Blog Making heat pumps hotter to reduce CO2 emissions Food processing, battery production and other industriall processes all demand heating and cooling at the same time. Improving high temperature heat pumps will reduce both energy use and CO2 emissions for these and other industrial processes, and the objective of my PhD is to develop a prototype of such a “hot” heat pump. Blog We need to find more efficient ways to recycle metals Metals are less available than before, and a lot of them come from geopolitically critical areas. I investigate a way to make metal production more sustainable, through recycling. Blog The lab-created colours inspired by feathers and soap bubbles Birds, butterflies, and many other natural objects get their bright colours from intricate structures on their surfaces. Now researchers at NTNU have used the same principle to create colours with clay nanostructures. Blog Saving up solar heat for cooking Can you believe that during our series of tests, the maximum temperature reached so far is 173 degrees Celsius? Despite the challenges with the weather in Trondheim? Blog Capturing CO2 from thermal power plants with a..bed of gravel? To mitigate the effects of global warming, we need to change the way the world produces electricity. This will likely involve both more renewable energy in the grid and the capture of CO2 from power plants. I am researching how we can reliably capture CO2 from power plants that operate in a flexible manner. Blog Fucoidan – The brown seaweed joker Norway’s coastline stretches over 100 000 km, and along it grows massive amounts of brown seaweed, without a need for any agricultural land, fertilizers, or resources other than our ocean. What can we use it for? And more importantly, can we use all of it? Blog “Tries, (energy) conversions, and goals”: Q&A with Jacob Joseph Lamb Jacob Lamb is an associate professor in sustainable energy systems in the Department of Energy and Process Engineering at NTNU. His research is focused on environmentally friendly energy storage technologies. Here he talks to John de Mello, Director of NTNU Nano, about life, research, and potential solutions to the climate crisis. Blog My research experience abroad – fostering curiosity Ever wonder how the ocean reserves as much dissolved organic carbon as atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide? The truth is I do not have the answer to this question. Merely this question is what captivated my interest in this topic. How is it that nature maintains this immense carbon capture system and we still can´t figure out exactly how it functions? Blog Plastic waste in the ocean: making impact models Human activities affect the ecosystems of the ocean through different types of pollution such as plastic. However, we lack models to understand the impacts of plastic pollution and how they can be reduced. In my project, I make models for the impact of marine animals getting entangled in plastic debris.
