Van Morris

Distributed Generation Advocate.

Also focused on #Longcovid. Cataloging research, possible causes,etc. Yea, its personal

[Chris Meder @EVCurveFuturist]

Gas spent 20 years owning the evening peak. Batteries took a year to crash the party.

That's disruption. Not gradual, but a rapid shift in who supplies grid's most valuable hours.

The battle was never about total generation. It was about the peak & batteries are winning it.

[Amy Proal, PhD @microbeminded2]

Check out these talk summaries from our recent PolyBio Symposium👇

Highlights include that four groups — Tim Henrich (UCSF), Marcus Buggert (Karolinska), Nicolas Huot (Institut Pasteur), and Esen Sefik (Yale) — presented different lines of evidence (human gut biopsies, non-human primate models, humanized mice) all pointing to the same conclusion: SARS-CoV-2 persists in #LongCovid gut tissue and adjacent lymphoid structures, and that persistence drives ongoing immune dysregulation.

[Van Morris @vanmorris]

I have a first hand report that IMDUR has had a significant impact on a Long Covid patient of 1, who's symptoms were chest pain. It is symptom management, not cure but i'm wondering if others have any first hand data.

#longcovid

[Van Morris @vanmorris]

@polybioRF Just want to say: The symposium was excellent! Such a comprehensive and deep discussion on the state of research and learning. Go POLYBIO! There is an anxious world of suffering hoping on your great work.

[PolyBio @polybioRF]

2:30 pm ET—Michael Peluso outlined the structure of VIPER, PolyBio’s Long COVID biomarker validation program. UCSF’s PolyBio-supported LIINC program that collects blood & saliva samples from patients, as well as performs deep phenotyping, will send patient samples to several labs participating in VIPER’s network (pictured below). Prospective patient samples will be finalized in the Summer & sent out to labs this Fall.

[PolyBio @polybioRF]

Breaking: PolyBio Launches Commercialization Advisory Network to Accelerate Long COVID Diagnostics and Treatment

PolyBio Research Foundation today announced the formal launch of its Commercialization Advisory Network, a new initiative designed to accelerate the translation of Long COVID and related chronic disease discoveries into clinical diagnostics and targeted treatments.

https://t.co/sEu8WnyxkT

[Van Morris @vanmorris]

@AzolaAlba Such great work you are doing for so many. We appreciate your help with Mallory as well.

[Alba Azola, MD @AzolaAlba]

Five years ago, she got COVID.
By November 2021, she came to our clinic with disabling #LongCOVID symptoms.

Today, for the first time in years, she told me she feels closer to her pre-COVID baseline. Closer to herself again. 🧵

[Dara in Chains @DarainChains]

Invisible Warfare

Headline: The MIT Study that Finally Visualizes the Brain-on-COVID

Have you ever had a medical scan come back "clear" while your brain felt like it was made of inflamed concrete? You aren't crazy. Standard medicine just wasn't looking small enough.
A major 2026 paper from MIT and Harvard just changed the game. They didn't just look at brain tissue; they physically expanded it 15-20x its size—like using a molecular magnifying glass—to achieve 20-nanometer resolution.

What they found changes everything:

Standard imaging looks for damage. This paper visualized defense.

Deep inside the brains of people who had SC2, they found periodic Amyloid Nanoclusters co-localizing directly with the virus.

What does that mean?

The Cargo: Your body is running on infected, hyper-activated platelets (the 'weaponized platelets' of LC). They carry viral debris and proteins into the brain's capillaries.
The Body's Defense: When the brain detects these viral invaders, it doesn't wait. Its immune system (microglia/astrocytes) triggers a protective, antimicrobial "foam" called amyloid-beta.

The Trap: This amyloid foam physically traps, cages, and neutralizes the viral proteins to stop them from causing further harm.
The Price: The paper found a 2-fold increase in activated astrocytes, the cells that manage the brain's environment. These dense, sticky amyloid traps and swollen astrocytes create a state of permanent, local, architectural neuroinflammation.

This isn't a "chemical imbalance." This is structural warfare. The brain is filled with tiny, persistent defensive knots that it cannot clear, causing the profound fatigue, cognitive impairment, and severe inflammation so common in LC.

#LongCOVID #Neuroinflammation #Microbiome #VigilanceLab

A comic showing this! Hope this helps my friends and fellow humans.

[Van Morris @vanmorris]

@RobMajteles BYOG (or more accurately BYOC - Capacity), behind the meter peakers running 400 to 500 hrs will allow utilities to more effectively serve a legacy role (higher utilization on existing assets) without taking on the risk of developing tech -- which belongs to the tech community

[Van Morris @vanmorris]

@dalibali2 I could

[Van Morris @vanmorris]

@JonnyBird @sodowntownatl Looks great!

[Van Morris @vanmorris]

@JigarShahDC NG DG can come in under $ 2,000 with today's high priced gensets. Could come in under $ 1,250 with "purpose designed" units based on mass produced truck engine blocks.

[Van Morris @vanmorris]

PJM is heading in the right way! Proposal under consideration: New Loads in PJM greater than 5 MW must either “BTONG” (Bring their own Generation) or contract directly (bilateral) with a new generator, or through the PJM RBP Auction for new capacity to meet their new load plus reserve margin.

[Van Morris @vanmorris]

@JigarShahDC 100% agree. Legacy thinking in the power industry is the problem. What would Elon do? (love or hate him, he thinks differently). Start with first principals and re-invent

[Van Morris @vanmorris]

And asking that no bad guys get near a secured site is an unreasonable expectation. The point is to secure a perimeter and protect it, isn't it? I admit to no particular expertise other than observing how the media (both sides) try an manipulate the public.

[Van Morris @vanmorris]

Really? What is wrong with the media? I woke up to a lot of headlines on the failure of the Secret Service at the Washington Hilton incident. Seems to me like it worked pretty well, and as it's designed to do. Can we please get the headline hungry fault finders out of the media please?

[Energy Gang @TheEnergyGang]

PJM capacity prices have moved from US$28 to US$270 in a single auction. What happens when electricity demand, decarbonisation policy and affordability collide in the US power market: https://t.co/Fs1w18PYNM 👇🧵

[Van Morris @vanmorris]

this isn't as hard as it seems. give DataCenters the option of funding DG installations (NG DG) equal to 1.5X their capacity requirements. DG is less expensive than batteries and large Gen right now. All we need is a bridge strategy. We can't wait for capacity, so the question is what do we do until battery prices come down.

[Van Morris @vanmorris]

Running the math. What if, while we wait for battery costs to come down, we used mass produced engines (ie. 300HP Truck converted to NG) in a distributed network? Purpose designed for peaking, cost would come in < $750 per installed kW. Place them at industrial/commercial sites like you would batteries. Replace them in 7 yrs when battery costs are down. Math looks pretty compelling!