Cryotheraphy.

[landley]

I miss the days I studied medicine in college. (I stopped because you can't even become a _nurse_ without having to give people injections, and I have a problem with needles.)

So about ten years ago, we figured out how to bring people back from the dead (at least in a very limited way), and it barely even made news.

For years people weren't

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[fadethecat]

I'm really look forward to the baby boomers dying off and ceasing to have a disproportionate impact on the country.

I realize that this group tends disproportionately towards voting for policies you don't like. And that many institutions of power which are doing terrible things are controlled by people from this group.

But it is not a monolith. There are many people whom I care for within that group. And it hurts me when you talk about wishing for the death of millions of people just because some percentage of them are opposed to you in various ways.

[landley]

I know it's not a monolith. (It wasn't back in the 1960's either, most boomers _weren't_ at woodstock.)

And I don't want Stu or Kelly or my father to die. But I don't see how our political system is going to fix itself until this works its way through.

Rob

[fadethecat]

I'm not convinced that it's going to work itself through in that way, though. If being selfish and reactionary is useful to people, young people are going to pick right up doing the same thing in the same companies just like the people before them did.

[bunrab]

My, we're pissy today, aren't we!

Short news flash: some of your friends are baby boomers, and would prefer not to hear you wish us dead.

[landley]

Sorry, I phrased that badly.

I'm hoping the political system someday recovers from the unbalanced influences being exerted on it, short of a full replay of the great depression and/or the collapse of the Roman empire.

I'm not looking forward to actual people I know dying.

[gkajmowicz]

Interestingly, in the EMS world at least, our ambulances carry a cooler with 2 IV bags and 3 ice-packs. If somebody goes into cardiac arrest and we manage to get them back, they get the cold saline to drop their body temperature as it has actually been shown to improve outcomes.

[landley]

Yay new technology actually getting deployed, even if in small ways.

Last time I was up in Michigan (woo, 2008 I think) Tracy was telling me about her fight to get checklists deployed in her nursing work. (Yes, _checklists_.)

Rob

[fadethecat]

Checklists are awesome. I still have trouble turning the key in the car ignition until all seatbelts are on because my dad taught driving via checklist format...

[kyberneticist]

I was rather fascinated by you mentioning this 'cause it sounded so much like those hoax "turn water into fuel" claims (yes, I know, not the same thing).

Anyway, here's the wikipedia entry.
Water Injection - snipped because i am pretty sure this is getting it marked as spam

(link to the Effects portion) discusses why putting this in your current car is not a good idea.

Looks like reasons cars aren't using it is that it seems it is finicky, requires careful tuning, and can severely damage the engine.
So, just going to guess that the potential MPG savings aren't worth it apart from the racetrack example.

Use it for cooling appears to be safer, but I guess there's the problem of needing to keep the car topped off on water.

This is my 4th try trying to discuss this... I guess I'll give up after this. LJ keeps saying the journal settings cause the post to be marked as spam. My guess is it was due to the wikipedia links. Wikipedia as spam. Trying again.

[landley]

Hence my suggestion of trying it in a lawnmower engine, which is more primitive and a lot less finicky.

These days with computerized fuel injection based on realtime sensor input, cars aren't nearly as hackable as they used to be. The theory (turning waste heat into extra propulsion) is fairly straightforward, and maybe with mileage standards increasing there's less waste to capture than there was in the 70's. But to feed a modern car anything other than it expects, you need to reprogram the onboard computer to get a "fuel flexible vehicle" (ala http://running_on_alcohol.tripod.com/id28.html) and even then that's probably special casing a list of known inputs...