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Did your grandmother also do the laundry when a sunny day was forecast? Now that so many households have solar panels and the electricity network is experiencing problems due to overload at peak times, it would also be better if households with solar panels run appliances such as the washing machine on sunny days.

Ruth Nelson, a PhD researcher in the department of Multi-Actor Systems and the Centre for Urban Science and Policy (CUSP), was awarded the Best Paper on Spatial Analysis at the annual Geographical Information Systems Research Conference United Kingdom (GISRUK) on the 12th of April 2024.

‘People living near an airborne wind energy test site in Germany experience noise, ecological and safety impacts from the airborne wind energy system similar to those from the nearest regular wind farm. The airborne system did score better on visual impacts.’ These are the main conclusions from a pioneering study into the social impacts of airborne wind energy conducted by Helena Schmidt, a PhD candidate at TU Delft in collaboration with Medical School Hamburg.

Het onderzoek van cybercrime onderzoeker Rolf van Wegberg is genomineerd voor de Klokhuis Wetenschapsprijs 2024. Deze prijs wordt jaarlijks uitgereikt aan een onderzoek dat interessant én relevant is voor kinderen van 9 tot 12 jaar. met als doel om een breed en jong publiek bekend te maken met wetenschap.