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Confusion over regulations hampering water equipment innovation

Envirotec Magazine

A common misunderstanding over water fittings regulations in the UK is creating confusion over clean water equipment compliance and specification, and could be a barrier to innovation, says Paul Carrington, managing director, Aquacheck Engineering.

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Florida Aquarium captures baby coral breakthrough on video

Inhabitat - Innovation

Since a major disease outbreak attacked Florida’s coral reefs in 2014, scientists from Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and NOAA Fisheries. Scientists at the Tampa-based aquarium successfully reproduced ridged cactus coral for the first time, and caught the process in a magical video.

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1903 New York house gets an eco-friendly home makeover

Inhabitat - Innovation

Known as the Climate Change Row House, its renovation was completed in 2014 by owner and architect Thomas Paino. Although originally built in 1903, the home at 45-12 11th Street in Queens, New York now stands as an example of modern sustainable housing.

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Smart grid innovations booming with Asia as emerging hub

Smart Energy International

Smart grid innovations reached their highest level in 2022, the IEA reveals in a new review of patent data. In 2011 there were 2,000 unique smart grid inventions produced, representing 11% of power sector innovations. From 2000 to 2005 smart grid innovation in these three primary groupings followed the same growth trajectory.

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Architecture students build temporary music festival venue using 160 repurposed apple bins

Inhabitat - Innovation

The project is another in a line of “diversion design-build” concept stages, known fondly as the “Treeline Stage,” built by the school for the festival since 2014. On Friday, August 2, the Pickathon Music Festival in Happy Valley, Oregon featured a temporary performance venue designed by the Portland State University School of Architecture.

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AMD's energy-slashing feat

GreenBiz

Indeed, when I chatted with Susan Moore, AMD’s corporate vice president for corporate responsibility and government affairs, she told me it took "a full company focus and a lot of innovation" by the AMD engineering team to make the goal happen. Note to others attempting the same sort of thing.

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Funding for world-first liquid H2 bunkering facility for ships

Envirotec Magazine

The TRIG programme was launched by the Department for Transport in 2014 to foster research and innovation in the sector. Transport Minister Trudy Harrison said: “Innovation funded as part of TRIG could be the key to unlocking a more efficient and safer transport system for tomorrow. “I

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