Image: Swan, this photo is available to licence on EyeEm.
I've listened to Matt Cooper on The Last Word on Today FM most days for 20 years, so I was delighted to get the opportunity to interview Matt on Smart Thinking Books for his new book Who Really Owns Ireland.
A Danish company called Continuum has developed a recycling method for used wind turbine blades that converts them using zero carbon emissions into composite materials that can be used as bulding materials.
Scientists in Germany and Switzerland measured the ambient air temperature of underground car parks, and the temperature of the groundwater beneath them, and found that those car parks generate a lot of waste heat, which heats the groundwater and impacts on biodiversity and water quality. Extrapolating their findings, the scientists estimate that all 5040 underground car parks in Berlin could heat 14,660 average German homes by harnessing the waste heat using heat pumps.
Image: Matthew Esposito
Matthew Esposito wrote an interesting post about the journey he took in building a Bluetooth based room occupancy detector using an ESP32 chip.
Image: YouTube, Bobby Fingers.
Watch the entirety of this fantastically wonderful video from Limerick artist Bobby Fingers which chronicles his journey in creating a row boat in the form of Jeff Bezo's head. I guarantee you won't see any of the amazing twists coming. Yurt.
Image: boygenius & Ye Vagabonds
Listen to this beautiful cover of The Parting Glass by boygenius and Ye Vagabonds, released as a tribute to Sinéad O'Connor and raising money for the Aisling Project.
Found This Week is a curated blog of interesting posts, articles, links and stories in the world of technology, science and life in general.
Each edition is curated by Daryl Feehely every Friday and highlights cool stuff found each week.
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