Solar panels in your eyeballs: Self-powered bionics are on the way
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Solar panels in your eyeballs: Self-powered bionics are on the way
Your mitochondria have to produce a lot of extra energy to process the blue light in LEDs, which burns oxygen and creates free radicals in the cells of your eyes.
Dave Asprey • Head Strong: The Bulletproof Plan to Activate Untapped Brain Energy to Work Smarter and Think Faster-in Just Two Weeks
I’d been living with a kind of visual death sentence hanging over me, one that yesterday a young ophthalmological fellow had casually commuted.
Andrew Leland • The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
The United States could produce all its power by covering 2% of its land with solar panels - for comparison, we use 20% of our land for agriculture, so this would look like Nevada specializing in farming electricity somewhat less intensely than Iowa specializes in farming corn
Scott Alexander • Notes From The Progress Studies Conference
Your mitochondria are meant to experience red light all day, with less blue at the start and end of the day. When we spend time outside, as nature designed humans to do, our eyes (and the mitochondria they contain) are constantly exposed to full-spectrum light. Unfortunately, these days we spend relatively little time outdoors soaking up the sunshi
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