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OC: Lance Sheehan

Basic Info

Name: Lance Sheehan

Alias(es):

Date of birth: July 05 2037

Zodiac sign: Cancer

Gender: Male (he is a trans man)

Place of Birth: Night City, Charter Hill

Sexuality: Polysexual

Appearance

Height: 5’ 11

Build: Average, modestly athletic

Hair: Dark brown

Eyes: Black sclera with green and reddish iris

Cyberwear: Enhanced Kiroshi optics with greater zoom and magnification, as well as real-time feed on patient vitals on demand when connected. Enhanced fine motor control and stabilisation in his hands and arms. Biomon and hormone regulators, particularly for diabetes and testosterone. Synth skin with enhanced sensitivity (helps during operations) as well as sensors for monitoring his clients vitals. Upper face plate contains more optical sensor arrays connected to his eyes. Second heart. Electrical discharge cybernetics in his hands, primarily for defibrillation purposes.

Background

Languages: English, Gaeilge, Spanish

Affiliations

Arasaka: former subsidiary employee

Occupation: Ripperdoc

Role: Full-body conversion, Netrunning and neurological cybernetics specialist as well as general Ripperdoc skills.

Weapons: Can use his defibrillator cybernetics as a weapon but at a much higher voltage.

Lance was born to wealthy parents and enjoyed a comfortable and relatively privileged life as he grew up in Night City. His education led him into cybernetic medicine where he gained a wealth of experience from some of the best clinics across the world. His family unlocked many doors and opportunities for him but he was very aware that this wasn’t the case for many others.

Lance returned to Night City employed in an Arasaka subsidiary company who installed and maintained the cyberwear of their employees and students who were in their employment programme. Lance was put on a team who were part of research into how cybernetics and cyberpsychosis are linked. The research focused around full or near full body conversions. Four groups were involved; one consisted of voluntary subjects who were given cybernetics and their new bodies looked the same as their organic one. The second group consisted of subjects who didn’t volunteer and didn’t know what was to happen but left as a full or near full body conversion looking as they had before with the expected changes they had gone in for. The third group consisted of people who had been told they were going in for a full body conversion but were not given anything new. Finally the control group went in for routine installations. The teams did the work as if it was routine and had been informed and presented with documents saying all of the patients consented to whatever procedure the research leads had designated them for.

Lance was the lead ripper of one of the teams and operated on Voss who believed he was in for something else but left as a near full body conversion. It wasn’t until later when Bernice hacked files from the company that Lance found out about the experiments. He lived with deep shame and guilt after that and it impacted him in many ways around he approaches consent both personally and professionally.

He didn’t know about Voss until he connected and found his name as the one who signed off his conversion when he reviewed Voss' records. Voss never knew as all his work when in Arasaka had been done by the corporation rippers and after nobody commented because it wasn’t relevant to the work being done.

Lance is an ambitious and focused person but somehow he does this without stepping on others to get to where he wants. It could be his outgoing and pleasant personality or it could be that he is just that good at his work or perhaps a bit of both.

Either way, Lance is successful in his work and makes a very comfortable living. He takes his work seriously, is methodical, organised and calm nerves.

Some of the higher end Rippers might like to see themselves as medical rock stars but Lance prefers to let his work speak for itself. There’s no room for showmanship when you’re operating on delicate neurocybernetics or with cutting edge pieces that cost a small fortune. People go to him because he is reliable, steady and has a wonderful consultation process to help his clients get the best out of their cyberwear.

Lance’s perfectionist tendencies however can be a problem which he knows he must keep tabs on as it can lead to more stress than is healthy.

Despite what he learned, Lance continued working as a Ripperdoc. In a way he wasn’t surprised he was lied to as he’d have refused to operate on people who were being misled and many corporations were the same when it came to their ethics. Lance only wants to do right by people in a world which pushes them all to the limits.

He has great sympathy for Voss when he finds out he was responsible. Some may view him telling Voss the truth as the wrong thing to do, and even dangerous but in time they are friendly and Voss goes to him for Ripperdoc work. Who better than the person who made him and knows the original work so well?

He has no partner and no relationship currently. Work often makes it difficult, among other reasons. Lance is a regular client of Charlie’s; Lance has a thing for elves and finds Charlie’s manner and professionalism exactly what he needs.

[hereforthefanficsandromance]

The Way He Looks at You Series II:III

Act II: The Way You Look at Him Chapter 3: The Way You Don't Belong to Him

Read on AO3 Read on Blogger Read on Tumblr Story Master List: The Way He Looks at You Series

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Chapter Summary

Dark thoughts plague the man who still loves you.

TW: torture (electricity)

Rating: 18+ Words: 1.4K

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I wake groggy, taking in my dismal surroundings. My brain rejecting the situational reality. I shift on the hard metal surface to relieve my aching shoulders.

My thoughts drift to my future family, wishing for their safety. During the lengthy hours without severe suffering, I attempt to reconcile with the painful mistakes of my past. Deeply regretting the stupid decision that led here, that sabotaged my happiness.

I allowed the structured ways of the past to dictate my future. My fear of the Dark Side led me directly to it. I try to resist its seductive call, but each day I feel the light dim, leaving behind murky darkness.

Giving myself willingly over is required, an impossible requirement I resist each grueling day. Choosing light and peace feels less obvious with each torturous minute.I ignore the growing rage in my belly. The metal door swings open, revealing my captor, a sickening smile plastered on his green skinned face.

“You look well rested.” He mocks, sitting behind me, making me paranoid.

I resist squirming during the long passing silence, instead bracing for inevitable pain. It doesn’t come.

“What did you dream about? Brother.”

I tense, refusing an answer and knowing excruciating punishment awaits. Fearsome purge troopers enter the freezing room, carrying crackling electrobatons. The usual three approach while engaged in lively conversation, ignoring their unpleasant purpose, to my relief.

“I asked you a question, Brother.��� Fifth Brother speaks again, threats dripping from his innocent words.

The purge troopers cease speaking, brandishing their deadly weapons, awaiting my reply. I clench my teeth together. One outcome awaits. The first trooper presses his electrified baton forward, contacting my bare torso.

An animalistic scream rips through my parched throat, echoing against the sturdy concrete walls. The pain stops, but the aftereffects leave my abused body twitching. I’m sickened that the heat of the electrobaton soothes my freezing exposed skin. That I find temporary relief in my suffering.

