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The Confabulation Thread - Part 2

Not in happy mood, Canadian Tire screwed up our car with a faulty filter they put in during an oil change. We are now looking at a new vehicle but was hoping this one would last another couple years. :(
 
Wow, just read that solar + wind power plants generated 35,900 MW (35.9 GW) of power in Germany on Thursday (that equals the output of about 26 nuclear power plants).
 
Hey there you guys are. What's cookin' folks?

I'm back on cable and cancelled my DSL. 1.3 mb/s down if I was lucky. How am I supposed to Skype and work on that? Pfft. Funnily enough they should have upgrades completed by the end of May in my area. I heard the same story 4 years ago when I briefly had DSL but I just read a press release saying that they completed major upgrades in rural NY. I don't understand how you can sell a line rated at 6 mb/s and only give me 1 mb/s.

Oddly enough I get to keep the modem/router Frontier provided. I spoke to 2 reps and their social media team to confirm that I won't be charged. I remember when phone/cable cos used to charge like $300 if you didn't return their equipment.
 
Recently, I saw a US documentary from ca. 2008 about US scientists predicting doom for the US in various ways, and one of the things they talked about was how the US would drain its natural water resources and be forced to drink recycled water, while showing an image of a glass with dirty water. I live in Germany, and have been drinking recycled water for at least 30 years, and I can assure you, it's not dirty at all! :D -- The waste water is collected by communes and directed to water treatment plants which use bacteria to eat up all the bad stuff in the water. The resulting treated water is then filtered multiple times, chlorine is added to kill some bacteria and prevent others from spreading, and then it is fed back into the water supply systems. I must admit that our tap water around the area still contains some bacteria and requires boiling to be fully palatable, but that is an exception rather than the rule (quality varied at times during the years, and I did live in areas with better recycled water before). Our water still isn't as good as that which I've had in the US (b/c in the US, it was probably fresh spring water), but it is often said that the quality of our tap water is at least as good as that of domestic (German) mineral water sources.

We use recycling a lot. Nearly all of our garbage is recycled. There hasn't been talk about landfills for almost 30 years. The stuff that can't be recycled (which is only relatively little), is either sold to foreign countries or burned in waste power plants. Some of our plastics that we can't recycle are sold to China where they're used by the textile industry. But the waste industry is pretty much thriving. We can thank our politicians of the mid-80ies that they made this all possible and helped the waste industry up on its feet, after realizing how much money could be made by recycling waste.

Yesterday, I read an article about garbage on the seas, which amounts to at least 100 million tons of mostly plastics garbage ... it's weird that no-one seized the business opportunity yet to gather and sell all that waste.
 
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