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kmosiman t1_jb19exo wrote

Reply to comment by Hiiipower111 in TIL Until 1921 the Colorado River did not flow through the State of Colorado. It took an act of Congress to “move” the river into the state by renaming the Grand River and adding it to the Colorado River. by triviafrenzy

Ok so the Mississippi-Ohio-Missouri river has 3 main branches. The Mississippi runs mostly North-south the Missouri runs from the West and the Ohio from the East all committed g together on the Illinois border.

The Ohio is the largest by volume so if you were an explorer finding a brand new river on the coast you'd trace the river up sticking with the biggest one every time there were 2 streams coming together. This would mean that the end of the "new" river would be the Ohio River.

Now depending on the time of year and recent rains this could get tricky because the Mississippi might be bigger than the Ohio at the convergence some of the time, but on average the Ohio is the bigger river where they merge.

If you traced the river and wanted to get the longest river you'd have to follow the smaller branch and trace it up the Missouri River.

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kmosiman t1_jb0qj95 wrote

Reply to comment by Hiiipower111 in TIL Until 1921 the Colorado River did not flow through the State of Colorado. It took an act of Congress to “move” the river into the state by renaming the Grand River and adding it to the Colorado River. by triviafrenzy

Not sure how you are measuring this. Typically a river is determined by flow rate not length.

I believe the Mississippi-Missouri branch is the longest. From a water flow standpoint the Ohio is the largest, so the main run of the river to the Gulf should be the Ohio.

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kmosiman t1_j43y3vl wrote

Reply to comment by MaIcoImReynoIds in Vehicles in 2030. My predictions; leave yours in comments. by sarinGasSmells

At a certain point it won't matter. CAFE regulations plus the global auto market will be a major factor.

Also consider R&D funding. Manufacturers aren't going to be spending as much on engine technologies so developments will stall out.

I'd love to think that HV's will catch on, but I believe BEV sales equalled HV sales last year.

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kmosiman t1_j43xn2u wrote

Reply to comment by jaxnmarko in Vehicles in 2030. My predictions; leave yours in comments. by sarinGasSmells

All depends. In this technological pipe dream demand might be evened out.

If various storage battery options are on the market then charging stations may be able to store electricity to even out the draw on the grid.

Smart grid improvements could allow for flexible pricing (electricity to recharge battery banks would be cheaper at midday when solar is at its peak).

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kmosiman t1_j3yk9zl wrote

Reply to Why do poultry producers kill their stock when they get bird flu, rather than keeping survivors to reproduce? by poorbill

In most cases that I am aware of Avian flu is fatal or nearly so.

It's impossible to serilize the barn while keeping a few survivors alive so it's safer for disease control to kill off the entire barn and treat it (usually sanitizing foam or high heat followed by allowing the whole barn to decompose in place for months before cleaning it out.

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kmosiman t1_j2wqrr3 wrote

Reply to Electric car design by carbon8id

Crumple zone. Plus depending on air flow it's a good place to mount the heat exchanger for the AC and battery temperature control system (heat pump).

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kmosiman t1_j23xk9x wrote

Reply to Eli5: Why are matress and laundromat stores often used for laundering money by Jojojoost010

As far as I know the mattress store thing is just a conspiracy but it makes sense because the price is somewhat arbitrary.

So in theory a mattress store could buy products for $200 and sell them for $1000. This would allow them to take in a lot of profits and have a solid paper trail.

The same is true for restaurants since they could overcharge for meals and it would look legitimate.

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kmosiman t1_j20cqga wrote

Reply to comment by Surur in UIUC Researchers propose a new way to get fresh water from seawater, without the disadvantages of traditional desalination. They say that a vertical “capture surface” that is 210 m wide and 100 m tall, could extract enough vapor floating above warm oceans to supply 500,000 people with freshwater by lughnasadh

It would slightly, but I believe the point is that by just collecting and capturing the natural water vapor that this would be no more than normal. Plus wave motion would natural refresh the water in the collection area.

I think the same could be true for pumped membrane desalination except pumping the massive amount of water needed to mix back to normal salinity would make the process more expensive.

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kmosiman t1_iujrz37 wrote

Reply to comment by OrneryGringo in Eli5: how is it possible that a wooden barrel, which is used for aging alcohol, does not rot away. by OrneryGringo

It's probably Sherry not Cherry.

Sherry barrels still have some of the Sherry soaked into the wood and add that flavor to the whiskey.

Many beers are aged in Bourbon Barrels to add the flavor.

Additional aging in certain barrels is all about adding flavors that would not be there otherwise. Sherry, barrels, wine barrels, bourbon barrels, French oak, American oak, maple, Hungarian oak, etc.

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