Girls do better and enjoy school more than boys. Researchers now believe that we should be taking targeted action to restore the balance. Stock photo: iStock Standard SINTEF has been responsible for the Norwegian part of a study that has been looking into how school children in grades 4 to 7 experience...
We need energy efficiency, renewable energy and carbon capture and storage of CO2 in order to avoid a climate crisis. Photo: Thinkstock. As part of the most recent international climate accord, all nations committed themselves to a reduction in their greenhouse gas emissions. The cuts are intended to...
In addition to having good operating characteristics in the open sea, the 120-metre intervention vessel has been designed to operate in and make its way through the ice. Given the harsh environment of the Arctic, the vessel has been planned with superstructures to be built in areas where people work...
The “Neuron” sensor nodes are the size of a bowling ball and full of sensors. Photo: Heimdall Power Standard The grey sphere is about the size of a bowling ball. It’s full of sensors and will allow more electricity to run through the power lines. “What’s important is that we utilize the network we’ve...
...for example the CO2-lab and the diagnostics module to create interactive figures, this page specifically showcases plotToolbar. The purpose of plotToolbar is to be an drop-in replacement for plotCellData that supports exactly the same syntax, but has added interactive features and allows for more complex...
...that can tolerate extreme conditions. Photo: Anna Lewin/NTNU Petroleum reservoirs that lie 2-3 kilometres beneath the seabed hold more than just oil and gas. These deep reservoirs are also home to micro-organisms that have lived in isolation for millions of years, ever since the process of converting...
...annotations and functions. Three libraries have been established in cooperation with EcoArray Inc in Florida, USA. By the use of suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) PCR methodology, we have been able to focus on genes induced by relatively specific contaminants like oil compounds, heavy metals and amines...
...could have been in a normal house, but they would have had to be wearing a lot more clothing.” But this was no normal house. And despite the chill outside, the girls were cozy and warm. Warm enough, in fact, to go barefoot. Adjusting to technology The energy efficient house, called the “ZEB Living Lab”...
...energy than they consume. Now is the time to launch ‘power roads’. The idea is that over the course of their lifetimes all constructions, including roads and bridges, should generate more energy than they consume. FACTS: The Power Road project is closely related to the Power House project that investigated...
...order to facilitate a greater number of and more efficient industrial clusters. The goal is that the co-location of these clusters can contribute to a better use of excess energy, thereby enabling companies to operate in a way that is both more energy efficient and profitable. Each industrial process experiences...
Escapes of fish have long been a problem for the aquaculture industry. But now, improvements in technology and systematic research have drastically reduced the number of escapes. Aqualine AS recently invited all its partners to MARINTEK's Ocean Laboratory, where they could follow tests of a model of...
...this autumn because Canal+ had problems with its servers? ”The systems experienced much greater loads than they could handle,” claim Gunnar Brataas and Richard Sanders at SINTEF ICT. The problems arose because the operators had neither sufficient control of the maximum load nor of how many resources...
Petter Bae Brandtzæg According to a Norwegian study, 'likes' on Facebook are providing a new type of humanitarian support and social responsibility. Petter Bae Brandtzæg and Ida Maria Haugstveit at SINTEF have been mapping the habits of more than 400 Facebook users recruited from Plan Norge’s Facebook...
...country, it's between 42 and 47%. In Fiskeribladet in October 2023, Lise Gulbrandsen wrote about the Cleanup Report and how 800,000 volunteers participated in cleaning up litter in Norway in 2022. She calls for a national monitoring program to map littering. This is good – and can be seen in connection...
A bed has a particularly high carbon footprint and often ends up as waste after a few years. A team of researchers from SINTEF and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) addressed the problem and obtained some encouraging results. Standard “We’ve revealed the total environmental...
A project funded by the European Union and led by SINTEF in Norway with ten other European partners aims to demonstrate a cost-effective CO2 capture technology that could herald a new generation of power-generation plants with integrated CO2 capture. Power generation based on fossil fuels is one of...
...causes the lubrication in the bearings of large machines to dry out, there can be huge cost implications. Metal surfaces can grate against each other and seize up, in the worst case result ing in a total write-off. Wind turbines, for example, have high maintenance costs, where an overhaul of their mechanical...
...surround ourselves contains a range of chemical additives that can leach out into water systems in the natural environment. This can happen both before and during the plastic degradation process. Even if it takes a long time for products to break down into microplastic particles, the chemicals start to leach...
...environment. These tests will be performed in two different pilot plants: one that is fed by a solid fuel flow of 1 megawatt of thermal input (1 MWth) and one with 150 kilowatts of thermal input (kWth). Last week, research scientists from SINTEF were given a tour of Technische Universität (TU) Darmstadt’s...
CO2 heat pumps. Photo: Colourbox Standard Energy consumption in the hotel industry is high and contributes to global warming. Researchers have been studying energy consumption, available energy sources and heating systems in the hotel sector over a five-year period. They have come up with two important...