Three years ago.

Two giant windmills are out on a hilltop.
One turns to the other and asks, 'What kind of music do you like? '

The other one says, 'I'm a really big metal fan.'

Was truly not expecting such an enormous temperature drop of 10°C down and back up again during the #Eclipse2024 . Emotional suspense caused by a cloud bank in the three minutes before totality, it passed with just seconds before totality began! Thank you Barry Hunt - #DavosSafe

The #Eclipse2024 ended for Ontario at around 4:30 PM EDT. Ontario’s solar generation dropped from about 1,800 MW to about 70 MW as the IESO secured other generation to compensate.

New: Airborne disease transmission risks on public transit buses: Impacts of ridership, duration, and mechanical filtration using a relative risk metric
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A new 5 yr Belgian study shows the BIG impact of increasing vehicle weight on road deaths & injuries. When a person on a bike or walking is hit by a pick-up, the risk of serious injury increases by 90% compared to a car. The risk of death goes up by 200%.
vias.be/fr/newsroom/de…

Deonandan The Toyota Matrix was one of Mr Money Mustache's 'Top 10 cars for smart people' mrmoneymustache.com/2012/03/19/top…
Alas on Thursday my Matrix was irreversibly shortened. What is a good EV replacement?

Three years ago. Ontario: Schools are safe. Toronto: Nope

1/ New paper in Science Magazine: 'Mandating Indoor Air Quality for Public Buildings'

Explaining current status of indoor air quality standards (in short: bad or non-existent), the huge health benefits that would arise from them & proposing a path forward
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Looks like the World Health Organization (WHO) is full on embracing the reality of COVID-19 airborne transmission.
I for one, am thrilled.
Looking forward to others leaning in on this. Alberta Health Services Health Canada and PHAC
iris.who.int/handle/10665/3…

Alex nails all the points about in-room air filters and how striving for perfect single-pass filtration results in worse functional performance at higher cost. Worth a watch! youtu.be/gaQTYrisieA?si…

“Bad air(…)promotes the spread of contagious disease, and not infrequently makes closing as a prevention necessary. Schools which have suffered such almost yearly loss of weeks have, after the introduction of good ventilation, been for years free from such interruption.”

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With under a month until the North American #TotalSolarEclipse , I’m reminded of this XKCD comic. If you can get under the path of totality, DO IT. A *partial* and *total* #eclipse are LITERALLY world’s apart.

Kelly Pete 😷 #COVIDisAirborne The 3 mechanisms of particle deposition in a mask are the same as those in the lungs (electrostatic can higher in a mask). The result is a very similar deposition profile in both the mask and the lungs.