Leachate and off-gassing have to be carefully managed and monitored.
12:12 The landfill for L.A., now closed, generates enough methane to produce electricity for 70,000 homes.
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Roundabout / rotary
I delivered food to find out - can food delivery apps survive?
10:50 "I'm definitely re-thinking how I make the door dash deliverer come up to my apartment...rethinking every time I didn't tip when the order was late, because that's (mostly) out of the delivery person's control."
Regenerative seawater agriculture
So many advantages
-1:20 halophyte plants naturally actively exclude salt
-2:26 very resilient plants
-2:13 high yield per acre
-3:16 no fertilizer or pesticide
-3:12 no plowing or tilling the soil
-yields 1:38 carbon capture, fiberboard, a succulent animal feed, and oil.
-3:02 it can be harvested several times a year with new cross growing from the remaining root system.
-12:55 agriculture that enhances, rather than disrupts, the existing natural processes and biodiversity
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Synthetic pineapple leather
https://youtu.be/Ustm5PQpl5Q?si=uDpejevt3tzEyJRy
Pinatex uses waste leaves from pineapples to make synthetic leather.
Flight turnaround delays
https://youtu.be/v2C7w0RfMaw?si=iVcAPw61XkKQgM3s
6 teams' generic scramble to turn a flight around in 55 minutes. A $9 billion investment has improved their on-time departure rate, and employs AI to shuffle planes around to minimize delays.
Moths
https://youtu.be/mIr-jy0nJg0?si=ypc2BXT-CkufquR_
Months has to evolve countermeasures relatively quickly once bats evolved. Some make ultrasonic "jamming" signals to confuse bats.
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Asotin to Enterprise
Great drive - Avants member
Shared route
From Asotin, Washington to Enterprise, Oregon 97828 via WA-129 S and OR-3 S.
1 hr 40 min (79 mi)
1 hr 40 min in current traffic
1. Head west toward Washington St
2. Turn left onto WA-129 S
3. Arrive at location: Enterprise
For the best route in current traffic visit https://maps.app.goo.gl/jVo4Zi11vfsx5YJA6?g_st=ac
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Monday, June 9, 2025
Podcast about being both assertive and warm
To be assertive and warm, use a skill you have to help others.
Brag-thank: when you mention your accomplishment, in the same breath thank others who helped achieve it.
Humor-bragging - use (non-self-deprecating) humor to soften something you brag about.
Saturday, June 7, 2025
Pothole repair automation
There has been a lot of innvation in pothole repair - here are some examples listed in decreasing levels of automation.
Robotic arm on from of truck
Expand hole to fit pre-formed patches
Multiple heads on backhoe-type machine
Injection patching handheld hose
Patch sheets laid down by hand
Shake from bag, paved by traffic
Thursday, June 5, 2025
Show traffic waves
https://youtu.be/6ZC9h8jgSj4?si=QmII1yHByyrfq10K
So annoying when this peristaltic motion causes waves of stopped traffic during congestion.
Lion lights
https://youtu.be/3bPlu0StTUE?si=J0EwaY0qDRmLraJq
A tinkering 12 yo invented random-flashing perimeter lights which protect a homestead by giving the appearance of human activity surrounding their encampment and cattle.
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Christopher Burkett | Green Veratrum, 1993
This beautiful print now hangs in our bedroom.
Sunday, June 1, 2025
Using Lidar to gauge the terrain ahead and adjust the suspension.
"Results of field tests showed the vertical acceleration of the vehicle body was reduced by 54%, when passing the bump at 5 km/h and axle displacement was reduced by 51% when travelling an even road at 5 km/h."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240589631831190X
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