News Open menu Search 211 results Open menu 12 March 2020 Into the mud to help nature PhD candidate Lodewijk de Vet stood in the mud for weeks, in order to learn about organisms in the seabed and to take measurements. He wants to understand the Eastern and Western Scheldt better, so that he can help the ecology while simultaneously protecting our country from rising sea levels. His understanding of these areas served as a foundation for the Roggenplaat nourishments, that have since been executed. Read more 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 ... Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 You are on page 32 Page 33 Page 34 ... Share this page: Facebook Linkedin Twitter Email WhatsApp Share this page