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Planning renewable energy: from local to European level
In 2008, leading politicians from around the EU agreed a target of 20 per cent renewable energy consumption by the year 2020. Meeting this target will require massive changes in the production, transmission, and consumption of energy in the European community. Bjørn Bakken of SUSPLAN, a project initiated to develop strategies, recommendations and benchmarks for the integration of renewable energy resources, explains how they hope to aid the attainment of this goal and beyond.
Hydrogen - fuel of the future?
As CO2 targets demand alternatives to non-sustainable fossil fuels, and fears over the safety of nuclear power grow following the Fukishima incident in Japan, the search for a safe, sustainable energy source to meet the demands of a power-hungry planet, grows ever more urgent. Could hydrogen be the holy grail?.
Securing the world's supply chains
The SMART-CM (Smart Container Chain Management) project is a research project that is co-funded in the context of the seventh research framework programe of the EU by DG RTD, and by partners from freight-related industries. It deals primarily with the possibility of using state-of-the-art technologies for enhancing security and the efficiency of global supply chains, as well as attaining agreement among all relevant actors as to how this should be achieved.
Improving inspection to keep trains on track
Despite better inspection procedures and standards for railways over the past few years, accidents resulting from train derailments still happen. The SAFERAIL project is looking to make a real difference by implementing new track-side and manual inspection systems for detection of faulty wheel sets..
Keeping the world's super-ships safer
More and more ships are sailing the world’s oceans as trade becomes increasingly global. This has led to larger and larger ships being built to cope better with this increased demand for cargo capacity – but with bigger ships come bigger structural problems that can lead to disasters like the sinking of MSC Napoli in 2007. TULCS is a project that has spent three years investigating these structural challenges and now has the models available to avoid them at the design stage.
Niche solutions for a global impact
With the amount of people in cities growing all the time, innovative solutions for increasing the efficiency of transport are becoming crucial in allowing these cities to function smoothly. Ivo Cré and his team have been working on a project to try and formulate and spread the best solutions in this sector.
Optical fibre laser technology delivers medicine
Revolutionary laser technology could provide a novel approach to painless diagnosis of serious diseases such as cancer and diabetes, and in vivo analysis of drug efficacy – for a fraction of the price of current laser equipment. Dr Róbert Szipöcs, research fellow at the Research Institute for Solid State Physics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, and his colleague, biologist Dr Attila Kolonics, explain that the FIBERSC2 project is actually two intriguing projects in one.
A vital network for particle accelerators
The development of new particle accelerators with unprecedented beam characteristics has driven the need for intense research and development programs in diagnostic techniques in recent years. Carsten Welsch has initiated a project that will collate knowledge from institutions around Europe in order to improve the development of these instruments and the training of those involved.
THz Pulse technology brings new hope to cancer sufferers
A team of scientists from the University of Pécs who developed a method for producing ultra-short high-energy terahertz pulses, are now confident that they will be able to increase the electric field value of these pulses by a magnitude of 100. This development could lead to a variety of new and exciting applications, ranging from cancer therapy to semiconductor research. We spoke to János Hebling and József Fülöp to find out more.
Studying rare genome motifs
Gene regulation is an essential function in all life forms and it is a well-researched area of multicellular organisms as diverse as roundworms and humans. Now Miklos Cserzo believes he may have discovered a completely new aspect of this regulation and all he needs to do now is discover just quite what it all means. In this fascinating interview, he explains more.