Euronews Tech Talks

• Space-based solar energy: reality or science fiction?

  Although engineers began developing space-based solar energy technology in the 1960s, it still hasn’t become a reality. Why?In this episode, Euronews Tech Talks tries to answer this question by speaking with Sanjay Vijendran, co-founder and CTO of TerraSpark; Francesco Contino, professor at the school of engineering at UC Louvain; and Wei He, senior lecturer in engineering at King’s College London.Do you want to reach out to Euronews Tech Talks? Email [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• Could NASA really put a nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030?

  NASA’s decision to speed up plans for building a nuclear reactor on the Moon has raised questions about the United States’ broader space strategy and renewed curiosity about the use of nuclear energy beyond Earth. In this episode of Euronews Tech Talks, we address these questions with professor Simon Middleburgh, co-director of the Nuclear Futures Institute at the University of Bangor (UK), Alfredo Carpineti, astrophysicist and senior science writer at IFL Science, and Francesco Lodi, researcher at ENEA (Italy).Do you want to reach out to Euronews Tech Talks? Email [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• A world without PFAS

  In this final chapter of our journey into the world of PFAS, we speak with Fajer Mushtaq, whose company Oxyle is working to contain and destroy PFAS in wastewater, and with Miika Nikinmaa and Diana Lau, who are developing alternatives for food packaging and textiles through the ZeroF project.Do you want to reach out to Euronews Tech Talks? Email [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• Life in Zwijndrecht: A European PFAS hotspot

  What is it like to live in one of Europe’s hotspots for PFAS contamination? Jeroen Van Reeth, a resident of Zwijndrecht—the Belgian town affected by PFAS produced by the chemical company 3M—opens his home to Euronews Tech Talks to share his experience.We, then, speak with experts Jacob de Boer, Hans Peter Arp and Madeleine Bussemaker to uncover if and how it is possible to contain and destroy “forever chemicals”. Do you want to reach out to Euronews Tech Talks? Email [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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• Q&A: PFAS, what’s all the fuss?

  Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are man-made chemicals widely used in the industry, but potentially harmful to human health. They can be found on pizza boxes, ski clothing, and sanitary pads, but some studies associate them with multiple kinds of health problems. In this Q&A episode, we explore PFAS by putting your questions to chemist Martin Scheringer, research scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich).The Map of Forever Pollution: https://foreverpollution.eu/map/ Do you want to reach out to Euronews Tech Talks? Email [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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