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Case: Catching the Wind on solid foundations
Case: Alcohol and Automobiles Mix after All
Case: For the Car, the Home, and Your Local Power Plant
Case: The Hydrogen Tablet
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The oil crisis in the 1970s and the international debate about environmental issues caused a change in priorities in the research policies for a number of companies and research institutions in Denmark. This development has put Denmark at the forefront of the development of alternative energy sources and fuel cells.
Catching the wind
When you try to harness the energy from a winter storm in the North Atlantic as the giant rotors on an offshore wind turbine starts spinning, you are dealing with a mighty force of nature. A team at Aalborg University is working on a research project that aims to develop new types of foundations – bucket foundations – that will make it cheaper and more environmentally sound to place wind turbines offshore.
Alcohol and automobiles mix after all
In the future we might have to revise our ideas about alcohol and driving, however, the alcohol goes into the fuel and not into the bloodstream of the driver. Alcohol or bioethanol can become an important substitute for gasoline and diesel fuel. The Danish scientific community, as well as companies such as Novozymes, are intensively researching second generation bio-fuels.
For the car, the home, and your local power plant
Fuel cells work as an energy conversion device that generate electricity and heat by electrochemically combining a gaseous fuel and an oxidant gas, via an ion conducting electrolyte.
Fuel cells could be the flexible energy supply of the future. The technology is gentle on the environment and only the imagination limits the many possible uses of the cells.
The hydrogen tablet
Scientists at the Technical University of Denmark have invented a technology which may be an important step towards the hydrogen economy: a way to produce a hydrogen tablet that effectively stores hydrogen in an inexpensive and safe material.
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