Imagine a power generation laboratory housing a generator equivalent to a 40 kilometre-long line of AA batteries connected in series. Well, now it’s here – and was formally opened by His Royal Highness Crown Prince Haakon on 2 September.
Norwegians who have only completed primary school tend to be less satisfied with the national health service than their more highly educated compatriots, finds a recent study.
The Land of the Rising Sun is thinking of importing Norwegian wind and gas by sea in the form of liquid hydrogen. This could offer Norway new prospects for wealth creation and exports, say a pair of Norwegian researchers.
Technology used in the crumple zones of cars can avert serious explosions in transformers, believe researchers.
Norwegian hydropower is the most cost-efficient source of energy that Germany could adopt as back-up for solar cells and wind-power, new calculations show.
On Thursday October 3, Canada switched on the largest CO2-free coal-fired power station in the world. Norway could follow up.
A Norwegian invention is reducing by a third the energy that foundries need to manufacture ship propeller blades.
A new window on the world of atoms will make future vehicles safer in collisions.
In the future, you may be able to buy solar cells for your roof from a roll, by the metre.
The start-feed for “baby” tuna now being produced in Trondheim has given a Norwegian aquaculture company complete faith in the possibility of mass-producing one of the world’s most valuable fish species.
Capturing green energy from deep in the Earth will bring competitive electricity and district heating – with help from Norway.
A Trondheim supermarket gets by with just over two-thirds of the electricity used by similar stores.
There is still hope for the climate, even if a world-wide climate accord proves to be unattainable. A new report shows that regional measures can hold the global rise in temperature within the two-degree limit.
A Norwegian-Danish project aims to find better weapons against life-threating multi-resistant bacteria.
Fire researchers have shown that sparks from a burning house can be prevented from spreading if the loft is fitted with an extinguishing system based on water-mist, i.e. tiny water droplets that turn into steam.
Could refrigeration technology – against all the odds – kick-start CO2 storage in the North Sea?
Norway is helping Africa’s youngest oil nation with a prescription for prosperity – and is finding out that learning goes both ways.
