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Capacitech Energy

Electrical and Electronic Manufacturing

Drop-in power cords that improve battery performance.

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Mergeflow

Software

Software for faster time-to-insight on R&D and business

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Nimbus Engineering Inc

Wireless Power, Electrical Engineering

Nimbus Engineering is enabling wireless power technology to take the next s...

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Columbia Engineering

Higher Education

Columbia Engineering, based in New York City, is one of the top engineering...

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TDK Electronics

Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing

Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing

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Curious Future Insight Conference

Plants use photosynthesis to harvest energy from sunlight. Now researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have applied this principle as the basis for developing new sustainable processes which in the future may produce syngas (synthetic gas) for the large-scale chemical industry and be able to charge batteries.

Smart light traps

Whether rooftop solar panels are worth the cost is largely dependent in Switzerland on local compensation rates for solar power and on electricity prices in general – these are the findings of a study by researchers at ETH Zurich and the University of Bern. Many power grid operators pay too little, thereby limiting the expansion of solar power.

Patchwork of issues limits solar expansion

Batteries alone can’t power our future. However, finding a viable battery replacement can prove to be a difficult task. Perhaps the answer is an addition to batteries instead of trying to replace them.

Cables that Enable Better Batteries

Solar power is becoming an increasingly important source of energy worldwide. At present, photovoltaic systems are predominantly being used in Germany. For sunny countries, solar tower power plants are a valuable addition. They store heat and can generate electricity at any time – even when the sun is not shining.

Solar tower power plants - sunlight becomes electricity on demand

EPFL chemical engineers have invented a solar-powered artificial leaf, built on a novel electrode which is transparent and porous, capable of harvesting water from the air for conversion into hydrogen fuel. The semiconductor-based technology is scalable and easy to prepare.

A step towards solar fuels out of thin air

Concentrating solar thermal systems are still little known in Germany, although they are a highly efficient approach to producing heat from solar energy. In such a system, specialised mirrors arranged in different geometries are used to focus the Sun’s rays on a defined area, such as a circle or a line. This heats a heat transfer medium, which then flows through a heat exchanger.

Concentrating solar thermal technology ready for efficient use in Germany