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by farmaway 4y ago
Relevant HN discussion from last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34182343 When it comes to recapturing phosphates from waste streams, Milwaukee provides an example to follow: https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by farmaway 4y ago
If you care about the guidelines, enforce them consistently. This is the comment which spurred me to start posting yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34480065 >Whatever your politics: The reactionary conserv
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by farmaway 4y ago
>That was started during Trump's administration, just so you're aware. All of the dates in your own source document are in 2020, when Trump was still president. The whole argument of "reactionary conservatives" is tha
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by farmaway 4y ago
>Then your recall is terrible. Do you remember a certain presidential candidate that got publicly declared 'under investigation' days before the election in 2016? It arguably turned the election in favor of the Republican. The
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by farmaway 4y ago
If it's an essential liberty then it should be available to all who file Supreme Court briefs, not just a privileged few.
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by farmaway 4y ago
Here's the relevance: when a privileged few extracts special concessions from the United States Supreme Court, the public deserves to know who they are and what they've been up to. I've posted verified facts along with releva
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by farmaway 4y ago
>sorry no... We do not strip essential liberty simply because there are bad actors out there who abuse it. That's not at stake. What's at stake is the power of a privileged few to get special concessions from the United States
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by farmaway 4y ago
There's a lot more evidence than covered in the linked article. I find it absolutely convincing. Here's a recap of most of it: https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/hnfx0r/not_conf...
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by farmaway 4y ago
And you're ignoring relevant facts and replying with copypasta. If you have an argument to make based on the facts, don't gesture at where the argument might be, just make it.
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by farmaway 4y ago
This is your reminder that past Reddit powermods and hired staff allegedly include Ghislane Maxwell [0] (who Ellen Pao knew and socialized with in Pao's time as Reddit CEO [1]), alleged rape and kidnapping accomplice Aimee Challenor [2
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by farmaway 4y ago
You are correct: >4. Sabatier reactor >Inside this machine, a blast of roughly 750°F heat breaks the bonds inside CO₂, forcing it into its constituent elements. The carbon and oxygen combine with hydrogen from the station’s oxygen
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by farmaway 4y ago
Thanks for sharing! Checking out the links from your profile, cool stuff. Relevant to where I live, far inland from fresh seafood and in a similar climate zone. With YouTube's auto-translation I can even understand much of what is said
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by farmaway 4y ago
On spectrum optimization: how much of the Sun's emissions spectrum is actually used by plants for photosynthesis? Are there efficiency gains to be realized by converting non-"bioavailable" solar radiation first into electric
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by farmaway 4y ago
Yes, but if they're all dumped in the ocean, burned off as fuel, or buried in landfill then they aren't very useful to humans.
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by farmaway 4y ago
>Fortunately, there will not be Moon or Mars colonists, or colonies. Even if this pessimistic prediction comes true, the same nutrient-recycling solution could support human life in resource-poor regions on Earth, such as Antarctica or D
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by farmaway 4y ago
Yes, they do. Modern industrial farming relies on the exact same fossil fertilizer inputs. When it comes to recycling phosphate etc., the rival to hydroponics and conventional farming is regenerative soil-based agriculture. The latter relie
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by farmaway 4y ago
Didn't know peak phosphate was nearly upon us! On the bright side, technologies to recover phosphate via industrial-scale composting are already mature. My home state of Wisconsin leads the way on this, at least in the United States:
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by farmaway 4y ago
Another problem with hydroponics is its reliance on industrially-produced fertilizers, chiefly those containing nitrogen, phosphate, and potassium. The phosphate and potassium parts of this equation are today mined from finite mineral depos