Up north some animals have tons of fat (sometimes called ‘blubber’). But if you live up there as a hunter (not much to gather up there), you’ll need those calouries.

Surprisingly, eating fat isn’t that bad if you don’t overeat all the time and get a lot of exercise. Also, LOL @ stoneage men looking like competition day bodybuilders - hunter-gathers look like runners, not weightlifters, and they hydrate.

I’d assume there’s some visionairy artist who maybe likes to parody country sometimes who already wrote it.

Old designs aren’t necessarily pedestrian impact friendly, and some don’t leave a lot of options for crumple zones.

Depends. 30 year old designs are probably more pedestrian-friendly than SUVs. The shapes were certainly better for that, and I assume they already invented crumple zones in 1995.

How is this a shitpost?

Also, many scientists and science institutions aren’t particularly willing to admit that they’re wrong and character assassination is absolutely a common tool in the internal politics of science.

Fair point.

Concentrated salt water might be a waste product, but the plant was built on purpose. How long does it need to operate before the costs amortisize? Even if we’re looking at greenhouse gases, most building materials aren’t exactly climate-friendly - concrete in particular is a huge emitter of greenhouse gases.

The people who designed built the plant probably calculated all this, but the article doesn’t go into it and with novel technologies like this, it’s generally not safe to just assume that a given plant makes any economical or environmental sense.

Far cry from “perpetual free energy scheme”, though.

It’s pretty common to produce table salt by dehydrating sea water. This saltwater electricity plant doesn’t produce salt, though, since the basis of their electricity generation process is diluting concentrated salt water.

If they’re mostly using electricity or even combustion to evaporate the water (as opposed to sunlight), there’s no chance that the concentrated saltwater creates more electricity than it costs - it’s only maybe useful if the saltwater is actually a waste product.

Doesn’t sound all that economical compared with other energy sources. It probably needs to be compared to longer-term energy storage solutions that don’t rely on geography like hot sand, the possibility to store the energy source (concentrated salt water) relatively cheaply is the most interesting part about it.

WTF are those prices. I’d start looking into importing from abroad …