Desalinization will always be energy-intensive because salt has an electrolytic potential to dissolve in water; it requires energy to pull them apart. Salt water doesn’t even evaporate as easily as fresh water because the water molecules cling to the salt more strongly than they would each other. IIRC, the energy potential of a fresh water stream flowing into the ocean is equivalent to something like a forty-foot high waterfall.
I may be wrong, but I suspect Mindseye was referring to things like acetaminophen, aspirin, and other NSAIDs, which are generally non-addicting, and fairly well tolerated, but can have negative health consequences if taken frequently or with certain other things (most notably taking acetaminophen with alcohol)
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Thank you! That was exactly right.
best invention yet
Depends on what you call “soon.” The technology was there years ago. Like I said above, “If we can put a man on the moon…” Inventing an accurate balls/strikes detector is one of the easier inventions. Baseball just doesn’t want to touch this one, and it leads to an endless series of really stupid arguments between umpires and managers in the dugout (because they’re not allowed to argue balls and strikes) until the umpires throw the managers out for daring to voice their objections too loudly or too often. Umpires screw up balls and strikes routinely and the managers’ only solace is that sometimes they screw them up for both teams roughly equally.
And not long after, we’ll all be naked, our food will spoil, and our cars and airplanes won’t work (and probably our room-temperature superconductors will turn to dust, bringing the fall of civilization).
One word: tradition.
Baseball people are tradition-bound. They don’t want robo-umps (even though they work) because they like the “human element”. They prefer the inaccuracies of an ump calling balls and strikes, because it is more “real”.
Same attitude that vinyl record fans have.
Someone needs to read “Mutant 59”
A 3D foot scanner so that you can get custom made shoes that fits your feet exactly.
Ditto, but for bras
I want to design a bra that women do not feel greatly relieved to get this thing offa me right now. Not, you understand, that I am not in favor of women taking their bras off, but I want them to do it in the interest of having me appreciate their form, not because those bras are so horrifically uncomfortable. Maybe even easily-adjustable variable support.
Are you asking for something different than the existing 3D foot scanners? I believe that they not only exist, they’re pretty common.
Likewise bra-fitting scanners already exist.
There is even a phone app:
@markn_1 's embedded content crashes my browser (Google Chrome)
Yikes. Just by viewing this page? FWIW, although I don’t usually use Chrome, I opened this page with Chrome on a MacBook without any problem.
There a 4 different links, which one?
Smart phone and tablet screens that you can read when outside in the sun. I’ve tried non-glare screen protectors. They don’t work.
Its not exactly the same thing, but there are a few things that go along with this.
3D printed organs (not quite ready for market, but will be hopefully in a decade). Maybe they can also 3D print entire limbs and attach them to amputees someday.
Stem cell therapy and extracellular matrices for damaged tissue
Peptides like IGF-1, HGH, TB-500 and BC-157 to increase healing
You want an e-paper display. I haven’t used one but they are available.
I think your idea is a good one. Especially since the problem is so horrific and maddening.
I think we can also just not make it a problem. I think Tesla’s can detect the temp, turn on, cool the car down so it will effectively never get hot inside the car. They just need to make the Tesla slap the parent across the face when they get back to the car.
Probably a bit of a longer timeframe before everyone has access to that technology, but that feels like the ultimate solution. Yours and the other suggestions would certainly help save lives before we get there.