As the buzzing wears off, the second trooper jabs his weapon forward, making contact. Every muscle tenses and my head whips back, my rigid body shakes from the high voltage. I gasp, desperate for air, but pain shoots through my nerves as the third trooper lunges forward, a sadistic laugh cutting the air.

Fifth Brother is patient, allowing each to indulge in inflicting pain on my tired form. Once sated, they stand back, awaiting the next round of questions that I will resist against my self preservation.

“I quite enjoy watching you suffer. However, I have news that will wait until you answer my question.”

I lick my chapped lips, weighing the presented options. The troopers hold position while I stare at the stained concrete floor.

“What news?” I ask, knowing I sealed my fate.

The purge troopers leap forward together, an electrobaton contacting my chest and each thigh. I hear someone else screaming, my brain exiting my body, pulling me far from the extreme suffering.

The pain stops and I barely hear the question that follows.

“What did you dream about?”

“I didn’t dream.” I say.

“Think harder Brother, you did dream.”

I scrunch my teary eyes closed, trying hard to remember. The faded memory won’t show, blocked by my subconscious desire to remain true to the light side.

White hot pain shoots through my fatigued muscles, my teeth pressed hard against one another. Some dark entity claws from the depths of my weakening mind, something power hungry. Pain overwhelms my resistance as electricity surges, drawing forth the hate. Memories of life draining from their eyes, my powerful fist clenched tight.

The pain stops, my breath left shallow and ragged. The loud silence feels worse than the torture, the calm before the storm. A controllable storm I can end through willing submission.

“Perhaps you will share the news of your kin tomorrow.”

Worry flickers in my eyes, betraying my earnest refusal. Fifth Brother catches the expression as he circles the soiled interrogation chair.

“This intrigues you?”

A single nod, determining my fate.

“Last chance Brother.”

My parted lips suck in chilled air. “I was killing the purge troopers.”

“How?”

“The Force.” A beat of silence. “I strangled them before they could hurt me.”

“What emotions did you feel?”

“Fear, rage, hate.” I admit, knowing I am fighting a losing battle.

Fifth Brother shows his white teeth, a fearsome attempt at grinning. He waves the purge troopers away, leaning against a nearby steel table. I hold my breath, knowing that Fifth Brother is a greater threat than high voltage weaponry.

“Excellent, you are learning quickly. You will walk alongside your fellow brothers and sisters soon. The woman you foolishly impregnated has finally risen from her hospital bed. Thirteenth has surely collected her, though you have more claim to her than he. After all, it is your child she carries.”

Anger flows through my veins at his name, knowing he poisons her against me. Images of the night with her flashes before my eyes, pulling me briefly to safety. My brain allows the intimate scene to replay without guilt gnawing at my insides.

Sparks tingle along my skin as her rear brushed the front of my trousers in the small kitchen. My eyes scanning her ample cleavage while I shared a story over dinner. The subject of the story lost to time, but her dilated pupils etched into my mind.

I spent countless nights rocking myself into my hand. Silently calling out her name into the darkened bedroom, wanting to hear her call mine. Desires to taste her, run my hands over her smooth skin, feel her clench around me.

The blissful evening overwhelmed me and I moved too quickly, forgot to savor the exquisite gift she provided. I forgot to care for her pleasure, despite imaging it nearly every night. Regrettably, I severely hurt her the following morning, as my selfishness did not stop.

Plagued by guilt and nightmares; nightly dreams of my old Master, lecturing on the danger of attachments. The difficult nightmares haunted me from the moment she became my girlfriend. Lustful thoughts led to vivid memories while I restlessly slept. I pulled away when the dreams were worse, unable to explain my unpredictable hesitation. She was kinder than I deserve, never asking for answers, and providing endless understanding.

The pursuit of light led to suffering despite the promise of the opposite. I hadn’t completed my training, lessons surely lost with the fall of the Jedi Order. Perhaps living between worlds was my downfall; never fully giving myself to love or the Jedi teachings, choosing to live halfway between both.

I loved her, but feared the repercussions of my Master at night. I still love her, but could not face those feelings, even in finding out I had fathered the child inside her belly. Still never fully committing to her, instead of loving her and the potential of family, I treated her as another duty.

“Once you have accepted your new title, you may stake your claim, though it would be wise to rebuild your strength before facing Thirteenth. I will help train you to take back what is truly yours. The only way is through the power and strength granted to us through darkness.”

Negative emotions overwhelm me, but I keep my hollow face determined. I could not love her when striving for light. The Dark Side provides an escape from the guilt of the old ways, a chance at redemption and the guidance needed to be the man I must for my new family.

Never will she know an unsatisfactory night. Her pleasure will always come before my own. Our relationship has become my priority, constantly on my mind between the darkening thoughts of my new dreams. I will have her again.

“Thirteenth doesn’t share his toys, but he is much weaker than before. Love blinds our Brother, his distracted state provides an opportunity for your success. But you are not yet ready. You cannot achieve what you desire when you are still weak. Accept the everlasting power of the Dark Side and take back what is rightfully yours.”

I gawk, coming back to myself, remembering the knowledge that forceful measures will not secure my desires. I shake my head, rejecting Fifth Brother’s sinister words.

“You agree that more suffering is required to unlock your true potential. You have shown promising progress on becoming the Fourteenth Brother.”

Fifth Brother exits the room, leaving the purge troopers in his place. I grit my teeth for the next round, each painful moment bringing me closer to her.

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[aquagirl1978]

For the characters I would like to see written by you cause I can not get enough of them from IkeVamp Jean Ikeprince Luke Ikesen Kennyo Ikerev Harr whetever fluff or smuts totally up to you you write them both wonderfully 😉 If I have to choice these characters inspire fluff Thank you for this anazing opportunity I can not wait to see all your creations 😍😍 Have a wonderful day 😉

Hi Julie, thank you for this request - I couldn't decide which suitors to write for, so I wrote some headcanons for them all. Hope you enjoy. And Happy early Birthday to Jean!

Part of the 'Tis the Season for Love Content Creator Challenge hosted by @voltage-vixen and @xxsycamore - prompt: sipping hot chocolate and then stealing a kiss

SIPPING HOT CHOCOLATE AND STEALING A KISS - IKEMEN SERIES HEADCANONS (Jean d'Arc, Luke Randolph, Harr Silver, Kennyo)

Jean d'Arc

It was a particularly cold day; even sitting by the fire in the mansion didn't do much to warm you.

Jean noticed you were shivering and wrapped you in his arms. You gazed into his violet eyes and had a better idea.

You took him by the hand and led him to the kitchen. "You didn't want to cuddle?" he asked?

