While not not necessarily required by code, a drain pan + a leak sensor in the pan are useful in mitigating potential disasters.
Doesn’t have to be fancy either, they make smart leak sensors or basic ones that are just ear piercingly loud.
It’s a pity that Crispin Glover’s suite was settled and a precedent wasn’t set
An instant ramen factory would at least take care of the sodium!
That said, looks like the current sea water desalination worldwide is pretty huge:
https://www.wired.com/story/desalination-is-booming-but-what-about-all-that-toxic-brine/
16,000 operating desal facilities worldwide have been producing. Until now. Researchers report today that global desal brine production is 50 percent higher than previous estimates, totaling 141.5 million cubic meters a day, compared to 95 million cubic meters of actual freshwater output from the facilities.
236.5 million cubic meters of sea water processed a day, 264 gallons in a cubic meter = 62.44 Billion gallons of water per day.
If the Lithium content is the same as it is in the US example, then that is a potential 20,000 tons of Lithium a year (again assuming the same Li concentration and 100% extraction.
Sadly still short of the current global demand for lithium:
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/u-s-seeks-new-lithium-sources-as-demand-for-clean-energy-grows
Worldwide demand for lithium was about 350,000 tons (317,517 metric tons) in 2020, but industry estimates project demand will be up to six times greater by 2030.
Looks like there’s three ways to mine Lithium:
Maine has been burned in the past by previous mining operations closing up and leaving the state to clean up the remaining mess (also in the OP article). Definitely a tough situation all around.
Regarding how much Lithium can be recovered from desalination waste:
The US currently has one operating desalination plant, Carlsbad, that processes 50 million gallons of seawater per day. If it recovered 100% of the lithium in that water, it would produce… about 16 tonnes of lithium per year.
VS the amount needed/used per year:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/606481/estimated-lithium-consumption-in-the-united-states/
In 2022 the United States consumed an estimated 3000 metric tons of lithium.
https://www.neefusa.org/story/water/home-water-use-united-states
Each day in the United States, about 27.4 billion gallons of water are withdrawn and delivered from surface water and groundwater sources for residential use
So if we supplemented 10% of our needs from Desalinated water (2.74 Billion gallons a day) and recovered the same max amount of Lithium as the example a day (50 million gallons a day for 16T of Lithium a year) then we get:
(2.74B/50M)16T= 54.816T= 877T of Lithium a year
On the one hand you have TNGepisodes like Damok, Inner Light, DS9: Duet, etc.
Then there’s episodes which defy any attempts to categorize them, like Threshold.
Best I can do is ultra bright, white cows.
a system allowing shoppers to pay with a mere flash of their palm
Imagine people misunderstanding how the technology works and instead slapping their cashier when asked for payment…
system ideally escalate to the next tier of (human) support when it detects something complicated?
Why escalate when you can hallucinate!
There’s quite a few brands under Techtronic Industries (TTI):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techtronic_Industries
TTI’s brands include:
Milwaukee
AEG (Under license from Electrolux AB)
Ryobi (Under license from Ryobi Ltd)
Homelite
Empire Level
Imperial Blade
Stiletto
Hart
Hoover (In US)
Oreck
Vax (In UK and Australia)
Royal
DreBo
Dirt Devil
Would be cool if all their brands could use the same batteries…
“Please plug in an external monitor to display all ads properly.”
The best ad I saw for Reddit (back before the grand Digg migration) was one day, everyone agreed to stop posting direct links to articles and instead post the links to the Reddit discussions for said articles.
Suddenly, one day, the entire Digg feed was links to Reddit.
We should do the same thing (on say 8/1) to give time for the different federated instances to get accustomed to the higher traffic, more activity on the feed, and more people to welcome the future Reddit refuges, just like Redditors once welcomed us during the Digg 4.0 exodus.
Do a search for you server OS + STIG
Then, for each service you’re hosting on that server, do a search for:
Service/Program name + STIG/Benchmark
There’s tons of work already done by the vendors in conjunction with the DoD (and CIS) to create lists of potential vulnerable settings that can be corrected before deploying the server.
Along with this, you can usually find scripts and/or Ansible playbooks that will do most of the hardening for you. Though it’s a good Idea to understand what you do and do not need done.