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This category lists completed projects for the Category:FAST. Following the individual links leads to a summary of the project and key findings, related literature reviews, methods, protocols, and equipment, and an open access version of the paper published in a peer reviewed journal. Coming soon: Western Angels

• 2026 FAST Completed Projects
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  Creating just agrivoltaic transitions for large-scale solar: a comparative multi criteria analysis
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  Heat Stress Tolerance in Organic Romaine Lettuce Using Crystalline Silicon and Red, Blue & Green-Colored Thin Film Agrivoltaic Systems
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  Strawberry agrivoltaics in Canada: Comparing uniform thin film and non-uniform crystalline silicon semi-transparent solar photovoltaic modules in controlled environment agriculture
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  Advanced modeling and performance analysis of a photovoltaic-thermal double compression heat pump for industrial thermal applications
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  Open-source manufacturing of polypropylene replacements for peat cups in vertical farming: improvements in life cycle embodied energy, greenhouse gas emissions, labor and operational costs
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  Agrivoltaics as a systems innovation: multi-dimensional benefits from global studies across climate, agriculture, energy, and ecosystems
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  Reassessing Recreational Cannabis Cultivation Through a Sustainability Lens: Public Health Externalities and Agricultural Opportunity Costs in Canada
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  Compatibilizer effectiveness for the reuse of mixed post-consumer solid waste plastic towards Distributed recycling additive manufacturing
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  Open-Source Light Calibration System for Hyperbilirubinemia Phototherapy Treatments
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  Shifting Subsidies: Implications of Redirecting Alberta’s Oil and Gas Government Support to Solar Power
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  Online Diagnostics as a First Step in the Safe Use of Damaged Photovoltaic Modules
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  Full Heads or Cut and Come Again? Economic Analysis of Leafy Green Cultivation in Solar-Powered Indoor Vertical Farms
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  Social acceptance of agrivoltaics in Canada: Insights on public perceptions across technologies and provinces from a nationwide survey
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  Revisiting National Life Expectancy: The Effect of Including Prenatal Deaths in Canada
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  Derisking the Finance of Open Source Hardware Development
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  Open-source distributed production of polycarbonate solar photovoltaic modules designed for disassembly
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  Is Non-Thermal Plasma Treatment of Commodity Lettuce Seeds Worth It? Economic Impacts and Yield of Lettuce in Indoor Vertical Farming Testing Dry Air, Wet Air, N2 and O2 Plasmas
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  Effects of Thin-Film and Wafer-Based Photovoltaic Module Transparency and Spectral Properties on Microclimate and Turnip Yield in Agrivoltaic Systems
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  Two-Stage Deep Learning Model for Non-Destructive Leaf Counting in Tomato Crops
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  The potential of agrivoltaic systems to meet energy demand of data centers in the United States
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  Open-Source Design of Solar-Powered Picnic Table for Outdoor Device Charging
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  Development and Evaluation of a Low-Cost Open-Source Nasometer
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  Integration of semi-transparent photovoltaic modules and heat pumps into agrivoltaic tomato greenhouses: Energy, economic, and environmental savings
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  Lighting Energy and Revenue Analysis in an Agrivoltaic Agrotunnel for Lettuce and Swiss Chard Production
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  Open source technology readiness level assessment and application to the case study of distributed recycling for additive manufacturing
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  Some like it hot, some like it partially shaded: The effect of semi-transparent solar photovoltaic modules on the growth metrics of greenhouse cultivated spicy peppers
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  An open-source spectral measurement platform for plant reflectance and material identification
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  Effect of pyrolysis temperature on the performance of 3D-printed silicon–carbon anodes derived from recycled photovoltaic silicon
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  Agrivoltaic Lettuce Production Under Future Climates: A Sustainable Strategy for Optimizing Food and Energy Yields
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  Evaluation of the Potential of Large-Scale 3D Printing to Promote a Circular Economy of PET Plastic Bottles: Comparison Between European and North American
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  Hybrid craft practices for sustainable materialities and narratives through digital fabrication
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  Design and thermal-energy performance analysis of foam-based floating photovoltaic systems in a cold climate: experimental results from a 7 kW floatovoltaics in Canada
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  Low-cost embedded system for spectral power distribution reconstruction for controlled environmental agriculture using a multispectral sensor and cloud-based deep learning
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  Preliminary Investigation of Upcycling Polylactic Acid 3-D Printing Waste to Candidate Single-Cell Protein Feedstock
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  Design, fabrication, and validation of cost-effective customizable 3-D printed phase-change material-based thermal energy storage modules
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  Sustainable Food–Energy Co-Production: Agrivoltaic Configurations that Maintain Organic Bean Yields and Enhance Farm
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  Semi-transparent neutral, red, green, and blue photovoltaics impacts on lettuce growth in agrivoltaic cold frames
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  Land use for alcohol production and its implications for food security and public health: A case study of the United States
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  Design for replicability in open-source distributed assistive technology for low-resource settings: a case study of two-piece 3D-printed forearm crutches
