Ruth Ogden wrote an interesting article about how we perceive time can affect how we prioritise climate change. Framing and demonstrating climate change as impacting the planet now can nudge people to act sooner.
Scientists at the University of Surrey have developed a new experimental degradable adhesive that uses a new mixture of chemicals that ensures the recycling process is residue free, reducing the risk of machines getting clogged with adhesive residue.
Charge Trip is an EV range visualiser that allows the user to select an electric car and toggle real world variable like weather, in order to display the range of the EV on a map.
Michael Thomas wrote a visually powerful piece for Distilled about how mining for oil & gas causes 535 times the amount of mining needed for a green economy, which includes mining for EV batteries materials.
Long time readers of Found This Week will know I'm a big fan of both Tim Ferriss and Seth Godin, and as a result I was excited to listen to a recent interview with Seth Godin on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast. Seth has a unique ability to deliver wisdom wrapped up in empathy with a shot of motivation, and this interview did not disappoint.
Engineers at University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a method to generate electricity from air using two porous nanofilms that create an imbalance of charge between water droplets. Stacking this air-gen device could allow the technology to scale up to the kilowatt level of electricity generation.
This is Dolly Parton's world, we just live in it.Now that world is burning, so Dolly wrote a climate action song."Liar, Liar, The world's on fire, what you gonna do when it all burns down."
Scientists published a paper in the Energies journal that outlines how to use abandoned coal mine shafts as batteries. The Underground Energy Storage (UGES) system raises containers of sand raised to the top of the mine to store the energy, which when released to fall generate electricity. Scottish company Gravitricity have developed and tested a similar system.
