Energy & Green Tech
PV systems continue expanding faster than any other renewable energy source thanks to their ability to harvest sustainable, clean and low-cost energy from the sun. Newly installed PV capacities in Europe grew by 31 % year-on-year ...
Dec 11, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
In a rapidly urbanizing world, the concept of smart cities is increasingly being used across Europe to improve the quality of life for citizens. Thanks to several EU-funded projects, such as MAtchUP, Sharing Cities and REMOURBAN, ...
Nov 12, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
With its wide range of applications from construction to consumer goods, industrial processes and cutting-edge technologies, the ceramics industry is an integral part of EU manufacturing. A key component of energy-intensive ...
Nov 11, 2019
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Engineering
How can people be motivated to improve their energy use? An EU-funded cross-cultural study looks into how people interact with building technologies to control their indoor environment.
Oct 22, 2019
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Engineering
The European ExaNoDe project has built a groundbreaking compute unit prototype paving the way to tomorrow's exascale supercomputers, those capable of performing a billion billion calculations per second, or ten times faster ...
Oct 22, 2019
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Engineering
While urban population is expected to continue growing around most of the globe, this is less so in Europe.
Oct 14, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Hydrogen-powered cars are seen as a potential solution to the pollution caused by gasoline and diesel engines, but the mass roll-out of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) hasn't yet materialized. As noted in a report by ...
Oct 1, 2019
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Engineering
Currently, about 55 percent of the world's population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 68 percent by 2050, according to a UN report. With several challenges posed by continued urbanization, ...
Oct 1, 2019
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Engineering
Air pollution levels remain dangerously high in various parts of the world. According to the World Health Organization, 9 out of10 people breathe air containing high levels of pollutants, such as particulate matter and nitrogen ...
Oct 1, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Imagine the cities of the future: cleaner, more sustainable, with ecofriendly urban transport such as electrically powered buses, garbage trucks and delivery vehicles that can be charged quickly and automatically. For this ...
Sep 17, 2019
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