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16-year-old South African girl invents drought-fighting super material from orange peels
Chinese tech makes desalinated seawater cheaper than bottled water
Researchers turned discarded banana peels into a carbon filter and passed greywater through it; the fruit-waste material removed 96% of turbidity, 85% of nitrogen and 99% of phosphorus in batch tests | – The Times of India
Scientists Turn Common Plastic Waste Into Fuel Using Heated Salts
In 2023, a US engineer put a miniature water-treatment plant beneath the sink; the under-$500 unit converted 20% of household greywater into drinking water | World News – The Times of India
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Stop Using Dumb Search Bars: Build Smart, AI-Powered Search with Azure + .NET – DEV Community
I Turned My Proxmox Server Into a NAS Without Installing TrueNAS – Virtualization Howto
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UK solar owner asks why power-generating awnings are still so rare
Aberdeen Paid £556k Per Hydrogen Bus. Five Years Later, First Bus Is Paying £30k – CleanTechnica
Sep 12
Aberdeen Paid £556k Per Hydrogen Bus. Five Years Later, First Bus Is Paying £30k – CleanTechnica
Researchers turned discarded banana peels into a carbon filter and passed greywater through it
Sep 10
Researchers turned discarded banana peels into a carbon filter and passed greywater through it; the fruit-waste material removed 96% of turbidity, 85% of nitrogen and 99% of phosphorus in batch tests | – The Times of India
In 2017, engineer Nzambi Matee heated unwanted Nairobi plastic into paving bricks; 20 tonnes later, Gjenge made 1,500 bricks daily, 5–7 times stronger than concrete | – The Times of India
Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Throw Away Your Old iPhone
Scientists in Switzerland made a sponge from cheesemaking waste that captures gold from discarded electronics — after dissolving metal parts from 20 old computer motherboards, they recovered enough to melt into a 22-carat gold nugget – ScienceBlog.com
How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew Into a Landscape Nobody Expected to Find
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Used coffee grounds were charred at 350 degrees Celsius until they became a charcoal-like biochar. That material replaced 15 percent of the sand by volume in a concrete mix, and the resulting concrete had 29.3 percent greater compressive strength than the control mix. – ScienceBlog.com
Floating data center would provide water and electricity to 32,000 homes
UK homeowner says installer refused battery spot under kitchen window, then nailed solar setup
Sep 5
UK homeowner says installer refused battery spot under kitchen window, then nailed solar setup