After three successful experiences, the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) of the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) organizes a new competition for students in architecture, called “Sustainable is beautiful”. Weiterlesen
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The International Symposium on Energy Geotechnics organized by EPFL’s Laboratory of Soil Mechanics brought together more than 250 research scientists and practitioners from 35 countries at the Swiss Tech Convention Centre in Lausanne to exchange ideas, practices and state-of-the-art developments. Weiterlesen
Dans le cadre de la campagne «Moins d’électricité, davantage d’efficacité dans les salles de serveurs et les centres de calcul» une conférence s’est déroulée à Berne le 25 septembre dernier. 150 personnes ont répondu à l’invitation de l’Association Suisse des Télécommunications (asut) et de SuisseEnergie. Les présentations, qui ont abordé le sujet sous différents angles, s’adressaient aussi bien à un public technique que financier. Voici l’essentiel en bref. Weiterlesen
After the COP21 Paris Agreement, we wonder how to translate a maximum rise of global average temperatures to 2 °C let alone limiting the increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. The energy sector (even major oil and gas companies) is gearing up to the challenge. A must-have mitigation technology is CCS, which prevents the release of large amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. The technology captures CO2 produced by industrial plants, compresses it for transportation and then injects it deep into a rock formation at carefully selected and safe sites for quasi-permanent storage. Weiterlesen
