Heat Pumps Were Supposed To Transform The World, But It’s Not Going As Planned
October 21st, 2024
Via The Washington Post, a look at why heat pump sales, critical to the transition to clean energy, have slowed in the U.S. and stalled in Europe: Sales of solar panels, batteries and electric [...]
Bangkok Turns To Urban Forests To Beat Worsening Floods
October 20th, 2024 Via Mongabay, a report on Bangkok’s use of urban forests to address flooding: Bangkok is launching city forests to help beat flooding by soaking up excess rainwater runoff. A new park slated to [...]
October 20th, 2024 Via Mongabay, a report on Bangkok’s use of urban forests to address flooding: Bangkok is launching city forests to help beat flooding by soaking up excess rainwater runoff. A new park slated to [...]
Bali Shows Why Bamboo Still Matters
October 17th, 2024 Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, a look at how new-generation structures celebrate an enduring construction material: Made of bamboo with a copper roof, New Moon House is a crescent-shaped one-bedroom villa [...]
October 17th, 2024 Courtesy of Nikkei Asia, a look at how new-generation structures celebrate an enduring construction material: Made of bamboo with a copper roof, New Moon House is a crescent-shaped one-bedroom villa [...]
Engineers 3D Print Sturdy Glass Bricks For Building Structures
October 17th, 2024 Via MIT News, a look at innovative new glass bricks which can be repurposed many times over, and withstand similar pressures as their concrete counterparts: The team made strong, multilayered glass [...]
October 17th, 2024 Via MIT News, a look at innovative new glass bricks which can be repurposed many times over, and withstand similar pressures as their concrete counterparts: The team made strong, multilayered glass [...]
Where Climate Change Poses The Most and Least Risk To American Homeowners
October 15th, 2024 Via the Washington Post, a report on where climate change poses the most and least risk to American homeowners: In 2017, Angela and Donald Brudos moved to a modest, ranch-style house where the [...]
October 15th, 2024 Via the Washington Post, a report on where climate change poses the most and least risk to American homeowners: In 2017, Angela and Donald Brudos moved to a modest, ranch-style house where the [...]
DARPA Thinks Walls of Oysters Could Protect Shores Against Hurricanes
October 11th, 2024 Via Wired, a report on how the US defense research agency is funding three universities to engineer reef structures that will be colonized by corals and bivalves and absorb the power of future [...]
October 11th, 2024 Via Wired, a report on how the US defense research agency is funding three universities to engineer reef structures that will be colonized by corals and bivalves and absorb the power of future [...]