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That may be a result of natural selection. Joking aside, there are still people who still die with covid even now. Going from here, the Covid mRNA vaccines seem to be quite crude. They made a lot of money for Pfizer and Moderna for sure and they were lucky that UK government cover their product...

There were no obvious measures flecc self isolated, me too. We closed our shop to the public, worked in one room each and put the masks on when we needed to converse. I am not against vaccines, but did not like to see scientists exagerrating their protective power.

They need them for a variety of reasons: bring supply to the outpost, scientific research, resources exploration, military presence etc. The more ice melts, more opportunities for exploration.

I watched the other day a yt video about the story behind the development of CRISPR CAS-9 by the Prof that won the nobel prize, Jennifer Doudna. CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing and how it works - with Jennifer Doudna (youtube.com) It dawned on me that the fragments of the spike protein used in various...

Can you improve their installation yourself?

Sauter is a well respected brand in France. In my experience, unless you can look after your appliances yourself, buying from Leroy Merlin is a pretty safe bet.

I am still using an electric hot water tank. I think combining heating with hot water is just too complicated. You can buy in France a Sauter 250L heat pumped hot water tank for about £1500. Chauffe-eau thermodynamique SAUTER Takhini 250 l | Leroy Merlin

They are unrealistic predictions. You won't catch me citing any of them. Modelling on computers is just educated guesswork: Timothy Palmer, professor of climate physics at the University of Oxford. “We know the equations.” But we don’t know how to solve them. The many factors that affect the...

Customers are charged a lot because the pumps they sell must be fitted by certified refrigerant gaz fitter. I paid less than 500 Euros for my 4.5kw pump. It's an air to water system and has a simple heat exchanger for the hot water, no need to be fitted and service by certified fitters. The key...

I recently installed a small heat pump at my house in France. It's definitely cheaper to run compared to gas or electric and can still be improved further. I can't see why we keep burning gas.

I like the protography of his programs, often filmed in UHD. I am a bit critical of television but not cynical though. In his yesterday's program, there were plenty of visual proofs to support the melting of artic polar ice cap and 'greening' of Greenland. BBC iPlayer - Frozen Planet II - Series...

Ignorance. It's easy to mix things up unintentionally. The polar ice caps, both South and North are melting, losing mass. That's pretty constant. Even then, it's a trend, there are variations in the ice shelves and thickness of Greenland ice year by year. What you want to see is the rate of...

Global sea rise affect hundreds of millions. David Attenborough did an excellent report on the BBC yesterday to illustrate how fast polar ice is melting in recent decades.

Various countries are claiming that they have enough natural hydrogen to last several hundreds years at current level of consumption. That begs the question why they don't do anything about extracting it instead of drilling for oil. I guess it comes down to our capitalism. Quickest way to profit

Some cars like the Aito M5 has an internal camera to watch the driver. Face recognition to automatically set the environment parameters and eye movements tell the system that you are alert.

I don't mind driving in town but foresee the day I may fall asleep at the wheel on a motorway or drive in a dark night with heavy rain and fog.

I am pretty sure that the collision avoidance systems will stop the car in time because it will detect the movement of other vehicles and pedestrians faster than humans. After detection, humans need at least 0.5 sec to react. Computers much less.

I watched last night a yt video of a bunch of robots training another robot. The lesson is simple: Pick boxes from some shelf and deposit them on a conveyor belt. The student robot learns by watching other robots do the job. After a short few minutes, it has figured out the purpose of the job...

The R32 has a very narrow front hub, so ruling out a front hub motor. It also has a 5-speed rear hub, so ruling out a rear hub motor. A middle motor will stop the fold. On top of those challenges, it's heavy. Maybe a roller motor? As saneagle said, it's a jiob for a specialist, not an off the...

When Tesla rolled out hardware 3.0 to replace hardware 2.5, performance of 3.0 is about 100 times faster than 2.5. Tesla is rolling out hardware 4. Hardware 4 is 3 times faster than 3.0 and the new fsd hardware now has better cameras and a radar too. I watched a demo of the Chinese aito m5...