transpiration

Due to the nature efficiency characteristics of the future transpiration system and gargantuan barriers to entry, Uber is attempting to shut out the competition in order to put a stranglehold on transpiration.

This allows them to keep their stomata closed much more of the time, so they lose less water through transpiration.

The weight lost during sleeping is probably the water lost through respiration and transpiration (sweat).

Of this total, 65% is lost through evaporation and transpiration by trees and other plants.

Reforestation is critical, since ~80% of inland rainfall comes from transpiration.[2] In deserts (read: much of California), minimizing evaporation is key.

For a system comprising tens to hundreds of millions of acres, incidental and transpiration water losses are going to be nontrivial.

Is the country best served by timely transport of goods (which, at-best, fares poorer to trucks) or by timely transpiration of people?

Both features need different approaches and I guess the later one will drag down cost of transpiration much lower.

When you irrigate, you are effectively throwing water into the air - by increasing the surface area of water evaporation through plant transpiration networks.

Either before it is absorbed into the tree or afterwards through transpiration.

The lance-like down pointing shape is so that they can rotate slightly to reduce surface area exposed to hot sun (and reduce transpiration/water loss).

That's just counting the ~30% of the rain that actually makes it to its streams and aquifers, discounting the portion lost to evaporation and transpiration.

And finally, some plants only "breathe," at night in order to save water - I also remember this (many if not most plants control water loss through transpiration by shutting down their stomata during, but I'm pretty much sure that no plants are able to photosynthesise at night!