Can pee help feed the world?
"Go pee on the rhubarb!"
May 02, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
News tagged with environmental changes
Energy & Green Tech
Sustainable sneakers: Scientists create the world's first biodegradable shoe
Stephen Mayfield, a molecular biology professor at UC San Diego, now has a stake in the business of footwear alongside partners Michael Burkart and Robert Pomeroy from the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. After six ...
Apr 22, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Editorial: California mandate picks up pace for electric cars, but not with the speed required
California air quality officials on Tuesday released a groundbreaking proposal to require all new cars sold to be zero-emission vehicles by 2035, a rule that would make it the first state to mandate the phaseout of gas-powered ...
Apr 15, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Figuring out what's driving electric vehicle purchases
The shift away from the internal combustion engine to electric vehicles holds great promise for reducing noxious pollution in our towns and cities. It will also reduce the carbon footprint of transport if the electricity ...
Apr 01, 2022
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Automotive
Biden restores California's power to set car emissions rules
The Biden administration is restoring California's authority to set its own tailpipe pollution standards for cars, reversing a Trump administration policy and likely ushering in stricter emissions standards for new passenger ...
Mar 09, 2022
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Computer Sciences
AI agent can learn the cause-and-effect basis of a navigation task during training
Neural networks can learn to solve all sorts of problems, from identifying cats in photographs to steering a self-driving car. But whether these powerful, pattern-recognizing algorithms actually understand the tasks they ...
Oct 14, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Cities need to boost resident knowledge of green infrastructure
"Green infrastructure" often comes up when talking about climate change. Problem is, few people know what it means.
Sep 17, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Bitcoin alternatives could provide a green solution to energy-guzzling cryptocurrencies
The cryptocurrency bitcoin now uses up more electricity a year than the whole of Argentina, according to recent estimates from the University of Cambridge. That's because the creation of a bitcoin, in a process called mining, ...
Jul 13, 2021
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Engineering
How to create better cities when the pandemic is over
Throughout the past year of working from home, I have gone for numerous morning, lunchtime and evening walks around my neighborhood in the Eastern parts of Lund in Sweden. My neighborhood has three dams for storing stormwater ...
Apr 16, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Biden aims to juice EV sales, but would his plan work?
Dangling tax credits and rebates in his drive to fight climate change, President Joe Biden wants you to trade your gas-burning car, truck or SUV for a zero-emissions electric vehicle.
Apr 02, 2021
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