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Friday, May 27, 2022

In This Edition:
Night-time solar cells, Microsoft green design principles, dashboard design tips, tweets to HTML, & an underwater greenhouse!

Night-time Solar Cells

Image: UNSW

Scientists at the University of New South Wales in Australia have developed a solar cell that generates power at night-time. The thermoradiative diode captures the infrared energy emitted by the earth at night after being absorbed as solar radiation during the day. The night-time solar system currently produces 1/10th the power of a conventional solar cell.

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Microsoft Green Design Principles

Image: Microsoft

Microsoft launched a set of green design principles aimed at guiding projects on how to keep climate and sustainability in mind when designing and implementing products and software.

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Dashboard Design Tips

Image: Geckoboard

Geckoboard published a handy list of tips for designing effective dashboards.

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Tweets to HTML

Image: Tweetic

Tweetic is a handy service that converts an embedded tweet into static HTML.

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Underwater Greenhouse

Image: Nemo's Garden

Nemo's Garden is an underwater greenhouse off the coast of Noli in Italy. The greenhouse consists of biodomes used to grow salad greens, beans and strawberries that are richer in nutritional content than more traditionally grown produce.

About Found This Week

Found This Week is a curated blog of interesting posts, articles, links and stories in the world of technology, science and life in general.
Each edition is curated by Daryl Feehely every Friday and highlights cool stuff found each week.
The first 104 editions were published on Medium before this site was created, check out the archive here.

Daryl Feehely

I’m a web consultant, contract web developer, technical project manager & photographer originally from Cork, now based in London. I offer my clients strategy, planning & technical delivery services, remotely & in person. I also offer freelance CTO services to companies in need of technical bootstrapping or reinvention. If you think I can help you in your business, check out my details on http://darylfeehely.com

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