Yeah, its interesting that the Great Lakes area salt mines of Detroit are excluded. Its too bad.

I clicked the FB link because I wanted to see the GIF.

I knew there would be a GIF

One good hailstorm, you're in the dark with that setup. I hope a gas generator is on stand by (for weeks or months until the system is fixed).

I didn't know Justin Timberlake was in that film? :)

50,000,000 + tons.

We've been putting "fibermesh" in concrete for decades and decades in modern times and the ancient put asbestos in their materials too, to add strength and minimize stress cracks. The "do it on the cheap" and "concrete always cracks" folks have gotten what they paid for. Do it right the first time, there is no…

In numerous municipalities in the west, sewer waste water is treated, then fed back into the potable water system... gotta love the urban sprawl in the land of sparse water.

Is this the NY flywheel (built with Obama money, AKA taxpayers money) you speak of? http://www.cnet.com/news/flywheel-…

STIR - define externalities in verifiable quantifiable economic metrics please.

Where is IKEA making investments to help do something about about clear-cutting the Amazon?

Flying in no atmosphere was a bit ahead of its time. Too high to shoot down by then defense capabilities.

Give a fool a toy, they do foolish things.

Copy cats:

Editor? "So to recap, for around 20 years, the Strategic Air Command went out of there way to make launching a nuclear missile as easy, and quick, as possible"

A lot of prototype models were clay or wood back then in the early concept stage.

Looks a lot like they studied the AMC Javelin

Imagine, all the time he could have actually been, you know, thinking... instead of being sucked into an interactive TV.

How do virtual servers impact this notion in the article that they run full tilt all the time?