cdarwin, to random
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‘It was an accident’: the scientists who have turned humid air into renewable power

The promise of #electricity from humid #air – #hygroelectricity – is capturing researchers’ imaginations.

In May, a team at the University of Massachusetts Amherst published a paper declaring they had successfully generated a small but continuous electric current from humidity in the air.

“To be frank, it was an #accident,” says the study’s lead author, Prof Jun Yao. “We were actually interested in making a simple sensor for humidity in the air. But for whatever reason, the student who was working on that #forgot to plug in the #power.”

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/02/it-was-an-accident-the-scientists-who-have-turned-humid-air-into-renewable-power?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

ai6yr, to Trains

Wow! Pacific Surfliner: "UPDATE: Track work in Moorpark is complete & Pacific Surfliner trains will operate north of Los Angeles starting Friday, June 30. Slow orders may be in effect for trains traveling through the area but no major delays are expected. Details: pacificsurfliner.com/alerts "

ai6yr, to Trains

Total patient count now (at 1331PT) is thirteen (13). (so far it sounds like all minor, but with transport to hospital).

ai6yr, to USMC

KTLA: 3 U.S. Marines among 4 dead in fiery single-car crash on 5 Freeway in Downey https://ktla.com/news/3-u-s-marines-among-4-dead-in-fiery-single-car-crash-on-5-freeway-in-downey/

beadsland, to random

NCHS estimates of —based on Household Pulse Survey—provide for volatile projections.

Public comment on HPS Phase3.9 questionnaire ends Thurs: no collection dates as yet.

As more and more folk experience Long Covid, fewer and fewer staff our hospitals.


This is first toot of a weekly thread, updated daily, providing various dataviz of ongoing [.]

Last week: https://mastodon.social/@beadsland/110413577668138931

beadsland,

Given evidence linking covid infection to sudden onset liver damage, recent increased liver disease mortality is hardly surprising.

Elevated accidental deaths, however, are less open to presumptive explanation. Our world has changed and with it our expectations.

[Charts not altered by bug discussed above.]



Chart: Causes of Accidental Deaths: Reported Annual Data Data: NCHS, U.S. Census Data 2015 to 2019. 2020-2022 blank. [ beadsland on Ko-fi ] Caption: Historically, U.S. health authorities have published “Final Data”—detailed tables and demographic analysis of causes of mortality—about eighteen months, give or take, from the close of each calendar year. This pattern has largely held for every year back to 1996, likely reflecting non-digitized (pre-PDF) practice from long before that. Yet for 2020 and 2021, we only have abridged “final statistics”, released December of last year. We would have typically expected final data for 2020 to be released last year, and final data for 2021 sometime in the next few months. Undoubtedly, steeply elevated deaths by unintentional injury in recent years are attributable to a combination of factors: biomedical (consequences of both of deferred treatment for progressive and chronic conditions and newly emerged post-acute sequelae, i.e. Long Covid), sociotechnical (risks introduced by as yet unexamined pandemocene changes to our built environment and our collective navigation of same), and systemic (less access to life-saving interventions and post-injury care as a result of ongoing attrition of medical professionals). Absent data, however, we’re left only with speculation and conjecture.

beadsland, to random

NCHS estimates of —based on Household Pulse Survey—provide for volatile projections.

HPS Phase3.9 questionnaire now pending public comment—no collection dates announced.

As more and more folk experience Long Covid, fewer and fewer staff our .


This is first toot of a weekly thread, updated daily, providing various dataviz of ongoing [.]

Last week: https://mastodon.social/@beadsland/110374822909399818

beadsland,

Given evidence linking covid infection to sudden onset liver damage, recent increased liver disease mortality is hardly surprising.

Elevated accidental deaths, however, are less open to presumptive explanation. Our world has changed and with it our expectations.

[Charts not altered by bug discussed above.]



Chart: Causes of Accidental Deaths: Reported Annual Data Data: NCHS, U.S. Census Data 2015 to 2019. 2020-2022 blank. Caption: Historically, U.S. health authorities have published “Final Data”—detailed tables and demographic analysis of causes of mortality—about eighteen months, give or take, from the close of each calendar year. This pattern has largely held for every year back to 1996, likely reflecting non-digitized (pre-PDF) practice from long before that. Yet for 2020 and 2021, we only have abridged “final statistics”, released December of last year. We would have typically expected final data for 2020 to be released last year, and final data for 2021 sometime in the next few months. Undoubtedly, steeply elevated deaths by unintentional injury in recent years are attributable to a combination of factors: biomedical (consequences of both of deferred treatment for progressive and chronic conditions and newly emerged post-acute sequelae, i.e. Long Covid), sociotechnical (risks introduced by as yet unexamined pandemocene changes to our built environment and our collective navigation of same), and systemic (less access to life-saving interventions and post-injury care as a result of ongoing attrition of medical professionals). Absent data, however, we’re left only with speculation and conjecture.

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