Energy Storage Takes On Weird New Forms As Sparkling Green Future Takes Shape
New energy storage technology ranges from plain old gravity to futuristic solar-plus-gaming devices that deploy human beings as living batteries.
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The City Of The Future Will Depend On Reimagining Our Lifestyles
The ability to build more sustainably requires us to understand the current built environment. While urban designers and architects have a role to play in planning the cities of the future, all of us are invited to re-think and re-imagine the ways in which we live in and interact with the city landscape.
How The 4th Industrial Revolution Will Change The Energy Landscape
In the next 50 years, energy will probably be unrecognizably different, and the end of oil and the rise of renewable energies will bring about entirely new ways of living.
New Study Highlights Massive Potential Of Hydropower
A new study conducted by researchers from the Delft University of Technology has concluded that the total theoretical energy generating potential of hydropower is 52 petawatt-hours per year, a quarter of the global energy demand expected by 2020.
Solliance Perovskite Project Gets Panasonic As New Partner
Originally published on Sustainnovate. The Japanese electronics giant Panasonic, a 2015 Zayed Future Energy Prize winner, has joined the Solliance perovskite solar research and development project — which aims to develop a scalable roll-to-roll production process for perovskite solar cells, amongst other things. The Japanese company joined the European research … [continued]
Concrete That Heals Itself
Concrete and bacteria are not often seen as sharing the same construction armchair, that is, unless you happen to be discussing concrete that heals itself. Henk Jonkers from Netherlands-based Delft University of Technology has created bioconcrete, a product that can heal its own cracks and faults. Jonkers says he originally began work … [continued]
Airborne Wind Energy: It’s All Platypuses Instead Of Cheetahs
Kite-based wind generation was first proposed in the 1940s, the seminal power potential paper was published in 1980 and it was first demonstrated in 1986. So why isn’t there a single production system or even an a quarter-scale production prototype in existence today? Each of the combinations of design choices … [continued]
A Renewable Energy Thought Experiment
Originally published on Energy Post The role that renewable energy could play in changing the balance of power in the world is often overlooked. Rick Bosman of the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT) in Rotterdam and Daniel Scholten, Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology, undertake a thought experiment … [continued]
Delft University Triumphs In 2013 World Solar Challenge!
The 2013 World Solar Challenge has a winner! After travelling 3,000 kilometers across the dry heart of Australia using only the power of the sun, the Nuna 7, designed and built by the Nulon Solar Team from the Delft Universty of Technology in the Netherlands, was the first to cross … [continued]
Student Hydrogen Racecar Vies Against Fossil-Fuel Competitors
According to the Forze blog, the team recently competed “…the first entry ever of a hydrogen fuel cell racing car in the Formula Student competition.” The race, part of the Silverstone circuit, featured the team’s hydrogen vehicle vying against approximately 100 petrol-powered cars. […]
