jam12705

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Device that can extract 1,000 liters of clean water a day from desert air revealed by 2025 Nobel Prize winner⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The article explains that the system doesn’t use power or any type of refrigerant, instead it uses a new type of material with large surface areas in a small package to capture/condense the water out of the air while utlizing wind and the sun to help accomplish its goal.

  I would agree that up until now the only viable technology was a dehumidifier which takes great amounts of fossil fuel energy, but this isn’t the case here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Volvo EX90’s Lidar Sensor Will Fry Your Phone’s Camera⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Never realized Laser Safety was such a wild read. It just keeps getting better as you go:

  A pop or click noise emanating from the eyeball may be the only indication that retinal damage has occurred, i.e. the retina was heated to over 100 °C (212 °F) resulting in localized explosive boiling