Archive - Sustainable Strategies

Renewable energies shift international competitive advantages

Sunny locations will gain an increasing advantage in energy costs. Europe must think carefully about which industries it wants to expand, retain or…

Apr 12 •

Ruggero Schleicher-Tappeser

December 2023

Photovoltaic power plants on farmland? Much better than energy crops for cars!

Do the math! Photovoltaics beats photosynthesis. Electricity beats combustion. Disruptions in energy technology call for a faster rethink

Dec 11, 2023 •

Ruggero Schleicher-Tappeser

November 2023

Why photovoltaics is becoming unbeatably inexpensive

It is not so much mass production as nanoscientific innovations that are making photovoltaics cheaper and cheaper, like computer chips. PV is becoming…

Nov 20, 2023 •

Ruggero Schleicher-Tappeser

Energy transition: Which technologies matter?

The call to keep all technology options open is often a sign of helplessness or shameless patronage politics. A better understanding of technological…

Nov 3, 2023 •

Ruggero Schleicher-Tappeser

September 2023

Power electronics turns electricity into a flexible universal energy

History of Technology - The Discovery of Nanoworlds Enables Renewable Energy Supply for All / Episode 15

Sep 15, 2023 •

Ruggero Schleicher-Tappeser

August 2023

Emancipation from mechanics - the long road to modern power electronics

History of Technology - The Discovery of Nanoworlds Enables Renewable Energy Supply for All / Episode 14

Aug 31, 2023 •

Ruggero Schleicher-Tappeser

June 2023

50 years of restructuring the electricity system - From central control to network cooperation

History of technology - The discovery of nanoworlds enables a renewable energy supply for all / episode 13

Jun 21, 2023 •

Ruggero Schleicher-Tappeser

Big was beautiful - How steam power shaped our institutions

History of technology - The discovery of nanoworlds enables a renewable energy supply for all / episode 12

Jun 4, 2023 •

Ruggero Schleicher-Tappeser

February 2023

Photovoltaics: Increasing cost efficiency through dematerialisation

Episode 11 of the Series: History of Technology - The Discovery of Nanoworlds unlocks Renewable Energy Supplies for All

Feb 3, 2023 •

Ruggero Schleicher-Tappeser

December 2022

Nanoscience has made electricity directly from sunlight unbeatably cheap

Episode 10 of the series: History of technology - The discovery of nano-worlds enables a renewable energy supply for all

Dec 23, 2022 •

Ruggero Schleicher-Tappeser

The climate crisis is challenging the industrial civilisation: what options do we have?

Episode 9 of the series: History of Technology - Discovering the nano-worlds enables renewable energy supply for all

Dec 2, 2022 •

Ruggero Schleicher-Tappeser

November 2022

The history of fossil energy, the basis of industrialisation

Episode 8 of the series: History of Technology - Nuclear Power for energy supply is a hopelessly outdated technology

Nov 11, 2022 •

Ruggero Schleicher-Tappeser

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