Creating the plastics packaging of tomorrow out of wood

27.01.2012A wood fibre only 100 nanometres thick will help to give us tomorrow’s plastic food packaging, if SINTEF and its partners are successful.

Scientists are now trying to create a climate-friendly alternative to plastics from renewable resources; bioplastic and MFC. Photo: Morguefile

Norway invests in deep geothermal energy

02.01.2012The Research Council of Norway has granted NOK 24 million to the four-year project NEXT-Drill, in which scientists and industry will develop the technology and tools needed to...

Geothermal heat is available all over the world. This photo is from Krafla on Iceland. Photo: GEO

Can air traffic controllers benefit from other industries?

13.12.2011Could European air traffic controllers manage more flights with the help of modern productivity gains? Experts from Austria and Norway intend to answer that question.

Honoured in Brussels for exploiting unutilised energy sensation

08.12.2011A Nobel Prize was awarded when "high-temperature superconductors" were discovered in 1986. Now the world has at last found an application for lossless conductors, thanks to...

Nordic cooperation in CO2 capture

12.12.2011Scandinavian, Finnish and Icelandic experts on the capture, transport and storage of CO2 are meeting for the first time in a Nordic Centre of Expertise.

Setting new standards for pipeline design

02.12.2011Several years of Norwegian research on fracture mechanics have resulted in new numerical modelling tools. The new software means that we can calculate the risk of fracture in...

Smart grid will raise ceiling for use of renewables

24.11.2011The EU wants electricity distribution systems that can utilise more solar and wind energy – and sixteen European partners from ten countries are now playing a key role in...

Salmon jump to remove sea lice

23.11.2011A research study published this week in the Journal of Animal Science by researchers from the Centre for Research-Based Innovation in Aquaculture Technology at SINTEF...