Thanks for the paper, I'll look into it. I'm actually about to start my PhD researching the hydrogenation of carbondioxide over ruthenium so I appreciate the reliable source.

Ankylosaurs were preserved in a variety of ways, including burial in sediment, entombment in ash from volcanic eruptions, and preservation in bogs or peat marshes. In some cases, the preservation was so complete that even the skin and other soft tissues were preserved, providing valuable information about the appearance and behavior of these ancient animals.

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Glad to hear the CPAP is helping you. I tried it and still had the RBD. I made a quick gif to show my sleep behavior so people can see how crazy it is: https://imgur.com/gallery/qSYqDvN . I get injured from this all the time and it happens many many times per night. I usually can't sleep through it so barely sleep.

Nah if you are lifelong suicidal they are just normal thoughts

So pet owners are more likely to be suicidal?

Cats with the late night zoomies, dogs with diarrhea, what about children???

I've been using a CPAP every night for the last 25+ years, and still wake up about five times a night. I deal with it by spending longer in bed, which is a pain but worth it. I'm not depressed.

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Anyone with a chronic disease has more of a tendency to suicide. Maybe connecting a lack of suicides to narcolepsy would lead to anything, but honestly, the question would be what came first, lack of sleep or depression. And that is impossible to answer.

This is also my thought. I have RBD and do not have depression. It's a medical issue due to low GABA. These may be sleep disorders related to psychological problems.

Nice study.

A good visual

Vaccinated and with covid.
-108 had no symptoms -206 had any type symptoms

Not Vaccinated and with covid

• 57 had no symptoms
• 88 had symptoms

That is a rather drastic difference and supports the end premise.

The only thing that could be warranted to further scrutinize is gaging whether the covid test type could introduce enough possible false positives to change the end results. Maybe it is addressed but I missed it. If I recall 20% of the tests were the quick test.

>I don't think it's chemically as easy as "take oxygen out and connect the carbon" do you have sources for the actual reaction and catalysis?

So are you asking for the actual mechanism and the catalyst used? It's different based on which catalyst is used, and there are also several different mechanisms proposed for the formation of carbon-carbon bonds. So it's still up for debate.

The initial dehydration of methanol is actually the easiest step. Such dehydration is performed with many different oxygenates in the industry using either acid-based catalysts or alumina. What comes after is where the debate exists as to what actually happens. That part has been known to be quite efficient using a specific zeolite as a catalyst.

>It's probably patented that's why the websites don't tell

Exactly. There are quite a lot of patents on the catalysts and the process technology. No matter which is used, converting methanol to gasoline is done in a reactor train, so 2-3 reactors are running in parallel with one of them being stopped for catalyst regeneration every now and then while the other two are running.

So far the way we have been designing these plants is to first convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen (or in the case of blue plants, it's natural gas + carbon capture) to synthesis gas (a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen), which is then converted to methanol (or methanol and dimethyl ether) and then subsequently to gasoline. This may also be followed by an upgrading step. The end-result is usually around 85-90% gasoline and 10-15% LPG.

There is plenty of literature if you search for "methanol to gasoline reaction" (example: this), but the source for the overview given above is me. I design this process (and others) for a living.

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If the technology mentioned in OP can be scaled up and has a high conversion (and rate) for CO2 to methanol, it will bring down the capital costs by a lot. That's why there has been plenty of work on this topic for years now.

The conversion of either natural gas or CO2 to synthesis gas is quite expensive, the most capital-intensive step in the production of gasoline through this route. If it can eliminated (along with another expensive step of separating CO2 from the capture solvent), the economics would become significantly more favorable.

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Interestingly, Ive found that mild sleep deprivation makes me feel better mentally. It puts me in a better mood than I usually am in. But severe sleep deprivation reverses this and makes me feel like crap.

Did you know that people with sociopathy tend to do bad things?

Is this why psychosocial therapy focuses so hard on fixing and improving sleep?

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COVID vaccines and first boosters provided significant protection to pregnant women against severe complications and death, even after the arrival of the new Omicron variant, according to a study published this week in The Lancet medical journal.

This study "demonstrates a vaccine effectiveness in preventing severe complications of severe COVID-19 of 76% following vaccination and at least one booster," said Dr. Michael Gravett, an OB-GYN with the University of Washington School of Medicine who participated in the study, which was led by Oxford University. "Given the marked increased in maternal mortality and severe morbidity seen in our earlier studies prior to vaccination, the 76% efficacy is pretty impressive and really points to the need to get women vaccinated."

The main point of the study, which was completed before other variants came on the scene, is for pregnant women to get vaccinated and receive all their boosters, including the bivalent booster, he said.The bivalent booster contains components targeting the original strain of the virus as well as a component of the Omicron strain, which emerged in late 2021.

As of the first week of January, 71% of pregnant women have received their primary COVID vaccines but only 19% have received the recommended bivalent booster, according the the U.S.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In Washington state, only 29% of pregnant women have received the bivalent booster, Gravett said.

Gravett noted that the study, one of the largest of its kind, compared outcomes of 1,545 pregnant women diagnosed with COVID-19 with those of 3,073 pregnant women without the infection. UW Medicine sites were one of three in the United States included in the study. Gravett and Dr. Alisa Kachikis guided the Seattle part of the study, which included around 75 women from UW Medical Center-Montlake, UW Medical Center-Northwest and Harborview Medical Center.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230127/COVID-vaccines-and-first-boosters-provided-protection-to-pregnant-women-during-Omicron-surge.aspx

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That seems self-evident.