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O2
There is an excellent Forbes of India article on how oxygen is made for use by patients in hospital. There are three different ways: Vacuum Insulated Evaporator: Storage system of liquid oxygen 2. Oxygen Cylinders: hold oxygen under pressure 3. … Continue reading
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Tagged Covid, elitism, health infrastructure, India, oxygen supply
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The Air we Breathe
In 2019 I collapsed and was taken to hospital. The paramedics put me on oxygen and took me to hospital. When I breathed that oxygen I thought it was like being in our Glen, standing next to the burn flowing … Continue reading
Quartz and Solar Panels
‘Clean Energy’, ‘Renewables’, ‘Alternative Energy’……….We can save the Planet! Well, can we do so without savaging the Planet and harming our health? Before we even attempt to create technologies to provide such solutions, we need to lay out the evidence … Continue reading
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Tagged cancer, carcinogens, dust, environment concerns, greenwashing, health, new technology, planet harm, quartz mining, silicosis, solar panels, wildlife survival
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Disposing of Medical PPEs Safely, or NOT
Plastic Protective Equipment (PPE) has been manufactured during this Covid pandemic to meet demand at a rate of multiple millions of items needed every day, and will no doubt increase over the next few years. This seemed to be the … Continue reading
Rare Earth Elements and Balance of Power
I write these blogs for me. I ask questions and search for answers in books and, mostly, exploring the Internet. Without Rare Earth Elements I would not be doing this. When I was born just after World War II, if … Continue reading
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Tagged arms industry, commerce, earth contamination, economies, ecosystem destruction, geopolitical, greenwashing, investment, military complex, military power, mining, oppression, pollution, rare earth tec, recycling, REMs, sludge, superpowers, trade, wastewater
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Generic Drug Supply and Raw Materials Supply
In March 2021, Boris Johnson, Prime Minister, announced the UK was acquiring 10m doses from the Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer and the key source of doses for Covax, a vaccine-sharing agreement on which poor and middle-income countries are relying. … Continue reading
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Tagged Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients, black market, China, citizen ingenuity, costs of drugs, covid 19, crime, deaths from neglect, drug demand, drug making hubs, drug shortages, drug supply, elections, generic drugs, Hindi festival, human vulnerability, India, irresponsible decision making, lockdown easing, masks and no masks, poverty, power base, premature lockdown easing, reverse-engineering, rural areas, sanitation, social distancing, social distancing forgotten, tribes, vaccine industry
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Chromium. Industrial Contamination
To make a wind turbine, which is 78% steel, the Earth must yield up coal for coking plants to provide coke for furnaces to burn red hot to smelt iron ore. When the Earth yielded up iron ore, sulphuric acid … Continue reading
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Tagged chromium, contamination, corporates, dust pollution, ecocide, ecotoxicology, industrialisation, mining, pollution, steel industry, wind turbines
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