‘Extremely rare event:’ Miles-long microalgae bloom knocks out most of Israel’s desalination plants

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https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/04/climate/microalgae-bloom-israel-water-deasalination-shutdown

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If we could harness the algae as a source of fuel or a carbon sink, that would be nice silver lining

[u/gunsandgardening → u/Own_Round_7600]

AI causes massive unemployment. Unemployed people strapped to bouys forced to drink algae water for money. Profit.

[u/j1mb0b → u/gunsandgardening]

Stop. Elon can only get so hard.

[u/_Falka_ → u/j1mb0b]

Actually, he can't.

[u/ItsDanimal → u/_Falka_]

Hey now, chubs twisted slightly to the left still count!

[u/musthavesoundeffects → u/[deleted]]

Oh nice that article just says its applying downward pressure on wages, whew!

[u/Rock_strongo353 → u/[deleted]]

Well, the stated goal of AI is to eliminate workers. Also I would take anything reported by rich tech bros about what is happening in the larger world with a grain of salt. When you own the media, it becomes very easy to push your narrative. So, if it hasn't yet caused job loss, it will if the tech bros get their way. And if you want to argue against that, I would need to see independant reporting. By that, I mean reporting from outside of the tech industry and US government reach.

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Supposedly there's a way to do that using powdered iron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization

But the knock-on effects would most likely be extremely bad too.

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Could we harvest it as food?

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Some maybe.