energy
It is important to know the consumption of the household appliances we use on a daily basis in order to understand how much we can save in terms of energy and emissions, i.e., how much we can reduce our impact…
energy
Today is Global Wind Day, the international awareness initiative dedicated to wind power and promoted in Italy by the ANEV (National Wind Energy Association). The result of coordination between the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), WindEurope and the various national…
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Today we are celebrating World Bicycle Day. The day, officially established by the United Nations on April 12, 2018, is meant to be a date to celebrate and promote the social benefits of this mode of transportation: bicycles are easy…
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Today is International Day of Light, proclaimed in 2015 by UNESCO to be 16 May, the anniversary of the creation of the world's first laser by T.H. Maiman in 1960. Light plays a central role in our lives. Like water…
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It is well known that one of the major limitations of photovoltaic modules is that they do not work at night. Now, even this limit may be overcome, at least in part. In 2020, a group of Stanford scientists envisaged…
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18 March is Global Recycling Day, which celebrates the importance of proper waste separation for the development of a circular economy that fully exploits resources and safeguards the future of the planet. This day was established in 2018 by the…
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A few days before the UN conference that may launch negotiations on an international treaty to reduce plastic waste, the OECD has published the first Global Plastics Outlook, a report that presents a clear picture of the waste problem. What emerges…
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The first of ten turbines of the Beleolico offshore wind farm, the first in Mediterranean waters, has been installed. It is a fixed foundation wind turbine with a capacity of 3 MW, positioned in the roadstead off the port of…
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The pandemic has generated many problems, one of which is the disposal of personal protective equipment (PPE), such as used masks and gowns. A group of researchers has decided to convert plastic waste from gowns and masks into a resource…