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New approach models potential and trade-offs of floating solar
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New approach models potential and trade-offs of floating solar

Potential FPV generation in the Northeastern United States. Credit: Cell Reports Sustainability (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.crsus.2025.100423 Floating solar, the practice of placing solar panels...

Audio-Technica’s new glowing, floating turntable is as cool as it is strictly limited edition
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Audio-Technica’s new glowing, floating turntable is as cool as it is strictly limited edition

The Audio-Technica Hotaru is a limited-edition turntable Magnetically suspended floating platter that lights up $9,999 (about £7,582 / AU$15,762), only 1,000 made If...

Vietnam’s floating markets face uncertain future as life moves onshore | Business and Economy
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Vietnam’s floating markets face uncertain future as life moves onshore | Business and Economy

Can Tho, Vietnam – As dawn breaks over Can Tho, the city’s river is filled with the roaring engines of tour boats. In...

From Ronald Reagan to Ice Cube, ‘floating piece of Americana’ still thriving
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From Ronald Reagan to Ice Cube, ‘floating piece of Americana’ still thriving

The Goodyear Blimp is prepared for takeoff, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025, in New Smyrna Beach, Fla. Credit: AP Photo/Mark Long Flying a few...

Floating solar panels in federally controlled reservoirs could power approximately 100 million homes a year
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Floating solar panels in federally controlled reservoirs could power approximately 100 million homes a year

Example of application of developable area criteria. Credit: Solar Energy (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2024.113177 Federal reservoirs could help meet the country’s solar energy needs,...

Cryptographic protocol enables secure data sharing in floating wind energy sector
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Cryptographic protocol enables secure data sharing in floating wind energy sector

Secure communication between parties (OEMs, developers and academia) in floating wind technologies. Credit: Claudia Bartoli (IMDEA Software Institute) and Irene Rivera-Arreba (Norwegian University...

Floating drones with water-skimming teeth can capture microplastics
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Floating drones with water-skimming teeth can capture microplastics

Skimming mechanism of hydrophilic teeth for MP (MP, microplastic) balls. The neighboring concave meniscus induces the Cheerios effect, causing the MP ball to...