It may just be that we’ll have to queue to charge our electric car in a while. Grid operator TenneT expects a shortage of electricity in the Netherlands before 2030. This is the conclusion of the network operator in its…
On Friday of last week, the U.S. electric car manufacturer Tesla lowered the prices for its vehicles worldwide. Days earlier, corrections had already been made in China, where sales of the previously popular electric cars had slumped. This has now…
Arjan Paans, our beloved editor-in-chief, is no longer here. For that reason, our weekly newsletter – conceived and designed by him – looks a bit different than you are used to from us. No overview of last week’s top articles, but…
TenneT foresees a power shortage in 2030. The nature & environment department wants to close all coal-fired power plants by 2025. These two completely incompatible messages illustrate a 21st-century retreat into their own bubble of like-minded people, as we saw…
For most media, the past weeks were a moment to look back. Not for us, of course; we continue to look forward consistently. The slogan in our first newsroom was “Not What Happened Yesterday, But What’s Relevant Tomorrow”. That’s why…
The Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston is the most precious engineering university in the world. Hueting: “What they are working on there now, we will be working on in a few years. I’m going to Boston to see…
In 2017, Frederik Duerinck was commissioned by one of the world’s largest fragrance and flavor companies to design an art project which revolved around personal fragrances. He then becomes inundated with positive reactions. The response is so great that one…
Team Polar is presenting their first research vehicle called ‘Ice Cube’ to the general public today at TU Eindhoven (TU/e). This ‘rover’ was built for independent climate research in icy, inhospitable regions such as the North and South Poles. Team…
While power plants and heavy industry are making ever greater strides in the transition to a carbon-free sector, aviation is struggling. “The transition is really still in its infancy in this sector,” economist Mathijs Bouman concludes in this item from…
As the world population is growing, resources on earth must be shared with more and more people. A sustainable food system is therefore indispensable. Arkeon is on a mission to create such a sustainable and nutritious food system by turning…