As part of the EU's PACIFIC project, DLR is testing promising sustainable aviation fuels for their potential to reduce the sector's climate impact.
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Altair’s Future.Industry 2025, a premier global virtual event, united professionals, innovators, and technology enthusiasts to explore the convergence of advanced technologies and sustainability.
Researchers from Princeton and Rutgers University have used reinforcement learning, a method frequently deployed to train artificial intelligence, to show how flexible responses can substantially increase the cost-effectiveness of steps to defend cities like New York against climate change.
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The rise of EVs and data centers boosts demand for ESS, which manages energy storage and distribution. Adam Tech's ESF/ESM connectors support this shift with high efficiency and reliability.
It takes ten times more electricity for ChatGPT to respond to a prompt than for Google to carry out a standard search. Still, researchers are struggling to get a grasp on the energy implications of generative artificial intelligence both now and going forward.
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Giving a second life to construction materials after demolition, engineers at the University of São Paulo and Princeton have developed an approach for recycling cement waste into a sustainable, low-carbon alternative that is comparable in performance to the industry standard.
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Microwave synthesis produces MXene 25x faster than traditional methods while using 75% less energy, according to new research from the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
In this episode, we chat about the efforts of researchers at ETH Zurich to dehumidify indoor spaces using waste material in an effort to reduce energy consumption & help Switzerland hit their net zero emissions goal by 2050!
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Dr. Jonathan Snodgrass and a team of researchers are looking into how the power grid can be affected by electrifying passenger cars.
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Research teams are developing a new technology for producing graphite for improved energy storage.
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Discover how AI, HPC, and sustainable computing are revolutionizing engineering at Future.Industry 2025, Altair’s flagship event on March 5-6. Join top innovators from NVIDIA, Microsoft, Google, and more as they tackle today’s biggest engineering challenges, from agentic AI to digital twins.
In the pursuit of more eco-friendly production methods, bioplastics have emerged as a promising alternative to traditional petroleum-based plastics.
A new test developed at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign can predict the performance of a new type of cementitious construction material in five minutes — a significant improvement over the current industry standard method, which takes seven or more days to complete.
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In this episode, we explore how porous plastic sheets are being used to cool buildings by radiating heat into space and how this could reduce global energy consumption by 10% and CO2 emission by 7%.
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In this episode, we explore how origami-inspired concrete zigzag structures are being used to make construction greener and more sustainable.
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