The Superbus was brought from Lelystad to Nieuw-Vennep to the National Transport Museum on 14 December 2020.
Solar boat to Maritime Museum Rotterdam In the opinion of the TU Delft Solar Boat Team, a museum should not only be about the past but also about the future. The addition of the 2016 solar boat to the Rotterdam Maritime Museum draws attention to the need to make shipping more sustainable – a…
Consortium demonstrates that thermal solar panels and a communal geothermal heating grid will heat a neighbourhood of reasonably well insulated homes without using gas.
The gap between energy need and microgeneration in electronics is getting smaller by the day. What if sensors are placed and forgotten, but remain active forever?
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Coral rescuers win space prize The Delft-based start-up Reef Support has won the top European prize in a competition for innovation in earth observation. They received the Copernicus Masters award from the European Space Agency (ESA) for their plan to use satellite images to protect coral reefs. Founders Marcel Kempers and Yohan…
Foreign students in illegality Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences fears that some foreign master’s students will disappear into illegality. Their English is actually not good enough and after a few weeks they won’t show up. The University of Applied Sciences even has the “suspicion of illegal immigration” which it doesn’t want to support, reports…
Start-up tests solar hatch for inland navigation The barge De Oleander started sailing through Europe this month with a hatch covered with solar panels. The Wattlab start-up regards it as a practical test. (Photo: Wattlab) When they were students, the founders of Wattlab were introduced to solar energy when they were part of…
TU Delft iGEM fights locusts with phages The TU Delft team has been highly praised in the international iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine) competition in which applied genetics is used to combat global problems. The TU Delft iGEM 2020 team focused on the locust plague that hit East Africa this year. It developed a…
Herkströter appointed as new ICT-director The Executive Board has appointed Norbert Herkströter as CIO/director of ICT with effect from 1 January 2021. He succeeds Han Derkx, who has held the position of ICT Director ad interim since May this year. Norbert Herkströter went from oil drilling to cloud storage. He graduated in…
