Yes! And even if you can’t grow outdoors, there are things you can plant indoors, including simple herbs.

If it’s an indoor production using grow lights, there would be no light pollution outside:

More traditional greenhouses with transparent ceilings can be operated in a way that mitigates light pollution.

It’s a relevant concern, but not a dealbreaker.

We should absolutely move as much as we can into greenhouse production. We already do this with hot house tomatoes. And it’s easy to transition into other different forms of produce, especially greens.

It saves on land, it cuts the use of pesticides and fertilizers, it reduces the chance of foodborne illness, and maintains secure food production throughout every season. It’s quite literally a no-brainer, we just have to invest.

And yet, I think most people are checking all those boxes, unfortunately. Pray for their mental health! 😵

But why even jump to that conclusion? They could have said “may cause baldness”, too.

I mean, they come up a list of things, but proved none of it: “Chemicals in everyday plastics may disrupt the body’s natural 24-hour sleep-wake cycle and circadian rhythm in a way similar to coffee, which increases the risk of sleep disorders, diabetes, immune problems and cancer, new in vitro research shows.”

I just wish that journalists would be a little less sensationalist with stuff like this. Even if it were an animal-based study, assumptions should be tempered when it comes to reporting on the implications to human health.

Not to criticize the study, since we really do need to know how these plastics are harming us, but the headlines need to chill out.

Yes, it will lead to other studies, but the headline suggests that “Plastics in everyday objects may disrupt sleep in same way as caffeine…” as if they actually compared plastic exposure to caffeine in living people through a sleep study.

Seems like a huge assumption.

I say this, because in vitro studies can point to very wrong, absurdly misleading conclusions. For example, avocado extract appears to damage human chromosomes… in vitro. But when consumed, it’s healthy, and may even be cancer-protective.

new in vitro research shows.

So, they didn’t actually study people’s sleep?

Any priest who complies with a new law requiring the reporting of child abuse confessions to authorities will be excommunicated.

Oh, are we going to play that game?

Why does the Catholic Church have to be so fucking evil?

This is expected, considering we’re in an unprovoked trade war.

But how we bounce back is what matters, and Canada has the opportunity to strengthen every aspect of our economy, industries, and European partnerships.

It’s not even that this is a privacy violation that bothers me (because it does), but the fact that people are getting rich off of our private, personal data is infuriating.

I can’t stand that the most corrupt, unethical, evil, criminal, immoral people among us are the ones getting rich and living comfortable lives. It’s sickening.

Longer range so it can get stuck further from home? 🤭😀👍

300mw of solar would be between 1,500 and 3,000 acres of land. 300mw SMR could be as low as 10-20 acres.

In that context, it may still be better to plan for solar panels on all roofs in new developments.

Just taking one example of Whitby, Ontario, which only has a population of around 140,000. Using a quick and dirty measurement of the developed area from the waterfont to Taunton Rd., there’s over 12,000 acres of area used up by mostly homes and other buildings (schools, retail, etc.).

You may not even need to have EVERY roof covered to meet the demands of a municipality like that. This makes it even more compelling because you have room to expand the capacity, if needed. And it still comes with the benefit of having multiple redundancies, being self-sustainable, offering residents free or extremely low-cost electricity (or even be paid to put energy back into the grid!), etc.

Anyway, this fantasy is unlikely to happen in Ontario. LOL

enough electricity to supply about 300,000 homes The estimated construction cost of the initial reactor is $7.7 billion

Interesting. That comes out to just over $25,000 per home, assuming it’s delivering power to 300,000 homes.

I wonder what it would cost to fit those 300,000 homes (or the roofs of large buildings) with solar, wind, and other green tech… interlinking communities to their wider municipality, and the rest of the province for redundancy.

Top end solar systems for the “average” home in Ontario would be around the same $25,000 price tag - one time - and would pay for itself in under 10 years, saving home owners from having to worry about rising energy costs.

Would it be most cost-effective? More sustainable? More eco-friendly?

I hope it’s true, but unlike in the beginning, I’m starting to see more people buying American produce (strawberries, lettuce, etc.) again.

This won’t work if we half-ass it, guys.