Good News Notes: “The focus of these nanodevices is a particular type of cell known as tumor-associated macrophages, or TAMs. Macrophages are a type of immune cell that normally is supposed to recognize and remove microbes, cellular debris, and other foreign substances from cells; but if something goes wrong with them, they can become a…
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Could wind turbines help to enliven our warming waters?
Good News Notes: Offshore wind is set to move further and further from shore, as demand for renewable energy grows and new floating turbine technology makes deep-water expansion possible. However, for the first time, large areas of the UK continental shelf now open for development are “seasonally stratified”. David Attenborough has described these seasonal seas as some of the…
Walmart’s InHome hunts for ways to ditch single-use plastics
Good News Notes: “When Walmart rolled out a new grocery delivery service, it tested a bold premise: customers letting a stranger walk into their homes to deliver milk, eggs and other products directly into the fridge. Now that expanding service, InHome, is testing whether the country’s largest grocer and its shoppers can phase out reliance on single-use plastic bags and…
East St. Louis empty lot to become renewable energy source
Good News Notes: “Heavy industry has long polluted the air in East St. Louis, but by early next year for the first time in the city’s history, a clean energy facility will also be humming along. Ameren Illinois plans to build a $10.2 million solar field on 17 acres of land across from East St….
Amazon and U.S. Department of Energy team up to cut plastic waste
Good News Notes: “Imagine a new technology that breaks down existing plastic materials to create a new, innovative type of material. This new material could then be broken down more easily when recycled—and even biodegrade in natural environments. That scenario does not have to be imaginary. In fact, the mission of the BOTTLE consortium—a key research initiative…
Credit Suisse To Halve Fossil Fuel Funding
Good News Notes: “Swiss banking major Credit Suisse plans to slash its exposure to the fossil fuel industry by half by 2030. The bank said, as quoted by Reuters, it had already reduced its exposure to the industry by 41 percent between 2020 and 2021, and currently had some $2.6 billion in loans outstanding with oil, gas,…
Can shore-based wave power unlock clean, affordable…
Good News Notes: “Many have tried to harness the ocean’s power to generate electricity, resulting in several embarrassing failures and little tangible success. Startup Eco Wave Power hopes to transcend that tempestuous legacy with a radically simple idea: capture the ocean’s energy closer to shore. This approach sacrifices the greater energy potential of larger offshore waves, but…
Europe’s ocean energy installations surge back to pre-Covid levels
Good News Notes: “European installations of tidal and wave energy capacity jumped in 2021, as the ocean energy sector saw deployments revert to pre-pandemic levels and a substantial increase in investment. In figures released Thursday, Ocean Energy Europe said 2.2 megawatts of tidal stream capacity was installed in Europe last year, compared to just 260…
Ukrainian Woman Katya Kurletz Helping Rescue Animals from Bombed Cities
Good News Notes: “The mass exodus from Ukraine has created a crisis with the pets residents had to leave behind, but in the middle of Putin‘s brutal war, some Ukrainians have stepped up to save the animals. Katya Kurletz is on the ground in Ukraine, leading the efforts to track down dogs in destroyed cities and transport…
Solar cell innovation generates 1,000x more power
Good News Notes: “The photovoltaic effect of ferroelectric crystals can be increased by a factor of 1,000 if three different materials are arranged periodically in a lattice. This has been revealed in a study by researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU). They achieved this by creating crystalline layers of barium titanate, strontium titanate and…