Solutions winston oregon turned off its flock cameras, and the chief said the quiet part out loud ijpr.orgwinston oregon had eight flock cameras costing 24 grand a year, and when the police budget came up 215,000 dollars short the Chief just said the quiet part: "if they dont want them, we're going to tur… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Solutions auburn found out it never actually approved the grant for its own flock cameras fingerlakes1.comturns out auburn's city council never formally voted to accept the state grant that paid for its flock license plate readers, which is a hell of a thing to find out after the cameras are already up an… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Solutions monroe county just paid $3,000 to rip out its flock cameras a year early ipm.organother one off the board. commissioners in Monroe County, Indiana voted 2-0 this week to cut ties with Flock Safety more than a year before the contract was up, and they are paying about $3,000 out o… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Solutions Scientists turned zinc into a flowing slurry and built a battery that ran for over 5,000 hours straight techxplore.comThe trouble with storing renewable energy has always been holding onto it long enough for the sun to set and the wind to quit. A team at Fudan University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has a clev… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Solutions New Mexico just cleared the way for families without a bank account to plug into community solar abqjournal.comFor years the catch with community solar was quietly cruel: to buy into a neighborhood solar farm and trim your power bill, you often needed a credit card or bank account on file, which left out the v… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
microgridknowledge.comSolutions An Aspen business park just switched on a solar-and-battery microgrid built to keep the lights on when wildfire takes the grid down microgridknowledge.comOut in the Colorado high country, the local electric co-op just did something quietly radical. Holy Cross Energy wired an existing 5-megawatt solar array to a large battery, so a whole business park n… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Solutions A new lab process pulls clean hydrogen from unsorted plastic trash and locks the carbon away as a solid phys.orgOnly about nine percent of the world plastic ever actually gets recycled, which is a polite way of saying most of it just haunts us. Now chemists at UCLA and Ewha Womans University say they can take m… Upvotes: 1Downvote Comments: 1Share
Solutions A city named for rapids that dammed them away is tearing the dams out to get its rapids back grandrapidsmi.govFor more than a century, Grand Rapids has been a city with a river but no rapids - the whitewater it was named for sat buried behind four low-head dams built to hold water levels and manage sewage. On… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
bspb.orgSolutions Bulgaria's mountains just raised their first wild vulture chicks in 33 years, and two of them now wear satellite trackers bspb.orgSome comebacks take a generation. For the first time since 1993, cinereous vultures have hatched and raised chicks in the wild in Bulgaria's Eastern Rhodopes, thirty-three years after one of Europe's … Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Solutions In Santa Barbara, a room full of volunteers will fix your broken toaster for free independent.comThere is a particular heartbreak in a lamp that flickers out or a toy that goes quiet, and the modern reflex is to toss it and buy another. A Santa Barbara repair cafe, a year old this month and now r… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Solutions One hundred million dollars is about to turn vacant lots in eight American cities into parks and wildlife habitat bezosearthfund.orgSome of the best news arrives disguised as a line item. This week the Bezos Earth Fund put one hundred million dollars toward turning underused, debris-strewn land in eight American cities into real p… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 1Share
Solutions A swarm of solar 'bees' is rolling into the North Carolina towns Helene left in the dark grist.orgTwo years after Hurricane Helene knocked out the power for weeks, western North Carolina is getting a fleet of little trailer-mounted solar rigs that a nonprofit calls "bees." Some carry refrigeration… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
euronews.comSolutions For one month in June, the sun outproduced everything else keeping Europe's lights on euronews.comFor only the third month on record, solar quietly became the European Union's single largest source of electricity, covering 25 percent of the bloc's power in June and edging out nuclear, gas, wind, a… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Solutions New England was once nearly stripped bare of trees. Now scientists call its comeback the greatest forest recovery in history insideclimatenews.orgBy 1850 the settlers had cleared roughly 80 percent of New England, and in some places every last tree. Then people drifted west, the farms went quiet, and the forest simply walked back in on its own.… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Solutions Switzerland put solar panels between its train tracks, and a year later they are still humming lenews.chA Swiss startup called Sun-Ways laid a strip of solar panels flat between the rails of a working railway in Buttes, and one year on the little experiment has quietly passed its first test. More than 1… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Solutions A cheaper, cold-proof grid battery just left the lab - and it does not need lithium interestingengineering.comAll that record-breaking solar we keep cheering about is only as useful as our ability to hold onto it after sundown, which makes the humble battery the unsung hero of the whole story. CATL has just u… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 0Share
Solutions citizen's united this is the way forward! How do we get this in MD? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBGpEcPrbso Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 1SnapShare
Solutions Just click it all awayWhat if we can click it all away? Maybe, we been approaching this wrong the internet could have it's own causality- simply put - you click on a thing and it grows -human focus, via the internet can ma… Upvotes: 0Downvote Comments: 1SnapShare
