Coming at this late, but that is a really good price for a fully installed system, does that include some government subsidy?
Considering a similar system like that in southern Europe where installation is pretty cheap, and the prices are higher, I see A$12000 for a 10KW system of panels and a 10KW Fronius three-phase inverter.
I believe it was actually 3 people: Phil Wilson, Craig Wright and Dave Kleiman.
Phil left the project and deleted all evidence in 2011, when the FBI was getting involved. Dave died in 2013, and in 2015 Craig started to proclaim that he is Satoshi. The problem is, Craig is the least technical and least stable of the trio, so almost no one believes him.
Of course there is no hard evidence for this, so almost no one believes him as well. But I like the story, and matches some of my priors, so I'm sticking with it.
There is also the ongoing lawsuit of the Kleiman estate vs Craig, for the Tulip Trust, a large cache of bitcoins they mined together. The jury trial is scheduled for October 13, so that might also expand on the story when it's concluded:
https://coingeek.com/kleiman-v-wright-trial-delayed-until-oc...
No one dies of Vitamin D overdose.
Hundreds of thousands of people are dying of COVID-19.
So dosing everyone with Vitamin D is extremely low risk for a very high reward...
The only reason that p value is a bit high in that second multivariate analysis is because of the uncertainty of how much all the different risk factors like hypertension, T2DM, age >= 60 etc. affect ICU admission numbers.
But even with those variables controlled, the 95% confidence interval is 0.003-0.25, which at worst is a 4-fold reduction in ICU risk.
We should also note that the Calcifediol treatment group had 14 patients ≥ 60 years old, and the non-Calcifediol group had 5. So the study looks even better with that in mind...
> Randomization generated groups with comparable percentage of unfavorable risk factors as there was no significant difference in subjects with at least one risk factor, except for high blood pressure and diabetes mellitus, known risk factors for unfavorable disease progression, which were more frequent in patients not treated with calcifediol.
> However, even considering these factors, calcifediol significantly decreased the need for ICU admission in COVID-19 patients in a way not previously reported in this process until now.
Here is an old clinical practice guideline article (2011) from The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism talking about Vitamin D deficiency and recommendations for correcting it:
In the first article, after correcting the deficiency, the maintenance dose that they give is:
600-1000 IU/d for children; 1500–2000 IU/d for adults; 3000–6000 IU/d for obese.
As you can see that's much higher than the current RDA of 400 IU/d.
And to correct the deficiency in the first place, the dose needs to be 2-3 times higher still for 8 weeks.
So around half the people in the US need to be taking a very large dose for 8 weeks, and then a maintenance dose 4-15 times higher than the RDA.
This is all from established studies done long ago that no one has disputed. But their recommendations have yet to be implemented in a lot of places, which might be why some countries fare better than others.
Would you mind telling us what the medical literature says about deaths from Vitamin D overdose?
Around how many people in total have died from taking too much Vitamin D?
It actually works fine on Android browsers (checked in FF and Chrome), you just have to load the page in Desktop mode so that it stops pushing the apps to you.
Hopefully they'll reconsider their decision if they want it to get popular...