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Environmentally friendly battery

In a corner of the campus Green Village is a green hut containing 20 drums of water: this is the AquaBattery pilot project. The water battery stores electricity in saline and fresh water and is connected to the five adjoining student apartments.

Goodbye AC, hello DC

Alternating current is on the way out, so say the TU Delft researchers behind the DC Distribution Smart Grids project.

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Professor Peter Palensky (intelligent electrical power grids) fathoms the consequences of increasing demand and simultaneous out phasing of conventional power generation for the power grid. “That's a big ... challenge.”

How to build a million new homes

Last spring, Minister of Foreign Affairs Kajsa Ollongren suggested that the Netherlands will need a million new homes by 2030. That sounds like a lot, but it isn’t really. The important question is: what types of homes? We mustn’t repeat the mistake of building endless series of exactly the same homes, says Prof. Dick van Gameren, Professor of Dwelling at TU Delft.

The quantum computer exists, and it doesn’t

QuTech is a big international player in the field of quantum computing and quantum communications. The Delft institute is yet to bring a quantum computer online, but has introduced the first Dutch simulator. If quantum logic also applies here, the hardware will follow in double time.

Have neural networks gone beyond our understanding?

Artificial intelligence has seen an enormous growth spurt with the application of ‘deep
neural networks’. Such networks are taking over more and more tasks from humans in a
nearly unparalleled manner. But who still understands how they work?

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