"Let's make some hot chocolate together."

Jean looked at you funny.

"Jean...have you never had hot chocolate before?"

He blinked at you. "Hot...chocolate?"

Oh boy.

You started to pull out the ingredients, grateful that Sebastian kept a well stocked kitchen.

You showed Jean how to whisk the cocoa powder into the warm milk, placing your hand over his when he began to whisk the milk to a near pulp.

"Slow down, Jean. Like this." Your fingers grazed his, the warmth from the stove much needed and comforting.

You remained behind him, wrapping your free arm around his waist in a tender embrace, recalling memories of your youth and how your mother would make this same recipe for you on cold winter days.

When the drink was done, you poured it into two mugs and brought it back to the salon where the fire was still roaring.

Bringing your mug to your lips, you lightly blew on the beverage. Jean watched you, and followed in your steps.

"Gentle...you don't want to spill your drink," you warned him.

Jean waited for you to take the first sip. Bringing the mug to his mouth he took a small sip. "How do you like it?"

"It's hot," he replied with a small smile. "It's good."

He then stole a quick kiss leaving a smile on your lips.

"You had some on your mouth," he said. "It tastes better from your lips," he added, taking another sip from his mug.

Luke Randolph

Luke firmly held your hand, his large hand warm on this cold day, as you both walked through the winter markets.

"I'm running low on my favorite honey and I was hoping to find the stand here that sold it," he said, craning his neck searching for his favorite shop.

You smiled, knowing how much your bear loved his honey. You kept an eye out too as you passed stalls selling scarves and hats and cakes and teas.

But no honey in sight.

"Mhmm, that smells good," Luke announced.

You took in a deep breath, the scent of warm chocolate filling your lungs. "Care to take a break and grab a beverage?"

"Sounds great," he replied, leading you to take source of the delicious scent.

You soon found the source of the scent - a cart selling piping hot mugs of hot chocolate.

After the merchant handed you each a mug, you took a moment to breathe in the rich chocolate aroma.

Luke quickly took a large gulp from his drink. "It's not honey, but it's sweet." He smiled at you as you both savored the warm drink in silence.

After you both drained your mugs, you continued on your search for honey. But you did not have far to go.

"Luke, look!" you called out, spotting the sweet and sticky substance nestled not far from the hot chocolate stand.

Luke's grass green eyes widened as he stopped in his tracks. He turned to you and gave you a quick kiss.

"What was that for?" you asked, surprised.

"If you hadn't suggested stopping for hot chocolate, we might not have found the honey. So thank you."

Luke stole one final kiss before heading towards the jars of honey. "The honey might be sweet, but you are sweeter."

Harr Silver

Harr and Loki had been out all afternoon by the lake catching fish for dinner.

It was a chilly, winter day and you wanted to surprise them with a treat. You thought there would be nothing sweeter than to return home to a fresh pot of hot chocolate.

After gathering all the ingredients, you happily brewed the drink, excited to surprise them with the treat.

Loki bounced through the door first. He gave a quick wave and mumbled something about needing to check something in his room.

Harr soon followed after, carrying a small basket of fish. Smiling, you greeted him and took the basket from him to bring into the kitchen.

When you returned, you were carrying two cups of hot chocolate, the steam still rising from the top.

"I thought you'd like something hot after spending the afternoon out in the cold," you said, handing him a mug.

Harr smiled softly at you, quietly thanking you. "This is quite good," he commented, after taking a sip.

"I only wish Loki had stayed to join us." You had grown use to the family unit the three of you created since moving into the treehouse. While you appreciated alone time with Harr, you also enjoyed spending time with Loki as well.

Harr's eyes narrowed, his silver gaze darkening. "I must disagree."

A slight flush crept on your cheeks, a soft smile spread on your lips.

Harr leaned over and kissed you, his lips sweet from the hot chocolate. "I will never turn down the opportunity to spend time alone with you," he whispered.

Kennyo

"Have you ever had hot chocolate?" you asked Kennyo as you walked hand in hand down the modern day streets of Japan.

Having traveled through the wormhole to present time, Kennyo was like a fish out of water, much like you were when you first traveled through the wormhole to the Sengoku period.

You had wanted Kennyo to experience all of your favorite things while you were here. When you passed by the cafe, the familiar aroma of warm chocolate wafting through the air, you suddenly felt a craving for the hot beverage on this winter day.

It felt good to come inside from the chilly wind and quickly found a spot in a secluded corner.

You ordered the drinks - plain, no whipped cream or marshmallow so that the pure chocolate taste could be appreciated.

Kennyo smiled as you passed him the beverage, his finger grazing yours, lingering longer than it should.

Taking a sip, the chocolate was sweet on your tongue, its warmth easing the winter chill in your bones.

Peering over the rim of your mug, you were curious if Kennyo was enjoying it.

"I like it," he replied with a small smile. "But next time," he said gesturing to the other patrons in the cafe, "I want that fluffy stuff and toppings on mine like they're having."

Giggling, you stole a kiss from him, his lips warm and sweet, happy to experience all your favorite things with the man you loved.

[moose-mousse]

Data data

So... finding a big datasheet like I am used to is.. very hard for some reason... So all I found was the pin-out diagram. Very prettily made. Bonus for using hardware that is popular with enthusiasts. Found a few guides but nothing like a big datasheet. Oh well, gonna live without. Next up. Finding the email receipt for the RGB LEDs so I can look up the specs.

https://ardustore.dk/produkt/led-diode-rgb-5mm

Ok... have precalculated values for 5V, but not 3.3 like the Raspberry Pie uses. Fine fine. We can do that math ourselves. Forward voltage (How much voltage the LED will eat in order to work) is unique on each color and the pin will supply 3.3 V For blue and green it is 3.2-3.4V Great. No resistor, we just slap it straight on the pin For red, 1.8-2.0V Good good. So the math is: 3.3 - 1.9 = 1.4 So we want to get rid of 1.4 ohms with a resistor so the voltage is correct for the LED. To calculate that we also need the amperage. But this one we can just decide ourselves. We look up the max amperage of the Raspberry Pi pins. 16 mili-amps. We don't want to use max. So let us say half of that. Plug those two into ohms law V * I = R 1.4 / 0.008 = 175 So we need aboutish 175 ohm of resistance. I have...

Eh... 240 ohm will do. Good enough.

