Good News For Humankind

Spoiler: True happiness comes not from setting ourselves above and apart from others, but from joining and serving our communities.

South Korea, well ahead of the curve compared to many countries in its COVID-19 response efforts, also leads the way in touting renewable energy investments as a way to lead us back to thriving, secure economies.

While the six-junction III-V technology underlying these new cells is likely too costly at this time to be put to use in everyday rooftop applications, the new cell has great potential for application in concentrated solar panel arrays.

In the next few weeks, the European Union’s Food Safety Authority is expected to classify several types of insects as safe for human consumption.

In 2019, nearly three-quarters of all new energy sources were renewable, the most ever since data collection began in 2001, according to a new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

“There’s never been a therapy for treatment-resistant depression that’s broken 55% remission rates in open-label testing,” the team says.

Two major coal plants have now officially closed in the U.K and there are formal plans to shutter all remaining plants by 2024.

The team believes restoring ocean health would require billions of dollars of investments, but the benefits of doing so would likely be 10 times the cost.

To be completed in several phases, the facility once fully completed will be able to produce 60 gigawatts (GW) of solar panels every year, which likely equates to well over 150 million panels.

The ventilator shortage is a key barrier worldwide to effectively managing the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Now, teams around the world can use MIT’s plans to make them for less than $500.