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Austrian Materials Foresight

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Materials and Recycling Electrochemical physical energy production and storage The fields “Sustainable Materials and Recycling" and "Electrochemical physical Energy production and storage” have a highest potential

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Foresight on Demand

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European Commission’s Group of Chief Scientific Advisors Scientific Opinion on ‘A systemic Approach to Energy in Europe’ (Client: DG RTD) Foresight on the scientific, technological and societal conditions for

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Eye of Europe

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Europe, our Consortium builds on the experience of its 17 partners in order to combine existing energies and amplify them. The project’s goal is to nurture and mature an R&I foresight community with expanding

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Focus study Social innovations

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studies for comparative research discuss autonomous driving, the Covid-19 warn app, social housing, and energy cooperatives. On the basis of these results, the project team has worked out how framework conditions [...] failure, social enterprise, social entrepreneur, autonomous driving, Covid-19 warn app, social housing, energy cooperatives Start : 10/22 End : 12/23 Durations : 14 months Funding provider : German Expert Commission

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InnoSens

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systems in the future. This will lead also to more precise traffic flow optimization, pollution and energy reduction. In order to evaluate and demonstrate the research results a prototype shall be realized

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6G-EWOC

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for boosting opportunities and creating new technologies across various sectors like manufacturing, energy, healthcare, government, education, and efficient transportation. 6G-EWOC plays a crucial role in

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Follow the AIT blog!

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further development plays a decisive role in mastering the challenges of the future. Whether it's the energy turnaround, digitization or climate change, we are currently experiencing in all clarity that "business [...] is clear that many things have to change in order to get global warming under control. Transport, energy generation, agriculture, but also the way we communicate efficiently and securely in the digital

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Watch Netflix without harming the climate

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The environmental costs of digital communications are significant. Streaming movies also drives up energy consumption. But there is good news for everyone who loves their Netflix account and doesn't want [...] The use of novel optical processes can revolutionize data transmission and drastically reduce its energy hunger. AIT photonics expert Bernhard Schrenk is working on this as part of a globally unique project [...] digital applications. Here are a few facts: Streaming videos currently consumes at least as much energy as all air travel. And a study by the University of Bristol concludes that in 2016, the video platform

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Heat pumps: energy source of the future

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ly possible to supply 100 percent of industry with renewable energies. The prerequisite for this is a switch to new technologies in energy generation and storage. The current blog post shows what role [...] heat pump alone is not enough - it must also be used appropriately and generate energy to be considered a sustainable energy source. First app for choosing the right heat pump The purchase of a heat pump [...] role heat pumps play in this. In simple terms, heat pumps are devices that take thermal energy at a lower temperature - usually from the environment - and transfer it to a system at a higher temperature, such

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Bitter cold makes aluminum compliant

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lightweight construction of vehicles. After all, the more weight a vehicle or aircraft has, the more energy must be expended to move it. A reduction in weight therefore lowers the CO2 emissions associated

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Research at the heart of the e-car

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warranted. A scientific breakthrough in improving battery technology is imminent, and a doubling of energy content in the next few years is realistic. Electric cars could then travel up to 600 kilometers [...] approach. The use of particularly lightweight materials in the production of the body and clever energy management could already significantly increase the range of e-mobiles. However, the safety of drivers

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Wanted: Ways to more sustainability

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about the right policy mix to turn the energy sector around. The program of the three-day conference is deliberately very broad. The range of topics includes energy transition, mobility transition, transition [...] also financially supported by the City of Vienna, the Vienna Chamber of Labour and the Climate and Energy Fund. From pilot projects to large-scale implementation "There are many pilot projects that deliver [...] question of long-term change in society. The scientific contributions focus on the transition of energy systems and cities. On the latter topic, Vienna itself is a good example with its smart city projects

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A new look at the increasingly complex world

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(IV). The event is supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK), the Federal Ministry for Digitalization and Business

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Smart textiles as an opportunity for the textile industry

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piezoelectric sensor threads that convert mechanical energy (such as stretching) into electricity, and extends to soft, flexible batteries or energy storage in yarns that act like capacitors, through to [...] Textiles". The study was commissioned by the Federal Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK) and funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG);

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Urban planning 2.0: Corona crisis shows how cooperation f

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07.05.2020 In the "City Intelligence Lab" of the Center for Energy at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, urban planning is carried out together with clients and users and the effects of certain [...] help of digital technologies in the lab," explains Wolfgang Hribernik, head of the AIT Center for Energy. This means that in the lab, planners, clients and users can work together on projects and planning

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Smart grids at risk

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rarely coincides with electricity consumption peaks. Since more and more electricity from renewable energy sources has been fed into the grids, this has changed completely: The wind blows when it wants to [...] consumers - if possible ("demand management"). While this allows the power grids to absorb more renewable energy and still remain reliable, it is not the only way to do so. But the many new interfaces between the

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Harnessing the infinite potential of the sun

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innovative energy concepts for single-family homes, larger residential buildings or even plus-energy neighborhoods in urban areas - and is thus also an integral part of a sustainable energy infrastructure [...] popular forms of renewable energy and has gained further importance in recent years. The potential is huge - especially for buildings, in cities, in industry as well as in the energy infrastructure. And the [...] of special solar cells that can collect radiation energy on both their front and back sides. The technology that generates electricity from solar energy using solar cells is called photovoltaics (PV). It

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Research for a more livable city

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modal shift, the acceptance of transport modes and the resulting modal split, as well as CO2 and energy savings," explains Anita Graser, researcher at the Competence Unit "Dynamic Transportation Systems"

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How older people benefit from self-driving cars

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Peter Fröhlich. This project was funded by the Federal Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK) and commissioned by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency

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"We need a fast track for innovation"

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Wolfgang Hribernik, Head of Center for Energy, outlined the two most important directions in which research must go: "The future energy system will be based on the two energy carriers electricity and hydrogen" [...] and use of "green" hydrogen, and on the other hand, on the integration of these technologies into energy systems in order to be able to exploit all the potential for the interaction of the different sectors

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