[jcmarchi]

New transistor’s superlative properties could have broad electronics applications

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/new-transistors-superlative-properties-could-have-broad-electronics-applications/

New transistor’s superlative properties could have broad electronics applications

In 2021, a team led by MIT physicists reported creating a new ultrathin ferroelectric material, or one where positive and negative charges separate into different layers. At the time they noted the material’s potential for applications in computer memory and much more. Now the same core team and colleagues — including two from the lab next door — have built a transistor with that material and shown that its properties are so useful that it could change the world of electronics.

Although the team’s results are based on a single transistor in the lab, “in several aspects its properties already meet or exceed industry standards” for the ferroelectric transistors produced today, says Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, who led the work with professor of physics Raymond Ashoori. Both are also affiliated with the Materials Research Laboratory.

“In my lab we primarily do fundamental physics. This is one of the first, and perhaps most dramatic, examples of how very basic science has led to something that could have a major impact on applications,” Jarillo-Herrero says.

Says Ashoori, “When I think of my whole career in physics, this is the work that I think 10 to 20 years from now could change the world.”

Among the new transistor’s superlative properties:

It can switch between positive and negative charges — essentially the ones and zeros of digital information — at very high speeds, on nanosecond time scales. (A nanosecond is a billionth of a second.)

It is extremely tough. After 100 billion switches it still worked with no signs of degradation.

The material behind the magic is only billionths of a meter thick, one of the thinnest of its kind in the world. That, in turn, could allow for much denser computer memory storage. It could also lead to much more energy-efficient transistors because the voltage required for switching scales with material thickness. (Ultrathin equals ultralow voltages.)

The work is reported in a recent issue of Science. The co-first authors of the paper are Kenji Yasuda, now an assistant professor at Cornell University, and Evan Zalys-Geller, now at Atom Computing. Additional authors are Xirui Wang, an MIT graduate student in physics; Daniel Bennett and Efthimios Kaxiras of Harvard University; Suraj S. Cheema, an assistant professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and an affiliate of the Research Laboratory of Electronics; and Kenji Watanabe and Takashi Taniguchi of the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan.

What they did

In a ferroelectric material, positive and negative charges spontaneously head to different sides, or poles. Upon the application of an external electric field, those charges switch sides, reversing the polarization. Switching the polarization can be used to encode digital information, and that information will be nonvolatile, or stable over time. It won’t change unless an electric field is applied. For a ferroelectric to have broad application to electronics, all of this needs to happen at room temperature.

The new ferroelectric material reported in Science in 2021 is based on atomically thin sheets of boron nitride that are stacked parallel to each other, a configuration that doesn’t exist in nature. In bulk boron nitride, the individual layers of boron nitride are instead rotated by 180 degrees.

It turns out that when an electric field is applied to this parallel stacked configuration, one layer of the new boron nitride material slides over the other, slightly changing the positions of the boron and nitrogen atoms. For example, imagine that each of your hands is composed of only one layer of cells. The new phenomenon is akin to pressing your hands together then slightly shifting one above the other.

“So the miracle is that by sliding the two layers a few angstroms, you end up with radically different electronics,” says Ashoori. The diameter of an atom is about 1 angstrom.

Another miracle: “nothing wears out in the sliding,” Ashoori continues. That’s why the new transistor could be switched 100 billion times without degrading. Compare that to the memory in a flash drive made with conventional materials. “Each time you write and erase a flash memory, you get some degradation,” says Ashoori. “Over time, it wears out, which means that you have to use some very sophisticated methods for distributing where you’re reading and writing on the chip.” The new material could make those steps obsolete.

A collaborative effort

Yasuda, the co-first author of the current Science paper, applauds the collaborations involved in the work. Among them, “we [Jarillo-Herrero’s team] made the material and, together with Ray [Ashoori] and [co-first author] Evan [Zalys-Geller], we measured its characteristics in detail. That was very exciting.” Says Ashoori, “many of the techniques in my lab just naturally applied to work that was going on in the lab next door. It’s been a lot of fun.”

Ashoori notes that “there’s a lot of interesting physics behind this” that could be explored. For example, “if you think about the two layers sliding past each other, where does that sliding start?” In addition, says Yasuda, could the ferroelectricity be triggered with something other than electricity, like an optical pulse? And is there a fundamental limit to the amount of switches the material can make?

Challenges remain. For example, the current way of producing the new ferroelectrics is difficult and not conducive to mass manufacturing. “We made a single transistor as a demonstration. If people could grow these materials on the wafer scale, we could create many, many more,” says Yasuda. He notes that different groups are already working to that end.

Concludes Ashoori, “There are a few problems. But if you solve them, this material fits in so many ways into potential future electronics. It’s very exciting.”

This work was supported by the U.S. Army Research Office, the MIT/Microsystems Technology Laboratories Samsung Semiconductor Research Fund, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Ramon Areces Foundation, the Basic Energy Sciences program of the U.S. Department of Energy, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan.

[lunarsilkscreen]

Climate Change and the Ozone [reference link]

Today, all the search engines yield results for the depleted ozone layer that say something akin to "Cuz UV radiation causes skin cancer". What is UV radiation--you might be asking; it's sun light.

My mother, when I was growing up, explained: "We open the curtains in the daytime to let the sunlight in so it kills the dust mites."

I'm not gonna go into what can cause skin cancer, a lot of people suggest it's sunscreen (or other lotions) especially HIGH UV protection sunscreen. (30 proof or less kids)

Sunlight gives off all colors of light, including that which we cannot see: Infrared, Ultraviolet (UV), and beyond.

It also creates heat, and that's the same mechanism that can give you a good tan, or burn depending on how close to Finland your racial origin is.

Ozone is like Oxygen except that it has an extra Oxygen molecule. This makes it [Heavy Oxygen] and unlike typical oxygen, can kill you if you breathe it in because your body cannot turn it into Oxygen.

You can make Ozone with a high voltage electrolysis process (not to be confused with the hair removal process electrolysis (Similar, but much lower levels) OR with UV Light. 🤔 ⚛️ (Baked Oxygen)

It can also be made with industrial or laser printing. (Which significantly helped speed up the ozone recovery process.)

So, when I was growing up, the big news at the time was "how do we close the Ozone layer, because it's causing global cooling." And everybody was worried about the next Ice Age and return of the wooly mammoths. (And led to the creation of the extreme skiing movie: Day after Tomorrow)

So when people are confused as to what "climate change" means, you tell them about global warming and people older than I think "Global Cooling?" They forgot about the Ozone layer.

