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Energy harvesting for unlimited lifetime systems

The Internet of Things (IoT) and services, wireless sensor networks (WSNs), trillions of sensors, Industry 4.0, and digitalisation – all these are hungry for data, and their common challenge is energy.
Directly above of test tube backgrounds.

The future of sustainable electrified catalyst recycling

Xochitl Dominguez Benetton, Senior Scientist & Project Coordinator at the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO) and the FIREFLY consortium, explore competitiveness and sovereignty through sustainable electrified catalyst recycling.
Four chimneys releasing a fantastic amount of smoke. Ideal image to highlight climate change, global warming and greenhouse issues.

COP28: The fossil fuel COP and political leadership on climate

Richard Beardsworth, Professor of International Relations and Head of School from POLIS, University of Leeds, reflects on COP28, focusing on the fossil fuel COP and political leadership on climate.

Energy transition plans: How municipalities face the energy transition

Municipalities need tools to manage and achieve the local energy transition, according to Gerard Laguna Benet, Researcher at BEE Group – CIMNE.
Wind power stations in a winter landscape in the Lapland province in north of Sweden above the polar circle.

Research to reduce polarisation in the swedish energy policy debate

Filip Johnsson, Professor at Chalmers University of Technology, argues that research can help to reduce polarisation in the Swedish energy policy debate.
Figure: A Sb2S3 solar cell device fabricated by chemical spray pyrolysis with a future potential to be used in a semi-transparent PV application. photovoltaic

5GSOLAR: The next generation of photovoltaics

Emerging thin film photovoltaic technologies, currently being developed in research laboratories, are the EU’s key to unlocking its photovoltaic industry and ensuring the growth of a sustainable and green electricity market.
Figure 2b: Low-power MW plasma torch produced by a surfatron wave launcher (4).

Future technology: Multi-purpose plasmas with microwaves

Professor Michel Moisan and his team at Université de Montréal (UdeM) explore reliable, energy-efficient and multi-purpose plasmas with microwaves for research and technology.
Solar power plants in the dusk of the evening

Moral markets in energy: Bridging the gap between policy, industry, and society

Dr. Panikos Georgallis, an Associate Professor at the University of Amsterdam, does research on the interaction between companies and their socio-political environment when adapting to moral markets.
Figure: Craters made in virgin and in nano-doped targets, nuclear fusion

Naplife: Nanotechnology with a perspective on nuclear fusion

Biró. Tamás Sándor a research professor at the Wigner RCP in Budapest, Hungary, discusses using nuclear fusion as a primary energy source in his project ‘NAPLIFE’.

InDEStruct: engineering advanced heat transfer systems

Open Access Government interviews members of the team of the InDEStruct project, a Horizon 2020 project which works toward inter-disciplinary design approaches for advanced heat transfer systems.

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