THANK GOD THE WORLD IS SAVEDFollow

I thought that was from the ADHD meds.

Nope just the iPads.

Some of the young teen girls seem have had their cell phones surgically grafted to their hands.

Took one from a 14-year-old student who wouldn't put it away, and she threw a tantrum like an 8-year-old and broke down crying. I was like "What THE @#%^ is wrong with you?" but it didn't make it better.

Kids... how do they work? Who knows? I sure don't.

Edited, Nov 12th 2013 9:36pm by Mazra

Mazra just gets a new batch every year.

If the product they make (the various carbon polymers) can be sold for a price that covers the cost of capturing the CO2, then yes. If not, and the company is dependent on government subsidies, then the whole thing is really a means of disguising the capture costs under a thin layer of legitimate seeming tech business. The business model in that case isn't about recycling carbon from the air and turning it into useful products, but getting the government to pay them to take carbon out of the air (and presumably just from exit source of carbon in existing industrial processes).

I'm all for cleaner air and water. And I'm all for efficient use of our resources via recycling and whatnot. But I'm not a big fan of lying about the costs of those things along the way.

Good thing the oil industry doesn't get any subsidies, eh? Might distort the market.

Speaking of being saved, this is kinda awesome.
Edit: Website title may be NSFW, if your work is particularly strict.

Edited, Nov 13th 2013 8:06am by Poldaran

It depends on how the filtration system works. You're not actually wasting water when it goes down the drain you're wasting treatment costs and power from pumping the water to your home. That water is eventually added back into the system. If the cost of maintenance and filters is low enough to justify the cost of the system (pump, holding tank, heater, power to run it all etc) then it's a great step forward.

All this really does is decentralize the filtration process. Except you still need the filtration process for the other taps in your house so really all you are doing is lowering the amount of water the existing filtration system has to handle which is quite limiting since capacity isn't a huge issue for water treatment systems designed to serve cities given they're designed to handle toilets etc as well.

This is fantastic for people on wells and certain parts of the world where water is scarce though. It'll be much much better when they start creating entire home systems and adoption spreads as you'll then be able to start dropping municipal capacity.

I'd also be rather interested in what can/cannot be filtered by this system. What if I've been doused in gasoline and I hop in the shower? What happens when I clean my bath tub? Do I now need a checklist before I take a shower?

It doesn't just save water, but also the cost of energy to heat the water for your shower by something like 80% if I recall correctly. So that helps.

Yeah it'll help but you'll still have to maintain temperature in your water heater tank for the rest of your taps which will be significantly less energy than heating new cold water of course but will still eat into those savings. It's like adding a more efficient mini-fridge to hold your beer. You still have to power the big fridge for all of your food but you won't open it as much so you won't waste as much of the cold air inside. There's a balance there somewhere where it's worth it but I'd like to see those stats before I went ahead and installed one of these.

I just learned your government has an ISDR in an FTA with another nation and it's baaaad, man, it's baaaaad. It means that nations' private companies can sue Canada in an international court for compensation whenever a Canadian law or environmental regulation impinges on the companies' ability to make money. Canada has already been sued prolifically and paid out billions of taxpayer money in net compensation to private corporations under the ISDR clause in the FTA.

My Prime Minister has put ISDRs on the table in tg=he 15 nation Trans Pacific free trade treaty negotiations. It'll position the conservatives to be able to repeal all kinds of laws and protections that "cost business money".

It's all a conspiracy, they have tons to gain from global warming. The whole planet below them may become a stinking swampy wasteland, but when the best wine in the world comes from shores of Hudson's Bay and the wheat grows continuously under 24 hour sunlight outside of Whitehorse, Canada will rule the world.