Used to be this was almost entirely explained by hydro. Not a lot of new dams going in, and they take a long time.
The solar component is usually with caveats: the majority of growth. Because growth is slow otherwise. Solar is what part of renewables now? I couldn't easily see that stat in the noise.
An axe to grind. Better to talk about what's got more nutrition, than to use loaded words like 'unhealthy'. Else you resort to unsubstantiated claims and FUD.
In a free market the company that makes every cent they can has a survival advantage. Enough time and transactions and the market will be made entirely of survivors. The rest will have been out-competed.
One counter-pressure is regulation. But hey the US has a fetish about deregulation and so here we are.
Lots of cool factor. But that giant mono-foot? Gonna be trouble in a house with stairs, thresholds, cats. Legos. power cords. Potted ivy plants dangling over the side of the pot. Real places. Places with kids making messes, where you might need a household robot to help.
I wrote a programming language, some time back. You need a good reason to add to the tumult in the marketplace, and I thought I had one.
My language was for discrete control systems. You could declare samplers for data values (interval, sensor, type) and name them as variables. You could create control actions by listing a set of one or more sampler variables in brackets. Once there were 'fresh' values for all of the samplers, the action would be invoked.
It had the usual functions and i/o library stuff. In fact I wrote a tool to absorb other library headers e.g. C or C++ and product blocks that my compiler could link with, and voila your program could call those external libraries.
We used it for a couple of contracts. Some of the control engineers were enthusiastic; some not so much. One more thing to learn.
Ambulance drivers were close to medical professionals and got good, early diagnosis and care.
Taxi drivers were exposed to a wide variety of people who they conversed with, became aware of Alzheimer's symptoms and treatments and sought help early.
It seems like you could get into roles with a duty of care, logistic and deadline planning, social contact, etc.
And try to control with so many other non-transport occupations like nurses, therapists, hairdressers, air-traffic controllers, etc.
Ironically, the transport aspect reminds me of a prior correlation I read about for truck drivers and higher rates of colon cancer. There were speculative theories as to whether it was from the hours sitting or something like the chronic vibration.
That would normally make sense, but Alzheimer's treatments don't significantly prolong life. You'd also expect to see the same effect with other medical professionals.
Diagnosis helps put them into the data set. Even increased diagnosis would skew the statistics. Those that died of Alzheimer's and didn't know it, aren't in the study.
The solar component is usually with caveats: the majority of growth. Because growth is slow otherwise. Solar is what part of renewables now? I couldn't easily see that stat in the noise.
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