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Concrete Sphere Sea Batteries

The Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology have developed a battery system using hollow concrete spheres that can be placed on the sea bed. Energy is stored by pumping the water out of a sphere to make it hollow. When water is released back into the sphere, energy is generated by a turbine as the water goes back in.

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ISOMat Energy Efficient Heat Distribution

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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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Light Internet Chip

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Alphabet's Taara division have downsized their internet using light transmission system into a new chip that can transmit internet at speeds of 10GBps over 1km.

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Tech

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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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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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Tethered Drone Generates Electricity Flying In Figures of 8

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Windlift offers a 12ft glider that generates 30 kWh from 4 propellors by flying in a figure of 8 while tethered to the ground.

Environment

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Tech

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Origami Floor Cast Uses Less Concrete & Steel

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Doctoral student Lotte Scheder-Bieschin designed a new vaulted floor mould inspired by origami that reduces 60% less concrete and 90% less steel.

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Strong As Steel & Light As Foam Nano Material

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Researchers at the University of Toronto and Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology used machine learning to design a nano-material that is strong as steel and light as foam and can be 3D printed at the micro and nano scale.

AI & ML

Innovation

Science

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Affordable Homes 3D Printed In 12 Days In Louth

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Affordable homes in Louth were built in 12 days using the COBOL 3D printer.

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Passive Ammonia Production At Room Temperature

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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.

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