Catherine Malli-Dawson2 days agoThis iridescent coating could cool your house without air-conditioningverified_publisherFast Company - By Adele PetersResearchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a plant-based film that could dramatically cool your house—and make it look like a seashell. As the world gets hotter, the energy used by air conditioners keeps surging. Over the next three decades, the number of devices sucking electricity …
Catherine Malli-DawsonYou can power your home for days using half the water you need to flush the toiletthebrighterside.news - Joseph ShavitEmission-free hydrogen could, one day, entirely replace fossil fuels - and a start up in Germany believes it has the key ingredient to make it …
Catherine Malli-DawsonThe Ocean and the Sustainable Development GoalsThe EconomistThe ocean flows through all 17 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an aspirational framework for …
Catherine Malli-DawsonGrowing crops under solar panels makes food—and healthier solar panelsverified_publisherFast Company - By Kristin Toussaint‘Agrivoltaics’—putting agriculture under solar installations—is a good way to maximize land use. It also makes the solar panels last longer. Using land for solar arrays or agriculture farms is often portrayed as a zero-sum game, but it doesn’t always need to be. Agrivoltaics is the technical term for …
Catherine Malli-DawsonWater purification membrane generates electricity as it filtersverified_publishernewatlas.com - By Loz BlainA team from the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and Myongji University, both located in Seoul, has published a new paper describing …
Catherine Malli-DawsonSolar breakthrough paves way for first ‘miracle material’ panelsThe Independent - Anthony CuthbertsonScientists have made a discovery that could finally realise the practical potential of the so-called miracle material perovskite for solar cells. A …