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  Field Study of Thermal Energy Storage Integration with Air-source Heat Pump and Solar Photovoltaics in Canadian Climate
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  Response to a Critique: Errors with Acri’s Opinion Piece Defending IP, While Premature Deaths Pile Up from Patents
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  Evaluation of plasma-reaction-driving capability in dielectric barrier discharge systems: Insights from CH4 splitting
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  Ethics as if Your Life Depended on It
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  Responses to Commentaries on “Ethics as if Your Life Depended on It”
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  Future climate change impacts on strawberry farming under agrivoltaic protection
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  From fossil fuel infrastructure to sustainable land use: agrivoltaics on oil and gas pipelines in Alberta, Canada
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  An Open Letter to the Bureau Approving Officials of the United States Government
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  Open-Source Machine Learning Framework for Fully Electrified Residential Load Prediction: A Temperature-to-kWh Model Using XGBoost
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  Why Canadian MAiD is Not a Medical Procedure
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  Large language models combined with open-source algorithms for identifying prior art for obviousness analysis
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  Potential of Self-Funded Agrivoltaic Shield Walls for Asian Citrus Psyllids
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  Open source digital sovereignty: the case for a Canadian national Linux distribution
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  3D Printing of Batteries
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  Toward Distributed Local Recycling Networks for Plastic Waste: A System Dynamics-Based Approach (Part I)
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  Effect of Annealing on the Structural, Optical Properties of Barium Titanate Nanoparticles and its Impact on Second Harmonic Generation
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  Determinants of Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Agrivoltaic Produce: The Mediating Role of Trust
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  Machine Learning Model of Electric Vehicle Charging for National-Level Solar Photovoltaic Planning
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  Impacts of Transparency in Agrivoltaics Lettuce Cultivation Using Uniform or Non-Uniform Semitransparent Solar Photovoltaic Modules
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  Experimental Validation of Tensegrity Solar Photovoltaic Racking
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  Validation of a Portable Open-Source Diy I-V Curve Tracer
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  The Potential of Data Center Waste Heat Recovery for Greenhouse Food Production in the U.S.: Ramifications for Sustainable AI
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  Shining Light on Agrivoltaics: Public Opinion on Agrivoltaic Applications and Topologies Across Canada
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  Toward Climate-Adapted Food Systems: Mitigating Climate Change Impacts on Lettuce Production Through Agrivoltaic Systems[1]
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  Potential of Polycarbonate-based Stained Glass Window Retrofits for Cooling Load Reduction in Hot Climates
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  Technoeconomic Analysis of Indoor Basil Cultivation in Agrivoltaic Agrotunnels with Optimized Near-Zero Energy Systems
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  Sedentary Behavior, Moral Norms, and Health Outcomes
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  Smart V2X Strategies to Enable Sustainable Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
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  A GIS-Driven Framework for Quantifying Agricultural Fence-Mounted Solar Photovoltaic Energy Potential
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  Optimal Techno-Economic Design and Assessment of Heat Pump-Coupled Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems in North America [Optimal Techno-Economic Design and Assessment of Heat Pump-Coupled Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems in North America]
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  Experimental Data Driven Neural-Network Prediction Model of Charge/Discharge Duration in Phase-change Thermal Energy Storage
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  SAMA: Open-Source Multi-Objective Optimization Platform for Hybrid Renewable Energy Microgrid Design
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  Regenerative Agrivoltaics to Rehabilitate Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells
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  Integrating Amaranth and Agrivoltaics in the Creation and Assessment of Climate Resilient Food Systems
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  Distributed Manufacturing for Gardening with 3D Printing
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  Low-Cost Adaptation of Agrivoltaic Infrastructure for Controlled-Environment Agriculture to Extend the Growing Season in Northern Latitudes
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  Open Source Automated Fertigation System for Controlled Environmental Agricultures

• 2026 FAST Completed Popular Projects
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  Canada could save millions by developing its own operating system instead of relying on Microsoft Windows
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  Eight ways to feed ourselves if rogue AI destroys modern agriculture Ensaio distópico: oito maneiras de nos alimentarmos se uma IA rebelde destruir a agricultura moderna
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  This $20 3D Printed Crutch Passed Same Safety Tests As Those Hospitals Buy For $200
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  Hunger Games IRL: 2.1% Of US Alcohol Land Could End Global Starvation
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  This Backyard Hack Turns Your Lettuce Patch Into A Power Plant
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  Mr. Bean Goes Solar
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  3D Printing Phase-Change Thermal Batteries
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  Finally A Solution To Water Bottle Recycling That Gets You Money
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  Future Climate: Lettuce Will Need Solar Panel Shade
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  Indoor Farming Gets A Hand From Open Hardware Development
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  Will Your Next Phone Battery Be Made From Recycled Solar Cells?
