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🧻 Converting human urine into clean energy: Researchers optimize the process
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Converting human urine into clean energy: Researchers optimize the process
Researchers at McGill University have improved the efficiency of a method for converting human urine into clean energy. The method employs microbial fuel cells (MFCs), which use bacteria to turn organic waste into electricity, providing a sustainable and low-cost means of treating wastewater while generating energy from an abundant source.

Super Bowl 2026 concessions: Food and drink options at and around Levi's Stadium for Patriots vs. Seahawks

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/super-bowl-lx-levis-stadi…

"Butter made from air? This startup is spreading carbon-conscious innovation"
#Butter #Food

Butter made from air? This startup is spreading carbon-conscious innovation | The Optimist Daily
Savor’s butter, made from CO₂, hydrogen, and oxygen, offers a near-zero emissions alternative to dairy butter — and it tastes just like the real thing.

The Groq deal shows the challenges Nvidia faces as options to deploy its cash flood narrow; its annual free cash flow has risen from $4.2B in 2020 to $80B now (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tec…

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@rhempel/115828636454516873
This comment made me realise that very often the first realisation of "I'm an idiot" is often accompanied by a bit of a rush of now I understand something that is quite appealing..

Time and again in the communist bloc, economic reformers from Moscow to Pyongyang planned to introduce rationality and markets into planning.
They often thought they had won the argument,
-- and not just among dissidents in labor camps but at the highest levels of their Politburos.
Yet almost every time, their proposed reforms were either whittled down to nothing before implementation, or passed and then reversed after a few months or years.
Why?
These reformers …

Why communist reformers always lost
Communism had reforming optimists too. Their failure can help today’s reformers to avoid the same fate.

Unlike in the West, Chinese policymakers and the public appear to be much more optimistic about AI, likely due to a focus on real-world applications of AI (Vivian Wang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/world/asia/china-ai-enthusiasm.html

Where are China’s A.I. Doomers?
Chinese policymakers and the public have expressed high levels of optimism about A.I., even as many in the West worry about the technology’s effects on employment or humanity in general.

The three largest benefit managers
— CVS Health’s Caremark,
Cigna’s Express Scripts
and UnitedHealth’s Optum Rx
— collectively oversee some 80 percent of all prescriptions in the United States.
Employers and government programs hire P.B.M.s to negotiate with drug companies, pay pharmacies and help decide which drugs patients can get at what price.
Patients see the work of a benefit manager when they encounter denials for coverage of prescriptions or are f…

Congress Reins In Drug Middlemen in Effort to Lower Prescription Prices
The legislation will impose new restrictions on pharmacy benefit managers, giant companies like CVS Caremark, Optum Rx and Express Scripts that oversee prescription drug benefits.

Stefon Diggs landing spots: Ravens, Steelers among options for former Pro Bowl receiver after Patriots release

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/stefon-diggs-landing-spots-after-p…

A look at Elon Musk's bet that Tesla's future is in its Optimus humanoid robots, which for now rely on human helpers and still face commercial challenges (Becky Peterson/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musk-optimus