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The largest floating solar farm in the world
The largest farm floating solar power plant in the world has come online this March. It is located on the Queen Elizabeth II water reservoir, near London’s Heathrow airport, and its 23,000 solar panels cover an area equivalent to eight football fields (6% of the reservoir). The floating orchard, which had been in planning for…
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The importance of the responsive web
Among the factors that can cause a website to be penalized in the ranking returned by Google for a certain search, is the fact that the website is not ready for mobile devices, that is, it does not have a responsive or adaptive design so that it can be seen correctly on the screen of…
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The routes we take make traffic worse
When we drive in urban areas, we all tend to decide which route we are going to drinking based on “selfish” criteria, and without realizing it, we increase traffic congestion and travel time around the world. The document “Understanding congested travel in urban areas”, carried out jointly by researchers from the University of Birmingham (England)…
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Video: Social integration through ecomobility
Documentary video that focuses on how sustainable mobility can help integration between different social groups, taking place in the South African city of Johannesburg and the physical barriers inherited from the apartheid era.
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Learning to program: an opportunity for the new generations
ICTs inevitably have a growing influence on our lives, and yet technology is often used in the classroom as a passive instrument, schoolchildren learn as users. Teaching programming encourages creativity and autonomy among young people, beyond preparing them for a labor market in which many will hold jobs that do not yet exist, and in…
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The electric bus, a great commitment by Irizar
Irizar hopes to have its new plant specialized in assembling electric buses ready by the end of this year, according to general manager José Manuel Orcasitas, when presenting the results of the group in 2015. Thus, it is planned to start the activity of the plant, located in Aduna, Gipuzkoa, on January 2, 2017, to…
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How to reuse smartphones as IOT nodes
In 2015, 280 million smartphones were replaced worldwide without being recycled. This is the information that the founder of the Phonvert project, Tomo Kihara, shared at the South by Southwest 2016. Many of these smartphones were only a year or two old, still functional, and packed with various valuable sensors: cameras, accelerometers, touch screens, or…
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Video: Open Government at the Service of Citizens
“The data itself has no value, it is its applications, how people use it that brings economic value and social value, social innovation.” This video from the Inter-American Development Bank advocates giving greater access to public information and encouraging participation to achieve citizen-centered, transparent and efficient governments.
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The first airport that works 100% with solar energy
Cochin International Airport, in southwestern India, the fourth largest in the country in terms of international traffic volume, set itself the goal in 2013 of becoming the first airport in the world to rely exclusively on solar power it generates – and it has, as reported by CNN Money. The airport no longer pays any…
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Barcelona bets on wooden houses
The Municipal Housing Board of Barcelona has opted for wooden construction and has promoted the project that will build 46 social apartments in said material, according to El País. The houses, designed by the Roldán-Berengué architects, will be built in the Sant Andreu district, in the industrial area of the old Fabra i Coats. The…