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Tasty Cement Recipes with Nano-Spices for Oil and Gas Wells
by Narjes Jafariesfad 9 October, 2019Are you interested in cooking and trying new recipes? Then working with cement can be also an interesting subject for you. Working with cement…
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Chemical EngineeringEnergyEnvironment
Finding the perfect solvent to capture CO2
by Vanja Buvik 2 July, 2019How can we capture CO2 in a way that is not harming the environment? I use flowerpots in the lab as one way of…
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Deep sea miningEnvironmentmarine mineralsOcean
Ocean Week insights: deep-sea mining and ocean health. Stepping outside of the bubble.
by Anna Lim 28 June, 2019Being a PhD Candidate comes with many trade-offs. One of them is the tunnel vision that we develop by virtue of scrutinizing chosen topics…
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CyberneticsEngineeringEnvironment
Drones help reveal the secrets of glacier crevasses
by Richard Hann 4 June, 2019Many of the glaciers in Svalbard are heavily crevassed. A multidisciplinary research group is now using drones to create high-resolution maps of glacier surfaces to study how crevasses influence the rate of heat exchange with the atmosphere.
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EnergyEngineeringEnvironment
All you need to know about buildings to plan sustainable, green neighbourhoods
by Carine Lausselet 23 May, 2019When you are planning a neighbourhood with no greenhouse gas emissions, you need a thorough understanding of a neighbourhood’s buildings, their age, size, materials,…
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EnergyEnvironment
Coal-to-gas: a bridge fuel on the way towards reduced emissions
by Francesco Cherubini 29 April, 2019Many previous studies are somewhat ambivalent about the climate benefits of the coal-to-gas shift. Our new study in Nature Climate Change shows that the shift may reduce climate impacts of at least 50%.
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EnergyEnvironment
Save money and the environment with smart heating controls
by John Clauß 17 March, 2019In order to stay warm, we usually require a certain indoor temperature all year around. This can get expensive in cold countries like Norway, not only for the household economy, but also for the environment. However, this might change with new, smart controls of heating systems.
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EnvironmentNatural ScienceResearch
Intelligent robots as a tool to understand climate changes in the Arctic Ocean
by Petter Norgren 15 October, 2018On September 12th 2018, R/V Kronprins Haakon left Longyearbyen on the second cruise in the research project named “the Nansen Legacy”. Its goal, to…