water, oil, and health mayhem

Today I learned that you can grow algae in the desert with what sounds like greywater, and in an effort to make oil prices more reasonable, the Saudis are going to increase production again. They're worried that we're all going to turn to alternative energy sources, and then all they'll have is just a bunch of desert with some dead animals under it, which sounds like a pretty reasonable concern to me. It also sounds as though capitalism (in the form of speculators) may well take care of the oil-burning, CO₂-producing thing, which seems like the opposite of what usually happens. I was expecting some too-little, too-late regulation.

And by reading this nifty health column, I learned that cherry juice is a good anti-inflammatory for some people, but God only knows if it'd work for you, and tonic water will kill some people, but if you have a taste for things like gin and tonic, it probably won't kill you, personally.

Also, the air cleaner we use as a pressurizer is almost decontaminated from the smoke problem. It's been running outdoors with no carbon in it since Thursday.