coal. Since the pumps consume a lot of energy and cost a lot of money, the end of the coal mining industry in Germany will see a lot of pumps shut down in ... my home, and coal mining is part of my history as a child of the Ruhr, where I still live with my family. I have a strong personal interest in avoiding the ... This model enables us to calculate mine water rises over a large area. The sheer size of a mining area means that the engineering challenges are enormous

there’s a requirement for a train only to run if it knows that the route really is clear and reserved exclusively for it to pass through. As soon as a stationary ... reporting its position, a moving train travelling in the same direction on the same route must keep it in view as a danger point and come to a stop safely before ... in Hamburg, Bögl intends to set up a demonstration track for container transport. In October, a transport system with a loading unit will be presented there

smart watches are a bit over the top. A mobile phone and a laptop are enough for me. Which technical application will always remain a mystery for you? The ... that’s a good question. I’m afraid to say I think it was before I had an Internet-enabled smart phone. A holiday without Wi-Fi: Is that a dream or a nightmare ... soon developed into a real-life network of volunteers. How did that happen? Since its launch, ArbeiterKind.de has very quickly built up a large community via

to provide warning of a sudden event – for instance, the opening up of a sinkhole as a possible consequence of the collapse of a mineshaft. The quality ... be avoided is a matter for the engineers and scientists from DMT in Essen to judge. In March 2009, the Cologne city archive collapsed into a conical depression ... site. A disaster of historic proportions. After all, the Cologne archive had been home to some 65,000 documents from 1,100 years of the city’s history, 1

Deezer. Well explained, entertaining and in a short three minutes, the podcast digs its way through (the history of) science and technology: from the Wankel ... invention of the phone and modern sewage systems. It is a great starting point for getting into a certain topic or helping you to show off your knowledge ... and inflatable cars to take on a caravan trip. Cycling fans are better served in the “Antritt” (pedalling) podcast. Once a month, the magazine devotes an

ceiling are what look like a large number of oversized pencil points. Masses of cables on the floor and a large antennae targeted at a vehicle in the hall add ... TÜV NORD laboratory for electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) is a vertical order picker, a warehousing vehicle that allows its operator to work at greater ... interfered from electromagnetic fields. There are only a few laboratories in Germany capable of testing such a wide range of products as that operated by TÜV NORD

with technological progress - over a period of nearly 150 years, a multinational corporation has evolved out of a collection of small boiler monitoring ... home: It’s brightly lit with a light-coloured floor, a glass cube in the middle of the room, an L-shaped corner sofa and a beanbag made of denim - and ... The department features “a start-up guy, an Indian colleague, two staffers with doctorates, a newcomer to the profession, a lot of colleagues with families

been working to develop a safety concept that was unique. The system was tested by TÜV NORD. It’s eight o’clock in the evening in a typical German living ... newsreader sitting behind a desk, on the stroke of 8 pm ARD viewers now find themselves looking at the entire studio from a bird’s-eye perspective, with ... two tables. In a spectacular panning motion the camera moves closer and focuses on the presenter until he or she fills the screen next to a section of the

Ben-David and Finn have programmed in at the PC. A boy from the course grabs a notebook with squared paper, places a sheet on his PC screen and traces the features ... to control an LED screen using a controller and codes they have written themselves. During the week, Ben Brunzel works as a software developer. Today, on ... Hamburg – as a volunteer. Together with his colleague Leon Jordans, the twenty-nine year old has built an unusual monitor – starting from a drinks crate

own statements, this is the largest single investment in the company’s history, for which the group can also rely on subsidies from the state. Both German ... during the pandemic, many carmakers cancelled their chip supply contracts on a massive scale, explains Timo Bartkewitz of TÜVIT. “Ultimately, however, global ... For example, the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) expects a decline in the global production of vehicles of 20 percent by 2026 due to the