Energy & Green Tech
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), the demand for so-called critical raw materials (CRMs) will increase sevenfold by 2050. The reason for this is that our green, renewable energy technologies require far ...
Jan 20, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
Working up a sweat and racing pulses are all in a day's work for researchers Tron Vedul Tronstad and Johannes Tjønnås. They've just reached the top after jogging up the long staircase outside NTNU's Science Building at ...
Jan 7, 2022
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Engineering
The NTNU researchers behind the drone company Aviant will soon be flying blood samples from remote hospitals in places like Røros to St. Olav's Hospital in Trondheim. Two such routes are already flying in Sweden.
Dec 16, 2021
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Robotics
When the Norwegian production company Fantefilm searched the internet to find the coolest underwater robot in the world, they discovered to their surprise that it was being manufactured in Norway. The robot has thus become ...
Nov 18, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
A research group at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) has developed a method for making an ultra-high material efficient solar cell using semiconductor nanowires. If this is placed on top of a traditional ...
Nov 5, 2021
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Engineering
The force of waves slamming into offshore rigs, wind turbine pillars, ships or other offshore structures can do an enormous amount of damage.
Aug 17, 2021
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Engineering
Every ton of silicon produced leads to emissions of around 5 tons of CO₂.
Jul 22, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
SINTEF research scientist Andrea Gruber crunches numbers, albeit with the help of the supercomputer "Betzy." A seemingly infinite string of calculations is now answering open scientific questions about how a widespread and ...
Jul 14, 2021
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Machine learning & AI
If you've watched Netflix, shopped online, or run your robot vacuum cleaner, you've interacted with artificial intelligence, AI. AI is what allows computers to comb through an enormous amount of data to detect patterns or ...
Jul 8, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
Almost all the dams in Norway are built for hydropower. This is not the case around the world.
Jun 15, 2021
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