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Brake on sales of electric cars in the EU
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In total, almost 912,000 cars were registered in the European Union. That was 3 percent less than a year earlier.
In major markets such as Italy, Germany and France, sales fell by almost 7 percent. More than 28,000 new passenger cars were registered in the Netherlands.
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Driving on hydrogen, how does that work?
Michael R. MaljersCEO & Founder Put It On
Now that energy giant Shell is also building four hydrogen filling stations with a subsidy, driving with hydrogen-powered electric cars is gaining momentum. But how does it work?
The hydrogen car resembles an electric car. But unlike electric cars, there is no battery under the hood. Shell builds filling stations for hydrogen. The hydrogen is made in a number of types in the car, in a fuel cell thanks to oxygen from the air that is converted into water. That hydrogen is not the source, but the carrier of electricity. Hydrogen does not come from the ground like natural gas. Using the hydrogen, an engine in this type of car produces electricity that can drive the electric motor in the car. Clean Where petrol and diesel power other cars, hydrogen does so for this type of car that came out of the garage in 2016. Almost all major car brands are now experimenting with it. Transport giant VDL has its own hydrogen truck in Brabant. TU Delft students have been racing on hydrogen for some time, with great success. According to the ANWB, the performance of hydrogen cars is comparable to that of petrol engines. Now that energy giant Shell is also building four hydrogen filling stations with a subsidy, driving with hydrogen-powered electric cars is gaining momentum. But how does it work?
Hydrogen driving is now increasingly embraced because it is more environmentally friendly than petrol, LNG or diesel. It also has a future: there is a virtually inexhaustible source available, other than natural gas or gasoline, for example. It is considered relatively clean: the only residual product from your car is water vapor from the exhaust. And some heat of course. Refueling in five minutes The advantages of electric driving on hydrogen are also the relatively long range compared to other battery cars, and that you can fill up with a full tank of hydrogen within five minutes for a range of 500 kilometers (at Toyota). Refueling takes considerably longer with most battery cars. Hydrogen is stored and refueled under high pressure. But according to the ANWB it is "not the best choice for frequent drivers".
For hydrogen-powered transport, the long-term costs of building pop-up stations will be at least twenty million lower than those for electric cars, the German research center Jülich concludes. A disadvantage of 'hydrogen driving' is that you get a large tank in your car; but due to technological innovation, smaller storage is becoming increasingly common.
Generating endless energy with the wonder material graphene
Michael R. MaljersCEO & Founder Put It On
The wonder material graphene can be used to generate energy. At room temperature, a sheet of the light but strong material does not hang still, but wrinkles back and forth. This thermal movement is barely visible. Researchers want to convert those tiny ripples into energy.
The researchers at the University of Arkansas in the United States were not originally looking for an endless energy source. They wanted to see what the movement and structure of a sheet of graphene looks like at room temperature. To do this, they looked at the atomic structure of the material using scanning tunneling microscopy. They discovered that the material sometimes suddenly turns from concave to convex.
This movement is caused by the fact that graphene is not perfectly flat. “The material forms a structure that resembles the shape of an egg carton,” says professor Paul Thibado of the University of Arkansas. The two-dimensional graphene therefore forms a three-dimensional structure. The peaks and valleys of the egg carton shape are not completely stable. Small random vibrations of the atoms in the graphene sometimes cause the upwardly bulged parts to suddenly fold over. The sudden change from convex to concave can be compared to the flipping over of a flat piece of metal that you press between your thumb and your index finger.
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The world will face enormous water shortages and raw material shortages in the future
Michael R. MaljersCEO & Founder Put It On
Water shortages are increasingly occurring. This is the result of, on the one hand, the growing world population, global warming and the increasing desiccation and desertification occurring in increasingly larger parts of the world. Other factors that play an important role are increasing industrialization and urbanization, especially in Asia, as well as the expansion of agricultural land as a result of the growing demand for varied food products. The World Water Forum therefore makes an urgent appeal to take drastic measures. This underlines the need for accelerated investments and new innovative techniques leading to the largest growth market in the world.