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Two fun things: 1 on culverts we still don't have the math to perfectly size a culverts, we always use imperial calculations and we tend to either over or under size them. 2) for the luminescent solar concentrators my thought immediately went to build collectors into awnings that cover windows. That way you cool the house and produce energy.
“Religion is a conspiracy theory. "God did it" is no different than "the lizard aliens did it." Like religion, conspiracy theories are popular among the ignorant, because they offer simplistic answers to difficult questions.” Oliver Markus Mallo
Is this this still a controversial thing in the US? The Covid shot has been integrated with the yearly multi-strain flu shot old people can get for free from the National Health Service equivalent in any country with comparable resources. That's most of Europe and others around the world. Come on US, keep up, you guys must have the money for it!