Fairphone 4—the repairable, sustainable smartphone—is coming to the US (arstechnica.com)
Not much to add. Saw it in another technology forum and thought it also belonged here for the solarpunks
graceful degradation: the opposite of planned obsolescence (slrpnk.net)
MIT’s New Desalination System Produces Freshwater That Is “Cheaper Than Tap Water” (scitechdaily.com)
Elon Musk and the Infinite Rebuy | the richest man in the world is nothing but the world's biggest case of survivorship bias - and a profound indictment of capitalism's "great man" theory (davekarpf.substack.com)
New glass cuts carbon footprint by nearly half and is 10x more damage resistant | Penn State University (www.psu.edu)
Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production (newatlas.com)
It’s so rare to actually see a new battery tech exit the lab and enter production. Always seems like there’s 10,000 new up and coming breakthroughs in battery technology, but none ever leave the workbench....
Japan's new solar panel technology might forever alter the renewables market (theweek.com)
Solar panels have traditionally been made with silicon, over which China has had majority market control. Eager to limit China’s stranglehold over the solar market, countries have been searching for a different way to harness the sun. Now, Japanese engineers “believe they have found one in a type of solar cell that looks and...
Pneumatic tubes were used to deliver mail! (slrpnk.net)
You can read more about the fascinating history here: about.usps.com/who-we-are/…/pneumatic-tubes.pdf...
Big Tech has already made enough money in 2024 to pay all its 2023 fines (proton.me)
A reminder in the age of the Fediverse: if you're not the customer, you're *still* the product. (slrpnk.net)
OP was taking about Tumblr, but I think it applies even more to the Fediverse: users need to develop an ethos of paying to support the sites they use. Otherwise advertisers pay the bills and call the shots.
EU votes to mandate removable batteries in smartphones in a landslide; no more glued together junk! (www.youtube.com)
Generate shadows without trees: vegetable awnings, a new way to generate shadows in the city. (www.singulargreen.com)
I found these kind of cool as an idea, as they can be added rather easily to existing cities and provide some greenery without taking up space, while providing shade:...
Scientists make breakthrough with advanced technology generating water from thin air — and it could save millions of lives (www.thecooldown.com)
Researchers in China have reportedly developed a new technology similar to hydropanels for harvesting water out of thin air that is powered by energy from the sun. The device could be especially useful in dry, arid areas where water — but not sunlight — is hard to come by....
License Free, Encrypted, Off-Grid, Decentralized Mesh Network Comms: A full guide on how to get started with LoRa devices and Meshtastic (adrelien.com)
This seems like a great technology to build resiliency and redundancy in a community, especially for places where cell service is spotty, or in the odd event where normal lines of communication are blocked....
Plastic-Free Vegan Leather that Dyes Itself Grown from Bacteria (www.imperial.ac.uk)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/14059725...
We Need to Decarbonize Software | IEEE Spectrum (spectrum.ieee.org)
An interesting tool from the article is ecograder.com which grades a website’s carbon emissions and provides recommendations to improve. There is also the Green Web Foundation’s directory of hosting providers powered by renewable energy....
The first demonstration of entirely roll-to-roll fabricated perovskite solar cell modules under ambient room conditions (www.nature.com)
A Kenyan start-up turns plastic waste into solar-powered freezers | Africanews (www.africanews.com)
Kuza Freezers has been running for three years and has delivered more than 350 machines to customers, including fish traders, poultry and milk vendors and ice salespeople....
Ziga's van runs on solar panels, three lawn mower motors and 8,000 laptop and power tool batteries (www.abc.net.au)
Thought of you fine folks when I came across this article on aussie.zone
Amybo: Open Source Protein (amybo.org)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/6192905...
Google search is losing the fight with SEO spam, study says (arstechnica.com)
I guess we all kinda knew that, but it’s always nice to have a study backing your opinions.
These Bricks Can Absorb Traffic Noise - Thesis Presentation on Helmholtz Resonators (www.youtube.com)
Scientists develop mega-thin solar cells that could be shockingly easy to produce: ‘As rapid as printing a newspaper’ (finance.yahoo.com)
‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech (www.theguardian.com)
[P]erhaps traditional distinctions between left and right don’t make sense any more. The right, Varoufakis says, “thinks of capitalism as like a natural system, a bit like the atmosphere”. Whereas the left “think of themselves as people created by the universe in order to bring socialism over capitalism. I am telling...
Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water (news.mit.edu)
