I see three.

Why the shitty AI slop image?

More of a reverse supernova I’d think. You’re starting with the very heavy elements and fissioning them into lighter ones.

I’ve never heard a nuclear bombing described as a supernova, but you do you?

Always good to do a quick search of the literature to make sure your intuition about something is actually correct; I too thought “no way” when I first saw your question.

I don’t think only heating water to 500C would remove more harmful chemicals than a typical full treatment process, as they have a lot of steps to filter various things out, but I don’t have a source for that.

Even if it did, there’s still the issue of heating up the water taking an enormous amount of energy, which is probably a dealbreaker. My local wastewater plant treats 40 million gallons a day, which by a quick calculation would take 150 GWh to heat, 83% the daily energy consumption of the whole of Minnesota. That can be reduced significantly with heat exchangers but even 1% of that would be far too expensive.

I would bring a list of supernovas that occured in my past, but in the future of the time I traveled to. A couple matching observations will provide indisputable proof that I have information from the future.

Well… The Large Hadron Collider can smash lead nuclei together at nearly the speed of light, which turns them into something that is definitely no longer lead.

Yes; this is something that has been studied. However as other commenters have said it requires a lot of energy, and is better suited for processing smaller quantities of water with a high level of PFAS contamination than massive quantities of water with an extremely low level of PFAS. It’s also not a standalone solution, as plenty of harmful chemicals survive heating past 400/500C (heavy metals like cadmium, lead, and mercury do not break down at any temperature).

I don’t think life has any kind of inherent meaning; it simply arose from random physical processes when the conditions were right and took off from there. I keep living mostly because it’s kind of the default, and because I don’t want to hurt others with my death.

The same can be said for real life. Time is a temporal dimension, not a spatial one, so everything must only move through it in one direction, and usually does so at a constant rate. (Taking relativity into account things move more slowly through time at high velocities but that’s not applicable to most of our world).

I will link to the 1858 Bradford sweets poisoning.

I had that too, closed the popup and never ran into anything even mildly broken during the entire course. Aside from the popup they don’t seem to be actively sabotaging Linux users, and it’s a website, so it’s gonna work pretty much identically on any OS as long as you’re using a common browser.

That said, they should definitely phrase the message more like “Your OS isn’t supported, so don’t expect help from us if something Linux-specific breaks our page” than “You need to get a different OS.”

It’s insane to me that Windows still doesn’t have a proper package manager. When you need to upgrade a program you’re expected to go to their website and download the latest version, or update it with its own update mechanism.

It’s easy to take a few minutes and think about what to say before responding over chat, but when I do that during a face to face conversation people get annoyed for “ignoring them” and “just standing there silently” smh.

Actually at household water pressures, water’s boiling point is somewhere from 140-160°C, so it’s actually somewhat plausible. I’m sure some less heat tolerant stuff would have to be upgraded, but the system’s total pressure would be about the same (with the added danger that the consequence of a pressure failure would be a steam explosion instead of a leak).

And of course turning your faucet on hot would now blast out a stream of boiling water propelled by superheated steam, which is probably less than ideal.

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I’m American, but I’ve been keeping tabs on the election, and I’m so happy that you learned from our mistake. Fingers crossed the Liberals can get a majority; keep fighting against our fascist turd president. 🇨🇦

This is the kind of AI that will change the world, not the word salad machines that burn through massive amounts of compute to sound kind of intelligent. The ability to train an AI model to identify problems is incredibly useful, whether it’s sewer blockages or cancer cells.

Couldn’t solar farms just strategically disconnect some of their panels from the grid to avoid that? Solar panels are always collecting energy, but if you disconnect them that energy just goes into making them a bit warmer rather than overloading the grid.

Just install a bunch of spotlights that point back at the Sun so when power prices go negative you can return all that excess energy! Come on MIT, I thought you were supposed to be smart.