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mfb- t1_jc9oydz wrote

It can provide all of it, too. It's "just" a matter of cost, as always.

> While more expensive than land-based installs

Yeah.

Producing a large fraction of the electricity with photovoltaics is already expensive even without making the installation more complex. You either need an alternative in winter or you need a massive overproduction in summer.

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Strazdas1 t1_jc9obn5 wrote

Let me twist this a bit.

"New hospital, cool right, but when you remember that you are the one paying for other peoples poor life choices its depressing."

"New school cool right, but when you remember this results in parents driving their children across town to it polluting everyones slung in the process it's depressing"

"New houses cool right, but when you remember that they look like something soviets buit in the 60s and the city architect simply rubberstamps any project coming across his desk it's depressing"

"New festival cool right, but when you remember the noise pollution will make sure you are sleep deprived for a week it's depressing."

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gulgin t1_jc9iomw wrote

If society would buy in to solar in general then larger grid scale installations like these would make much more sense than distributed panels on housing. There are a lot of roofs to put solar panels on, but there are a lot more efficient implementations.

Grid scale installations are significantly cheaper to maintain/install, can actually be installed in optimized geometries and stop people getting all pissy about curb appeal.

I would be great if people could buy a few hundred square feet of solar panels in a floating solar farm rather than putting solar on a roof.

This is definitely not to say that adding solar to a roof is bad, it is just suboptimal.

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gulgin t1_jc9igmu wrote

If society would buy in to solar in general then larger grid scale installations make much more sense than distributed panels on housing. There are a lot of roofs to put solar panels on, but there is a whole lot more open land.

Grid scale installations are significantly cheaper to maintain/install, can actually be installed in optimized geometries and stop people getting all pissy about curb appeal.

I would be great if people could buy a few hundred square feet of solar panels in a solar farm rather than putting solar on a roof.

This is definitely not to say that adding solar to a roof is bad, it is just suboptimal.

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Fixing_The_World t1_jc9i1in wrote

I suspect you could.

However, while a lysate is different, co-infections don't always have an additive effect when it comes to the immune system. One infection can actually dampen another. It could be quite different with inactive antigens though.

Injecting that many different antigens could also cause immune system derangement ending in autoimmunity &/or cancer escape.

Lastly, from a data collection stand point, trying to figure out which lysate/antigen causes high adverse reactions in a mix would be much harder than collecting data on individual types.

This would all have to be tested of course to gain any knowledge on the manner; it is just what came across my head.

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BroForceOne t1_jc9748p wrote

>“But CPAP also seems to have negative effects on the cardiovascular system. We need to investigate whether we should use more conservative airway pressures or other less-utilized treatments like oral appliances to treat patients with obstructive sleep apnea.”

Yes, it's been exhausting going from doctor to doctor to find one that doesn't just default to the brute force treatment method of CPAP and is actually willing to get inside that nose and throat and suggest alternative treatments based on individual physiology.

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