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  Open Source Innovation = Low-Cost Spectrometer For Farmers
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  If You Can’t Beat Them, Tax Them: Solar Taxes Protect Non-Competitive Fossil Fuels In Alberta
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  Some Like It Hot: Agrivoltaics Grow More Hot Peppers
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  Agrivoltaics Makes Indoor Vertical Farming Make Economic Sense
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  Agrivoltaic Greenhouses Make More Tomatoes
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  Free Software For Tomato Leaf Monitoring
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  Solar Boost For Haggis, Neeps And Tatties With Agrivoltaic Turnips
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  Should I Buy Plasma Treated Seeds?
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  Virginia Homeowners Save Big Buying Solar In Bulk
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  Will Your Next Solar Panel Be Plastic?
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  New Financial Model With High ROI To Drive Scientific Innovation
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  ‘Agrivoltaics’ can power AI data centres, increase food production
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  ‘Agrivoltaics’ can both power AI data centres and increase food production — new study
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  Does Canada Or America Love Agrivoltaics More?
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  Smart Electric Picnic Tables Give Old Solar Panels A New Life
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  Oops They Did It Again – A Third State Allows Plug-And-Play Solar
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  Preparing For The Next Pandemic: Countries With The Biggest Risks
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  Yes We Can Have Our AI Cake And Eat Too: Agrivoltaics Can Cover Energy For Data Centers
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  Compatibalizers Can Make Recyling Plastic Water Bottles Easy
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  自分で3Dプリントすれば環境にも財布にも優しい
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  Protect Your Garden This Summer With Agrivoltaic Shielding
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  3D Printing Is The Ultimate Hack To Reduce Household Spending
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  Milla Jovovich Goes Open Source Guns Blazing With Top AI Memory Code
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  3D Printing A Product A Day To Keep Costs At Bay
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  3D Printing Stuff Yourself Is Good For The Environment
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  How To Eat The Food We Grow While Getting Our Energy Fix
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  Growcer Inc.: Scaling Up a Sustainable Start-Up
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  Gaven, der bliver ved at give: Solceller på marken kan hjælpe med at øge udbytter
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  The Plug-In Solar Revolution Comes To America
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  How Plug-In Solar Lets Everyone Enjoy Solar Savings
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  Thank Your Solar Neighbors For Saving You Money On Electric Bills
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  Canada Drops Tariffs On EVs From China
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  Can Solar Help Cut The Traffic Noise In Your Neighborhood?
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  太陽光発電の「隠れた価値」が経済性を加速させる理由
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  Worth More Than The Money: Co-Benefits Of Solar Power Get Real
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  Study: Open Innovation Accelerates Sustainable Transport
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  What Is The Superfood Callaloo And How To Grow It In The Future

• 2025 FAST Completed Projects
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  Greenhouse applications of solar photovoltaic driven heat pumps in northern environments
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  Best practices of techno-economic methods for solar photovoltaic coupled heat pump analysis in cold climates
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  Financial Analysis of Agrivoltaic Sheep: Breeding and Auction Lamb Business Models
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  Life Cycle Carbon Emissions Savings of Replacing Concrete with Recycled Polycarbonate and Sand Composite
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  Technical, Economic and Environmental Potential of Recycled Polycarbonate Solar Photovoltaic Frames
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  Techno-Economic Evaluation of Electricity Pricing Structures on Photovoltaic and Photovoltaic-Battery Hybrid Systems in Canada
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  First Step to Scaling Innovation at the National Level in the U.S.: Economic Costs and Savings for Free First Year of National University Education
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  Portable Solar-Integrated Open-Source Chemistry Lab for Water Treatment with Electrolysis
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  Recycled Filtered Contaminants from Liquid-Fed Pyrolysis as Novel Building Composite Material
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  Resilient foods for preventing global famine: a review of food supply interventions for global catastrophic food shocks including nuclear winter and infrastructure collapse
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  Using Investments in Solar Photovoltaics as Inflation Hedges
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  Parametric Design of Easy-Connect Pipe Fitting Components Using Open-Source CAD and Fabrication Using 3D Printing
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  Experimental impacts of transparency on strawberry agrivoltaics using thin film photovoltaic modules under low light conditions
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  Open-source 3D Printable Forearm Crutch
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  The Unexpected Reason Firms Should Institute Policies to Remove Email Signatures: Quantifying Human Mortality Costs of Email Signature-based Reputation Signaling
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  Government Economics of Expanding Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying to Vulnerable Populations and the Ethical Implications of Allowing the State to Control Death
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  Recycling silicon photovoltaic cells into silicon anodes for Li-ion batteries using 3D printing
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  Comparative techno-environmental analysis of grey, blue, green/yellow and pale-blue hydrogen production
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  Moving the Open-Source Broadly Reconfigurable and Expandable Automation Device (BREAD) Towards a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) System
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  Impacts of Type of Partial Transparency on Strawberry Agrivoltaics: Uniform Illumination Thin Film Cadmium-Telluride and Non-uniform Crystalline Silicon Solar Photovoltaic Modules
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  Open-Source Portable Solar Power Supply for Plasma Generators
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  Electrode Materials Comparison for Hydrogen Production from Wastewater Electrolysis of Spiked Secondary Effluent
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  Creating Custom 3D Printing Material Colors Using Optical Modeling of Waste Plastic
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  Quantifying Administrative Efficiency: Proposed Figures of Merit for University Comparisons and Ranking
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  From blender to farm: Transforming controlled environment agriculture with synthetic data and SwinUNet for precision crop monitoring
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  Potential Paths to Canada's Climate Commitments Through Strategic Solar Photovoltaic Deployment'=
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  Strategies for recycling multi-material polymer blends for additive manufacturing
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  Experimental integration of a foam-based floating photovoltaic (floatovoltaic) system with an anion exchange membrane electrolyzer for 5 kW-Scale green hydrogen production
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  Design, fabrication, and testing of a polymer expanded heat exchanger for absorption chilling
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  Regenerative Agrivoltaics: Integrating Photovoltaics and Regenerative Agriculture for Sustainable Food and Energy Systems
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  Effects of Spectral Ranges on Growth and Yield in Vertical Hydroponic–Aeroponic Hybrid Grow Systems for Radishes and Turnips
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  Open-Source Photosynthetically Active Radiation Sensor for Enhanced Agricultural and Agrivoltaics Monitoring
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  Open-source three-dimensional IoT anemometer for indoor air quality monitoring
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  Overcoming Limitations of Proprietary Scientific Hardware Funding
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  Quantifying the Human Mortality Costs of Patent-based Intellectual Property: How Many Premature Deaths are due to Patents?
