ETH postdoc Olivier Gröninger is improving the drinking water supply for people in rural areas of South America with his Openversum project. This benefits not only the families but also the local economy and the climate
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The focus on design engineering is shifting with a huge demand from customers for more sustainable products. Protolabs believe that experts from both industry and academia can be brought together to share their expertise with others - the online knowledge sharing InspirON series meets this need.
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Sustainable fuels are based on green hydrogen and carbon dioxide - and should make a significant contribution to decarbonising sectors such as aviation, where fossil fuels are particularly difficult to replace.
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When lightning strikes water, then water has a temporary disinfecting effect. Even rain during a thunderstorm has this short-lived effect. Start-up VitalFluid, located at HTC 25, mimics this natural phenomenon.
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MCG Advanced Materials Division and Wevolver will award innovative products / projects that make use of fiber-reinforced composites.
Researchers at Columbia Engineering and the Fashion Institute of Technology team up to create a non-toxic bioleather, inspired by the power of microbes and indigenous science.
The challenges of EV charging must be addressed quickly to ensure the rapid adoption of electric transportation.
The collaborative nature of open source projects brings together people across the world to work towards improving and monitoring our natural resources.
If devices lasted longer and were easier to fix, they could provide many years of good service before recycling. That saves precious materials and the energy needed to manufacture new products.
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Article #6 Altair Startup Series. Startups play a key role in moving towards innovative circular and sustainable engineering practices.
In this episode, we talk about how a shift in perspective regarding wind farm power production led to a model that can increase global output by 5% and a much overdue redesign of turbine blades for hydroelectric power dams that’ll enable sustainable power production.
Engineers can further their sustainability focus during design and development
A future-proof plastics industry will include biobased products and a closed loop of production and product recycling.
Polymateria are British innovators and inventors of the world’s first self-destructing plastic technology. The company approached Protolabs for digital manufacturing support in raising awareness of the issue and their ground-breaking technology that could ultimately help solve it.
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