Eddy's Good News: How the diadem treats symptoms and the reverse rusting battery technique

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11 Sep 2024, 15:55

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Wednesday 11th September 2024

Everyday we get closer to the Star Trek sick bay, when someone in either a red, green or blue spandex shirt lies down on a futuristic bed and they put some kind of weird crown on them which diagnoses or treats whatever is wrong with them.

The University of Utah have come up with just such a device, it’s called a Diadem, and it can send therapeutic sound waves to targeted regions of the brain with millimetre precision. They’ve used it to treat patients with everything from pain issues to depression and had pretty amazing results.

“After just a single 40-minute stimulation session, patients are showing immediate, clinically substantial improvements in symptoms.” said one of the researchers.

“For several, you could just see it in their eyes—coming out of the session, their mood and behaviour were a total 180 from when they had walked in. They were noticeably at ease, less burdened, more present.”

In the phase 2 results, among 20 people who were treated with the Diadem, 60% of the patients reported a 33% reduction in pain immediately following treatment. When tested on those with clinically significant depression, 10 of 14 reported remission one week later after just one session with the device.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org

Many moons ago, in a good news story about different kinds of batteries that would be used in a more sustainable way in the future, I wrote a story about rust batteries.

It's a clever way to store energy without using lithium - the the downside is that the tech isn’t suitable for small batteries, but my gosh it’s great for large scale energy storage. Bug batteries are needed to store solar energy when the sun doesn’t shine, or wind energy when there is no wind and now the world’s biggest battery has been planned in Maine.

The batteries store and discharge energy via what’s called “reverse rusting.” Inside the battery is iron, and as the battery stores electricity, it takes in oxygen from the air turning the iron inside into iron oxide—or rust. When it discharges, the oxygen is released and the oxide is removed, leaving the iron pure again.

The battery array is 8,500 Megawatt hours worth, which means it can power 85,000 homes for 100 hours, or to put it another way, it would allow an electric car to circumnavigate the world 1,288 times.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org