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Taken as in active use or as in the hands of private land owners? Not uniformly so, in either case.

As someone else has mentioned, within the built environment would be at the top end. As far as solar power plants go, geographically altered, old agricultural, and wildfire affected lands.

It's not like the area is straight up (coarse and rough and irritating) sand. Tortoises, foxes, lizards, snakes, rodents, bats, birds, etc.

Flora wise, it's going to be predominantly desert scrub bush and to a lesser degree, microphyll woodland. Even in the article photo, you can see desert scrub in the undeveloped portions.

I think environmentalists that care about the desert would much prefer solar development to occur on already disturbed land.

Have you considered contacting your local vector control office? If it's just an ornamental pond rather than a natural waterway, mosquito fish are an option.

Ikea used to sell two different versions of the Ladda battery.

The brown versions with lower capacity / higher cycle life did switch from Japan to China, but they've discontinued those(or at least no longer stock them @ my local store) for some years now.

The white Eneloop Pro comparable ones were and still are made in Japan.

Being publicly traded doesn't negate the fact they are private sector entities. None of them are state owned enterprises.

But they are tested regularly. Each production is also supposed to have a dedicated person to handle Covid-19 compliance with final authority on such matters and separation/segmentation of bubbles/zones for those that closely or without masks and the rest of production. http://www.publichealth.lacounty.gov/media/Coronavirus/docs/...

They're in essence, supposed to work in as much of a bubble as they can whereas you cannot say the same about a restaurant. It's an unfortunate situation, but they really are quite different.

It's not, really. Third party ballot collection is allowed but the voter has to designate someone to collect said ballot. The return envelope has a section for the third party's name, signature, and relationship to the voter. If they had a named volunteer at hand to sign the ballot envelopes under their name for collection, it'd probably be on the level. Moreover, that volunteer would have to return only those with their signature.

Instead, they have unattended flimsy collection boxes labeled, "Official Ballot Drop Off Box".

Not that simple given their sole California location in Tustin has been doing quite well. Fry's imploding has only made it even more popular.

Landfill gas to power used to be more prevalent, but an AQMD rule change to reduce NOx made them switch to flaring instead because it couldn't compete against subsidized renewables.

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-methane-gas-co...

Coffee's fine. https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA....

A nonlinear association between coffee consumption and CVD risk was observed in this meta-analysis. Moderate coffee consumption was inversely significantly associated with CVD risk, with the lowest CVD risk at 3 to 5 cups per day, and heavy coffee consumption was not associated with elevated CVD risk.

Their official usage video shows touching of the sides and that person doesn't appear to have particularly large hands either.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExuvJkZ61Cg

With large hands, there's an extra degree of difficulty to avoid touching the sides and the bottom. It still leaves you with wet wrists and damp fingers.

I don't think Apple ever had a mouse with truly discrete left & right mouse buttons. Ever since the mighty mouse, they've used a single switch for both buttons but used touch sensors to differentiate between left and right clicks.

The problem with the no hands-on-steering-wheel detection claim Tesla keeps bringing up is that it's quite fallible and not as conclusive as they insist. A light touch(like one might expect while driving a freeway with cruise control and lane-keep assist, for example) may not provide enough torque for the sensor to detect it. Plenty of people have complained about it in the past.

https://forums.teslarati.com/threads/hands-on-the-wheel-dete...

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/hands-on-steering-wh...

https://forums.tesla.com/forum/forums/tesla-autopilot-not-se...

Like radar?

Eh, if it went into production as they had envisioned, it would have been built only to F-104 kind of numbers. By compromising a little on the air to air aspect, they gained enormously in the air to ground aspect and overall utility. Most of the sorties have been air to ground for a good awhile now.

>But that form of CAS is unique to the 'last war'.

Unique like how the A-10 has been operating in such uncontested airspace of the 'last war'? An SU-25 was downed by a MANPADS last year in Syria. The A-10 is tough and highly survivable, but the case of not being hit in the first place has some merit.

