Many years ago I thought I had invented a method to efficiently distill a continuous flow of water.

It turned out I had "invented" exactly this (using latent heat from condensation to preheat the incoming cold water).

Counterflow heat exchangers are used in desalination plants and many other industries to capture what would otherwise be waste heat.

The vast majority of heat exchangers are counterflow. Parallel exchangers are sometimes used when you want to stabilize and control the actual outlet temperature instead of just maximizing heat transfer, since the gradient at the outlet is much less.

 

 

With the right frequency the water will appear to flow backwards!

 

 

Send them to my cul de sac.

I've got a case of skunked Busch that's been sitting in my garage for about 5 years.

It was a "gift" that I've refused to consume.

They can come and take it.

 

An absolutely stupid situation that was completely preventable. How hard is it for city planners to choose unique street names that don't rely on the type of street qualifier to distinguish them.

When I moved to Colorado Springs in 1995, it immediately became obvious to me, in part because I grew up in the northwest portion of the Denver Metro area where the street naming is very well planned and organized. Down here it's complete chaos. I lived in the Garden Ranch neighborhood and the streets in just this tiny neighborhood are Garden Way, Garden Trail, Garden Place, Ranch Lane, Ranch Drive, Michael Drive, Michael Place. Worse, there are places where the street signs don't even include the qualifier, just the base name of the street, despite multiple streets with that base name crossing the same major street within a span of a few miles. This insanity is all over this city. Where I often go walking now there are two intersections of Londonderry Drive and Towner Ave, as well as an intersection where Cranston Drive meets Cranston Drive.

 

 

 

University of Georgia student dancing on couch near window falls 8 stories and survives

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“I arrived and spoke with bystanders who advised that the female victim had been dancing on a couch or air mattress which was near an open window and had apparently fallen through the screen and onto the ground below,” according to a report by ACC police Sgt. Erik Ellison.

 

She must have made a deep hole in the ground. That building has only 6 storeys!

 

She must have made a deep hole in the ground. That building has only 6 storeys!

You have to include the bounce.

 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...of-stealing-us40m-in-gold-bars-pleads-guilty/

WASHINGTON — A former senior CIA official pleaded guilty on Tuesday in Virginia to a charge that he abused his position and government funds to enrich himself by acquiring Florida real estate and hundreds of gold bars worth tens of millions of dollars, according to court records.

David J. Rush fabricated a “highly classified” government program to justify the acquisition of luxury property in south Florida that he intended to resell for personal profit, according to a court filing. Rush separately concocted a bogus “sensitive government activity” to obtain the gold bars, the filing says.

 

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...of-stealing-us40m-in-gold-bars-pleads-guilty/

WASHINGTON — A former senior CIA official pleaded guilty on Tuesday in Virginia to a charge that he abused his position and government funds to enrich himself by acquiring Florida real estate and hundreds of gold bars worth tens of millions of dollars, according to court records.

David J. Rush fabricated a “highly classified” government program to justify the acquisition of luxury property in south Florida that he intended to resell for personal profit, according to a court filing. Rush separately concocted a bogus “sensitive government activity” to obtain the gold bars, the filing says.

"Under questioning from investigators, Rush admitted that he provided a foreign government official with information about the identity of a secret source for the U.S. government, a new court filing says. The filing doesn’t specify which country the foreign official represented."

To me, treason is a bigger crime than theft. Need to bring back hanging as a deterrent.

 

While I agree that treason is a much worse crime than theft, I think that the death penalty is inadequate. It's almost an easy way out of what should be very prolonged punishment.

 

Ouch!

Spoiler

 

https://youtube.com/shorts/249YElpiZz0?is=4hQtTPKWu25Xswwn

Trailer overturns with a transformer valued at 2 million euros on the Guanajuato-Silao road in Santa Teresa

 

Hackers heat up refrigerstors in france:
https://x.com/InsiderGeo/status/210...op-hol-slaan-ook-in-belgie-problemenaa9df1fb/

 

https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10899542
Woman unplugs freezer to charge phone, leaving shop owner with melted ice cream

 

Hackers heat up refrigerstors in france:
https://x.com/InsiderGeo/status/2109587148315722110?ref_src=twsrc^tfw|twcamp^tweetembed|twterm^2109587148315722110|twgr^|twcon^s1_&ref_url=https://www.ad.nl/buitenland/hackers-laten-koelinstallaties-van-franse-supermarkten-op-hol-slaan-ook-in-belgie-problemenaa9df1fb/

https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10899542
Woman unplugs freezer to charge phone, leaving shop owner with melted ice cream

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In either of these cases, a freezer temperature monitor/alarm costing well less than $100 would have saved a great deal of money and frustration.