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A solar rig made partly from the same plastic as water bottles has spent a full year outdoors turning seawater into 5.3 gallons of drinking water a day — no pumps, no membranes, no grid connection, and the output cleared WHO standards while irrigating a spinach patch
4+ hour, 36+ min ago (864+ words) Bottled water is about the cheapest liquid you can buy at a gas station. Most of what you pay goes to the bottle, the cap, the label and the truck that hauled it, not the water inside. So when a…...
Spanish researchers just grew tomatoes 40% heavier under a solar roof that stole a third of the light the plants needed, because the clear greenhouse next door was cooking at 120 degrees and the panel was working as an air conditioner made of glass
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (1641+ words) There’s a decent chance the tomato in your salad this month grew under a roof. Greenhouses cover something like 9.2 million acres worldwide, and tomatoes take up about 36% of that glass and plastic, more than any other crop. Those buildings run…...