Researching the house of tomorrow – No. 43 (Jan. 2014) - a podcast by EMPA - Swiss Federal Laboratory for Materials Science & Technology

Around half of the energy demand in Switzerland is generated by buildings and every year ten tons of construction materials per capita are being used up. If we want to import fewer fossil fuels and reduce raw material consumption, we simply have to develop and test novel buildings in practice. The Empa research platform NEST has been conceived to do just this.

And also in this issue: Hightech for soft skin: Swiss entepreneur manufactures Lingerie made of pure gold. --- Hangover for the "cat": Bioethanol in gasoline damages catalytic converters. --- Interim storage for green electricity: Excess power is converted into climate-neutral natural gas.

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