There are a few solutions that have increased capital costs while providing both more convenience and reduced CO2 emissions.
Orbital Systems Shower—Using sensors that measure how dirty water happens to be + Nanotech filters to reuse 90% of the showering water. In those areas where saving water is important, that framework is much better than the status quo.
Energy recovery ventilation in residential buildings. There are installation costs, but the air quality including CO2 is better. Fewer fossil fuels need to be burned for heating.
Less capital costs:
Automatically open/closing blackout curtains.
InstantPot
Medicine (in desperate cases it makes sense for consumers, but it’s more a matter of research):
Given that treatments based on peptide that exist in the normal human blood stream can’t be patented, there seems to a bunch of substances that work but aren’t used in medical practice.
Phage therapy. Given that you want to use a lot of different phages is different situations approving a single phage doesn’t bring you far and as a result it’s hard to make the business model work in the current regulatory environment.
Agreed with all of those. Would love a recirculating shower. Would especially love having a system for recycling sink/shower graywater for toilet flushing and clothes washing machine use. (Additional context: I currently live in an RV and so have extra reasons for wanting to conserve water and power.)
One issue I have with my InstantPot is that the learning curve for using it well seemed harder than it needed to be. I’m a pretty good cook already all things considered, and am very aware of the underlying physics and chemistry of what a pressure cooker does, but it took lots of trial and error to figure out the technique here. If nothing else, most of the “InstantPot” recipes (and air fryer recipes, since I have the InstantPot Air Fryer lid) I can find are much lower quality than I expected to find, and I have to make lots of changes.
There are a few solutions that have increased capital costs while providing both more convenience and reduced CO2 emissions.
Orbital Systems Shower—Using sensors that measure how dirty water happens to be + Nanotech filters to reuse 90% of the showering water. In those areas where saving water is important, that framework is much better than the status quo.
Energy recovery ventilation in residential buildings. There are installation costs, but the air quality including CO2 is better. Fewer fossil fuels need to be burned for heating.
Less capital costs:
Automatically open/closing blackout curtains.
InstantPot
Medicine (in desperate cases it makes sense for consumers, but it’s more a matter of research):
Given that treatments based on peptide that exist in the normal human blood stream can’t be patented, there seems to a bunch of substances that work but aren’t used in medical practice.
Phage therapy. Given that you want to use a lot of different phages is different situations approving a single phage doesn’t bring you far and as a result it’s hard to make the business model work in the current regulatory environment.
Agreed with all of those. Would love a recirculating shower. Would especially love having a system for recycling sink/shower graywater for toilet flushing and clothes washing machine use. (Additional context: I currently live in an RV and so have extra reasons for wanting to conserve water and power.)
One issue I have with my InstantPot is that the learning curve for using it well seemed harder than it needed to be. I’m a pretty good cook already all things considered, and am very aware of the underlying physics and chemistry of what a pressure cooker does, but it took lots of trial and error to figure out the technique here. If nothing else, most of the “InstantPot” recipes (and air fryer recipes, since I have the InstantPot Air Fryer lid) I can find are much lower quality than I expected to find, and I have to make lots of changes.