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The plastic-like seaweed packaging made by Notpla is biodegradable within six weeks, compared to hundreds of years for synthetic plastics.
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Energy recycling heats up
Circa 2016
Scientists have developed a novel system that recovers energy normally lost in industrial processes.
Each year, energy that equates to billions of barrels of oil is wasted as heat lost from machines and industrial processes. Recovering this energy could reduce energy costs. Scientists from Australia and Malaysia have developed a novel system that is designed to maximize such recovery.
Heat can be converted to electricity by devices called thermoelectric power generators (TEGs), which are made of thermoelectric materials that generate electricity when heat passes through them. Previous studies have attempted to use TEGs to recover energy from the heat generated by, for example, car engines, woodstoves and refrigerators. However, TEGs can only convert a small amount of the heat supplied to them, and the rest is emitted as heat from their âcoldâ side. No previous studies have attempted to recover energy from the waste heat that has already passed through TEGs. Researchers from Malaysiaâs Universiti Teknologi MARA and RMIT University in Australia set out to develop a system that can do this.
Mercedes-Benz unveils rugged EQC 4Ă4 electric off-road SUV
Mercedes-Benz has unveiled a rugged new EQC 4Ă4 electric off-road SUV to show that electric vehicles can also be adventure vehicles.
Thatâs actually very much Rivianâs mission with the R1T electric pickup truck and R1S SUV, which it describes as âadventure vehicles.â
As for Mercedes-Benz, instead of making a new vehicle, they decided to modify their existing EQC electric SUV.
Tesla To Release Order Configurator For India In January 2021
My hero my love.
Last week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk made a rather interesting announcement for all-electric vehicle enthusiasts in India, when he mentioned that Tesla is planning on entering the Indian automobile market in 2021. The announcement comes after years of waiting for the Indians to get their hands on a Tesla, and it definitely has got the public buzzing with excitement. Now, Musk has also stated that Tesla will be coming up with a Booking Order Configurator for the Indian customers which will be going live in January 2021.
Channing Tatum will produce an HBO series about Elon Muskâs SpaceX
Elon Musk is among the few people on Earth that are working towards changing the course of humanityâs future in a drastic way. He founded SpaceX in 2002 to make life multiplanetary âcolonize Mars. Since then, SpaceX has developed some of the worldâs most advanced rockets and spacecraft. Throughout the years Muskâs bold ideas, ambitious goals, and ability to lead teams to achieve greatness has earned him a place in history. Hollywood actor Channing Tatum seems to be inspired by Muskâs space venture that he is now planning to produce an HBO drama television series about Musk and his journey at SpaceX.
According to Deadline reporters, who first reported the news, Tatumâs film production company, Free Association, will produce a six-episode scripted series. The story will be about how SpaceX started with a rocket that almost did not make it to orbit, to returning human spaceflight capabilites to the United States. âThe project will be penned by Star Trek Beyond scribe Doug Jung based on Ashlee Vanceâs book Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, first published in 2017,â Deadline reports, âFree Associationâs Tatum, Reid Carolin and Peter Kiernan will executive produce with Vance and Len Amato, HBOâs former President Of HBO Films, Miniseries & Cinemax.â
Research offers path to end world hunger within decade
The worldâs small-scale farmers now can see a path to solving global hunger over the next decade, with solutionsâsuch as adopting climate-resilient crops through improving extension servicesâall culled rapidly via artificial intelligence from more than 500,000 scientific research articles.
The results are synthesized in 10 new research papersâauthored by 77 scientists, researchers and librarians in 23 countriesâas part of Ceres2030: Sustainable Solutions to End Hunger. The project is headquartered at Cornell University, with partners from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD).
The papers were published concurrently on Oct. 12 in four journalsâ Nature Plants, Nature Sustainability, Nature Machine Intelligence and Nature Food âand assembled in a comprehensive package online: Sustainable Solutions to End Hunger.
Solar meets 100 per cent of South Australia demand for first time
The combination of rooftop and utility scale solar met 100 per cent of demand in South Australia for the first time on Sunday, reaching a milestone that will surely be repeated many times over â and for longer periods â in the future.
The milestone was reached at 12.05pm grid time (Australian eastern standard time), with rooftop solar providing 992MW, or 76.3 per cent of state demand, and utility scale solar providing a further 315MW â meaning all three of the stateâs big solar farms, Bungala 1m Bungala 2 and Tailem Bend were operating at full capacity.
Worldâs largest solar plant goes online in China
Huanghe Hydropower Development has connected a 2.2 GW solar plant to the grid in the desert in Chinaâs remote Qinghai province. The project is backed by 202.8 MW/MWh of storage.
Chinese state-owned utility Huanghe Hydropower Development has finished building the worldâs largest solar power project in a desert in the northwestern Chinese province of Qinghai.
Chinese inverter manufacturer Sungrow, which supplied the inverters, said that the 2.2 GW solar plant was built in five phases. It involved an investment of RMB15.04 billion ($2.2 billion) and includes 202.8 MW/MWh of storage capacity. The company announced the storage system as a solar+storage project in mid-May, but at the time it did not reveal that it was to be connected to a giant solar plant.