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Golden carbon
An outstretched hand gives me a firm welcome. Then it pulls on a big blue glove and dives into a brown paper bag. A second later, chief scientist Aud Wærnes has a fistful of stuff that could...
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The researcher at SINTEF ICT looks out across a planned road project. Even though there are no cars yet, he can still hear the traffic. Photo: SINTEF ICT. Listen to the sounds of passing cars...
Ninety-nine per cent of planet Earth has a temperature in excess of 1,000 degrees Celsius as a result of residual heat inherited from the Earth's primordial origins and the breakdown of...
Unni Steinsmo, President of the SINTEF Group, has been elected to membership of the European Research Area Board (ERAB). In April 2008, the EU commission announced the names of the members of the...
Petroleum activities and marine transport in the Arctic demand a high level of know-how and efficient contingency planning. Around twenty international scientists spent the month of May in...
Executive Vice President Ernst Kristiansen has been appointed interim director of SINTEF Building and Infrastructure. Kristiansen can point to long experience within SINTEF's management....
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Good results for SINTEF in 2008
SINTEF produced good scientific and financial results in 2008. The result for the year was NOK 137 million. Our repeatedly good results have enabled us to make new investments in laboratories and...
Oddvar Eide has been appointed as SINTEF President for MARINTEK Oddvar Eide can already look back on a long career in research and management in SINTEF and MARINTEK. He started out as a research...
The EU’s SMARTIEHS project will enable MEMS structures to be tested one hundred times as fast as they can today. This will mean cheaper and more reliable electronic equipment for people you us....
Kallak Torvstrøfabrikk in Trøgstad in eastern Norway has developed a peat moss mixture with unusually good absorbent qualities. The material could be a useful tool for clearing up oil-spills...
Petrobras and SINTEF have signed a General Research and Development agreement.The agreement was signed on 26th of August, as a part of the Innovation Norway Brazil Day at ONS in Stavanger,...
The EU project SOCIETIES intends to revolutionise the way we work during major crises – by exploiting social media. Wireless technology has enabled us to go online ─ not only with our office...
BILAT-INDIA project (2009-2011) workshop was successfully conducted at the campus of the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI) in Nagpur on 6th October. The workshop is a...
The efficient functioning of a low-energy home depends to a great extent on its occupants. “This is why the human factor must be taken into account during the planning and design of such...
The number of admissions to Norwegian hospitals rose by 4.3 percent in 2004, as fresh figures from SINTEF’s Norwegian Patient Register show. The figures refer to general hospitals (total hospital...
Together with Norwegian and overseas industrial interests, the Research Council of Norway and Gassnova are investing millions of kroner in a new research programme on gas power with CO2...
On Tuesday March 7, the starter’s pistol goes off in Oslo for EU’s efforts to generate fossil-based electricity and hydrogen incorporating CO2 treatment. SINTEF has been given responsibility for...
SINTEF is the only Scandinavian partner in the new EU project CityMobil, in which €40 million will help to develop more efficient transport in European cities. In the new exhibition centre in...
The transport sector’s national prize for efforts in the field of intelligent transport systems and services has been awarded to chief scientist Trond Foss (58) of SINTEF Technology and Society....
New technology that is to monitor astronauts’ “indoor” climate will soon be tested on board the International Space Station (ISS). In the future, similar equipment may help to improve the climate...