Environmental Issues

[Kondoru]

Go down with my library.

Its the only answer.

 

[ramonmercado]

The not so blue Danube.

A cargo vessel loaded with fertiliser sank after hitting a bridge on the Danube River border between Serbia and Croatia, prompting fears of serious environmental damage, authorities have said.

Serbia’s environment ministry said the barge that sank some 40 minutes after midnight was carrying 1,000 tonnes of nitrogen fertiliser.

It added that the Environmental Protection Agency is monitoring the situation on the Danube.

Croatian authorities closed the bridge and a border crossing with Serbia while they inspected damage to one of the bridge pillars that was struck by the vessel.

There were no reported injuries in the accident.

The German-registered ship was traveling from Austria to a Serbian Danube port north of Serbia’s capital, Belgrade.

https://www.breakingnews.ie/world/e...-with-fertiliser-sinks-in-danube-1572087.html

 

[ramonmercado]

Bloody god botherers fishing for compliments.

Mystery surrounds the appearance of hundreds of plastic bottles containing Bible verses in a river in Northern Ireland.

Environmentalists have criticised those responsible, but it is not yet known who put them there. The bottles have been recovered from the Bann in County Londonderry over a number of years.

Andrew Bratton from Sea2it said pollution in the river was a "huge issue".

"It doesn't matter if it's religious or non-religious," he told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme. "We have a huge issue with plastic pollution really a legacy issue going back decades and we are trying to address that and get the river back in the condition it should be in," he said. "All we simply want to do is make an appeal to whoever it is, or whatever group it might happen to be. It simply isn't acceptable, or never has been acceptable, to litter the marine environment in this way."

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-68103251

 

[Floyd]

Sounds like a good idea to me;

Israeli scientists pioneer method to prolong produce freshness using sound waves​

Researchers at Bar-Ilan University say the method creates a coating of nanoparticles from the chemical compound chitosan, protecting the strawberries with antibacterial properties and extending their shelf life by 15 days​

In today's fast-paced and dynamic era, there is a growing desire to preserve and extend the shelf life of fresh products. Fruits and vegetables sitting in the fridge or on the kitchen counter undergo rapid and natural decay from the moment they are harvested in the field until they are eaten.

Ph.D. student Belal Abu Salha has developed an innovative method for coating fruits with edible nanoparticles using sonochemistry - a method involving sound waves.

https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/hypafksjp

 

[Mythopoeika]

Oh dear... a problem with solar farms I wasn't aware of...

 

[Analogue Boy]

Yes. Oh dear.

Thousands of Solar Panels in Texas Destroyed by Hailstorm​

Thousands of panels on a solar farm southwest of Houston, Texas, were damaged by a powerful hailstorm on March 15.

Aerial footage showed rows of cracked photovoltaic cells at the Fighting Jays Solar Farm near Needville in Fort Bend County, local news channel KTRK reported on Saturday. Baseball-sized hail stones were observed falling in the area overnight, as per the Houston Chronicle.

While solar panels can contain toxic substances such as cadmium telluride and copper indium gallium diselenide, in solar cells they are found in solid form in a thin film that usually only becomes an environmental concern when disposing of them.

https://www.newsweek.com/thousands-solar-panels-texas-destroyed-hailstorm-1883546

I’m not going to deny that storms never bring down power lines and interrupt carbon-intense supplies but this would be a more expensive problem to fix as I imagine it means replacing the whole unit. And hundreds of them.

 

[Analogue Boy]

Sounds like a good idea to me;

Israeli scientists pioneer method to prolong produce freshness using sound waves​

Researchers at Bar-Ilan University say the method creates a coating of nanoparticles from the chemical compound chitosan, protecting the strawberries with antibacterial properties and extending their shelf life by 15 days​

In today's fast-paced and dynamic era, there is a growing desire to preserve and extend the shelf life of fresh products. Fruits and vegetables sitting in the fridge or on the kitchen counter undergo rapid and natural decay from the moment they are harvested in the field until they are eaten.

Ph.D. student Belal Abu Salha has developed an innovative method for coating fruits with edible nanoparticles using sonochemistry - a method involving sound waves.

https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/hypafksjp

So what we need is a fridge that plays Brahms????

 

[Mythopoeika]

So what we need is a fridge that plays Brahms????

Ideal for chilling wine and beer, if you also add music by Liszt.

 

[Floyd]

So what we need is a fridge that plays Brahms????

I'd prefer a bit of Lynyrd Skynyrd.