Open Weather is an artistic collaborative project that teaches people how to pick up the radio transmissions of the NOAA weather satellite and to submit your weather readings to contribute to the artistic and open archival project
In Helensburgh in Scotland, famous designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh built his showcase Hill House in 1904. A weaker Portland cement was used in the construction and is now unfortunately crumbling after over 100 years of exposure to one of the wettest regions of Scotland. To preserve the house and protect it from the rain, The National Trust has built a massive chain mail box over the house which will keep it dry but also ventilated. The box includes 32.4 million hand sewn steel rings!
Dutch startup Ocean Grazer has designed an ocean battery that uses excess renewable energy to pump 20 million litres of low pressure water from a concrete reservoir on the sea bed into a flexible bladder. When energy is needed, the bladder releases the water back into the reservoir using the force the ocean above it, driving water turbines and generating up to 10MWh of electricity as it passes back into the reservoir, at an efficiency rate of between 70 and 80 percent.
The Safe Project has placed solar powered microphones in the rainforests in Borneo that live transmit audio that is analysed using machine learning to detect species calls and analyse changes in sound and rainforest landscape over time.
Researchers in Kyoto University in Japan have demonstrated how the magnetic field generated by the conductive waves of a tsunami arrives about a minute before the waves themselves, and can be used as an early warning sign and a means to predict the height of the wave.
A new study from The Electrification of Heat (EoH) demonstration project shows that heat pumps were installed in lots of different house types in the UK, which found that heat pumps are suitable for all types of house.
The Doughnut Economics website now includes a national doughnuts explorer, allowing users to view how well (or not) their countries fare on the doughnut sustainable economic model.
