Interesting Links for 22-01-2024

[andrewducker]

1. How past pandemics may have triggered rising cases of Parkinson's

(tags:disease history )

2. Solar Chimneys: Viable Energy Solution Or A Lot Of Hot Air? | Hackaday

(tags:solarpower technology )

3. Was Sturgeon just following WhatsApp guidelines by hitting delete?

(tags:Scotland communication government snp )

4. Most people vulnerable to long Covid have already had it, says top NHS adviser

(tags:pandemic disease UK )

5. Picture of me dropping the kids off at school this morning

(tags:wind funny squirrel )

6. Orgies, Death, Cannibalism - the cute Australian mammals with the unlikely life.

(tags:cannibalism cute australia sex cortisol death )

7. A massive new building is going to be constructed in Edinburgh to care for and display Scotland's national art collection

(tags:art scotland edinburgh )

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[danieldwilliam]

I've seen suggestions for what are essentially very large parabolic cooling towers in hot cities to pull hot air at ground level in and push it up to create a cooling breeze. The schemes often include some electricity generation.

[bens_dad]

Solar chimneys.
Presumably you would put photo-voltaic solar panels on the greenhouse roof and run the chimney on the ~80% of the energy that the p/v panels fail to capture ?

If there are significant loses because the panels are too opaque, put them inside the glass so that the heat still reaches the air going to the tower. Or would it be too hot for p/v panels to be efficient ?

Working conditions for the maintenance crew would not be good though: hot, windy and a long way to go to reach the problem.

[channelpenguin]

Heat causes severe drops in PV panel efficiency.

[danieldwilliam]

And heat spotting appears to be a significant cause of damage in leading to long-term degradation.

4. Most people vulnerable to long Covid have already had it, says top NHS adviser

[jack]

That is interesting. I had tentatively assumed that it was likely that having had covid made long covid from future infections less likely, but I hadn't heard anything certain about it. And I wasn't sure, because of the ways covid can mess with your immune system, and I know that protection wanes but not how much. I still don't know if there's research or an anecdotal impression (although either way, it sounds somewhat like someone who actually thinks that, not someone who just wants people to believe that so we can avoid the problem).

[splodgenoodles]

A friend had an antechinus living in her garden. (In an urban area, which is quite surprising). Named it Anthony the Antechinus, as you do.

On learning more about them, and on observing it had survived more than a year behind the bicycle shed, it is now Antonia the Antechinus.