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Ten million CO₂ heat pumps for water heating sold – an environmental win with Norwegian roots When sales of EcoCute water heaters recently passed the ten million mark in Japan, it represented a...

Asle Hovda (at left) and Jostein Bjøndal are both investment managers at SINTEF TTO. Here they are outside the ZEB-lab, where new energy solutions are being tested. The laboratory is...

Captured CO₂ can be converted into valuable chemicals and materials. SINTEF researches all types of CO₂ capture and utilisation (CCU) technologies and processes, with the goal of achieving...

SINTEF Ocean Bulk Carrier (SOBC-1) is an open ship design and test platform, where we invite researchers and organisations to use data from this model in their own research projects and case...

As electric vehicles (EVs) and renewable energy sources become more popular, the demand for high-performance batteries is skyrocketing. We need both more and better batteries to meet this demand....

Much of the plastic in the sea in Norway comes from the fishing industry. At least when we look at weight. Ropes. Nets. Buoys. Styrofoam. Clothes. In Northern Norway, for example, 56% of the...

Here we see a red sea cucumber spawning – in the lab! This is no small sensation because normally these creatures live at great depths and in complete darkness. Photo: Jan Ove Evjemo. Standard...

Coming soon to Norway! This truck, manufactured by the German company MAN, runs on green hydrogen and can make the journey from Trondheim to Oslo on one tank of fuel. Photo courtesy of the MAN...

...– On 11 April, the Research Council of Norway announced an investment of 180 MNOK in a new research centre on carbon capture, transport and storage (CCS) in Norway. gigaCCS is a Centre for...

Can the development of seabed mineral extraction become a new primary source of minerals? The EU has carried out a study of the state of knowledge for the exploitation of seabed minerals, and the...

The authors of this article claim that energy efficiency measures in buildings can very effectively be used to create ‘hidden power plants’ in the years leading up to 2030. The same will not be...

Hans Tobias Slette at SINTEF says that now that the fish farming sector is looking to operate with bigger facilities and more fish in each net pen, reliable calculations of oxygen availability...

How will the car fleet be in the future? Will the fleet of private cars and small commercial vans only consist of battery-electric vehicles, or are hydrogen vehicles becoming more common on the...

If Europe is to meet its climate targets, offshore wind has to play a larger role in the energy mix. One thing is to produce all these wind turbines, another is how to attach or moor them. There...

Long-distance transport by sea currently accounts for between 80 and 90 per cent of all global trade. This vessel is moored in Rotterdam. Stock photo: AlbertPego/iStock Notes Long-distance...

According to the authors of this article, we need new knowledge to be able to recycle all the components of scrapped cars as raw materials for new vehicle manufacture. Photo: Jan M....

Subclinical (invisible) ketosis exhibits no clear symptoms, but analyses of milk samples may indicate the presence of the disease at an early stage. Photo: Håkon Sparre/NMBU Standard The...

The EU project REFOLUTION aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft and ships by developing advanced and cost-effective biofuels. Advanced biofuels have the potential to decarbonize...

More and more people are planning trips in mountainous terrain under potentially cold and exposed conditions. Did you know that it is difficult to stop bleeding from wounds at low temperatures? It...

Some may claim that cultures of fear are limited to when bad bosses respond to criticism with sanctions. At the same time, the author of this article argues that evidence suggests that high levels...