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Long live semiconductor chips | #explore

such as aviation, medical technology, the rail industry and mechanical engineering. Printing machines also cost many millions of euros and are used for 20 ... enterprises are launching hundreds of satellites into space for all manner of purposes including smart farming, Industry 4.0 and self-driving cars. To keep the ... who became an electronics technician by trade after studying electrical engineering, co-developed the preservation method for semiconductor chips at the HTV

Battery cells in Germany | #explore

requires fewer components and work stages than a conventional internal combustion vehicle. At the end of January, the European Commission approved the second ... the pilot plant is to produce prototype cells for development and testing purposes. The carmaker is investing 110 million euros, and BMW is being supported ... the production of battery cells is scheduled to start at the Lower Saxony engine plant in 2024 – with an initial production capacity of 16 gigawatt hours

In the air up above the traffic jams

energy, thereby producing more greenhouse gases than cars with internal combustion engines. And these are precisely the distances over which the air taxis will ... for the deployment of the new aircraft. “We don’t have to wait for the engineers to get these aircraft fully ready to fly before enacting the legislation ... legislation they need to fly them,” the CSU politician said. Airbus engineers are now working in Manching to develop a prototype that will match the planned production

Hydrogen – Ahoy there, electrolysis!

end of 2019 by Hessian engineering firm Tractebel. © Tractebel Overdick So far still theory: the concept of Tractebel. The engineers are the first to admit ... elimination of the investment costs for grid connection,” says Tractebel engineer Felix Knicker, with conviction, to Spiegel Online . And the further away ... oil rigs could then be pressed into service again with a new and green purpose. As the initiators have it, the need for the costly demolition of the platforms

Where is all the hydrogen going to come from? | #explore

says Patrick Krieger, hydrogen expert at TÜV NORD subsidiary EE Energy Engineers. In other words, Africa, the Middle East or regions in South America or ... Krieger is a consultant in the hydrogen competence centre at EE Energy Engineers. The graduate economist’s work has a particular focus on all the questions ... hydrogen-related services and projects in the fields of consultation, engineering and training (CET) within the Group. Are more concrete plans already in

Leaving diesel behind | #explore

oil and that it can easily be used in today’s engines: according to DB, the test train’s diesel engines run smoothly without any need for technical conversion ... use of diesel. Their electric drive will only be supplemented by a diesel engine when particularly large amounts of power are required. According to DB, ... NORD. Fuel cells currently deliver significantly lower power than diesel engines. However, this difference is compensated for by a buffer battery of the

What is an “Old Timer”?

time. So for example you can replace the 1.2 liter engine in the Opel Cadett D by a 1.6 liter engine from the same model without placing the H registration ... difference between this and a red “07” number, and how has automobile engineering changed over the last 100 years? TÜV NORD expert Roger Eggers answers ... (StVZO) is required. This old timer report can be created by all test engineers and officially recognised experts in Germany and by all test institutions