Could we get a two-fer out of this? If we put up a sun shade, could we make it out of solar panels and beam some of that energy back down to Earth?
Angely Mercado
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Suburban sprawl in Arizona is climate arson. We need to triple the housing capacity of coastal cities, price carbon, and watch people flee these places once they are responsible for paying the TRUE costs to live in the middle of the fucking desert.
I lived in Phoenix for 6 years in the late ‘00s. Read more
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This is one of the reasons I am a member, perhaps the sole member, of the ABS -- the Anti-Burnout Society. Intentional burnouts are just a silly, mostly male, exhibition of dongle-wagging. I have similar opinions about drifting, but at least there is some skill and/or competition being on display there.
On a colloquial level, I think it already does. As a kid when I went every single year in the summer I remember the mountains being beautiful seeing them from the suburbs around Denver. Usually purple-green on most days, half of the 90s I remember them always having SOME snow to be seen from that area and then a few… Read more
Every year will be a new record for at least the next 50 years. Read more
my bedsheets? Read more
It’s been fun you guys (not really)
Glass and Aluminium already help so much, why they won’t change back to those is just absurd. Increasing profits one penny at a time...
Better hope we don’t get a brutally long, hot summer.
It’s not really surprising. Lake Mead was a deep body of water near a big city that through the 70s and 80s was known for its organized crime ties, and was always a big draw with tourists and weekend warriors. I would not be surprised if the lake hid the remains of more than a few murder victims, boating accidents,… Read more
I mean, who hasn’t gotten drunk and trapped themselves in a barrel, than had a friend drown trying to rescue them?
I’m assuming green glass recycles into green sand. That’ll take a little getting used to. Otherwise, sounds like a good idea.
I can’t tell from the video if the glass is sharp or not, can you walk on it? This is the kind of thing that gives me some small hope for all of us and the one world we all share.
I hope it works in natural environments. Natural beach sand is mostly silica (which is also the main ingredient in glass), but glass tends to have some other ingredients in it as well. Not sure if they separate those first, or whether they’re too small as components to matter for sand production.
“won’t contaminate groundwater supplies” Read more
“Cold-cases heating up due to Global Warming”
I’ll see myself out.
This news is a relief; I thought it was my kidneys.