Vax effectiveness dropped to minus 86% for over 40 years old people in the UK

So here, without further ado, is the table with the latest unadjusted vaccine effectiveness estimates, for the period September 6th to October 3rd. (For the previous three tables see my previous post.)

Note that unvaccinated here means actually unvaccinated, not partially vaccinated or post-jab. Hospitalisation means “cases presenting to emergency care (within 28 days of a positive specimen) resulting in an overnight inpatient admission”.

Strikingly, the (unadjusted) vaccine effectiveness (VE) in over-18s continues to drop. For those in their 40s it hits nearly minus-86% this week, down from minus-66% in last week’s report. This means the double-vaccinated in their 40s are now getting on for being almost twice as likely to be infected as the unvaccinated of the same age.

https://dailysceptic.org/2021/10/10/vaccine-effectiveness-drops-again-now-as-low-as-minus-86-in-over-40s-latest-phe-data-shows/

Why fast charging reduces the capacity of a car battery

Imagine having a car with a small petrol tank, and it’s slowly shrinking after each fill-up. That’s how EV users must feel, if they know how their batteries behave. A new study analyses the processes.

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When lithium ions are forced rapidly through a battery, they might get stuck and turn into lithium metal, no longer able to move through the battery, says TechXplore.

Imagine being able to refuel your electric car while stopping for a quick snack or refill your phone while brushing your teeth.

“Fast charging is kind of the Holy Grail. It is what everyone who owns a lithium ion battery based device wants to be able to do,” says Senior Engineer David Wragg from Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology at the University of Oslo.

Inside the battery, however, there is a lot of complicated chemistry that can be sensitive to how fast it is charged. Things can go wrong.

“Capacity loss is the most critical one,” Wragg says to Titan.uio.no.

“It is possible to make batteries with very high capacity that might allow you to drive your electric car 1000 km, but after you’ve charged and discharged it a few times, you would lose about half of that capacity and range.

All rechargeable batteries deteriorate over time, but this negative effect is extra strong when the battery is subjected to fast charging. When lithium ions are forced rapidly through a battery, they might get stuck and turn into lithium metal, no longer able to move through the battery.

https://techxplore.com/news/2021-10-fast-capacity-car-battery.html

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New study: Last 20 years of warming mostly to due cloud cover changes.

https://notrickszone.com/2021/10/09/thunderous-new-atmosphere-publication-warming-of-last-20-years-mainly-caused-by-cloud-changes/

Can’t Make This Up: The Democrats’ Reconciliation Bill Includes Tax On Dirt

https://lidblog.com/tax-on-dirt/

Armed police show up at a man’s house, in the dead of night, to ask him about his anti-lockdown Facebook posts six months ago.

https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1447277618391302146