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  Wood gasification in catastrophes: Electricity production from light duty vehicles
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  A Review of Phase-Change Material-Based Thermal Batteries for Sustainable Energy Storage of Solar Photovoltaic Systems Coupled to Heat Pumps in the Building Sector
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  Design of Alternatives to Stained Glass with Open-Source Distributed Additive Manufacturing for Energy Efficiency and Economic Savings
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  The monetary relationship between carbon emissions and mortality: a review
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  Additional value of non-electricity generating services (co-benefits) provided by non-conventional dual use solar photovoltaic systems: A PRISMA review
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  Effect of thermoplastic polyurethane filament on the cellular ceramics structures obtained from material extrusion and polymer-derived ceramic
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  Decarbonization of Residential Houses in Northern Climates: Traditional vs Fully Electrified Approaches in Ontario Canada
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  Photosynthetically Active Radiation Complexities of Agrivoltaic Policy Mandates Illustrated with Agricultural Yields with Semitransparent Photovoltaics
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  Performance of Off-grid Floating Photovoltaic-Battery System Powering an Anion Exchange Membrane Electrolyser for Green Hydrogen Production
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  Transparency effects in agrivoltaics lettuce cultivation using uniform/non-uniform semitransparent photovoltaic modules in controlled environments
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  Climate-Resilient Crop Production Under Agrivoltaics: Experimental Evaluation of Amaranth Production With Semi-Transparent Photovoltaic Modules in Canada Under Changing Climates
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  Modular open-source solar photovoltaic-powered DC nanogrids for ambulances
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  Should Agrivoltaics Ever Be Decommissioned? How Agrivoltaics Bolster Farm Climate Adaptation Even When Unpowered
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  Open Source Neonatal Light Therapy Device
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  Open Source Inert Gas Glove Box
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  Jericho Open Resistive Data Logger: An Open-source Modular Weather Station and Monitoring System for Long-Term Solar Photovoltaic Outdoor Experimentation

• 2025 FAST Completed Popular Projects
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  Earth911 Podcast: Joshua Pearce Explains DIY Solar Installation
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  Best Cyber Monday Toy Deal: 3-D Print Them Yourself
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  The Vatican Is First 100% Solar Country Via Agrivoltaics: Who Is Next?
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  The gift that keeps on giving: How solar panels on farms can help increase crop yields
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  Modern Jobs : How To Make Over $100,000 A Year As A Shepherd , 羊飼いが年収1000万円以上稼ぐ時代：ソーラーファームが生み出す高収益職
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  Can Cheap Electricity From Agrivoltaics Give EVs The Power They Need?
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  Why Farmers Are Shielding Their Crops With Solar Panels * Por que Agricultores Estão Usando Painéis Solares para Aumentar a Produção no Campo
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  Grocery Cost Shocks: Could Your Backyard Provide All Your Protein?
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  Who Are The Winners in Parking Lot Solar Power?
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  When Should You Invest In Solar?
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  The Darth Vader-Inspired Arms Race Making Solar Cells Cheaper
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  3 Ways Americans Can Use European Tricks For More Sustainable Homes
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  InspiringMinds 7: Residential Decarbonization using Solar Photovoltaics
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  How To Save Money With Solar To Subsidize Your Heating
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  How Canada can crush decarbonization goals, create millions of jobs, and rake in a boatload of cash from America in one fell swoop
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  What A Save Game
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  Build a Farm
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  Catch the Right Crop Game
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  US universities lose millions of dollars chasing patents, research shows
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  Heat and Mass Transfer
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  Email signatures are harming the planet and could cost people their lives — it’s time to stop using them
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  Sustainability, Food and AI Conference
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  ‘Solar shepherds’ earn big by grazing sheep on solar farms — and they benefit everyone involved
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  How to Leverage Open Hardware @ Elsevier Research Academy
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  is better for the environment - rooftop solar or solar farm?

