Thanks for the link. Will check them out

Could someone eli5 this to me?

It seems to me that a cohortised approach is intrinsically better for privacy as a whole as you don't care about individuals but rather a group of individuals with similar interests.

If this standard is not abused / de-anonymised then surely this approach is a good thing?

Big problem with Algae is two fold: 1) it uses water as process fluid 2) biological systems are slow in comparison to pure chemistry solutions.

There was a time when I was convinced Algae was the way forward but the rate limiting step for them just don't make sense.

Unless things have changed since I last researched this

Never have I been more proud a South African. Thank you for your insight. See you on the other side.

Publishing results that, to the best of your knowledge, are correct is a crucial part of the scientific endeavor. The fact this their results have been drawn into question is therefore a good thing. A hypothesis that has been proven to be false is a net positive to humanity as a whole.

This reminds me of a excerpt from the opening line of my undergraduate thermodynamics textbook: "The theories presented in this work are true due to the absence of contrary evidence"

The energy to melt and process glass is for sure the big limiter here.

Then again, most polymerised epoxy is basically not recyclable -- once it has set, it's set. The most you could do to this would be to burn it.

Of you could toss the carbon you don't want into old coal mines (or just land fill) - why would you burn it and cause more global warming, we should be tossing our used paper into landfill, recycling it reduces the demand for growing more trees (and fixing more CO2

windows glass isn't easily recyclable either. it can be repurposed...

> However, while window glass may not be recycled easily, there are many options for keeping it out of the landfill. For example, it can be melted and re-manufactured into fiberglass, incorporated into asphalt, and even combined into reflective yellow and white road paints. Broken glass can be combined with concrete to create terrazzo flooring and countertops. Some companies even use old glass for landscaping materials and other decorative applications.

...but that's nowhere near a recycled window.

OK, so my knee jerk reaction was that the wavelength that starlink use simply won't allow it. Practically the antenna needs to be at least 1/4 the size of your target wavelength [1] It seems though space ex are using vanilla Ka, Ku and E band frequency, which have wavelengths in the centi to millimeter range. It must be that we don't have enough devices yet to allow for seamless handover between sats, without ground based tracking antennas [1] https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/315915/why-do-we...

They have a non-interference requirement for geostationary satellites using the same frequencies for uplink. That means they need fancy antennas to make sure there is a null all along the eqaitorial geostationary orbit line...

I’m not so much concerned about it being an open system but rather that it relies on water as a process fluid. Sure running a geyser for 30+ years is fine if all your losing is thermal efficiency. But in this case we are talking about sticking your neck out for 50% efficiencies.

How long before fouling, pump degradation or just simply water sacristy cripples a system like this? Or simply renders it so inefficient to be superfluous?

No troubles this side. Ryzen 5, RTX2080 daily driver on Ubuntu 20. Even use steam for Linux mostly in the off hour. Very little noticeable diff with game performance on win10