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Can AI-Powered Solar Boats Save Our Oceans?

Haroon Junaidi — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 19:42:06 +0000

Every year, an estimated 11 million metric tons of plastic enter our oceans. From strangling sea turtles to forming vast floating garbage patches, plastic pollution threatens marine life, human health, and the future of our planet. But a new wave of innovation is emerging—powered not by fossil fuels, but by the sun and artificial intelligence. […]

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Tiny homes born from turbines: how a nacelle became “compact living”

Ibad Ather — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 21:18:14 +0000

When Vattenfall and Dutch circular-design studio Superuse pulled a retired V80 nacelle off a 20-year-old Austrian turbine, they didn’t send the 33-foot shell to landfill—they kitted it out with a kitchenette, shower room, heat-pump climate control and rooftop solar, then parked it at Dutch Design Week as a proof-of-concept tiny house. The micro-home keeps the […]

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What Happens to Wind Turbine Blades at the End of Their Life?

Ibad Ather — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 22:57:30 +0000

As global wind energy capacity surges—surpassing 138 GW in the U.S. alone as of 2022—attention has turned not only to turbine performance, but to what happens when these massive machines reach retirement. While towers and nacelles are largely recyclable, wind turbine blades pose a unique challenge. Typically 40–90 meters long, made of composite materials, and […]

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