Innovative technology is coming to the rescue of declining bee populations. Vital to food supplies, bee populations worldwide are rapidly declining due to disease, habitat loss, and the use of pesticides. According to UN estimates, bees pollinate 71 of the 100 crop species that provide 90% of the world’s food. It is not just agricultural...
Fleetzero begins its search for the first giant ship to convert to battery power
"Done right (and it seems likely that’s the way they’re trying to do it) a ship doing this can handle some of the longest and most popular routes across the Pacific."
Can AI Predict If Your House Is Going To Burn To The Ground?
Cyrus Farivar and Alex Knapp of Forbes write about a tech platform that is looking to prevent damage from extreme weather events. “His company has been gathering data and using it to train machine learning models to better assess risks caused by climate change, like wildfires, on behalf of its clients, mostly insurance companies.” Read...
A new fusion power station will mimic the Sun to provide limitless energy
"Aside from aiming to demonstrate the net production of 300 to 500 hundred megawatts of electricity, DEMO will also demonstrate new innovations such as remote maintenance and tritium breeding. Tritium breeding will allow operators to produce tritium fusion fuel on-site and will be a crucial component for commercial fusion operations in the future."
America Could Run On Spent Nuclear Fuel…If We Let It
Spent nuclear fuel is waiting to be put to use. All we have to do is develop the entrepreneurial will to get the technological ball rolling up to scale.
Climate tech firm to launch scaled-up plant sucking CO2 from air
"The new 'Mammoth' plant will contain around 80 large blocks of fans and filters that suck in air and extract its CO2, which Icelandic carbon storage firm Carbfix then mixes with water and injects underground where a chemical reaction turns it to rock. The process will be powered by a nearby geothermal energy plant."
At this vertical farm, green thumbs aren’t required
"In late May, Bowery opened its third farm, located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, which it says will also employ at least 70 people. It plans to open two more facilities in Q1 2023 in the Atlanta, Georgia, and Dallas metro areas."
In a world-first, scientists create eco-friendly cement from algae
"Interestingly, concrete which is primarily made using portland cement, water, and gravel is considered the most consumed material across the globe next to water. Whether it is North America, Europe, or Asia, construction activities can not be imagined without concrete and especially portland cement."
Wastewater recycling startup CEO says we need to overhaul our ‘flush and forget’ society
“'We are capturing all the dirty water that you would normally send into the sewer, and we’re turning that into clean water, into soil, and into recovered wastewater heat,' said CEO Aaron Tartakovsky. 'We are helping these buildings to recycle up to 95% of their water so that is 95% less fresh drinking water we have to pull in from the city supply, and we can instead recycle water right on site, right where it’s produced.'"
Airbus just executed the world’s first 100% sustainable aviation fuel helicopter flight
"Looking further ahead, Airbus also announced zero-emissions hydrogen concept aircraft as it aims for a future of greatly reduced carbon emissions. Other companies, including Rolls-Royce, are also running SAF tests in a bid to help the aviation industry play its part in the face of catastrophic climate change."
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