High-temperature heat pumps are becoming an increasingly important technology for decarbonizing industrial processes. One of the latest advancements in this field is the development of oil-free, high-temperature heat pumps. This topic we are going to explore in today’s interview with Khalid, PhD candidate at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). His work focuses on…
The energy market is a complex organism from various points of view: On the engineering side, the electrical grid always needs to be kept in balance. The transition towards green energy not only needs new innovations in wind, solar or battery technology, but these innovations need to be implemented in the running system. Then, there…
“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…
Decarbonizing heating processes is one key issue in achieving sustainability. The public discussion now mainly focuses on the heating of private households, as seen in the lively debate about Germany’s recently passed “heating law”, in which German lawmakers make it mandatory for new buildings to use sustainable heating sources such as heat pumps. Industrial processes…
In the search for ecologically friendly solutions, nuclear energy is the arguably most disputed solution: A French initiative led the EU to declare nuclear energy to be green, Poland just gets started with nuclear power, and many other countries, as the Czech Republic ramped up their repertoire. In stark contrast, Germany, the biggest economy in the…
Facing climate change and its effects is an increasingly difficult task, which not only poses a challenge to the transition of the energy business but affects all parts of life: More and more extreme weather phenomena leading to longer periods of droughts or even desertification in many regions, which endangering fresh water supply in the…