The reason they felt this way is because Ozone is a "Green House Air Molecule"--gas sounds to similar to ⛽, so I changed it. As well as lessening UV radiation, it also *increases* the [Green House Effect]. Which means that it keeps the solar radiation that *does* pass through the atmosphere inside longer, and thus helps to keep the planet warm from the unforgiving vacuum of space.

By 1987 (👋) Scientists had identified the cause of Ozone depletion as Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)--which is what we used for aerosol sprays at the time, and 56 countries had signed the "Montreal Protocol" which was an agreement to cutdown the production of CFCs and similar [ozone depleting chemicals].

And so, great news everyone--By increasing our dependence on office printers and cutting our dependence on CFCs: we caused global warming. (I made some accusations in an earlier post about global warming itself having happened before with detrimental effects in BC sometime, AND it being recorded by humans in literature that can be found in Chinese Texts like gilgamesh, as well as the bible, and there are some stones in Japan marking extreme weather indicators based on shore level. (Completely not gonna reference it, you should do research yourself instead of just taking *my* word for it.)

The Ozone layer is due to be completely restored to pre-1984 levels in 2050~ish. Compare the scales of ozone restoration to that of the timeline of global warming, and you'll see they coincide.

Now, the real reason we care about global warming is because it's *higher* than what it was during the industrial revolution. When we were doing much more environmentally adverse warming and polluting. But, you know the pollution was gonna kill us by killing the Ozone . Now, we're going to be suffocated by the ozone keeping the pollution in here, with us. (Throw away joke, the pollution was *always* in here with us.)

So; what, if anything should we do? Should we even worry about it? Does anybody *actually* enjoy cold weather anyway? Why *should* we protect Florida and not just allow the gators to takeover Alabama and Georgia? Two birds one stone IMO.

Well. Stop using printers, for one. The world is digital now, and we need to lower our dependence on oil based products. (Plastic printers and plastic toner my friends)

The resulting paper reduction will also decrease paper production, and cause a pollution deduction from the environment-uction.

Then we can use those ink jet printer materials for better electronics.

We could ramp up CFC production if we *really* find ourselves in a pinch.

We could reduce the production of fecal gasses created from unsanitary farming conditions. (That's a whole thing in itself that I won't get into here.)

Decrease production of food material (like breads and cereals) by factories, and just let people make it themselves. (This one is controversial, because how will people be able to make money to buy food to feed themselves if they're not making cereals for the pervert we know as Tony the Tiger? That's an economic question that should be answered with: why don't more people just work on farms for their income?)

Anyway, trying to prevent all the UV radiations from turning white people into golden brown marshmallows is racist AF* and I won't stand for it.

[medfetabdl]

An overview of the Philips MP5 from the outside from an engineer’s perspective

I’ll explain everything in the most basic and interesting way as I can I’ll go over everything on all 4 sides of the monitor, if people like this then we’ll take a look at the insides of the monitor as well

Front View:

1: Mount release button. Pushing this button unlocks the internal mechanism that locks onto the quick release mount.

2: Speaker. I have tape over it to try to make it not as loud, I think it goes without saying that all the sound the monitor produces comes through here

3: Mains AC indicator light. Just an LED to tell you if the the monitor is plugged into mains power

4: Battery indicator light. Lights up green when the monitor is running on battery or when there is mains power and the battery is fully charged. Lights up red when the battery is charging

5: Power indictor light. Lights up when the monitor is turned on

6: Power button. White rubbery plastic button that turns the monitor on or off

7: Alarms Off/ Paused indicator light. A red led that lights up if alarms are paused or off to remind hospital personnel that they are off/ paused.

8: Alarm indictor LEDs. Flash red or yellow or stay solid red, yellow, or blue depending on the severity of the alarm. Blue is low priority things like no pulse oximeter connected, no ecg leads connected, low battery, or can’t analyze. Yellow is medium priority alarms, things like HR, SPO2, RR, Temp, BP going out of the set alarm minimum or maximum, minor arrhythmias (skipped beats, Afib, tachycardia, bradycardia, etc…) Red is high priority (the sound that turns on most people who are into resus) things like: SVT, Extreme tachycardia, extreme bradycardia, VFIB, V-Tach, Asystole

And then there’s obviously the large 8 inch touch screen LCD. This one is a resistive touch screen as opposed to the capacitive touch screens in most phones, tablets and other devices. There’s 2 reasons for using a resistive touch screen: 1 is that they are far more reliable and durable compared to capacitive touch screens, capacitive touch screens usually always use glass where as resistive screens use plastic. The second reason is that resistive touch screens can be pressed with anything so it makes it really easy to use with thick gloves, isolation suits, the back of pen, or anything else, as opposed to capacitive touch screens which require the thing pushing it to have natural capacitance like human flesh.

Right side view

1: IEC mains input. This is where the power goes into the monitor, I’ve read the whole service manual and it says that in order to comply with regulations you must use a hospital grade power cord. I was lucky the monitor came with a hospital rated power cable but to be honest it makes no difference what type of cable you use for home use the regulations are just there because they are required in hospitals. There isn’t much of a difference between hospital grade and regular service rated power cables. A hospital grade power cable is usually 16AWG-3 SJTW (16 American wire gauge, 3 conductors, Service Junior Thermoplastic Weather resistant insulation) whereas standard household rated IEC cables are 18AWG-3 SJT (18 American wire gauge, 3 conductors, Service Junior Thermoplastic insulation (not rated for wet locations)). This monitor has a universal switch mode power supply in it, which means it can take any voltage from 100 volts AC to 240 volts AC at 50 to 60 Hz frequency, which is the range of all electrical systems worldwide. I’m surprised it has a switch mode supply in it, they tend to be very noisy (produce a lot of electromagnetic interference that interferes with the sensitive components in the rest of the device) and they generally aren’t used because they don’t always provide full isolation from mains or they don’t provide as much isolation as a standard medical rated transformer-rectifier supply.

2: On board recorder. This is a 50mm monochrome thermal printer. It can print status reports, ECG recordings, and a few other things. I haven’t tested it because the paper is hard to find for a decent price.

3. Battery compartment. This compartment holds an M4605A Lithium-ion 10.8 volt battery. (That part number is probably a roll over from the HP Viridia line of patient monitors because Phillips bought the rights to all of HPs patents for the Viridia line so a lot of the stuff for intellivue and Viridia are backwards compatible. The only reason I say that is an HP part number is because they really liked to put an A at the end of almost every model number of something they made) The monitor didn’t come with a battery so I bought a used one for $20, a new one directly from Philips is $700. The 6th pic is the battery itself, it has a built in state of charge display. It’s a 65 watt hour (6000mAh) capacity battery using 18650 cells. The capacity of mine has dropped to 5700mAh. The monitor uses about 1.1 amps from the battery during normal operation so I can get about 5 and half hours of battery life.

