WWTP Shderot-Shaar HaNegev Out of Order

The Shikma River is now pure sewage. That area is the most important aquifer recharge project in South Israel. I think that explains why the Ministry of Environment is not approving new agricultural investments.  

Zsido-Haz - Ghetto Budapest 1944

 

Israel adopts membrane treatment to wastewater

 רז הטיפול הרביעוני כבר יצא לדרך . והוא למעשה התפלה של הקולחין . ייקח כמה שנים למימוש בנתיים להסתפק בשפירים  לבעלי חיים וגידולים רגישים.

כאשר האדמה מזוהמת יש לעשות שימוש במצע מנותק  כאשר המצע עצמו נבדק כנקי

The Shafdan WWTP designed by TAHAL in the seventies is now obsolete, the treated water is considered unfit for agricultural reuse, and all the wastewater will be treated by Reverse Osmosis. There 7 groups that submitted offers. 

A new generation of water engineers is coming. We old farts will die out gradually. 

Illustration: Kubota MBR system. 

Reasoning machines are here

We don't know how to digest them. 

I am writing an environmental paper that the machine can do faster and better. 

In my own eyes, it has instantly devaluated my work. 

But the client does not know yet, so I'll complete the job and collect the money. 

Thinking about things smarter than ourselves

 Internationally, we will need to lay groundwork for cooperation, including with China, if we are to avoid what otherwise looks like a reckless and potentially suicidal race to create things smarter than ourselves before someone else does it first, and then to hand over control to them before someone else does that first, too.

From: The Zvi  

Stock picking

 

The Yellow Menace

 
The Chinese startup DeepSeek has launched an Artificial Intelligence machine that is much cheaper faster and better than the American competitors. NVidia fell 17% to this hour and the American 500 billion budget to advance the technology just received a hard beating. If other industries are a precedent, and they are, Chinese manufacturers will erase American industry. 

The Japanese auto industry outcompeted American manufacturers like Ford, Chevrolet, and other former giants. Like German and British producers before, the American industrial heartland has been emptied. Japanese industry liquidated the photography and watch industries.  People said they were unstoppable. Yet Japan, while still very powerful, has found its place and is not menacing the world. Now China is following the same process and is trying to erase the American hi-tech, AI industry. At a certain point, it will slow down and integrate into the world.  

Fortune asks: 

• How did China manage to catch up so quickly?
• Is there any hope for the United States to regain a clear lead?

Eric Rauscher writes:

For Nvidia shareholders, today is an opportunity to pick up shares at a discount. The focus shouldn’t be on the next six months but on the next ten years. The demand for computational power will only grow as AI evolves. Models like DeepSeek R1 are merely early milestones in a journey that will require exponential growth in hardware capacity. Those who can see the long game will realize that Nvidia and similar companies aren’t under threat. They are essential pillars of a future dominated by artificial intelligence. Be cool, and don’t panic.

Next day: Nvidia re-gained 7%, up the level two months ago. Somehow NASDAQ stabilized.