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🩺 New Jersey announced $86 million in medical debt relief for over 53,000 residents, bringing its total to a collective $1.4 billion in medical debt eliminated for over 828,000 New Jersey residents since August 2024.
🗳️ New York’s governor is looking to prohibit political campaigns from using AI-generated images of candidates and outlaw the deliberate dissemination of false information about elections, including their date and time. (Gifted link)
Clean energy
Ming Yang Smart Energy
A Chinese energy company created the world’s first fully recyclable carbon fiber wind turbine blade
China’s Ming Yang Smart Energy just unveiled the “world’s first fully recyclable carbon fiber wind turbine blade,” a development that could bring the wind industry closer to a carbon-neutral, waste-free future.
The 110-meter blade is made of recyclable carbon fiber pultruded panels that are both strong and lightweight, and the carbon fiber can be completely recovered and reused.
Conventional wind turbine blades are currently difficult to recycle because their resin and fiber makeup are permanently bonded when they’re manufactured.
Why is this good news? One study estimates that the world will face 43 million tonnes of wind turbine blade waste by 2050. While scientists are working to develop better recycling processes, it’s still a lot of waste to tackle for an energy technology the world will need to rely on in the future — we need better solutions like this.
Hawaii modernized its parentage law to strengthen protections for LGBTQ+ families.The new, landmark law replaces outdated, gendered assumptions about “mothers” and “fathers” with inclusive, gender-neutral definitions of parentage to ensure children of same-gender couples and diverse family structures are treated equally under the law.
Study finds that putting solar panels on land currently used to grow biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric
Globally, the world dedicates an estimated 32 million hectares of land — about the size of Germany, Poland, or Italy — exclusively to grow crops to produce biofuels. And it’s projected to increase.
But if we were to put solar panels on that land, it would produce roughly 32,000 terawatt-hours of electricity each year. For context: The world generated 31,000 terawatt-hours of electricity in all of 2024, which means just putting solar panels on these 32 million hectares of land could produce enough electricity for current global demand.
Going a step further, the researchers found that if all the world’s cars and trucks were electric, this solar energy alone could power all of them.
🏚️ Detroit went from 47,000 abandoned homes to under 1,000.
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