A New Way to Bring People Back from a ‘Vegetative State’

A New Way to Bring People Back from a ‘Vegetative State’

Posted September 29, 2017

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Scientists have had some success with a new technique to restore awareness to a person in a vegetative state & also that we could potentially use the water cycle to power most of the United States!

Thumbnail credit: Corazzol et al.

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Sources:
Consciousness restored:

Vegetative State


http://www.sciencealert.com/doctors-have-restored-consciousness-in-man-who-spent-15-years-in-vegetative-state
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(17)30964-8

Evaporation engines:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608949/evaporation-engines-could-produce-more-power-than-coal-with-a-huge-caveat/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-00581-w
http://www.iee.psu.edu/node/284
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150616123608.htm

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earths_City_Lights_by_DMSP,_1994-1995_(large).jpg
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https://eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/150913.php?from=371072

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