Feeding in 100 gigawatt of power from Africa to Europe, as the Desertec plan proposes, demands enormous research and investments. The power capacity is hundred times larger then the BritNed cable connecting Netherlands and the UK.
An elementary particle that was predicted 75 years ago by the Italian physicist, Ettore Majorana, has now been detected by Professor Leo Kouwenhoven and his Kavli institute team, in collaboration with FOM and TU/e.
Research at the TU has brought a superfast working quantum computer one important step closer. For the first time, researchers built a working 2-bit quantum computer on a diamond chip. Their spectacular result was published in the science journal Nature.
Gas has been leaking from Total’s North Sea Elgin platform for more than a week. “I would have expected more information on the situation by now,” says Professor Jan Dirk Jansen, Chair of Reservoir Systems and Control.
What amount of rainfall causes flooding in urban areas? No one actually knows. In order to gain more knowledge of the impact of rainfall, TU Delft and international partners are trying to find answers by cooperating in the RainGain project.
Water in many of the large shallow Dutch lakes is turbid and of a colour between grey and green. But it’s not only algal bloom that mucks up our waters, discovered Dr Ellis Penning from Deltares.
Dr Sjaak Verdoold took the picture of this cover himself inside the rectangular spraying reactor. There were two nozzles on opposite sides, electro-spraying tiny but highly charged particles towards each other.
The future of mining lies on the bottom of the oceans. In a new minor, ‘Deep Sea’, students will learn all the in’s and out’s of exploiting this harsh environment.
Racing team
The Formula Student Racing team DUT12 has started building their all-electric racing car. Last month the students laminated the first half of the outer shell.
