It is a scary thought that in 1980, when I went to medical school, only one in every 14 British adults was obese. Now it is close to one in four.
We didn’t see a lot of overweight patients when I was a medical student. These days, the NHS spends millions every year reinforcing beds, building bigger scanners and even designing larger mortuary fridges.
And this is only a fraction of the many billions spent treating and managing diseases caused
Referred to as “vehicle to grid,” two-way charging works by sending power to the grid from an EV’s battery while the car is parked and plugged in. Though promising, the technology remains in its nascent stages and comes with significant costs, which has partly stalled its widespread adoption.
The PG&E grid has faced a barrage of challenges from extreme weather. An unprecedented series of drenching atmospheric rivers this past winter led to prolonged outages that left residents and city officials
Do you struggle to sleep? If so, you’re far from alone. According to the latest NHS data, a record one million Britons are now prescribed insomnia medication each year.
And this is despite studies that have linked some types of the pills to increased dementia rates, addiction and withdrawal symptoms, as well as a host of other side effects when taken long-term.
Stress, the lasting reverberations of the chaos that lockdown caused and the rise of other conditions that make
4.41 And that’s a wrap for today! Thanks so much for joining us on Day 2 of EmTech. I know I’ve learned loads, and hope you did too and will join us for our final sessions tomorrow.
4.33 The Inflation Reduction Act is a major boon for the energy storage business. “There’s $380 billion of goodness in there for our industry” that will help catalyze developments in long-term battery storage, McDermott says.
That money will likely help meet the massive … Read more
One of the biggest concerns about the widescale switch to electric cars is what happens to batteries once they are deemed unfit for use in passenger models, with experts warning of ‘waste mountains’ of the components.
Car manufacturers have set out their own ‘second-life’ projects for batteries, such as being used as back-up generators for buildings and to power transportable chargers for other vehicles.
Audi, on the other hand, has a different plan.
It has this week announced a project
The piles of multicoloured packets, boxes and bags in Amanda Duddridge’s weekly supermarket shop are typical of most modern families in the UK, with frozen pizzas, crisps, squash, flavoured yoghurts, breakfast cereals and cakes.
Like many parents, Amanda, 36, really wants her family to eat healthily — the teaching assistant from South Wales and her partner, Grafton, 38, a customer service adviser for British Gas, have two daughters, Esmee, eight, and Elvie, three.
So Amanda stocks up on rice cakes,
In November 2019, Nixie Lam suffered the same fate as nearly all of her pro-Beijing compatriots running in Hong Kong’s local elections. The two-term district councillor was roundly defeated by a prodemocracy candidate whose campaign had been buoyed by months of sustained protests. A pro-Beijing “silent majority,” much talked about by supporters and pundits, proved to be nothing more than a fallacy, and with record turnout, prodemocracy candidates parlayed the demonstrations into historic gains, capturing majorities in 17 of
