The main challenge of the energy transition is to decarbonize energy production and consumption in an economically feasible fashion. In production, the impact of renewable energies such as wind and solar becomes crucial—both of which are intermittent in nature, so the question of how to store the energy becomes prominent. On the consumption side, battery-powered…
Solar Energy provides an excellent renewable energy source and can help reduce energy consumption costs even in private households while also decarbonizing. However, solar cells are mainly used nowadays in detached houses or office and industrial buildings – situations where only one owner is involved. The question of how to distribute solar energy in apartment…
Delivery services are performing at an all-time high and are still growing: In the EU, home delivery is expected to reach a 30% share of all retail sales by 2030. So far, urban shipping is mostly done by trucks, which not only consume a lot of fuel but also block space, get stuck in traffic…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) suddenly became widespread in application with the successful launch of ChatGPT (some people even now say that technology is at its breakthrough, having its ChatGPT moment). No aspect of work-life remains unaffected by this new technology: AI helps to improve texts, create images, recognize forms on images, help analyze complex and large…
Wind energy is crucial to transforming the world into a greener one. A missing piece is the lack of recycling: Wind turbine blades can barely be recycled because they consist of a tough composite material. Research indicates that there will be 43 million tonnes of blade waste worldwide by 2050, imposing a significant risk of…
“Going green” – or changing existing technologies towards more sustainable ones – consists of complex transitioning steps. This transition encompasses changes to more intermittent forms of energy like wind or solar, more sustainable techniques for creating heat and replacing natural gas with hydrogen. Hydrogen is a versatile gas that has the potential to act as…
The Turner MIINT competition, hosted annually by the ESG Initiative at Wharton Business School, empowers the next generation of investors to “think like an impact investor.” Students worldwide engage in rigorous due diligence processes, assessing early-stage impact venture capital deals and presenting their findings to an expert judging committee. This year marked the 13th edition…
Carbon neutrality and how to achieve it is a widely discussed topic today. However, most discussions revolve around the technical side of it: The latest developments in wind and solar energy; how to use battery technology to make up for the intermittent nature of the renewables; or the increasing challenges for grid operators. While these…
The central question of the energy transition is: How can we reduce our carbon footprint while staying economically on top? Combatting carbon emissions can be approached in two main ways. One method involves using carbon capture technologies to extract already emitted CO2. Capturing CO2 can be done both from point source and air. Air capture…
Crossover episodes are widely known and popular in TV shows – one character of a show suddenly shows up in another TV show, for example, Family Guy’s Peter Griffin in the Simpson’s Springfield. Today’s newsletter edition is also a crossover episode, as we talk to Benjamin Wolba, author of the Future of Computing blog. It…