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Wyoming’s landfill holds 1,124 wind turbine blades, but a Missouri cement plant has already found a second life for 7,000 more
59+ min ago (720+ words) By Kevin Montien · Editorial process On the high plains outside Casper, Wyoming, crews used heavy equipment to saw giant 120-foot wind turbine blades into three truck-sized sections before lowering them into a landfill trench. By Sept. 16, 2020, the facility had buried…...
A fish elevator on a Maine dam could reopen 600 miles of river to a small fish, and the whales people keep mentioning are not part of the story yet
13+ hour, 31+ min ago (634+ words) By Adrian Villellas · Editorial process A fish elevator at a hydroelectric dam sounds like an engineering curiosity. On Maine’s St. Croix River, however, the structure is part of an active restoration project that could reconnect migratory fish with 600 miles of…...
A German startup sells a quantum computer that runs at room temperature in an ordinary server rack, but the qubit count on the label is not the one that matters
15+ hour, 1+ min ago (840+ words) By Kevin Montien · Editorial process A German startup spun out of Leipzig University has opened orders for two diamond-based quantum computers: the 128-qubit SXQ128 and the 512-qubit SXQ512. SAXON Q says both operate at room temperature, fit inside a standard server rack,…...
A graduate student in Maine turned wood into a foam that keeps a cooler almost as cold as plastic does, and the part that still fails is not the temperature
17+ hour, 1+ min ago (725+ words) By ECONEWS · Editorial process Open a beverage cooler on a sticky summer afternoon and the cold drinks inside seem almost effortless. Hidden between the hard outer walls, however, is usually petroleum-based foam, and a University of Maine graduate student is…...
Mushroom gatherers walked into a Nepalese forest and found a nest built by the only snake known to make one, and officials have now restricted access to the site
21+ hour, 46+ min ago (833+ words) By Sonia Ramírez · Editorial process A routine search for wild mushrooms turned into an unexpected wildlife protection effort in Nepal when community forest users found a king cobra nest near Jhakri Sota in the Ambe Community Forest. The nest was…...
Ethiopia put 805 million seedlings in the ground in twelve hours with 26 million people helping, and the number that will actually decide whether it worked is still years away
23+ hour, 12+ min ago (709+ words) By Kevin Montien · Editorial process Ethiopia has made a big move for the future climate of their country, and the numbers that will actually decide whether it pays off is still years away Ethiopia says 805.3 million tree seedlings went into…...
Scientists say one thousandth of the ocean holds enough lithium and magnesium to last 50,000 years, but an Olympic pool of seawater shows why almost nobody can get it out
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (574+ words) By Gabriel FO · Editorial process A pool of seawater large enough for the Olympics, holding roughly 600,000 gallons, would contain about 2,980 kg. of magnesium. The same water would hold only 0.42 kg. of lithium and 0.00095 kg. of nickel–less nickel than the…...
NASA satellite images show France, Spain and Italy turning brown within weeks, and the measurement behind the color change is one Europe has never recorded in a summer before
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (733+ words) By ECONEWS · Editorial process Europe’s summer green has faded with startling speed. Comparisons made with NASA’s Worldview tool show broad areas of France, the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Britain, and Central Europe shifting toward yellow and brown within weeks, while new…...
An 86-year-old Pennsylvania farmer turned down more than $15 million from data center developers and took $1.9 million instead, for a reason that had almost nothing to do with money
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (801+ words) By Adrian Villellas · Editorial process Most people would find it hard to walk away from a check of more than $15 million. Mervin Raudabaugh did exactly that after data center developers offered around $60,000 per acre for his two adjoining farms in…...
A 13-year-old in Oregon built a chamber that pulls drinking water out of the air for dry farms, and the amount it produced in two hours explains the real problem
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (757+ words) By Kevin Montien · Editorial process Thirteen-year-old Roy Kim built a prototype chamber that pulls moisture straight out of thin air and waters plants automatically when soil turns dry. The Whitford Middle School student from Beaverton, Oregon, has earned a spot…...