• 2024 FAST Completed Projects
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  Mechanical and economic analysis of conventional aluminum photovoltaic module frames, frames with side holes, and open-source downward-fastened frames for non-traditional racking
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  Nanostructured Silicon for Solar Energy Conversion Applications
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  Impacts of Working Electrode Parameters on Dye-Sensitised Solar Cell Performance
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  Adapting the European typology approach for building stock energy assessment (TABULA) concept for the developing world: The Nigerian case study
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  Wood and Cable-Based Variable Tilt Stilt-Mounted Solar Photovoltaic Racking System
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  Multi-material distributed recycling via material extrusion: recycled high density polyethylene and poly (ethylene terephthalate) mixture
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  Towards Sustainable Protein Sources: The Thermal and Rheological Properties of Alternative Proteins
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  Ballast-Supported Foundation Designs for DIY Low-Cost Open-Source Solar Photovoltaic Racking Systems
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  Open-Source Flexible Materials Tensile Testing Apparatus
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  Open-source design of medical devices
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  Modular Open Source Solar Photovoltaic-Powered DC Nanogrids with Efficient Energy Management System
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  A Review of 3D Printing Batteries
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  Synthetic-to-real Composite Semantic Segmentation in Additive Manufacturing
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  Distributed Manufacturing for Distributed Generation: 3-D Printed Solar Photovoltaic Module Mounting Mechanisms for Wood Racking
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  Wood Chipper Design for Biofuel Production in a Global Catastrophic Loss of Infrastructure Scenario
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  Environmental Life Cycle Analysis of Manufacturing Options for Humanitarian Supplies: Drinking water containers
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  Optimizing Strawberry Disease and Quality Detection with Vision Transformers and Attention-Based Convolutional Neural Networks
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  Residential Sizing of Solar Photovoltaic Systems and Heat Pumps for Net Zero Sustainable Thermal Building Energy
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  Solar Energy Modelling and Proposed Crops for Different Types of Agrivoltaics Systems
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  Net Zero Agrivoltaic Arrays for Agrotunnel Vertical Growing Systems: Energy Analysis and System Sizing
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  Tool change reduction for multi-color fused filament fabrication through interlayer tool clustering implemented in PrusaSlicer
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  Open Source Cold and Hot Scientific Sheet Press for Investigating Polymer-Based Material Properties
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  Using a Ledger to Facilitate Autonomous Peer-to-Peer Virtual Net Metering of Solar Photovoltaic Distributed Generation
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  A novel camera-based sensor for real-time wastewater quality monitoring
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  The threat of economic grid defection in the U.S. with solar photovoltaic, battery and generator hybrid systems
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  Open-source Hardware Design of Modular Solar DC Nanogrid
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  Open-Source DC-DC Converter Enabling Direct Integration of Solar Photovoltaics with Anion Exchange Membrane Electrolyzer for Green Hydrogen Production
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  Open-Source Indoor Horizontal Grow Structure Designs
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  How we can mine asteroids for space food
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  Do Universities Investing in Technology Transfer via Patenting Lose Money?
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  Evaluation of water quality and heavy metal contamination in Cauvery River: Tamil Nadu region India
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  Quantitative Impacts of Normalizing Gluttony: Case Study of the USA
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  Electrochemical Methods for Nutrient Removal in Wastewater: A Review of Advanced Electrode Materials, Processes, and Applications
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  Open-Source Software for Building-Integrated Photovoltaic Tiling for Novelty Architecture
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  Streamlining structural engineering compliance of rooftop solar photovoltaic installations using an open-source approach
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  Low-Cost Open-Source Melt Flow Index System for Distributed Recycling and Additive Manufacturing

• 2024 FAST Popular Projects
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  Broadly Reconfigurable and Expandable Automation Device (BREAD) v2
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  Open source Butter software for BREAD
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  Don't Panic GeoCast Episode 407 - "If you like dragons, that's important to you"
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  Agro-Food Chain By-Products and Plant Origin Food to Obtain High-Value-Added Foods
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  Grid defection in the US talk for Energy Changemakers
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  The Little Red Hen Eating at the Asteroid Belt
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  COP29: Climate change could kill millions — and world leaders must work to limit fatalities
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  Converting asteroids to food for deep space exploration
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  Support Free and Open-source Scientific Hardware to Drive Canadian Innovation
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  The Chronicles of a Solar Shepherd
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  Going off grid is a financial win for some, but it’s a threat for poorer families and the environment
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  Open Source Hardware at SparkFun Electronics
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  The North Wind & the Sun Battle on the Farm
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  Walk This Way: DIY Mobility Walker
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  The Sun Dragon War
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  How open source tech can make Canada’s immigration system fairer
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  Billy the Space Kid
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  Inspiring Minds Floating Solar Panels
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  The Three Little Men in the Woods (or how to grow strawberries in the winter)
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  Small-scale solar has key benefits, and one critical weakness, over large solar farms
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  How better and cheaper software could save millions of dollars while improving Canada’s health-care system

• 2023 FAST Completed Projects
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  Energy Modeling and Techno-Economic Feasibility Analysis of Greenhouses for Tomato Cultivation Utilizing the Waste Heat of Cryptocurrency Miners
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  How Easy is it to Feed Everyone? Economic Alternatives to Eliminate Human Nutrition Deficits
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  Energy Policy for Agrivoltaics in Alberta Canada
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  Visible light driven photocatalytic performance of 3D TiO2/g-C3N5 nanocomposites via Z-scheme charge transfer promotion for water purification
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  Fabrication of Bimetallic Inlaid Working Electrode for Highly Efficient Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
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  Making the Tools to Do-It-Together: Open-source Compression Screw Manufacturing Case Study
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  Hangprinter for Large Scale Additive Manufacturing using Fused Particle Fabrication with Recycled Plastic and Continuous Feeding
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  The Agrivoltaic Potential of Canada
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  The potential for fencing to be used as low-cost solar photovoltaic racking
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  Can grid-tied solar photovoltaics lead to residential heating electrification? A techno-economic case study in the midwestern U.S.
