Refer to Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), the subject of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Its awardees are Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson, and Omar M. Yaghi.

The framework are these crystals with spaces that tiny, microscopic molecules can squeeze in and/or out of. MOFs originated with known experimentation by Richard Robson in 1989. He created a crystal with lots of holes in it, or "innumerable cavities," according to nobelprize.org. He took copper ions and a particular molecule attracted to those ions, and combined them. Since they were chemically attracted, they bonded, and that's how the crystal with lots of holes formed.

The resulting crystal was easy to break, so several years later -- over the course of 11 years -- came the foundation of MOF discoveries. Omar M. Yaghi eventually made a "very stable" MOF crystal, and he showed that that crystal could be changed into new properties. During those years, Susumu Kitigawa showed that gases are one of the chemicals that can squeeze in and/or out of MOFs.

Since then, chemists have made 10x thousands of different MOFs. Their reported applications may include the breakdown of environmental contaminants from human and industrial waste, and the trapping of toxic gases in the air.

Maybe the Air-Gen technology by Jun Yao and Xiaomeng Liu is an application of this reported outgrowth in different MOFs. It was the subject of one of my posts a couple years ago.

See "Humidity converted to electricity with device by UMass professor" below.

According to the Nobel Prize press release, Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) can catalyze chemical reactions. Does Air-Gen's electrical charge imbalance from percolated moisture qualify? It also states that MOFs can conduct electricity.

I think Gen-Air's primary function is the generation of electricity. A WaPo subscriber gifted me the article that my post was referencing, so I don't have immediate access to it. But I can say that the conduction of electricity is part of the transmission of electricity for use as a utility.

I remembered a news feature from early COVID about the growth of wind farming in Kansas and wind farms moreover in tornado alley. I also remembered the climbing share price and popularity of Tesla during COVID.

I concluded, "Given THE STORAGE, [Air-Gen] would be more efficient for electric vehicles than charging stations or operating wind turbines in the peak hours of the night, like in Texas." (Emphasis mine.)

Lightly edited as standalone post from comment to "Humidity converted to electricity with device by UMass professor."

Jubalyn ExWilliams lives in Pennsylvania (United States). You can find the follow-ups to some of her previous posts, including "Why Air-Gen technology reminds me of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry," at landturn.com/blog. 

​She has no affiliation with or financial investment in Air-Gen technology, past or present.

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​Mentioned to a relative several days ago that policy holders can challenge insurance denials. I wasn't sure what type of insurance, but it was on the topic of a major home repair for my relative. Today I happened upon the back article I was referring to.

Turns out a review of health insurance denials in particular is also true for questionable bills. In 2019, I successfully challenged a collection notice for a deceptive hospital balance. Ironically, I was updating my contact info w[ith the] billing department when I learned about the last in a series of pop-up balances. The department couldn't (and later wouldn't) explain a sudden out-of-pocket balance related to a visit for covered care about 12 months before. Instead, I received a collections notice at the address I myself updated with the billing department just 2 weeks before.

That ordeal was the inspiration behind my read and blurb for "The Price We Pay: What Broke America's Healthcare System and How to Fix It" months later. 

​[See "The Price We Pay" (Makary) below.]

My successful challenge of that bill was thru a different state agency, but PA has since, according to this article, established a review board for patients to challenge bills and denials. (Apparently, so do NJ and DE.)
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If Congress doesn't extend "Obamacare" after 2025, insurance premiums will increase AND insurance coverage will dwindle. If so, I think this will present patients with even more encounters and therefore chances to challenge questionable bills and absurd denials.
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ACA extension or not, get ready for the challenge.

A FB post on "Most U.S. adults don't know they can fight insurance denials, new study finds" (N. Leonard)

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This interview with [Osita] Nwanevu doesn't touch on lifetime appointments of Justices; but the intended duration of these appointments is one of my criticisms of U.S. governance. That said, one would have to read the actual interview to know that it is NOT about the Supreme Court. What I take from the interview overall is the contrast to U.S. Government by representatives to the ideal of governance in ancient Athens as one branch of_a_democracy. In it, though, are his suggestions for remedies at the foundation. One suggestion I definitely favor is that of deliberate assemblies, which he notes is a practice in at least one region of the world. In addition, his breakdown of the degrees (proportions) for decision-making by what essentially is simple majority, as well as one federal entrance to minority rule renewed my perspective on the flaw in both electoral representation and political elections

A comment on "Democracy v. the Constitution" (Osita Nwanevu, Jake Grumbach)

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Good afternoon, <Redacted>.

​I went to the police station today and was advised to reach out to... <redacted>.... This email is a summary... about my undesirable and unwanted interactions with <redacted>.... . He is neither the first... nor the only one with whom I have undesirable or unwanted interactions, but his are the most frequent and pervasive at present.

I usually have my... machine on..., but I turn it off while I <redacted>. Apart from a periodic phone conversation or a periodic visitor..., my <redacted> is fairly silent. Shortly after he <redacted>, <redacted> would call out, "f~cking n____" after I turned off my... machine....

Meanwhile, he'd prop his door open almost every day before I left... and by the time I returned.... The propping has continued on most workdays for at least 12 months.

Sometimes, I came... later... with... bags in tow. On at least 2 occasions, that was when he appeared in the stairwell to greet me. Given my haul up to the <redacted> floor with heavy... bags, his sudden appearance at night in the narrow stairwell; the previous "f~cking n_____" sneers; and what were the beginning days of his near-daily door propping, I ignored him. Weeks later, he appeared outside the building under the cover of night on at least 3 occasions.

On one of those nights, he attempted to enter the building after I <returned>.... I paused, and stayed outside until he entered first. He did just that, and mumbled "b_____" while closing the door behind him. On another night, he appeared after I <returned>... in the building entrance..., which accommodates no more than two adults at less than arm's length. He asked me if I <redacted>.... next to his.

​Since springtime, he's sat outside the building entrance to smoke by the time I <return>.... On at least one occasion, I opened my <redacted> and noticed him watching my <redacted> across the street from my <redacted>, not his. (Around fall time 2024,... I had 2 candidate yard signs..., which I believe was a starting point for his attentiveness.) He’s found out <where> I work... and now comes in almost every other week. Multiple times a week, he sits on the <redacted> by the time I leave/return... and sometimes tries to greet me. Unless I'm at work, I usually ignore him.

Today I left... at least XX minutes before I usually do. He propped his door open as I passed. “I saw you...,” I said in passing. I’ve decided that enough is enough.

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