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
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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
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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
A London water utility found that the fat and grease clogging its sewers, the notorious “fatbergs,” could be skimmed, processed and turned into biodiesel, so the same congealed cooking oil that once blocked the pipes beneath the city now helps fuel vehicles driving above them
Blazor State Management
Sep 3
https://slicker.me/blazor/persistent-component-state.html https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/blazor/state-management/prerendered-state-persistence?view=aspnetcore-10.0
https://borgenproject.org/affordable-housing-for-ghana Nelson Boateng is the person behind a company called nelplast which is producing this product. Below is a similar company from Columbia A Colombian man struggling to build his own home helped create Lego-like bricks from recycled plastic; by 2015 the system was sheltering 42 displaced families and could build a 40-sq-m home in […]
Kier seals £29m early works for £170m Blackburn biogas plant | Construction Enquirer News
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https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81314956
Good News Network 2608
Aug 27
Steel Framed Housing
Aug 27
we need to change how housing is built. A house should not take more than 2 months in total from start to finish. And money should be saved in labour cost with less cement required.
https://www.puairwater.com These devices generate water from the atmosphere – I think could be a game change in africa – Especially in very humid places like accra https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/drinkingmaker/the-next-gen-3-in-1-atmospheric-water-dispenser – was a good price point but project failed.
Bakeries
Aug 26
https://www.bunheadbakery.com https://www.aladyinlondon.com/2025/07/best-bakeries-in-london.html https://www.headbox.com/hire/london-independent-bakeries-inspiration
$5 power bill for world’s largest electric-hybrid aircraft’s 27-minute flight
I thought I was building a beauty company. I was actually building the infrastructure behind one | Business Insider Africa