** - is this not a photo story from 5+ years ago?microkorg
- 2011
http://www.amusingpl…microkorg - Sony True Black™mekk
- wouldn't it have been better to use white? that water's gonna get super hot.Gnash
- Nasty********
- Depends which way you look at it, white would deflect heat but black might work a bit like a heatsink and pull out heat from the water. Probably not.kalkal
- I dont get you it. you are fucking located near the ocean. you cant desalinate water in the 21 century?yurimon
- not in Muricuhmoldero
- These are pba free. They don't leach into the water supply.IRNlun6
- Desalination takes a large amount of energy and the bi-product is tough to dispose.IRNlun6
- You can't put all the excess salt and minerals back into the ocean without destroying the local ecology.IRNlun6
- Can we put it all in Yurimon's vagina?********
- LOLx100 @ set!mg33
- dude its cali, shit evaporates pretty fast.
check this out. https://www.youtube.…yurimon - I like how you guys are all about humanzy progressive and how we are living in the future but lets desalinate the ocean for water. we dont have the tech.yurimon
- Lets just pray vote for bernie, he will do all the thinking for us. berniEEEEEEE! help us.yurimon
- salt uses http://www.cargill.c…yurimon
- 14,000 uses so far.yurimon
- BERNIEEEEEE!yurimon
- ohh the plastic is so terrible! (sips from plastic water bottle)********
- 40¢ per ball seems kinda pricey. 400,000 balls = $160k.Cosmodrome
- http://ww2.kqed.org/…scarabin
- ^ this link explains it, yuriscarabin
- I don't want to live in a world where yurimon has any kind of influence. Desalinate the ocean? The ocean? Fuck me.face_melter
- its funny how they are doing it wrong. fuckme. never mind. with all our genius they can find a smart person to solve it. maybe its just nepotism for statefunds?yurimon
- so you didn't read the link? if you think you have a better solution why aren't you on the phone with them right now making a difference?scarabin
- maybe I will. you ever thought about that? maybe i will.yurimon
- i'm counting on it. save us, yuri. teach those experts who've spent their entire lives studying a problem what a guy on the internet can do in five minutesscarabin
- i'm gonna go water my lawn and wash my car since the problem's over now.scarabin
- " and in the meantime, it has to navigate a regulatory thicket of needed approvals."yurimon
- yeah, you can't just go dumping shit that kills wildlife and destroys ecosystems anywhere. but you knew this already, right?scarabin
- Balls!pango
- I'm responsible mkay. my desalination process will be much different.yurimon
- i speak for the whole of california when i say thank you. you are truly a brilliant engineer and a genius wizard. the tony stark of our generation.scarabin
- Ballsy move!chukkaphob
- dark matter
http://noospheregeol…******** - Desalination is a last resort, and they're going to be putting some of the old CA plants back into work soon. It's a nasty, expensive process.monospaced
- yurimon, you're right, cost-effective, sustainable desalination is something we expected to have been solved by now, like flying cars. Even the best are strugglmonospaced
- There are good technologies in play right now, though, and hopefully they are advanced quickly.monospaced
- Doesn't California have like 14 desalination plants?Hayoth
- It's definitely got them.monospaced
- They did this to the decommissioned Silver Lake reservoir in L.A. years ago—the stuff of Chuck E. Cheese's™ nightmares..BrokenHD
- 41+ notes LOLpinkfloyd
- 'like 14' as in you just googled it and there are 14?********