Sound waves can chill ice cream, while heat can generate intense whistling tones. Welcome to the bizarre world of thermoacoustics, a promising source of ideas for next generation heat engines.
The coldest place in the solar system is no longer Pluto, but rather a crater on the moon’s south pole, according to an article in this week’s issue of New Scientist. And that’s good news for space travel.
It’s the latest craze in smartphone applications: augmented reality. Point your camera at a street and information about restaurants or other attractions are displayed on top of the video image of that particular street.
Technology that automatically scales maps for mobile device users has won a TU Delft team lead by prof.dr. Peter van Oosterom this year’s Geo Information Award for science. They received a bronze sculpture earlier this month.
Highways made of solar panels. The United States Department of Transportation has invested hundred thousand dollars in Solar Roadways, a company that promises to make the solar panel highways of the future.
Industrial design student Bob van Putten makes biomaterials out of algae. He dreams of a world in which product packaging will be completely biodegradable.
Name: Richard Pijpers
Nationality: Dutch
PhD supervisor: Professor Frans Bijlaard (faculty of Civil Engineering & Geosciences)
Subject: Fatigue Strength of Very High Strength Steel Joints
Thesis defense: One and a half years to go
"From an esthetic as well as an environmental point of view, it would be great if skyscrapers, bridges, cranes and oil rigs could be constructed with much thinner steel structures.
Vorige week kreeg de TU Delft een vergunning om te zoeken naar aardwarmte. De universiteit wil heet grondwater van kilometers diepte oppompen om gebouwen mee te verwarmen.
Delta and Delft Integraal often write about innovative ideas that offer big promises for the future. But what has happened to such ideas a couple years on? What for instance has happened to ‘Piece of Family’, a multimedia device for the elderly that Sanne Kistemaker designed two years ago?
