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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
65d ago“Was the Pentagon justified in delaying wind power development on private land for security concerns?”
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I wonder how many people get the difference between a billion and a trillion? A billion seconds is almost 32 years. A trillion seconds is over 31,000 years. So with a trillion dollars, you could probably accomplish a lot.... Can the economy grow forever on a finite planet?: Degrowth
Underground The Ogallala Aquifer stretches beneath eight American states. It irrigates $20 billion in crops annually. It took the last ice age to fill. In parts of western Kansas, the water table has dropped over 150 feet since 1950. Some wells have gone dry.... Is material abundance actually possible?: Technologists
Fifty-eight cents per cubic meter In 2015, Sorek desalination plant opened south of Tel Aviv. 624,000 cubic meters of drinking water per day from the Mediterranean, at 58 cents per cubic meter — half the cost of a decade earlier....