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ISOMat Energy Efficient Heat Distribution

UK company Flint Engineering have developed a new efficient energy transfer mat based on heat pipe principles that can be used to distribute and remove heat evenly across a surface with negligable loss. The ISOMat has many applications, such as cooling EV batteries, making produce fridges 30% more energy efficient, and even as heating or cooling panels for buildings.

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Solar Everywhere For Everyone

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Power Roll have developed a new version of their flexible solar panels which can be more easily and more cheaply manufactured and "rolled out", with the aim of producing solar everywhere for everyone.

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Dark Mode Uses More Energy

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Through in person user testing, the BBC found that 80% of BBC Sounds users turn up the brightness on devices when viewing a dark mode theme. This rebound effect results in more energy being used for dark mode interfaces.

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Glass Beads Fertiliser

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Brazilian scientists have developed water-soluble glass microbeads that contain fertiliser nutrients that produce 70% more biomass growth over multiple harvests while reducing the amount of fertiliser used.

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Carbon Emissions Of An Email

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Pawprint published a post detailing that the carbon emissions of an emailImage:, as defined in Mike Berners-Lee’s book How Bad Are Bananas, is 0.3g CO2e. Adding an attachment can increase the amount of carbon emitted up to 50g CO2e.

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Doughnut Economics Cities & Regions Guide

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The Doughnut Economics Action Lab released a new guide for cities and regions that want to implement Doughnut Economics, which includes 12 interesting case studies from places like Glasgow, Grenoble, Brussels, Barcelona, & Cornwall that have implemented Doughnut Economics.

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Ice Stupas

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Researchers from Aberdeen University & Universities in India have developed a method to help the people of the Ladakh region obtain melt water during the warmer spring and summer months. By piping glacier water from higher altitudes during winter to lower land levels and spraying the water in one place, an Ice Stupa can be created. The water can then be used when it melts for agricultural now that glacial meltwater on a larger scale cannot be relied upon as the glacier retreat due to climate change.

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Resilience & Root Cellars

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Eliza Daley published a thought-provoking piece about building resilience in preparation for a coming contraction in globalisation supply-chains by building a root cellar.

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