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A young Indian invents ecological bricks
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Posted on September 24, 2020
Binish Desai started working on an eco-friendly brick made from recycling and waste when he was 11 years old. He said to himself that one day he would build the least expensive house in the world for these people, build it with bricks made of chewing gum and waste paper! How? Keep reading… His big inspiration was a cartoon called Captain Planet, an animated television series from the 1990s about an environmentalist with superpowers…
Read MoreA giant mural in Warsaw that absorbs pollution like 780 trees
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Posted on September 10, 2020
A giant mural located in Warsaw (Poland), next to the Politechnika metro station, has been painted by local artists Dawid Ryski and Maciek Polak using special pigment. Such pigment has been created as part of the Converse City Forests project that, through murals, aims to cleanse pollution from the environment as if they were real trees. The pigment uses light energy to break down harmful pollutants in the air and turn them into harmless substances like nitrates…
Read MoreThe biggest recovery in Europe from a contaminated place: 42,000 tons of tar extracted from a toxic lagoon in Madrid, Spain
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Posted on August 4, 2020
With the extracted waste, 60.7 million kilowatts of energy have been obtained through alternative fuel, which is the equivalent of the total energy (thermal and electrical) consumed by 17,416 Spanish households in a year…
Read MorePakistan offers work to unemployed people planting trees
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Posted on July 2, 2020
Pakistan is one of the countries in the world hardest hit by climate change: between 1999 and 2018 it has experienced more than 150 extreme weather events, from floods to heatwaves, with total losses of $ 3.8 billion…
Read MoreProducing electricity using the shadows
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Posted on June 29, 2020
Solar panels have a main problem, they cannot always be used. They have to be outdoors and it has to be sunny. A new device, developed by a team at the National University of Singapore, takes advantage of the difference between shadows and light to generate energy from darkness, so it is much more effective than solar panels. Its generates energy when part of its solar cells are not receiving direct sunlight…
Read More3D printed houses in just 48 hours
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Posted on June 15, 2020
The construction of 3D printed houses has been trying to take off for several years, but is still in an initial stage. However, a company in the Czech Republic, Prvok od Burinky, has presented an ecological, solid and stylish house that can be built in up to 48 hours, around seven times faster and costing half as much as a brick house. With three rooms and a living area of 43 square meters, the house will be built layer by layer using a reused robot arm from the automotive industry…
Read MoreHydrogen trains getting ready in Germany to combat pollution
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Posted on June 12, 2020
During a year and a half, two passenger locomotives with a battery that transforms hydrogen and oxygen into electricity have been tested successfully…
Read MorePlanting 1 billion trees with a drone in Canada... and beyond
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Posted on June 8, 2020
Plants are essential to reduce pollution and curb global warming, as they absorb carbon. To plant a tree, we usually use sacks and shovels. However, technology allows now to do it 10 times faster and 20% cheaper. How? Using drones! A Canadian startup is reforesting a forest in Toronto with 40,000 pine and fir trees after a fire…
Read MoreA Norwegian village with sunlight thanks to three huge mirrors
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Posted on May 28, 2020
Did you know that vitamin D keeps depression away and regulate circadian sleep cycles? The biggest natural resource of such vitamin is natural lighting. However, there are places on our planet where people receive very few hours of sunlight, especially in certain seasons. In a remote Norwegian town called Rjukan, people live without light for six months a year! The reason, the shadow of the mountains surrounding their deep valley do not let the sun light the streets…
Read MoreUsing artificial intelligence to save coral reefs
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Posted on May 13, 2020
CORaiL, an artificial intelligence-based solution to monitor, classify and analyse the resistance of coral reefs is currently being developed by Intel, Accenture and the Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation. Coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world, with more than 800 coral species providing habitat and refuge for approximately 25% of the world's marine life…
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