“Power grids everywhere are more vulnerable than ever for geomagnetic effects,” says John Kappenman in IEEE Spectrum, about the upcoming maximum in solar storms.
Light trap
It has long been thought that conversion efficiency of solar cells cannot exceed 34 percent, due to a thermodynamic limit.
The European Wind Energy Master (Ewem) hasn’t started yet, but already it has been rewarded the Erasmus Mundus label – approval by the European Commission.
PhD student, and now Dr. Andre Neumann, made the cover together with his girlfriend, Sylvie Thues, using strings of wool of different colours, representing a number of designers.
The design challenge is so popular that it has been ongoing at the Architecture faculty for three semesters: design the headquarters for the United Nations’ new environmental council.
After being hacked, internet service provider KPN shut down email services to all of its two million customers last Friday, to prevent usernames and passwords from being disclosed on the internet.
‘Blue energy’ from mixing salt and fresh water is said to have a great potential. A young civil engineer however has recently voiced his doubts, stating that the power cost needed will be four times higher than claimed.
The argument that human beings are so complex that a higher power must have created them reveals the level of arrogance that human beings can portray.
Russian grant
Professor Kemo Hanjalic, emeritus professor at the Faculty of Applied Sciences, was recently awarded a grant worth 3.6
