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M.Sc. Chemical Engineering. Alma mater: KTH. I believe in the importance of the green transition. It is also important to highlight problems as well as progresses. I am also interested in healthy aging / Geroscience, hence the research links.
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Physicist Hans Martin, Sweden, stores summer solar heat in three big water tanks underneath his house. The insulated tanks stores enough energy to heat part of the big house during most or all of the winter season, when the sunshine is sparse. SVT: www-svt-se.translate.goog/nyheter/loka...

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Biological age: A news feature in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41... MD Peter Attia & guests discusses various aspects of aging, including aging clocks in this round table session. 27 Jan 2025 : www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU98...

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"Seven days after their splurge had ended, the junk-food group had lower brain activity in two regions associated with memory and response to visual food cues." Nature Briefing: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Sweden is divided into four different electricity regions with different prices. About 10x price difference is not uncommon. Bottlenecks in transmission capacity seems to govern the present borders of the regions. Svenska kraftnät is currently evaluation if the regions should be changed.

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Electricity price in country A= 10 cents/ kWh country B= 5 cents/ kWh Same population in A & B. Connect A to B, then price is 7.5 cents/ kWh in both. A wins, B loses. Owner of transmission lines, usually monopoly, always make money. Connect 27 countries. Complex situation. Fission,hydro,wind,solar.

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It is costly for industries, and households to participate in the green transition. The European Commission presents the Action Plan for Affordable Energy to aid in the transition. EC: ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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Transcript and video. EC: ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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I believe this is a good path to long term prosperity i Europe. "The Clean Industrial Deal brings together climate action and competitiveness under one overarching growth strategy." EC: ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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A few years ago most media were mostly writing very positive things about Northvolt. Now the psychological tide has changed and most reporting is very negative. I would have been nice with a more balanced approach from the beginning. SVT: www-svt-se.translate.goog/nyheter/gran...

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"India is heavily reliant on China for imports of solar equipment, a risk to the nation’s energy security." Bloomberg News->Yahoo Finance: finance.yahoo.com/news/india-m...

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Breast cancer: "Although wealthy nations have more diagnoses, low- and middle-income countries face higher death rates owing to limited access to early detection and treatment." Nature Briefing: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Delegates are meeting in Rome, Italy 25-27 Feb, for the resumed session of the Convention on Biological Diversity. UNEP: www.unep.org/events/confe...

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Tesla sales plunged in Europe in January 2025, compared to January 2024. Financial Times->SVT: www-svt-se.translate.goog/nyheter/utri...

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"Non-fasting and fasting TG concentrations were significantly associated with new-onset HUA among general Japanese men and women." TG= TriGlyceride HUA= HyperUricemia Gout, linked to HUA affect approximately 54,000,000 people globally Nature 17 Feb: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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"There was a U-shaped association between sodium intake and PVC frequency, with both low and high sodium intake associated with higher PVC frequency." PVC=Premature Ventricular Complex BMJ: heart.bmj.com/content/earl...

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Research on dementia on people younger than 65 years. "Smoking, high body-mass index and high fasting plasma glucose levels were main risk factors." Nature Translational Psychiatry 17 Feb: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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".. almost all grant-review meetings remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget." Nature Briefing: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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An interesting look into Chinese AI. "Although consumer-facing applications garner much attention, Chinese AI firms, unlike their US counterparts, are in fact more invested in solving industrial and manufacturing problems at scale." Nature Briefing: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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An update on the situation in WHO from the staff at Nature with comments from USA, UK, Switzerland, Argentina, & Canada. I would have been nice with additional inputs from some other regions as well. Nature Briefing: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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A complex transition. "As “green” energy companies scale up operations, they are being accused of grabbing land from smallholder farmers, Indigenous communities, and livestock herders, as well as from intact ecosystems." Yale Environment360: e360.yale.edu/features/sol...

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Meet some of the scientists who write & edit articles for Wikipedia. Nature Briefing: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Be curious but also CAUTIOUS, when reading scientific papers. Nature Briefing: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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In summer, water from glaciers are important for humans, agriculture and animals. "Central Europe, for example, has lost 39% of its glacier ice in little over 20 years." BBC: www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Goods and services related to non fossil use are increasing in importance for the Chinese economy. Carbon Brief: www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-cle...

