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What young people ask about when guaranteed anonymity

18 October 2019

An analysis of almost 300,000 unsolicited questions written by young Norwegians on the website ung.no, has provided major insights into what they’re really interested in today. Their bodies, health and identity are among the topics heading the list.

The way forward for Norwegian windpower development

09 October 2019

How can we protect nature and act on climate change? In the wake of heated debate in Norway over windpower development, energy researchers from Norway's largest university and Scandinavia's largest independent research institute offer politicians some thoughts.

Your life depends on these rare raw materials

08 October 2019

The green transition is impossible without a few relatively unknown substances. Find out more about the raw materials we cannot manage without - and why we have to act smart with them.
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Substations without SF6

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A framework for interdisciplinary collaboration and evaluation of infrastructure transformation in Germany

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The German Case Study within the ELEGANCY-project examines ways to decarbonise the German infrastructure with H2-CCS chains, focusing on pipeline-based options for CO2…
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Recycling of the Flue Gas in Aluminium Electrolysis Cells

https://www.sintef.no/en/publications/publication/?pubid=CRIStin+1736952

Recycling of the flue gas from aluminium reduction cells is a possible method for increasing the carbon dioxide concentration, thereby enabling carbon dioxide capture. The present report is a preliminary study concerning some of the consequences in the electrolysis cells. A hypothetic 400 kA cell wa...

Authors Solheim Asbjørn
Year 2019
Type Report/thesis