Innovation

Ice Stupas

#407
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.
Environment
Innovation

Passive Ammonia Production At Room Temperature

#401
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.
Environment
Innovation

Cloud-milking

#398
The Life Nieblas project in the Canary Islands uses a plastic mesh to imitate how pine needles trap water, and is used to milk the clouds of fog on the islands for water. The captured water is used to irrigate reforested tree saplings until they are big enough to capture water from the air themselves. The system is also used in Chile to provide drinking water and water for irrigation.
Environment
Innovation

Lucid Dream Communication

#396
REMspace has successfully sent messages between two people while dreaming. Their system allowed a chat word to be injected into a lucid dream of a person, who responded with another word in their dream. Their response word was recorded bythe system and injected into a lucid dream of a second person, who confirmed the response word when they woke up!
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