Image: Frozen, this photo is available to licence on EyeEm.
2024 has been confirmed as the hottest year so far, and that it breached 1.5 degrees.
If we let the AMOC tip, Ireland & the UK will remain frozen like we have been this week.
The choice is ours.
Image: Low Tech Magazine, Marie Verdeil
Low Tech Magazine describe how to build a covered heated table using carbon heating film, a thermostat and wool blankets.
Image: LinkedIn, James Chudley
James Chudley posted a handy guide on how to go about decarbonising the user journey in software by focussing on reducing the page weight (and carbon footprint) at key user steps within the software's workflow.
Image: Unsplash, Denny Müller
Engineers at Northwestern University have demonstrated quantum teleportation of entangled photons using existing internet fibre optic cables, while the cables carried regular internet data traffic. The entangled photons located at either end of the 30 km long fibre optic cable exchanged information without the need for the information to be transmitted the distance of the cable.
Image: Xiaowei Song, Chanbasha Basheer, Jinheng Xu, Richard N. Zare
Researchers at Stanford University and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals have developed a method of producing ammonia at room temperature and at standard atmospheric pressure, without electricity. Scaling up the technology would eliminate the need for the Haber-Bosch process, which contributes to 1.2% of global GHG emissions when producing the high pressure and high temperature needed during the process. This new method extracts nitrogen and hydrogen from water vapour in the air using a mesh coated with catalysts.
Image: YouTube, Epic Spaceman
Epic Spaceman on YouTube published a very slick video describing the scale of micro-organisms, using an accessible step scale rather than standard measurements to describe the vast distances around us.
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