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Search for the world’s best beaches and you’ll find countless listicles waxing lyrical about golden sands and crystalline waters. But Beachatlas, an AI-powered encyclopaedia of global beaches, has a new ranking that goes a little deeper. “Typically, the quest for the world's best beaches zeroes in on their visual allure,” the company writes. “This is the first selection ever to expand and encompass diverse criteria such as the value to the local community, DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion], lifestyle offerings, and cultural significance.” So how did the selection process work and which two...
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A huge sand battery is set to slash the carbon emissions of a Finnish town. The industrial-scale storage unit in Pornainen, southern Finland, will be the world’s biggest sand battery when it comes online within a couple of years. Capable of storing 100 MWh of thermal energy from solar and wind sources, it will enable residents to eliminate oil from their district heating network, helping to cut emissions by nearly 70 per cent. "It's exciting to build a large-scale thermal energy storage, which will also act as a primary production plant in Pornainen's district heating network,” says Liisa Nask...
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