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the simultaneous sip. And happy now. Oh my God, I don't know if any of you have ever tried this. It's something I don't know. I don't know when it was the last time I ever tried it, but I tried it yesterday and it's amazing. I got almost enough sleep. Has anybody ever done that? I mean it wasn't like a ton, probably six hours, but six hours is like, you know, that's like nine to me. So I'm like…
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Well it has come up with a discovery that they can make water evaporate far more efficiently with light than heat does. Does that sound like a big deal? It doesn't really. Is that a big deal? But you know that it apparently, the light without any heat, under only the ideal conditions, has to be some kind of edge condition that they can create. The light without heat will evaporate water far more efficiently, like way more efficiently than heat. Do you know what that means? Might it mean, it could mean that desalinization just became cheap. It could go down by a factor of hundreds of percents and that changes a lot. Because imagine if you could have water anywhere. What's the biggest limiter to where people can live and how they can grow food? Probably water as much as anything, right? Climate of course number one, but water is going to be the big one.
So imagine if there's a technology in five years where pretty much anybody can live off grid and just have a little device and it makes all the water they want. Now there have been a whole bunch of breakthroughs in producing water out of the atmosphere. But between the atmosphere that they can now suck the water out of that already exists and then this thing which might be able to desalinate at scale, could be that our real estate options just increase by 100 right there. Just more places you could live without having a city bring a pipe to you.
So that's one thing.
Here's another one that is just so perfect. You know this is one of those things that makes you think the simulation is real and that the life we're living is at least partly scripted like a sitcom. You know there'll be little things that happen that you say how did that happen by coincidence? That had to be in a script somewhere. There's no way this happens by chance. Here's another one. Big improvement in steam engines. As you say to yourself, Scott, why do we need improvement in steam engines? Are you going to be running your car on steam engines? God no, no, no, no. Turns out the steam engines have been used for I
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don't know how many decades to produce electricity. So if you've got some big source of energy like a falling waterfall it could drive a generator which could drive steam engines. I don't know, now that's the wrong example. I think it's nuclear, right? Is it nuclear that drives the steam engines? Yeah, nuclear power, steam anyway. So if you want to make a lot of steam to make energy from nuclear p…
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