Left side view

1: Output for Non invasive blood pressure (blood pressure cuff) pretty simple, but interestingly after reading the service manual, you can stick a hex key in the slot and actually replace just that connector

2: SPO2 input (pulse oximeter) input for a pulse oximeter, fast SPO2 is a trademark of Masimo referring to some kind of “special” technology they use. (I put that in quotes because I’m pretty sure it’s the same as all other pulse oximeters) you can get a few different types of pulse oximeters for Philips monitors. There’s 2 types of finger pulse oximeters, clip on, or adhesive/ Velcro (the Velcro and adhesive ones tend to be disposable and more often used for long term monitoring or for pediatric patients, they can also go on a toe) There are also ones that clip onto the lobe of the ear, but they aren’t used very much, probably due to not as good accuracy.

3: ECG input. This connector is the input for ECG electrodes. It’s a 12 pin connector (service manual actually gives a pinout) the reason it’s 12 pins is because this connector can support 3, 5, 6, 10, and 12 lead cables. This connector is used on all Philips monitors, and it’s actually backwards compatible with Hewlett-Packard/ Agilent technologies Viridia line of patient monitors (something of which my grandfather who recently passed away built prototype parts for when they were being developed) I think Philips bought the right to use all of HP’s patented connectors and hardware for patient monitors that also includes the classic alarm sounds I much prefer over the standard ISO alarm sounds. The modern intellivue line of Philips monitors evolved from the HP/ Agilent Viridia line of patient monitors.

Rear side view

This is where things get interesting because this is different on a lot of MP5 monitors, that’s due to this rear I/O being a card inside the monitor that can be swapped out. This card happens to be the full configuration card with every I/O option available for this monitor.

1. USB port. Used to connect a mouse and keyboard, or a barcode reader. The barcode reader can be used to quickly scan barcodes on medications so they can be input into the huge amount of info the monitor can collect. It can also be used to scan patient wrist bands or staff ID cards

2. Nurse call relay output. This is where things get a little more technical. This 3.5mm jack is connected to a relay that turns on every time an alarm goes off. What’s a relay? It’s basically a switch that can be turned on and off with an electromagnet, this allows me to wire up just about anything so that when an alarm goes off it turns on too. This was a really interesting part in the service manual because it said to change the relays configuration from normally open to normally closed you literally have to desolder a surface mount resistor from the PCB. I’ve never seen a service manual say to desolder something to change its configuration.

3. RJ45 LAN Ethernet Jack: this is used to connect the monitor to the hospitals network infrastructure including data storage servers, patient data servers, others monitors on the network, telemetry consoles, and much more. I’ve done a little playing around with this but unfortunately haven’t gotten very far because I’m currently taking care of my grandmother at her house and my servers that I have to mess around with things like this are at my house so I can’t play around with any of the software options currently.

4: Video Output: Just a standard VGA video output to connect it to a larger external monitor. My old monitor had this but it wasn’t setup on the stock configuration and I had to tap into it with a molex connector on the motherboard.

5: Ground connection for ECG: This is used for testing and calibration but if I had to guess it’s on the outside of the monitor and not hidden away inside for compliance reasons.

6: Mains earth connection. This is also here for testing purposes. The inside of the monitor has a metal frame that serves 2 purposes. 1 is added rigidity to help it stand up to being dropped and abused (which happens a lot in hospitals because things are so high stress all the time). And 2 is EMI shielding. EMI is electromagnetic interference, basically all the different frequencies of radio waves that are constantly surrounding us. The amplification circuitry responsible for amplifying the tiny electrical signals put out by the heart that are tiny fractions of a single volt is quite venerable to any interference because the electromagnetic waves can have higher power than the signal you’re trying to amplify thus making the signal appear noisy (when it looks like it has a bunch of fuzz or something instead of a thin line). To counter EMI we can use the idea of a faraday cage. A faraday cage is a simple concept, you surround whatever you are trying to protect from EMI in an electrically conducive material (usually some kind of metal) and you connect that thing to the ground (quite literally shoving a wire in the ground). This works because all electromagnetic waves want to find their way back to the earth somehow, so by putting our sensitive circuits inside a grounded metal box all the electromagnetic waves that hit the metal will immediately be absorbed and led to the earth where they want to go completely bypassing our sensitive circuitry. According to the electrical code of pretty much any country, any electric device with metal exposed to touch must have a connection to mains earth. That’s why most cords have 3 wires instead of just the 2 you normally need to complete a circuit. This connection to mains earth is because in almost all mains electrical systems the neutral wire (the wire that the electrons return to the source from) is the earth or is at least bonded to the earth. That means that if you touch a live wire and you are standing on the ground the electricity can travel through you and electrocute you. Sometimes you don’t even have to be touching the ground to still get a shock and that’s due to the natural capacitance your body has. You are capacitively coupled to the electrical grid at all times and that means you can draw tiny amounts of current from your body, not anywhere near enough to do any damage to your organs as it’s only a few micro amps, but this is the reason for an ECG signal appearing noisy if the filters aren’t set correctly. If the live wire connected to the device accidentally makes contact with the metal housing then there’s a possibility you could be electrocuted because you are touching ground or at least capacitively coupled to it. To counter this is that green ground/ protective earth wire that is connected to the devices metal housing will carry the current back to earth because it is much less resistive than you and electrons always take the path or least resistance. This will result in a short circuit and will trip a circuit breaker but it’s much better than being electrocuted.

That was a long one but I hope you learned something. I think I’ll do a walkthrough of the software side of things and a look at the parts inside. Throughout this whole thing I referenced the service manual several times. A service manual is a manual provided to a repair technician that explains how to, setup, test, calibrate, and take apart the device, and sometimes they go as deep as including the schematics of all the circuits in the device. These days they are pretty hard to get your hands on because companies don’t want you to fix your stuff and would rather you just buy a new one. However I found the service manual for the MP5 very easily with 1 Google search. It’s about 300 pages long and is filled with information about these monitors that not even most health care professionals know. It lists the passwords for all different operating modes in the software, how to connect the thing to a network, pinouts of all connectors, info on how to test it, a whole section dedicated to how to take the thing apart, a list of the part number of each component in case you need to order a new one, the layout of the channels for the short range radio module inside, and so much more.

