Ecology News: 10 August 2025 - 16 August 2025

Deep-Water Wind Revolution: Floating Turbines Set to Transform Offshore Energy
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Deep-Water Wind Revolution: Floating Turbines Set to Transform Offshore Energy

Floating wind turbines are offshore wind generators mounted on buoyant platforms tethered to the seabed with mooring lines, allowing deployment in waters far deeper than 60 meters where fixed-bottom foundations aren’t feasible. About 80% of the world’s offshore wind potential lies in
August 16, 2025
Satellites Powered by Water? The Revolutionary Propellant Changing Spaceflight
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Satellites Powered by Water? The Revolutionary Propellant Changing Spaceflight

Water propulsion for satellites can use steam propulsion (resistojet), electrolysis to hydrogen and oxygen for combustion, or water-plasma/ion thrusters for high-ISP propulsion. Momentus Space’s Vigoride uses a Microwave Electrothermal Thruster (MET) that microwaves water with solar power to boil it into plasma
August 16, 2025
Perovskite Solar ‘Stickers’ Are Almost Here: How Flexible Laminates Could Turn Walls, Cars & Roofs into Power Plants
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Perovskite Solar ‘Stickers’ Are Almost Here: How Flexible Laminates Could Turn Walls, Cars & Roofs into Power Plants

A flexible perovskite module with WVTR ≈ 5.0 × 10⁻³ g/m²/day retained 84% of its power after 2,000 hours at 85°C/85% RH (Damp-Heat). Japan is subsidizing Sekisui Chemical to build a 100 MW film-type perovskite plant by 2027 to help reach about
August 15, 2025
Bug Love vs. Bugs: How Synthetic Pheromones Are Quietly Replacing Pesticides in Your Food—What You Need to Know in 2025
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Bug Love vs. Bugs: How Synthetic Pheromones Are Quietly Replacing Pesticides in Your Food—What You Need to Know in 2025

1) First things first: pheromones aren’t “hormones” Hormones act inside an organism. Pheromones are chemical messages released to affect other members of the same species (for pests: “find me and mate”). In crop protection we don’t dose insects with endocrine drugs; we
August 15, 2025
The Long-Range IoT Revolution: How LoRaWAN is Transforming Smart Cities and Farms
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The Long-Range IoT Revolution: How LoRaWAN is Transforming Smart Cities and Farms

Over 350 million LoRaWAN devices and sensors were connected globally as of mid-2024, with projections to exceed 3.5 billion by 2030. The LoRa Alliance was founded in 2015, LoRaWAN was officially approved as a global ITU standard in late 2021, and the
August 15, 2025
The Enzyme Revolution: How Engineering Nature’s Catalysts is Transforming Medicine, Food & the Planet
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The Enzyme Revolution: How Engineering Nature’s Catalysts is Transforming Medicine, Food & the Planet

The global market for industrial enzymes was about $9 billion in 2019 and is projected to reach $13.8 billion by 2027. Site-directed mutagenesis, invented in the 1970s by Michael Smith, enables precise single-amino-acid changes in enzymes and earned him the 1993 Nobel
August 14, 2025
Vertical Solar Farms: How Bifacial Panels Are Revolutionizing Solar Energy in 2025
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Vertical Solar Farms: How Bifacial Panels Are Revolutionizing Solar Energy in 2025

Vertical solar farms mount panels upright at 90° in north–south rows, using bifacial panels to harvest morning east light and afternoon west light for two daily power peaks. The Ashikaga City rice paddy project in Japan was installed in May 2024, yielded
August 10, 2025
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