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  Open-Source Vertical Swinging Wood-Based Solar Photovoltaic Racking Systems
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  Economics of Open-Source Solar Photovoltaic Powered Cryptocurrency Mining
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  Understanding the multilevel phenomena that enables inorganic atomic layer deposition to provide barrier coatings for highly-porous 3-D printed plastic in vacuums
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  Environmental remediation of real textile dyeing wastewater under visible light and inactivation of pathogenic bacteria using ZnO/CuO nano-needles
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  Overcoming Chip Shortages: Low-cost Open-source Parametric 3-D Printable Solderless SOIC to DIP Breakout Adapters
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  Economic Efficiency of an Open-Source National Medical Lab Software in Canada
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  Geographical Dependence of Open Hardware Optimization: Case Study of Solar Photovoltaic Racking
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  AC/off-grid photovoltaic powered open-source ball mill
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  Open-source 3-D printing materials database generator
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  Quantifying Alternative Food Potential of Agricultural Residue in Rural Communities of Sub-Saharan Africa
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  Snow Losses for Photovoltaic Systems: Validating the Marion and Townsend Models
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  Yield and Toxin Analysis of Leaf Protein Concentrate from Common North American Coniferous Trees
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  Maximizing Biomass with Agrivoltaics: Potential and Policy in Saskatchewan Canada
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  Open-Source Designs for Distributed Manufacturing of Low-Cost Customized Walkers
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  The Potential of Replacing Concrete with Sand and Recycled Polycarbonate Composites: Compressive Strength Testing
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  Distributed Manufacturing of an Open-Source Tourniquet Testing System
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  Open Source Scientific Bottle Roller
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  Open-source 3-D printable autoinjector: Design, testing, and regulatory limitations
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  Quantifying Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Human Deaths to Guide Energy Policy
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  The Impact of Snow Losses on Solar Photovoltaic Systems in North America in the Future
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  Open Source Framework for a Broadly Expandable and Reconfigurable Data Acquisition and Automation Device (BREAD)
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  Business Models for Open Source Hardware Repositories
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  Recycled Polycarbonate and Polycarbonate/Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene Feedstocks for Circular Economy Product Applications with Fused Granular Fabrication-Based Additive Manufacturing
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  Vertical Free-Swinging Photovoltaic Racking Energy Modelling: A Novel Approach to Agrivoltaics
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  Retraining investment for Alberta’s oil and gas workers for green jobs in the solar industry
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  Low-cost air, noise, and light pollution measuring station with wireless communication and tinyML
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  Toxic Analysis of Leaf Protein Concentrate Regarding Common Agricultural Residues
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  A Free and open-source microgrid optimization tool: SAMA the Solar Alone Multi-Objective Advisor
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  Patent Parasites: Non-Inventors Patenting Existing Open-Source Inventions in the 3-D Printing Technology Space
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  Solar photovoltaic wood racking mechanical design for trellis-based agrivoltaics
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  Modular Open-Source Design of Pyrolysis Reactor Monitoring and Control Electronics
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  Is small or big solar better for the environment? Comparative life cycle assessment of solar photovoltaic rooftop vs. ground‑mounted systems
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  Leveraging Open Source Development Value to Increase Freedom of Movement of Highly Qualified Personnel

• 2023 FAST Popular Projects
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  Unlock academic research with this open source open access tool for librarians
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  “Do-It-Together” and Innovation: Transforming European Industry
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  International Law in War Zones
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  The State of Open-source 3D Printing: How to Preemptively Quash Patent Parasites and Trolls
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  Open Source 3D Printing- Set up Your Open Hardware Development So Everyone Can Participate
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  The State of Open Source 3D Printing: Make Copycats and Freeloaders into Assets
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  Mass Transport in Conformally Coated Porous Materials
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  Mechanism of Imperfect Atomic Layer Deposition in Porous Materials
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  How shading crops with solar panels can improve farming, lower food costs and reduce emissions
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  The Role of Net Metering in the Evolving Electricity System
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  Lady MacGyver Book 1 Origins
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  Lady MacGyver Book 2 Free Air
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  Mixed-use solar and agricultural land is the silver bullet Alberta’s Conservatives have wished for
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  Supporting open hardware for open scienceSoutenir le matériel ouvert en vue d’une science ouverte, Apoyar el hardware abierto para la ciencia abierta
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  The unexpected reason$ farmers are planting crops under solar panels
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  How to ensure Alberta’s oil and gas workers have jobs during the energy transition
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  Using Open Source Hardware to Slash the Costs of Solar Photovoltaic Research (video)
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  COP28: How 7 policies could help save a billion lives by 2100