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[undercity-princess]

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NSFW prompt: roleplay

Jinx X Akali

Usually Akali followed a simple saying. Not her turf, not her problem. But this time was personal. Stop the loose cannon. As simple as that. She pulled her mask over her nose and started sprinting over one of the many metal beams spanning over Zaun.

She only had a hunch where her opponent was hiding, but the lead was hot enough to take the chance.

Practically melting into the shadows she approached a run down warehouse. The music inside told her she was in the right place. A hole in the upper backside wall was her way in.

Jinx was in full working mode. Her music was blasting and the newest batch of improved chompers was coming together nicely.

She knew someone was out there to get her, but she figured finding her would take them a while. And even if it didn't, she was always ready to put up enough of a fight to escape with a boom.

It made her careless, back to the open room without any tripwires at all possible entrances. The space was cluttered with so much scrap metal, whoever was to set foot in there would inevitably make noise.

She carefully screwed another casing shut and grabbed a new blank.

Akali scanned the room. Her target had her back turned, loud music would cover her steps even if she misstepped somewhere in this mess of junk and scrap.

She had free line of sight. It would be easy to throw a shuriken and end this here and now, but she felt up to the challenge. Slowly a kunai and her kama were pulled out and she charged.

Jinx nearly missed the movement in the corner of her eye, which led to her whipping out zapper a fraction of a second too late. The high voltage charge fizzed into thin air, while a blade embedded itself into the desk where her hand had been. She scoffed and turned around to face the enemy. The green clad Ionian came to a stop in the middle of the room and stood with her weapons raised.

"Surrender now and no harm will come on to you!"

"He… yeah… no!" With that she whipped Pow-Pow out from under her desk and fired the first round.

"Shit!" Akali cursed. She had miscalculated the risk. She threw a smoke bomb to buy some time and put distance between herself and the mad gunwoman. She had to take her down fast before she'd deploy her infamous rocket launcher.

From a safe vantage point she threw five kunai at once. One cut the strap of the minigun causing it to fall from her handler's grip. The assassin used the opening to pounce the woman.

They landed with a heavy thud. Akali used the moment of shock to pin the woman to the wooden floor by the fabric of her top.

With her victory clear she sat up, still straddling her opponent.

"I will show you your place terrorist!" She growled.

A set of shuriken got used to pin her hands up by the gloves. "Quit resisting, it is futile!"

Jinx was not about to go down without a fight. Even with her hands and torso immobilized she tried to use her heavy boots as weapons. But her every move seemed to be expected and parried. The gravity of the situation dawned her. She truly was at the Ionian woman's mercy by now.

A harsh pull on her shorts brought her back to reality.

"What are you doing?" She squeaked "stop that!"

She got no answer. Instead her leg was pushed up to her chest and a wet core was pushed up to her own, where the assassin started hard grinding motions.

She tried to resist but her own body betrayed her and she finally gave into the feeling of need pooling in her lower abdomen.

Both of them moved into each other with rhythmic motions until they reached orgasm.

Akali fell onto Jinx with a grunt. After catching her breath she pulled her mask down and looked up to the bluenette. "You ok? Did I cut you or something?"

"Nah, don't think so. You got hit by any paintballs?"

"Nope"

She pushed herself up on her elbows and freed her girlfriend.

"You cut Pow-Pow."

"I'll apologize."

"damn right you will!"

"You kicked my Kama."

"I'll apologize too."

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I REALLY ENJOYED YOUR RECENT DOMESTIC FIC WITH GILBERT AHHHHHHHHHHHHH IS IT TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR ONE BUT WITH SILVIO??

Thank you anon for this fluffy request - hope you enjoy this (and the surprise guest appearances)

The Ugly Sweater Party - Silvio Ricci x Reader (Ikemen Prince)

A/N: Part of the 'Tis the Season for Love Content Creation Challenge hosted by @xxsycamore and @voltage-vixen

Pairing: Silvio Ricci x Reader

Prompt: Forced to wear an ugly Christmas sweater

Tags: fluff - with a few guest appearances

"Daddy, Daddy!" The two girls shouted as they pulled on their father's arm, dragging him closer and closer to the ballroom doors. "The party is this way!"

Silvio gritted his teeth as he allowed his daughters to pull him towards the party. Not normally one to shy away from such an occasion, this tonight was not your regular gala.

This was something called an Ugly Sweater Party.

Silvio looked down at the sweater he was wearing with disdain. Snowflakes scattered on a sky-blue background, a snowman stood tall and proud, smiling his crooked coal smile. He turned and found you standing behind your two daughters, faces bright with bubbling smiles, each dressed in the same snowman sweater. The things I do for this woman, he thought to himself as he heaved a giant sigh.

"Alright," he muttered, "let's get this over with." With your hand in his, he grimaced as his daughters led the way into the ballroom.

"Oh, for -" Silvio mumbled as he entered the room.

"Yours doesn't look so bad now, does it?" you whispered into Silvio's ear as he peered out into the crowd. Everyone present was wearing a sweater, one uglier than the next. A sea of red and green stretched out as far as his eye could see; sweaters adorned with the most garish of decorations, worn by partygoers happy and smiling.

"Why are they all so happy to be dressed like this?" he whispered back to you.

Before you could answer your husband, your daughters began shouting, rushing past you and pushing you to the side.

"Uncle Rio!" they screamed as a familiar blonde head turned his way towards you.

"Oof!" The two girls tackled their uncle, barely giving him a chance to breathe before dogpiling on him. Waving to you and Silvio from the floor, Rio soon picked himself up and fixed his sweater.

"I see you're wearing the sweater, Silvio! Does that mean you liked it?" Rio asked.

Silvio fumed silently in his spot; his eyes focused on the atrocity Rio was wearing. Emblazoned on a red and white striped background was a happy beagle wearing a Santa hat and a jingle bell on his tail. He glanced down at his own sweater, a momentary flash of relief washed over him, somewhat grateful that his was less garish.

"I didn't think I had a choice in the matter," he said plainly, glancing around the room at the other party goers.

"Daddy!" his eldest daughter cried out dramatically, rolling her eyes at her father. "You have to wear an ugly sweater to an ugly sweater party!"

"I'm wearing the sweater, aren't I?" Silvio's turquoise eyes sparkled as his lips curled into a small smile; there was nothing he wouldn't do for that little girl.

"Hey," Rio whispered, "why don't I take these two for a while so you can go mingle with the other guests?"

