Minister inaugurates indoor river

15.05.2012A new “lab-flume” at the CEDREN research centre will help electricity generators to sell more hydropower when prices are highest – without negative environmental effects on...

Ola Borten Moe, Norwegian Minbister of Petroleum and Energy, is given a introduction to the uses of the “indoor river” by NTNU’s Professor Ånund Killingtveit (centre) and SINTEF’s Atle Harby. Photo...

Power to the people

23.04.2012Anita Fossdal and Fride Vullum-Bruer want the i-Phone’s battery to last longer – even when we are on Svalbard, and even when we have downloaded a whole load of apps.

"We are right at the leading edge of research in innovative thinking and developing new concepts,” says Anita Fossdal. “Today’s research topics may turn up in the batteries we will be using in ten...

Creating the next generation of osmotic power stations

28.03.2012Statkraft has assigned a new two-year project to SINTEF to carry out research into osmotic power generation. New membrane technology and long-term trials will bring this...

Sixty years in the service of society

21.03.2012Millions of mobile telephones and the world's first floating wind turbine have one thing in common; expertise from SINTEF is built into them.

SINTEF reinvents Gyro Gearloose machine

26.03.2012In a 1996 Donald Duck comic, inventor Gyro Gearloose has invented a super-machine that sorts cheap scrap and metal poured into a tube, while out of another pipe emerge gold...

Nano-level detective

29.02.2012At the Micro and Nano Laboratory in Gaustadbekkdalen in Oslo, scientists have created one of the most advanced radiation sensors in the world: an X-ray detector that can...

Lars Sørum - new head at SINTEF Petroleum Research

01.03.2012Lars Sørum appointed new head at SINTEF Petroleum Research

Equal opportunities at a standstill

30.01.2012Gender balance in the labour market has improved little in Norway in the course of the past 20 years, according to a new survey. A growing proportion of female managers is one...