Electricity Captured from Falling Rain Conjures the Ultimate Picture of Tropical Sustainability
"Scientists in Singapore have broken a long-standing limitation on the ability to generate electricity from flowing water, suggesting that another elemental force of nature could be leveraged for renewable electricity: rain."
"Because the droplet speeds tested were much slower than rain, the researchers suggest that the real thing would provide even more than their tests, which were of course on a microscale."
Sounds like a brilliant idea, especially if it correlates with the idea of using the humidity of clouds to create artificial rain on desert cities.
"Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try."Turkish garbage collectors built a public library out of discarded books
A bunch of Turkish garbage collectors rescued pairs of books and now built a public library in Çankaya to store them.
Talk about finding diamonds in a rough.
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As you can see from this graph, beach littering from the Baltics to the Aegean Sea is dropping by 30%, and if the trend continues, litter may be reduced to a 50% by 2030.
These are the programmes we need in our lifetimes.
"Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try."Women's hockey league shatter records, growing the game for young girls
In the Professional Women's Hockey League's second season in Minnesota, the league is shattering records for women's sports and recently held its first-ever "Breakthrough Cup" tournament with more than 600 girls competing, increasing attendance up to a 35%.
It's good to see women's sport getting attention like this despite everything.
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After uncertainty due to the Fandom purchase, Giant Bomb is back to being an independent website.
She/Her | Currently cleaning: N/AOkra and Fenugreek Extracts Safely Remove Microplastics From Water in New Texas Research
Basically, researchers found out that okra and/or fenugreek extracts attracted and removed up to 90% of microplastics from ocean water, freshwater, and groundwater. Basically ensuring the removal of microplastics without adding unnecessary toxic substances.
Sounds like a fascinating method, actually.
"Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try."New literary venture to platform working-class writers
The Bee, a twice-yearly magazine, podcast and online writing community, aims to help people in the working class in the UK and aim to improve those figures by giving those members courses in literature.
Time to send if we can see hidden gems coming from those writers.
"Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try."Elk could return to Britain after 3,000 years
"Ecologists have hatched a plan to reintroduce the semiaquatic deer to sites in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire. The proposed sites are already home to reintroduced beavers, another “keystone” species that is making a comeback in Britain after a long absence."
First beavers now elks, sounds like many animals are making comebacks this year.
"Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try."Astronomers have found signs of biological activity on a planet 124 light years from Earth
"in what they call the strongest evidence yet of extraterrestrial life. Scientists detected specific organic molecules in the atmosphere of K2-18b, a distant water-covered planet that is 8.6 times bigger than Earth and orbits a red dwarf star. On Earth such molecules are only produced by living organisms."
More lifeforms found!
"Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try."It is too bad that it's basically impossible to confirm unless the life discovered has had at least a human-level impact on their planet, due to limits in telescope power.
My musician pageUganda declared an end to its Ebola outbreak
Health authorities in Uganda have announced that the Ebola outbreak in the country has now ended less than three months after the virus had broken out in the capital of Kampala.
I love animation, TV, movies, YOU NAME IT!The link to the article on extra-terrestrial life is paywalled, here's a free version
Most scientists are cautiously optimistic, but everything needs to be confirmed with further observations. There have been false alarms before.
I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.Farmers are making bank harvesting a new crop: Solar energy
This brand new practice used by farmers in California’s Central Valley for the last 25 years, also using those panels to grow herbs like leafy greens and berries, under the panels.
Gotta love the farmers who do adapt.
"Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try."Not to be a party spoiler, but despite the practice having found approval in academic environments and some farmers, most are hostile to it and several countries have pushed legislation to ban it by excluding renewable energy sources from fields dedicated to agriculture: this includes Italy, in which the leading farmers' unions have railed agaings the practice... for some reason...
''There's no magic in tuning; yet, it's something that tends to escape from any logic."
I've honestly grown to dislike farmers for these kinds of reasons. They're one of the most environmentally destructive and entitled groups of people out there. Many are also deeply conservative and are the kind to reject stuff like this for purely ideological reasons.
Edited by Kaiseror on May 15th 2025 at 1:40:32 PM
Farmers are a diverse bunch. There are those who do not care about the environment and only think of their own monetary gains, those who care about the environment and try to strike a balance between their activities and their land, those who are forced to do it to carve out a bare minimum form of survival... there are several factors, so making the entire socio-economical class to be one carbon copy is not quite right. After all, it was farmers themselves who came up with the solar farming we are talking about.

Man withstands 800+ snake bites — on purpose — to find a universal anti-venom
Tim Friede, a Youtuber from Wisconsin, spent 20 years to find an universal anti-venom serum, using his own antibodies in his blood as a testing ground from 200 bites of the most venemous snakes. The result? A mix of toxins present in his blood and the venoms would lead to a single pan anti-venom cocktail.
Gotta love the existence of rare superhumans among our species, especially when they do good.
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