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Giant Clams Could Help Us Make Better Screens and Solar Cells

Researchers from the University of California in Santa Barbara are investigating how giant clams produce each of their shades. These creatures, native to the Pacific and Indian oceans, have cells known as iridocytes that use their structure to scatter light waves and produce iridescent shades. In the species Tridacna maxima and Tridacna derasa, for example, the clams generate their white hues by mixing colors in a way similar to how video displays mix red, blue, and green pixels to create white. Scientists are hoping that by better understanding how this phenomenon works in giant clams they will be able to create more efficient solar panels and color displays in the future.

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Giant Clams Could Help Us Make Better Screens and Solar Cells

Ecodom Could you live in your garden office

The housing crisis in the UK is such that the spaces we normally showcase here on Shedworking are now being looked on as actual living space. Ecodom is putting one of its Bristol-based properties up for auction later this week - at 12 sqm it comes "fully equipped with kitchenette, shower room and living space with fold down bed" and a guide price of £8,000 which is admittedly a lot less than most first-time buyers will spend. --------------------------------------------------------------------
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Ecodom Could you live in your garden office

Could sheds solve our housing problems

An interesting short piece in The Guardian by Patrick Barkham suggests that "planners could draw inspiration from the simplicity of the original concep" of the Shed of the Year competition. Heres a snippet:

"Perhaps it is too much to hope that our love for sheds might yet transform our housing industry, planning system and building regulations to allow the creation of simpler, cheaper, low-consumption homes. But that passion should be a start."

Readers may also want to take a peak at something I wrote along similar lines a couple of years ago for The Independent.
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Could sheds solve our housing problems