I’m a big evangelist for hang-drying laundry. It’s the original form of solar energy, in which you use the sun to dry your clothes instead of an energy hungry dryer. Dryers account for something like 3% of all electricity usage (equivalent to all the solar panels currently installed) in the … [continued]
Part 1.5 of a new CleanTechnica series on solar power. Read part 1 here.
A South African court has stopped Shell’s seismic testing for oil and gas along the nation’s eastern coastline, the BBC has reported, adding that this is pending a final ruling. Now This News also shared that the Wild Coast is also an area where whales breed. A local court has … [continued]
SciTechDaily reported that there’s some new and interesting research from Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley that show plans are photosynthesizing more in response to more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Plants pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and convert it into food, which makes forests and other ecosystems some of … [continued]
Louisiana has unanimously passed a bipartisan bill, Senate Bill 97, that will allow for advanced recycling. This term, “advanced recycling,” is a bit deceptive. Its more common term, “chemical recycling,” sounds ideal — recycling plastics instead of making more, right? Not necessarily. Chemical recycling is any process by which a … [continued]
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) just published a report titled Fossil Fuel Foolery, which identified 10 tactics that the fossil fuel industry used as excuses for not accepting accountability for its impacts on the environment and human health. DesmogBlog noted that the industry used a long list … [continued]
When I am not writing for CleanTechnica, I am diving into my magical world of gems and minerals and sometimes both worlds collide. This is one of those times. One of my friends on Twitter shared the post below with me and I immediately fell in love. A UK company … [continued]
This is incredibly disturbing and should come with a trigger warning.
Plasticenta, as the study called it, is the first evidence of microplastics in the human placenta.
President Trump has claimed to be economically successful based on a rather small set of metrics. One is joblessness data. Another is the Dow Jones Industrial Index (DJI). There are people who believe in his success, based on those limited data. They should look deeper.
Scientists have found a way to extract rare earth elements (REE) from acid mine drainage, mining.com reports. Researchers at Penn State University detailed their findings in a paper published in the Chemical Engineering Journal.
