Energy: Energy situation in EU may result in mobile phone blackouts
This is probably true: Some countries have announced plans to implement blackouts during parts of the winter months. Typical cell towers are battery backed up – but only for a…
Health: Our brain “re-wires” after about age 40
“Older adults tend to show less flexible thinking, such as forming new concepts and abstract thinking, lower response inhibition, as well as lower verbal and numeric reasoning,” the reviewers noted.…
Environment: Solutions need to be sustainable and not lead to a lower quality of life
During the pandemic, public health was quick to institute numerous restrictions on our lives – restrictions that their own prior published research said did not work at all, only worked…
Economy: DocuSign lays off 9% of staff
The layoffs will cost the company $30 million to $40 million. Source: San Francisco tech company DocuSign lays off hundreds of employees Facebook is set to reduce headcount by 10%,…
Energy: Oregon’s first grid scale battery bank set up
At the Oregon plant, massive lithium batteries will store up to 120 megawatt-hours of power generated by the 300-megawatt wind farms and 50-megawatt solar farm so it can be released…
Business: Meta->Facebook, Instagram, etc, said to be preparing for downsizing
Sounds like layoffs may be in their future – this is from a Bloomberg reporter Share price is now down to $136 from a high last year of $378. Update:…
Automation: Chipotle testing automated tortilla chip making machine for restaurants
Duh: A Chipotle restaurant in California will test a robot to make its chips to combat a minimum wage bill that Gavin Newsom (D-CA) recently signed. Chipotle had previously tested…
Energy: Germany, Austria, Netherlands increase coal burning
Germany shut down most of its nuclear power plants because … Their leadership is stupid. The result is an increase in greenhouse gas emissions. Germany says it is restarting some…
Aviation: Electric Passenger Plane prototype makes first flight at Moses Lake, WA
Source: Prototype electric airplane takes first flight in Washington state – oregonlive.com