Estonian foodtech startup Natufia Labs, which was born at Garage48 competition in Tartu, is moving to Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), which is leading $3.5 million investment round with $2 million to Natufia through their venture capital investment arm.
Natufia says it has developed the world’s first smart indoor kitchen garden providing technology to harvest herbs, leafy greens and vegetables at home.
“We are delighted to welcome our latest spin-in partner, Natufia Labs, to the Kingdom and support their expansion in the region – and the world,” said Kevin Cullen, vice president of KAUST Innovation and Economic Development.
Passive Cooling System can Reduce Cooling and Heating Costs, Reduce CO2 Emissions
Written by AZoCleantechFeb 9 2021
Passive cooling is similar to the shade provided by trees, and this phenomenon has been around all the time.
Image Credit: University at Buffalo.
Lately, scientists have been investigating how a passive cooling technique called sky or radiative cooling can be turbo-charged with sun-blocking nanomaterials that remove heat away from the rooftops of buildings.
Although advances have been made, this environmentally friendly technology is not an ordinary thing, because investigators have struggled to increase the cooling capabilities of materials.
A new study, headed by engineers from the University at Buffalo (UB), has made considerable advancement in this field. Published in the
Tom Metcalfe, Contributor
(Inside Science) The depths of the oceans are often thought of as a silent world, where almost no sounds are ever heard but that was never the case, and they’ve only become noisier as human technologies have advanced. There’s a growing underwater din from shipping, coastal industries, and off-shore oil rigs and wind farms, for example, and it has badly impacted animals like whales, dolphins and fishes that may struggle to hear their own sounds in the cacophony. It’s not silent, says Doug Nowacek, a professor of marine conservation technology at Duke University in North Carolina. People have this idea that it is just so quiet down there, so who cares if you make a bunch of noise, because the animals don’t care. But it’s a world full of sound.
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