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This recent news feature about migraine might be informative for people suffering from migraine. Nature Briefing: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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I become worried when I read the text about the EPA in USA. Nature Briefing: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Scania, a part of Traton, buys Northvolt's's factory in Gdansk, Poland. SVT: www.svt.se/nyheter/loka...

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In Norway i might be possible that close to 100% of all new cars sold in 2025 are fully electric, unless there is a sudden change in consumer sentiment. The Norwegian EV Association. (Norwegian): elbil.no/om-norsk-elb...

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Harry Metcalfe, UK, talks about EVs, PHEVs, ICEs & the current state of the European car industry & what he sees in the future. Harry's Garage: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhi7...

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Researchers from Canada are proposing new terminology in aging: "Metabolaging". It is a combination of Metabolic & Aging. Most of the paper is locked but the basic thinking behind the new terminology is explained. Metabolism: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Swedish Radio has had a look into recent economic papers from Northvolt. The amounts in losses and debts are quite staggering. A lot of reported recent losses seems to attributable to write downs of assets. SR: www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/nya-...

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Harry Metcalfe, UK, shares his multiyear experiences with solar panels, heat pumps and a wind turbine. Harry's Farm: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW-S...

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"The world’s electricity consumption is forecast to rise at its fastest pace in recent years, growing at close to 4% annually through 2027 as power use climbs in a range of sectors across the economy,.." IEA: www.iea.org/news/growth-...

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Using a biomarker from the blood might become a cheap simple way of detecting pancreatic cancer. Nature Briefing: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Citizens sometimes have a tendency to rely too much on the AI systems of today. When the figures of accuracy approaches 100% it will be better as long as the systems aren't programmed to produce errors. See what staff at BBC have learned so far. BBC: www.bbc.com/news/article...

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"New IEA analysis shows India's gas market is at an inflection point as infrastructure expansion and policy support drive unprecedented growth in consumption" CH4+O2 -> 2H2+C02 IEA: www.iea.org/news/indias-...

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Removal of about 25-35 % of mercury from tuna in a can using a cysteine brine. Same authors both papers. Global Challenges. Oct 2024: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Colloids & Surfaces. Jan 2025: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Personal reflections: Should the cuttingboard be made of PE or wood? Are fragments from wood, steel, glass or other materials healthier than plastic ones? How much microplastics is it in sea salt, drinking water? What sizes cause the most damage? *** Nature Briefing: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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"Killer whales are highly social, intelligent animals that hunt cooperatively, which allows them to take pretty much anything that swims." They are checking out new hunting areas. YaleEnvironment360 / Ed Struzik: e360.yale.edu/features/can...

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Lawyer Carl Lindstrand has written a guest column about the legal aspects of Northvolts Chapter 11 process. Affärsvärlden (Swedish): www.affarsvarlden.se/kronika/lind...

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AI systems seems to gradually become better in solving math problems. AlphaGeometry2 by Google DeepMind has solved 84% of 25 years of geometry problems from the International Mathematical Olympiads. A preprint is available. Nature Briefing: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Transatlantic trade relations face a bumpy road February 12, 2025, 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM EST Guests: Michael Froman, former U.S. trade representative. Bernd Lange, Committee for International Trade, European Parliament. Host: Senior Fellow Cecilia Malmström. PIIE: www.piie.com/events/2025/...

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Paris, 11 February 2025. EC: ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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"The EU's InvestAI fund will finance four future AI gigafactories across the EU. The new AI gigafactories will be specialised in training the most complex, very large, AI models." EC: ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

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An update on the global rippling effects of the shutdown of USAID. Nature Briefing: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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AI tools like "Deep Research" from Open AI are receiving mixed opinions from researchers when it comes to writing reviews of research papers. Nature Briefing: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Researchers now knows how the Mantis shrimp is able to internally handle the vibrations of its powerful punch against prey. Nature Briefing 2025: www.nature.com/articles/d41... National Geographic video, 2019: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Li...

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This recent research about a sleep-gut microbiota relationship surprised me. GeroScience: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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It is important to look after and nurture healthy gut bacteria as there are several gut-organ axis. Here is an example of a gut-liver axis in mice. GeroScience, abstract: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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