Silvio glanced at you, your wide smile serving as silent agreement. "Sure, go ahead," he told his brother.

Rio called for the girls who came running to their favorite uncle. "I heard Luke has some extra special honey cakes. Who wants to see if he will share some with us?"

"I do, I do!" they jumped and shouted.

Rio winked at Silvio as he whisked his daughters off in search of honey cakes.

"Finally," an exasperated and exhausted Silvio breathed, "a moment alone." He wrapped his arms around your waist, pulling you closer to him.

"Not so fast," you said, pointing to a familiar face who was now waving.

With a disgusted snarl, Silvio dropped his arms. "Who invited him to the party?"

"He was visiting Rhodolite; Sariel had no choice but to extend the gesture of goodwill by inviting him." You threaded your arm through his. "Come along now, and let's not be rude. Okay?"

"Ah, the Riccis! What a nice surprise to see my Benitoite friends here in Rhodolite!" Gilbert, with a cheerful smile, was standing next to his date and a mostly empty tray of cookies that laid dangerously close to the Obsidian prince.

"What a lovely sweater you're wearing, Prince Gilbert." Silvio looked at you with horror as you complimented Gilbert's sweater; there was absolutely nothing lovely about it.

"Is it's nose...blinking?" Silvio asked, his eyes narrowing as he peered at the reindeer adorning Gilbert's sweater.

"Yes! I'm so pleased you noticed it," Gilbert exclaimed proudly. He lifted a hand, his fingers tracing the lights on the reindeer's antlers. "The lights blink, too."

"My date helped pick out," he added, as he wrapped his arm around the waist of the figure next to him.

"I really had no part in this," his dated blushed. "It was all Gilbert."

"Really?" Silvio said mockingly. "Gilbert, your sweater is truly spectacular."

"See," Gilbert said to his date, "he likes my sweater!"

"That wasn't a compliment, my dear," his date muttered as Silvio stifled a laugh.

Gilbert gasped loudly in horror as he looked at the now empty tray of cookies. "Who ate all the cookies?"

"That would be you," replied his date, who wiped the remaining crumbs from his lips. "I think Luke has some honey cakes stashed somewhere. Shall we look for him?"

"Goodbye, Riccis!" Gilbert waved as he was led away by his date in search of Luke.

"Goodness, I thought they would never leave." Silvio tugged your hand, pulling you close. "Do I finally get you alone now?"

"Yes, you do," you replied, your eyes gazing into his.

Silvio leaned in and kissed you gently on the lips. It was short and sweet, but much needed.

"These honey cakes are mine!" A tall figure whizzed by in a blur of green.

Silvio broke the kiss and stared at you in confusion. "Was that Luke?"

"Yes, it was," you replied with a laugh. "Wanna go outside?"

Silvio nodded. "Yes, please. Maybe I'll find some mistletoe out there."

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Global Wire & Cable Market — Forecast(2024–2030)

The global wire and cable market is a significant sector within the broader electrical and electronics industry, driven by the growing demand for electricity, telecommunications, and power distribution. It encompasses the production and distribution of a wide variety of cables and wires, including power cables, telecommunication cables, and industrial cables.

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Key Trends in the Global Wire & Cable Market:

Rising Demand for Electricity: As urbanization and industrialization continue to rise globally, the need for more efficient and robust electrical power infrastructure grows. This fuels demand for power cables, especially in emerging markets.

Renewable Energy Integration: The transition toward renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, and hydropower requires advanced power cables for efficient transmission of electricity. This trend is particularly noticeable in the development of offshore wind farms and solar energy projects.

Telecommunications Expansion: With the expansion of 5G networks, fiber optic cables are in high demand to meet the increasing need for high-speed internet and mobile communication.

Smart Grids and Electrification: The adoption of smart grids, electric vehicles (EVs), and electric vehicle charging infrastructure is driving demand for more specialized cables, including those for power distribution and energy storage.

Sustainability and Environmental Concerns: Growing environmental awareness and stringent regulations are pushing companies to develop environmentally friendly cables. This includes cables with reduced carbon footprints and the use of recyclable materials.

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Key Market Segments:

Power Cables: These cables are used to transmit electricity and can range from low to high voltage. They are vital in the power generation, transmission, and distribution sectors.

Telecommunication Cables: This category includes fiber-optic cables, coaxial cables, and twisted pair cables, which are used in the communication industry for data transfer and telecommunication networks.

Industrial Cables: These are cables used in industrial applications, including manufacturing, robotics, and automation. They are designed to withstand harsh environments such as extreme temperatures, chemicals, and physical stress.

Renewable Energy Cables: Specialized cables for solar, wind, and other renewable energy systems, which must endure outdoor environments and harsh conditions while maintaining efficiency.

Automotive and EV Cables: With the rise of electric vehicles, there is growing demand for cables specifically designed for battery charging systems and electric powertrains.

Geographical Insights:

Asia-Pacific: This region dominates the global wire and cable market, led by countries like China, India, and Japan. China is the largest producer and consumer of wires and cables, driven by its large-scale infrastructure projects and demand for energy.

North America: The U.S. and Canada are significant markets for wire and cable products, especially in sectors like telecommunications, electric vehicles, and smart grid development.

Europe: Europe is also a prominent player, particularly with the growing adoption of renewable energy, electric vehicles, and green construction practices.

Latin America & Middle East: These regions are witnessing steady growth due to increasing infrastructure development and demand for energy, although they lag behind the Asia-Pacific and North American markets.

Market Challenges:

Raw Material Prices: The prices of copper and aluminum, the primary raw materials used in wire and cable production, fluctuate significantly, affecting manufacturing costs.

Supply Chain Disruptions: Global supply chains have faced disruptions, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has impacted production and delivery timelines.

Technological Complexity: As the industry moves toward advanced cable solutions (e.g., high-performance cables for 5G networks, smart grids, etc.), the demand for specialized knowledge and manufacturing capabilities is increasing, posing challenges for smaller players.

Competitive Landscape:

The global wire and cable market is highly fragmented with both large multinational corporations and regional manufacturers. Some of the key players in the market include:

Nexans

Prysmian Group

Southwire

General Cable

LS Cable & System

Sumitomo Electric

Furukawa Electric

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Future Outlook:

The global wire and cable market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of around 5–6% over the next few years, driven by increased demand for energy infrastructure, advancements in telecommunications, and innovations in electric vehicle technology. Emerging markets in Asia, Africa, and Latin America are anticipated to contribute significantly to market growth.