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Showing posts with label water. Show all posts
Showing posts with label water. Show all posts

Monday, July 5, 2021

So... exactly what is the REAL cost of doing BIG TECH things like MAKING MICROCHIPS and STORING DATA 'in the cloud'?

    

Making Chips Requires Lots of Water and, Gulp, Taiwan Has a Drought

Acts of God may play a role in the next installment of the global chip crisis especially with the mainspring of the industry running dry.

By Tim Culpan | BLOOMBERG

Turns out, semiconductor manufacturing doesn’t just require multi-billion dollar factories and a lot of smarts, it also takes water. Gallons and gallons of it for every single chip. Better hope there’s no drought.

Oops, too late.

Thursday, November 7, 2019

Suspicious vandals target high-tech water machine made by black U.S. army vet


SMDH! And after less than a week of helping the poor folks of Flint MI! Listen as he describes how they clearly knew what they were doing in an intricate manner...☝️

Monday, October 28, 2019

📺Watch: FELA KUTI • Water No Get Enemy • 1975




☝️The above video is one of the best I've seen on YouTube ~ every so often, for the better part of the past decade since I found it, I like to watch it again in order to remind myself that, despite all the injustice that remains to be corrected where I live, I am nevertheless extremely grateful that I do not have to struggle so desperately to obtain the most basic essentials to support life... and I need to empathise, pray and help in whatever manner I can -- those who do on an ongoing regular basis...

Engineer Moses West’s Innovative Machine Creates Safe, Drinkable Water Out of Thin Air


Tanasia Kenney | ATLANTA BLACK STAR

No, it’s not magic. It’s the system behind Moses West’s innovative machine that’s making it so communities in need have access to safe drinking water.

What’s more, folks are already pretty familiar with the science behind it all.
“We’ve always known there were three sources of water: a liquid, a solid and a gas,” West, a retired Army captain and engineer, told Atlanta Black Star in a recent interview. “Our atmosphere is [the] most abundant source of water we have. And now we have this technology in our hands … where we can tap into this water. To me, we’re in no-brainer territory.”