The new Dutch PV Portal 2.0, initiated by Delft researchers, allows anyone to evaluate the production of a solar power system anywhere in the Netherlands. It will also show you the payback period.
De routekaart naar een energieneutrale stad in 2040 kan een pittig dossier worden voor de Amsterdamse gemeenteraad. Het masterplan van TU-hoogleraar Andy van den Dobbelsteen maakt de enorme schaal van de ambitie duidelijk.
Physicist Erik Verlinde (UvA) shook up the physics community with his new theory of emergent gravity, an adaptation of the current gravitational laws of Newton and Einstein. On invitation by the VvTP, Verlinde will give a public lecture in the Aula on Tuesday March 8th.
Je hoort veel tegengeluiden over de sleepwet. Wij wilden de andere kant eens laten horen, aldus Lijst Bèta over hun goedbezochte lunchlezing in het EWI-gebouw op woensdag 28 februari.
TU Delft students are braving the cold today in a bunker near Rijswijk to test the latest version of their Nimbus rocket engine. It’s the power house of the Stratos III rocket that will be launched in July and that will help the students retake the height record, they hope.
Accelerating the rooftop revolution is the personal and corporate mission of Sungevity’s founder Roebyem Anders. She shared her passion and experience in the lecture series ‘Meet the Energy leaders’.
Researchers from the Kavli Institute of TU Delft and EMBL Heidelberg filmed how a single protein complex called condensin reels in DNA to extrude a loop. By extruding many loops in long strands of DNA, a cell effectively compacts its genome so it can be distributed evenly to its two daughter cells. The findings were published online in Science on 22 February.
TU Delft researchers Tope Agbana and Hai Gong received the Edmund Optics Silver Award during a mini-symposium for the development of the Optical Smart Malaria Diagnostic (OSMD) project. The project aims to diagnose malaria with little more than a smartphone.
Wood as a biofuel is a controversial topic. In a mini-symposium organised by the KNAW on Monday 19 February, scientists met with a critical audience. “Stop burning now!”
