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of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. And watch how good this is. You ready? Go. Yeah, I don't think I oversold it. That was pretty spectacular. Well, should we start with the good news th

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at nobody seems to be reporting? When I say nobody, I mean nobody except Jake Novak, who put together three facts that I was not aware of. And when you see them together, it's quite a story. And the facts are these.

Number one, an Israeli company has built these devices that can extract drinking water from the air. So it will take the humidity, the moisture in the air, and it very effectively turns it into water, up to 800 liters of fresh water per day. If the devices I saw in the picture are the right devices, it looks like maybe the size of, I don't know, two or three refrigerators put together. So it's not like a factory size. It's something you could put on trucks, I think. And they must have figured out some way to make this more efficient.

Likewise, you may be aware that Israel had offered to Iran, I believe, to help them with desalinization, because Israel is good on desalinization. They need to be, because they need to get water wherever they can.

But then there was a third thing that Jake Novak pointed out—you should follow him on Twitter, by the way—that there's another Israeli company that developed a drip irrigation system for growing rice so you don't have to flood the rice paddies.

So those are the three things: desalinization, taking water directly from the air in some new efficient way, better than before I guess, and then a way to do agriculture with way less water, some kind of a drip irrigation system.

So you take those three things collectively, and that's a pretty big deal. You know, you don't see them all at the same time, so you sort of lose sight of the fact that while we were thinking about other things, Israel used technology, basically in science, to solve one of the biggest problems in the world: that we might run out of fresh water.

Now think about y

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our 80-year product projections for climate change. What is one of the base assumptions of the assumption that climate change will be devastating in the future? Well, the problem is that things that are working now will break, such as people who have access to water might have droughts in the future and other people might have floods. And I've been saying forever that you can't do that kind of an…

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