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As the standards have grown more demanding, the industry has kept pace through technical advances. Those include new compressors in refrigerators, which are better at keeping a consistent temperature, and more sophisticated termination controls that stop clothes dryers when the job is done. Dishwashers have better motors and pumps and now need only 3.5 gallons of water per load, which means water heaters don’t need to use as much energy to warm the spray.
 

This month, researchers aboard a ship off the northeastern coast of Australia near the Whitsunday Islands are spraying a briny mixture through high-pressure nozzles into the air in an attempt to brighten low-altitude clouds that form over the ocean. Scientists hope bigger, brighter clouds will reflect sunlight away from the Earth, shade the ocean surface and cool the waters around the Great Barrier Reef, where warming ocean temperatures have contributed to massive coral die-offs.

The research project, known as marine cloud brightening, is led by Southern Cross University as part of the $64.55 million, or 100 million Australian dollars, Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program. The program is funded by the partnership between the Australian government’s Reef Trust and the Great Barrier Reef Foundation and includes conservation organizations and several academic institutions.

In Israel, a startup called Stardust Solutions has begun testing a system to disperse a cloud of tiny reflective particles about 60,000 feet in altitude, reflecting sunlight away from Earth to cool the atmosphere in a concept known as solar radiation management, or SRM. Yanai Yedvab, Stardust chief executive and a former deputy chief scientist at the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, wouldn’t disclose the composition of the proprietary particles.

Yedvab said Stardust has raised $15 million from two investors and has conducted low-level aerial tests using white smoke to simulate the particles’ path in the atmosphere. After the company completes indoor safety testing, it intends to conduct a limited outdoor test of the dispersion technology, monitoring devices and particles in the next few months, Yedvab said.

In Massachusetts, researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution plan to pour 6,000 gallons of a liquid solution of sodium hydroxide, a component of lye, into the ocean 10 miles south of Martha’s Vineyard this summer. They hope the chemical base will act like a big tablet of Tums, lowering the acidity of a patch of surface water and absorbing 20 metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, storing it safely in the ocean.
 
All the geniuses at work. Wasn't too long ago, the same ones wanted to spread coal ash from power plants on the polar caps to warm things up because of our coming "ice age". Just SMH
 
Pammi and I are really enjoying our retirement so far
We’re on a 3 week camping trip, and we’re spending this week in Biloxi, MS
We decided to go to a casino today. $20 each and we stop when the money is gone
Lady Luck was definitely with us today!
We cashed out after 30 minutes
I’m not one to brag, but my ticket is the larger one on top!
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Phil Perrin said:
Pammi and I are really enjoying our retirement so far
We’re on a 3 week camping trip, and we’re spending this week in Biloxi, MS
We decided to go to a casino today. $20 each and we stop when the money is gone
Lady Luck was definitely with us today!
We cashed out after 30 minutes
I’m not one to brag, but my ticket is the larger one on top!
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Not millions, but you did great cashing out at that point. Made enough to contribute to a nice dinner, I imagine. Good work!
 
The Gigantic Rookie Bringing Fighting Back to Hockey
https://www.wsj.com/sports/hockey/m...ting-9ba63897?reflink=integratedwebview_share

Matt Rempe joined the Rangers from the minors on Feb. 18. The puck hadn’t even dropped on his first shift before he started firing a barrage of punches at New York Islanders tough guy Matt Martin. In Rempe’s first five games, he spent a total of 20 minutes actually playing on the ice—and racked up 32 penalty minutes after participating in three separate fights.
 

The Skyrocketing Costs Driving Cheeseburger Prices Up—and Restaurant Owners Out​

Escalating payroll costs and diners’ dwindling tolerance for higher checks are putting independent restaurants in a squeeze​



Chef Zorba’s charges $15.75 for a bacon cheeseburger, $5 more than in 2018. Even at those prices the 78-seat restaurant can’t turn a profit. LuKanic said she would consider closing if her Small Business Administration loan wasn’t guaranteed by her house.
 

America Is Swimming in Sauce

Sauce preferences, it turns out, are highly personal and deeply relished. Melissa Love’s affinity for ketchup led her to tattoo the image of a Heinz bottle onto her upper right arm in January—just above a drawing of her two children. Love, a U.K.-based nurse, grew up eating buttered-bread-and-ketchup sandwiches for dinner, and she still keeps small packets in her purse.
 
I have two ice trays in my freezer, food ice and drink ice. The food ice is made by the freezer with no filter. The drink ice is bought at the store and I really don’t know if it’s filtered water. The food ice is used to chill down cooked things like boiled eggs. 😂 Now there is a third ice, skinny ice made from bottled water for the Hydro Flask. 🤔
 
JohnTak said:
I have two ice trays in my freezer, food ice and drink ice. The food ice is made by the freezer with no filter. The drink ice is bought at the store and I really don’t know if it’s filtered water. The food ice is used to chill down cooked things like boiled eggs. 😂 Now there is a third ice, skinny ice made from bottled water for the Hydro Flask. 🤔
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I feed our ice maker with RO water. Got sick of pouring a really nice whiskey over a little ice and having little floaty bits in it. Side benefit RO gives me nice clear ice cubes as well. This way no need to have separate ice bins.
 
Reverse osmosis was a real game changer for us- I installed one in 2005 when my wife was pregnant with our third child.

After using it a while, I was out somewhere and grabbed a plastic water bottle of Poland Springs water (we were having 5-6 gallon bottles delivered to our house for around 15 years before)- the bottled water tasted of chemicals- I never noticed it before drinking the RO.

it makes great ice too.
 
Well heck, today was not a good day
Last night my female senior dachshund decided at 2 AM that she had to go potty, so I carried her downstairs and let her out
While she was out, the alarm on my truck decided that it was a good time to go off for no reason at all!
I ran out and the key fob wouldn't turn it off, so I started it up and that stopped it
It stopped it for 5 minutes, then decided to go off again! :mad:
Same thing, ran out and started the truck again to stop it
Sure enough, 5 minutes later, it decided to go off AGAIN! WTH!?!?!?
Having had enough, I unhooked the battery and dared it to do it again
By this time, I was fairly wound up and awake, so I just stayed downstairs and read for about an hour and a half
Got up this morning and after a couple cups of coffee, I decided to reconnect the battery to see if things got reset
NOT!!! As soon as I touched the cable to the post, the horn started blaring! :oops::mad:
I actually had to take the fuse out to get it to stop!
But yet, my faithful old truck decided that that wasn't quite enough shenanigans
The radio and lights won't turn off when I turn the ignition off and open the door
No big deal, I just have to remember to turn them off manually when I shut the truck off
Except NOW the 4 way flashers won't turn off unless I turn the truck ON!!
I kid you not, in one day this truck has gone from being a reliable truck to an electrical nightmare!
BTW, it's a 2017 Ford F150 with 92,000 miles on it
Tomorrow, the search for my next truck begins!
I wasn't going to do this until we sell the house in August, but who knows what's next to go haywire on this thing!
 
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