About my posting yesterday on  MY LIFE , in the first month of this blog I also had a  MY LIFE .  Then on  26April2022 , dressed that first version up with some graphics.  Not much different from that of yesterday. However, I almost purposefully left out some of my life highlights, so rather than go back and add them to my posting yesterday,  here are some of them . My professional life, from first graduating, where I went into biomass engineering, to my academic career where I became a full professor of engineering and spent much of my years at the University Hawaii in the full spectrum of green energy, a satisfying honor came from the American Association of Civil Engineers, the Stephen D. Bechtel Jr. Energy award at their annual conference in 1999. Within the field of renewable energy, I was most active in ocean activities. Drafted the ocean thermal energy conversion bill that became law. Served as Secretary of the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii and Director of the Hawaii Natur

Before I step into the future, one item about today, COVID-19 booster shots.  I've said this a hundred times, at least, but make this perhaps number 101:    boosters help keep people out of the hospital . This was a recent study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association Inter Medicine: Data from more than 192,000 adults in 13 U.S. states who had been hospitalized this year with this virus between January and April were analyzed. This was  before  the BA.5 and BA.4 subvariants took over. Even then, UNVACCINATED PEOPLE WERE 10.5 TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE HOSPITALIZED THAN PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN FULLY VACCINATED AND BOOSTED (note that this was the original booster). How important was that early booster?  People who were vaccinated but not boosted were 2.5 times more likely to end up in the hospital than those who had received a booster. Note that the second booster did not arrive until after the time period of this analysis.  I would hope that this second booster e

                                   From  Worldometer  (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):          DAY    USA    WORLD     Brazil      India      South Africa June     9    1093     4732         1185        246       82 July    22     1205     7128         1293      1120     572 Aug    12     1504     6556        1242        835     130 Sept     9     1208      6222       1136       1168       82 Oct     21     1225      6849         571        703       85 Nov    25      2304    12025        620        518      118 Dec     30      3880    14748       1224       299      465 Jan      14       4142     15512        1151        189      712                  Feb      3       4005    14265       1209       107      398 Mar     2        1989      9490        1726       110      194 April   6          906     11787         4211       631       37 May    4         853     13667         3025     3786      59   June   1         287    10637         2346      3205       95  July   7          251