funny that my response to you directly was so similar! I would say, back of napkin math, that desalination being over 150x efficient than these new machines would make up the deficits so extremely quickly that it’s not even worth considering the long-term costs between the 2, the desalination plants beat these dehumidifiers that much more quickly.
to give you an idea of the level of efficiency we’re aiming for desalination with the latest tech rn, this paper from 2020* is saying that these news techs are shooting for under 3 Kwh/m3 power usage. so we would need a bare minimum 158x reduction in power usage just to match the most experimental of desalination techs. Now, it doesnt need to get quite this low to match desalination because of the problem with dealing with all the waste products from desalinating waste water, but it still means we need to get pretty close to that. so, what could be done to make this practical? a leap in tech akin to the level of progress we’ve seen in semiconductors, which seems very unlikely to me at this point in time. so, we will needs at bare minimum, 2 or 3 decades, if not centuries (if it’s possible at all) to match that.
*I admit this is just one paper I found in like 10 seconds of searching, but this matches with other stuff I’ve read about desalination vs de-humidification in the past. still, maybe we’ll all be super surprised and there’s some secret to easily drawing water out of the atmosphere that we’re all missing and we’ll discover and it will usher in a new age of easily accessible fresh water.
right but is this actually better than desalination plants and pipes to pump it further inland? my gut says no, this is just like several other previous machines promising to do the same thing with horrific efficiency compared to desalination plants that already struggle with efficiency. maybe 20, 30+ years in the future we will be able to use machines that directly suck water out of the air efficiently, but desalination still seems like your best bet, especially since desalination continues to improve.
cool tech, but I’'m sure it’s not anywhere near as effective/efficient as desalination plants and pipes to pump them further inland
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we’re not wasting any tax money on this, taxes do not actually fund the US government’s spending. This will not harm military production, the money used to buy labor to do these investigations will not eat into the labor pool and capital that would help with military production
if one party will commit political suicide like that it really would be the dems lol
What else are people gonna choose? Third party?
if 1 party does it unilaterally, the other party will win the next x elections very very easily. if they both do it together, I think that would be unironically very dangerous for the empire. the american left, as much as I despise ourselves, is the strongest it’s been since the 60s/70s, instituting the draft would be enough of a major boon for us, that even with our dubious theoretical and organizational capacity, could begin to be a major nuisance to the ruling class (just expanding on what i mean)
it will be political suicide for whichever party decides to do it, and will create a new spring of radicalization on top of giving potential radicals military training. if they decide to do it in a bipartisan way it will be even worse for radicalization. I think people forget that the ruling class didn’t end the draft because they wanted to, they had to, the rate of fragging in vietnam became ridiculous
I know this is you joking but for anyone unaware I imagine the read/write speeds are much much lower than NVMe SSDs so this would be bad to play games on comparatively
your mistake here is thinking they want to. if they wanted to, they would.