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Experts call for home battery storage to protect vulnerable during outages


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Extreme weather driven by climate change is making power outages more commonplace even as the need for electricity-dependent home health equipment grows. In this context, battery storage can help protect medically vulnerable households, according to researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The article is published in the journal
Futures.
For the millions reliant on electricity for home medical equipment, even short-term power outages can lead to a potentially life-threatening situation. Society s most vulnerable populations elders, the ill, and the poor face the greatest risks. Only a fraction of individuals who rely on medical equipment like oxygen concentrators, nebulizers, ventilators, dialysis, and sleep apnea machines has an alternative source of power to use in the event of an outage. During outages related to the 2019 Camp Fire in Northern California, vulnerable residents reported complications, including one man who awoke wh ....

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How climate change may affect your health


Jane E Brody, The New York Times
Published: 01 Feb 2021 07:04 PM BdST
Updated: 01 Feb 2021 07:04 PM BdST
Boats are seen on the dried lake Poopo affected by climate change, in the Oruro Department, Bolivia, September 1, 2017. REUTERS
Melting ice caps, warmer oceans, intense storms, heat waves, droughts, floods and wildfires all these well-documented effects of climate change may seem too remote to many people to prompt them to adopt behaviors that can slow the warming of the planet. Unless your neighbourhood was destroyed by a severe hurricane or raging wildfire, you might think such disasters happen only to other people.
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But what if I told you that no matter where you live or how high your socioeconomic status, climate change can endanger your health, both physical and mental, now and in the future? Not only your health, but also the health of your children and grandchildren? Might you consider making changes to help mitigate the threat? ....

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