Loveendures, we have no idea where the the best place in the country would be to build a house. I have heard it suggested the Great Lakes area might be the best place. After the frozen weather there recently I'm not too sure. It's anyone's guess.
My wife and I recently bought a piece of property. At the moment we are planning to build a steel storage building on our property next July. We aren't going to build a house, at least for now. Instead, we will put a trailer inside the steel building and live in it during the winter and take it outside during warmer weather. Hopefully, we can sell our property and leave for somewhere else if our location becomes too unbearable for us. Maybe we will know where we want to go by then.
NWDoug and Lovendures, I've often wondered that myself!
It might end up apples and oranges, 6 of one, 6 of the other in pros and cons.
I just know when the program is over, I wouldn't mind a curtain call to send love and best wishes to all others!
Engineers develop a new way to remove carbon dioxide from air: The process could work on the gas at any concentrations, from power plant emissions.
The device is essentially a large, specialized battery that absorbs carbon dioxide from the air (or other gas stream) passing over its electrodes as it is being charged up, and then releases the gas as it is being discharged. In operation, the device would simply alternate between charging and discharging, with fresh air or feed gas being blown through the system during the charging cycle, and then the pure, concentrated carbon dioxide being blown out during the discharging.
-- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191025170815.htm
University of CambridgeSummary:A widely-used gas that is currently produced from fossil fuels can instead be made by an 'artificial leaf' that uses only sunlight, carbon dioxide and water, and which could eventually be used to develop a sustainable liquid fuel alternative to gasoline.
'Artificial leaf' successfully produces clean gas -- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191021111826.htm
This is not a topic that most would think of for this science and technology subject but it does fit and I don't see a better place for this discussion. A friend shared this article recently and I found it fascinating. It is about women and Alzheimers (as well as some other health issues). I did not know that women get this disease 2x as much as men and it has nothing to do with how long women live. This article shows there is so much we do not understand about women and health in general. It also shows we still aren't funding women's health studies the way they should be funded.
There are some steps mentioned which may help obtain better brain health while we continue to learn.
https://medium.com/neurotrack/menopause-and-alzheimers-1c455f29fe16
Peruvian innovators launch banana leaf biodegradable dishes to combat plastic plates or styrofoam consumption and their harm to the environment.
The company’s first product, Bio Plant, are rectangular-shaped plates made free of stryene and other carcinogenic components, which can both be found in plastic and styrofoam plates. They decompose in two months and naturally degrade within those 60 days.
Reposting from my Miracles thread under Positive Predictions to this one on Science and Technology as the miraculous outcome is either a huge discovery or a fluke miracle for one man.
A medical miracle and yes it did involve science and technology but Chris Barr paralyzed in a surfing accident several years ago and told he was completely paralyzed with no cure is now walking.
Chris is called Patient #1. The first person to be given his own stem cells harvested from his own stomach fat and then injected into his spine.
And now many months later he is not only walking again but doing so with only the support of a cane.
Doctors say much more research is still needed because they are so amazed by this miracle themselves that they need to determine if Chris is an anomaly (perhaps another scientific explanation for a miracle 
As he said being Patient #1 in a trial with unknown consequences was easy. As far as he was concerned he had nothing to lose.
A true medical miracle.
A powerful antibiotic that kills some of the most dangerous drug-resistant bacteria in the world has been discovered using artificial intelligence.
The drug works in a different way than other existing antibacterials and is the first of its kind to be found by using Artificial Intelligence referred to as "machine learning" to go through vast digital libraries of pharmaceutical compounds.
Tests showed that the drug wiped out a range of antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria, including Acinetobacter baumannii and Enterobacteriaceae, two of the three high-priority pathogens that the World Health Organization ranks as “critical” for new antibiotics to target.
Ground-breaking discovery finally proves rain really can move mountains -- ScienceDaily
"The dramatic effect rainfall has on the evolution of mountainous landscapes is widely debated among geologists, but new research led by the University of Bristol and published today in Science Advances, clearly calculates its impact, furthering our understanding of how peaks and valleys have developed over millions of years.
Its findings, which focused on the mightiest of mountain ranges -- the Himalaya -- also pave the way for forecasting the possible impact of climate change on landscapes and, in turn, human life.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201016143049.htm
Humans are born with brains 'prewired' to see words: Study finds connections to language areas of the brain:
"Analyzing brain scans of newborns, researchers found that this part of the brain -- called the "visual word form area" (VWFA) -- is connected to the language network of the brain.
"That makes it fertile ground to develop a sensitivity to visual words -- even before any exposure to language," said Zeynep Saygin, senior author of the study and assistant professor of psychology at The Ohio State University.
The VWFA is specialized for reading only in literate individuals. Some researchers had hypothesized that the pre-reading VWFA starts out being no different than other parts of the visual cortex that are sensitive to seeing faces, scenes or other objects, and only becomes selective to words and letters as children learn to read or at least as they learn language.
"We found that isn't true. Even at birth, the VWFA is more connected functionally to the language network of the brain than it is to other areas," Saygin said. "It is an incredibly exciting finding."
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201022125525.htm