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  COP28: siete acciones que podrían salvar mil millones de vidas de aquí a 2100
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  COP 28: 7 kebijakan energi yang dapat menyelamatkan 1 miliar nyawa pada 2100
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  2nd Annual Agrivoltaics Canada Conference

• 2022 FAST Completed Projects
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  Monofacial vs bifacial solar photovoltaic systems in snowy environments
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  A Review of the Effects of Haze on Solar Photovoltaic Performance
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  Dye-sensitized solar cells as promising candidates for underwater photovoltaic applications
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  The Greenest Solar Power? Life Cycle Assessment of Foam-Based Flexible Floatovoltaics
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  Foam-based floatovoltaics: A potential solution to disappearing terminal natural lakes
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  Optimal inverter and wire selection for solar photovoltaic fencing applications
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  Achieving 100% Renewable and Self-Sufficient Electricity in Impoverished, Rural, Northern Climates: Case Studies from Upper Michigan, USA
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  Open-source Photovoltaic - Electrical Vehicle Carport Designs
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  Low-cost pole and wire photovoltaic racking
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  Agrivoltaics in Ontario Canada: Promise and Policy
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  Advancing Agrivoltaics within the U.S. Legal Framework: A Multidimensional Assessment of Barriers & Opportunities
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  Do agrivoltaics improve public support for solar? A survey on perceptions, preferences, and priorities
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  Impacts of Location on Designs and Economics of DIY Low-Cost Fixed-Tilt Open Source Wood Solar Photovoltaic Racking
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  Open-Source Design and Economics of Manual Variable-Tilt Angle DIY Wood-Based Solar Photovoltaic Racking System
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  Greener Sheep: Life Cycle Analysis of Integrated Sheep Agrivoltatic Systems
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  Atrapando El Sol
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  Capter Le Soleil
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  Economic Impact of DIY Home Manufacturing of Consumer Products with Low-cost 3D Printing from Free and Open Source Designs
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  Towards open source patents: Semi-automated open hardware certification from MediaWiki websites
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  Equitable Research Capacity Towards the Sustainable Development Goals: The Case for Open Science Hardware
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  Strategic Investment in Open Hardware for National Security
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  Leveraging Intellectual Property to Prevent Nuclear War
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  Open-Source Hardware May Address the Shortage in Medical Devices for Patients with Low-Income and Chronic Respiratory Diseases in Low-Resource Countries
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  Low-cost Assistive Technologies for Disabled People Using Open-Source Hardware and Software: A Systematic Literature Review
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  Open source surgical fracture table for digitally distributed manufacturing
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  Particle Swarm Optimization of Printing Parameters for Open-Source TIG-Based Metal 3D Printing
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  Thermal Post-Processing of 3-D Printed Polypropylene Parts for Vacuum Systems
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  Free and Open-Source Automated Open Access Preprint Harvesting
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  Professors Want to Share: Preliminary Survey Results on Establishing Open Source Endowed Professorships
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  Canadian professors’ views on establishing open source endowed professorships
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  The Rise of Platinum Open Access Journals with both Impact Factors and Zero Article Processing Charges
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  Open source decarbonization for a sustainable world
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  Towards Smart Monitored AM: Open Source in-Situ Layer-wise 3D Printing Image Anomaly Detection Using Histograms of Oriented Gradients and a Physics-Based Rendering Engine
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  Finding Ideal Parameters for Recycled Material Fused Particle Fabrication-Based 3D Printing Using an Open Source Software Implementation of Particle Swarm Optimization
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  Waste Plastic Direct Extrusion Hangprinter
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  Design of a low-cost mobile multispectral albedometer with geopositioning and absolute orientation
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  Open Source 3-D Printed ISO 8655 Compliant Multichannel Pipette
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  Design and Implementation of 3-D Printed Radiation Shields for Environmental Sensors
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  Low cost climate station for smart agriculture applications with photovoltaic energy and wireless communication
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  Killing two birds with one stone: chemical and biological upcycling of polyethylene terephthalate plastics into food
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  Rapid repurposing of pulp and paper mills, biorefineries, and breweries for lignocellulosic sugar production in global food catastrophes
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  Nutrition in Abrupt Sunlight Reduction Scenarios: Envisioning Feasible Balanced Diets on Resilient Foods
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  Long term cost-effectiveness of resilient foods for global catastrophes compared to artificial general intelligence safety
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  Methane Single Cell Protein: securing protein supply during global food catastrophes
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  Investing to kill: return on investment of tobacco companies compared to high-mortality and neutral industries
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  Evaluation of lab performance of stamp sand and acrylonitrile styrene acrylate waste composites without asphalt as road surface materials