>It's what Boyd warned everyone about during the last generation, you need to avoid mutli role aircraft as they're not good at anything.

Like the F-16 or the F-15E? Hillaker said he'd have designed the F-16 differently(more akin to the F-16XL) if he had known it was going to be multi-role.

As a counterpoint: the FEC over the past decade.

The Republican voting bloc has stymied enforcement actions for much of that time.

Not really. Desalination plant built & proposed locations have largely been adjacent to power plants or wastewater facilities.

The main reason we don't have desalination plants is that the water is more expensive than other sources, they're expensive to run, consume a lot of power, and you have to deal with the brine effluent.

Imported water and even purified recycled wastewater(potable reuse) are cheaper. In the case of the desalination plant in Carlsbad, desalinated water is about $2.1-2.4k per acre-foot whereas imported water is ~$1k and potable reuse had an estimate of $1.7-1.9k per acre-foot for the San Diego region(OC's potable reuse is cheaper at ~$800 per acre-foot, but trying to keep similar comparisons).

Power comprises most of the cost of desalination for the high pressures required for the membranes to work. I think it's 5 megawatt hours per acre-foot, but those were somewhat dated figures. While one could deal with blending the brine with wastewater treatment plant effluent or power plant cooling water, the greater reclamation of wastewater and the California Coastal Commission cracking down harder on the discharge of power plant cooling water is complicating things.

Desalination is an expensive commitment that produces at a slower rate than other sources. If you have a wet year, you're still stuck with the production commitment. It's great for water security though.

Many of the newer or at least better lacing systems for snowboard boots use separate controls for foot & leg or liner & shell.

Tongue shims on your liners might help. A replacement heat molded liner is another option.

It's just treated with borates. Wouldn't use it in wet locations or for direct ground contact because it's water soluble and that would hinder its protection, but it's far from toxic as you seem to be implying.

Meh, even if it was some random pet project, it's not the worst way for them to spend their money / time.

New Jersey & Alaska have already largely abolished cash bail. There's a Planet Money episode on New Jersey's bail reform: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/07/12/536905881/epis...

C. difficile & trehalose?

The worst part is that the dongles are individually keyed/paired to their respective keyboards. If it breaks or is misplaced, getting another dongle won't work. The newer Surface Ergonomic keyboard is bluetooth, but it's not a ten-keyless design.

I interpreted the parent post as talking about chilled water thermal energy storage as opposed to evaporative cooling.

They are immensely popular. But drive-thrus are still at the core of their service ever since the first location which was drive-thru only. That's one of many things that can't be said of any of their upscale competitors, hence the fast food vs fast casual.

In-N-Out is fast food. Five Guys and all the other restaurants you've mentioned fall under fast casual.

I think there's a consensus going for breeding bees for varroa sensitive hygiene/ mite resistance, but treatment free is excessive. You don't need to let the colony die when you're concerned with selecting for genetics. Just eliminate the drones and remove the queen next season.

I mean, you can always withhold treatment until mite counts indicate a problem. Letting mite populations explode can impact other colonies(domesticated & feral) in the area as well.

Have you considered carbon steel skillets? They're not as worry free and have less heat retention than cast iron, but they're also much lighter and can be seasoned to a non-stick finish.

That doesn't sound right. West Virginia University's 2014 report to the ICCT only included 3 cars, 2 of which were VWs. There's a unpublished report by WVU with suspicions on Fiat-Chrysler, but that's been floating around this year. The EPA did reprimand 6 manufacturers including GM & Ford for defeat devices, but that was back in 1973. There's a civil class action brewing against GM truck diesels and I understand that Germany has been recently looking into emissions of the Ford Mondeo, but neither of them are via the actions of the EPA.

>Prosecution started in 2015, and only against VW.

Why not? They were the ones that fraudulently claimed they could achieve low emissions without urea injection, used defeat devices, and impeded the investigation into their malfeasance.

A number of Cinemark theaters that featured Dunkirk in 70mm listed here: http://www.slashfilm.com/dunkirk-70mm-locations/