News Climate Action Stories What is the coolest tree? My façade is your façade!? The next phase in aircraft design ESP Lab - Peter Palensky, Digital Technologies ESP Lab - Lucia Beloqui Larumbe, Power Electronics ESP Lab – Miro Zeman, Photovoltaics A meaty trick: plant-based deception for good Fransje Hooimeijer Moved by moving water LandShapes: made to feel real Climate Action News Open menu 26 February 2020 TU Delft climate arboretum Wednesday 18 March, National Tree Day (Nationale Boomfeestdag), will see the opening of the first climate arboretum at TU Delft. Read more 25 February 2020 TU Delft Climate Institute offers travel support for negative emissions intern program The climate institute at TU Delft would like to take up the challenge to develop scientific knowledge, scientific tools and technological solutions necessary for reversing the increase in atmospheric emissions. Read more 20 February 2020 Taking a piss? Or turning it into energy Pee not only generates uncontrollable laughter in five-year-olds but energy as well. Niels van Linden is currently working on a concept to produce electricity from urban and industrial residual waters, which in turn will power the energy-neutral water treatment system he is hoping to develop. Read more 19 February 2020 From concrete waste to concrete buildings Earth’s primary resources are finite. Human inventiveness, however, isn’t. At TU Delft’s laboratories, Francesco Di Maio is working on the recycling of concrete waste. Just like the Phoenix, the mythological bird that rises from its own ashes, Di Maio wants new concrete buildings to arise from their predecessors waste. He hopes his technologies will help to transform urban economies into self-sustaining loops. Read more 18 February 2020 Can sandbanks save mangrove forests? Waking up early and going into the field on a small fishermen's boat, while the sun is rising behind volcano tops. That's how days started for PhD student Silke Tas during her two month fieldwork in Indonesia. The rest of her days were less idyllic: they consisted mostly of treading through the mud to get the right measurements for her research. She studies the workings of coastal sandbanks that give a chance to mangrove forests to restore, so that the forests can, in turn, prevent coast erosion. Read more ... Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 You are on page 34 Page 35 Page 36 ... Do you want to be updated on Climate Action news and events? Share this page: Facebook Linkedin Twitter Email WhatsApp Share this page