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  Technical and Economic Viability of Distributed Recycling of Low-density Polyethylene Water Sachets into Waste Composite Pavement Blocks
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  The Effects of Substrate Temperature on the Growth, Microstructural and Magnetic Properties of Gadolinium-Containing Films on Aluminum Nitride
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  Enriched second-harmonic generation in meta-phase barium titanate nanostructures synthesized by sol-gel hydrothermal method
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  The use of urea as an N-doping 3D hierarchical preserving agent for titanium dioxide nanostructures tailored for dye-sensitized solar cells
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  Impact of Coupled Plasmonic Effect with Multishaped Silver Nanoparticles on Efficiency of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

• 2022 FAST Popular Projects
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  HardwareX in the Limelight
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  Open source solar photovoltaics for ensuring power in remote and low-resource settings
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  The National Science Foundation bets big on open source
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  New Trailblazers Fellowships power open hardware in academia
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  Special Issue on Open Source Decarbonization for a Sustainable World
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  When open source meets academic publishing: Platinum open access journals
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  Green Energy Investments to Expedite Due to War
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  SolariseCon: Seeding Solarpunk Futures
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  Platinum open access academic journals with impact factors finally exist!
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  Economics of Open-Source Solar Photovoltaic Powered Cryptocurrency Mining
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  Costs and benefits of solar panels - Expert Interview with Joshua Pearce
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  Open source decarboniztaion for a sustainable world
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  Responsible Design for AM
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  The Rise of OS AM Scientific Hardware & Career Success
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  20 Things You Should Know about Solar Panels
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  Ivey Energy Policy and Management Centre Agrivoltaics Conference
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  Why we need open-source science innovation — not patents and paywalls
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  Install open source solar power at home
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  Open source solutions for EV charging

• 2021 FAST Completed Projects
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  To Catch the Sun
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  Enhanced Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Performance using Strontium Titanate Perovskite Integrated Photoanodes Modified with Plasmonic Silver Nanoparticles
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  Microwave-Assisted Synthesized Gadolinium Doped Barium Strontium Titanate Nanostructures: Structural and Optical Properties for DSSC Applications
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  Decarbonizing rural residential buildings in cold climates: A techno-economic analysis of heating electrification
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  Expanded Microchannel Heat Exchanger: Finite Difference Modeling
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  Fully dense SiOC(N) cellular structures by integrating FFF 3-D printing with polymer derived ceramics
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  3D Printed SiOC(N) Ceramic Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Regeneration: Improved Osteogenic Differentiation of Human Bone Marrow‐Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells
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  “Do-It-Together”: Towards the Factories of the Future; An Open Source Preemptive Strike in the Coming War Over The Freedom to Make Your Own Products
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  Sustainability and Feasibility Assessment of Distributed E-Waste Recycling using Additive Manufacturing in a Bi-Continental Context
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  Overcoming Supply Chain Disruptions During Pandemics by Utilizing Found Hardware for Open Source Gentle Ventilation
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  Life cycle assessment of pasture-based agrivoltaic systems: Emissions and energy use of integrated rabbit production
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  Open-Source Script for Design and 3D Printing of Porous Structures for Soil Science
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  Global distribution of forest classes and leaf biomass for use as alternative foods to minimize malnutrition
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  Long-term cost-effectiveness of interventions for loss of electricity/industry compared to artificial general intelligence safety
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  Open Source Software Toolchain for Automated Non-Targeted Screening for Toxins in Alternative Foods
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  Parametric Open Source Cold-Frame Agrivoltaic Systems

• 2024 FAST Popular Projects
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  How to Start a Public Invention and Humanitarian Engineering Club at your University Public Invention
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  Make Things, Make Sense, Make Shifts- Fab16
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  DRAM It! -The Chemical Engineer
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  DIY Solar Now To Pocket Profits From Solar Energy- Earth 911
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  HardwareX and Open Source Hardware Podcast on Buzzsprout, PlayerFM, Apple podcasts
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  Open source gets dirty with 3D printing
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  Note on a Proposed UN Centralised Database of Open-source Appropriate Technologies
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  How to Profit from Solar Power at Home
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  Open source solar power for anyone
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  Why now is a great time to consider a career in open source hardware
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  Earth911 Podcast: Joshua Pearce Explains DIY Solar Installation
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  Open source powers the United Nations' sustainability goals
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  Approaches to Making Open Source the Default in Academia