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| ===== The world’s first CO2 battery for long-duration energy storage is being commercialized [update] =====
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| [https://electrek.co/2022/06/28/worlds-first-co2-battery/ by Michelle Lewis 28/5/22 electrek]
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| Italian startup Energy Dome has now begun to commercialize the world’s first CO2 Battery, which was launched earlier this month in Sardinia, Italy. The battery uses carbon dioxide to store renewable energy on the grid, and Energy Dome says the technology can be quickly deployed anywhere in the world.
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| ===== Researchers say flu shot connected to 40% reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease =====
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| [https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/7/2/2107067/-Researchers-say-flu-shot-connected-to-40-reduced-risk-of-Alzheimer-s-disease by Walter Einenkel 2/6/22 DAILY KOS]
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| One of the many tragic turns the politicization of COVID-19 and our country’s response to it has been the deleterious effect it has had on public health consensus. With the rise in privatization, greed, and a withering government response over the decades, the public’s trust in medicine and science as entities above politics and money has dwindled. The novel coronavirus pandemic, as it did with everything else, expedited the trend of deteriorating public trust.
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| ===== The Martha's Vineyard migrant flight has echoes of a dark past: Reverse Freedom Rides =====
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| [https://www.npr.org/2019/12/10/786790638/the-reverse-freedom-rides by Gabrielle Emanuel 20/9/22 npr]
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| In the summer of 1962, after three days on a Greyhound bus, Lela Mae Williams was just an hour from her destination—Hyannis, Mass. She went to the front of the bus and asked the bus driver to pull over. She needed to change into her finest clothes. She had been promised the Kennedy family would be waiting for her.
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| ===== Trussonomics is a fanatical, fantastical creed, and the last thing Britain needs =====
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| [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/17/trussonomics-britain-prime-minister-liz-truss-neoliberalism by George Monbiot 3/11/22 The Guardian]
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| This doctrine insists that politics submits to “the market”, which means, when translated, that democracy must submit to the power of money. Any impediment to the accumulation of wealth – such as public ownership, tax, regulation, trade unions and political protest – should be torn down, either quickly and noisily or slowly and stealthily. When consumer choice is unencumbered by political interference, the market is allowed to become a Great Winnower, sifting us into a natural hierarchy of winners and losers.
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| ===== Fossil fuel burning once caused a mass extinction – now we’re risking another ===== | | ===== Fossil fuel burning once caused a mass extinction – now we’re risking another ===== |
