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Energy and Environment

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Energy research performed at the Paul Scherrer Institute is focused on processes that can be used in sustainable and safe technologies for the supply of energy with - ideally - zero CO2 emission. The main emphasis is on the development of processes for the utilization of renewable energy sources, low-emission conversion of energy and the safe application of nuclear energy. These activities are supplemented by analyses giving a comprehensive assessment of energy systems. Atmospheric chemical processes are also being investigated.

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5 March 2021
Tom Kober

Switzerland's energy transition

Media Releases Energy and Environment

Can Switzerland, as planned, reduce its CO2 emissions to zero by 2050? What is needed to achieve this? What could it cost?

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25 February 2021
Grüne Treibstoffe für den Flugverkehr

Green fuels for aviation

Media Releases Energy and Environment Renewable Energies ESI Platform

In a new initiative, PSI and Empa want to jointly develop a process for producing kerosene from renewable resources.

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14 December 2020
ESI

Foundations for the energy system of tomorrow

Energy and Environment Renewable Energies ESI Platform

On the way to a sustainable energy system, technologies that help to flexibly convert and efficiently store energy are becoming increasingly important. ReMaP, a novel research platform, aims to investigate these urgent issues under realistic conditions.

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18 November 2020
Kaspar Dällenbach

Which particulate air pollution poses the greatest health risk?

Media Releases Energy and Environment Human Health Environment

The composition of particulate matter can influence its harmfulness to human health just as much as the amount, PSI researchers show in a newly published study. Experiments and computational modelling showed that in Europe high concentrations of particulate matter harmful to human health occur mainly in metropolitan areas.

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2 November 2020
Sauberes Biogas für eine erfolgreiche Energiewende

Clean biogas for a successful energy transition

Energy and Environment Renewable Energies ESI Platform

PSI researchers have set up camp at a biogas plant near Lucerne. Between meadows and gigantic fermenters, they are investigating how they can remove impurities from the biogas to make this energy source even more usable.

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1 October 2020
Iodsäure beeinflusst Wolkenbildung am Nordpol

Iodic acid influences cloud formation at the North Pole

Energy and Environment Environment

An international team of scientists has identified a novel driver of new aerosol particle formation in the Arctic: iodic acid, a chemical compound, which had not previously been observed in the region.

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1 October 2020
Expeditionsleiterin Margit Schwikowski mit einem Eisbohrkern

"We were shocked how far advanced the melting is already"

Energy and Environment

An international expedition with the participation of the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI discovers advanced glacial melting at an elevation of more than 4,000 metres on the Grand Combin in Valais. In the Alps, it may almost be too late for the Ice Memory project, which aims to save ice cores as a climate archive for future generations of researchers.

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25 September 2020
Battery 2030

BATTERY 2030+ – large-scale European initiative for battery research starts up

Energy and Environment

Future batteries need to store more energy, have longer life, and be safer and more environmentally friendly than today's batteries. The European initiative BATTERY 2030+, in which PSI is participating, is intended to help achieve these goals.

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11 September 2020
Expeditionsleiterin Margit Schwikowski mit einem Eisbohrkern

The cold memory of the earth

Media Releases Energy and Environment

Within the framework of an international project, researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI are helping to save a valuable environmental and climatic archive. During an expedition 4,000 metres above sea level on Grand Combin in the Alps, they are drilling ice cores from melting glaciers to preserve them in Antarctica.

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15 May 2020
Christian Bauer und Romain Sacchi

Life cycle assessment of cars – new web tool helps consumers and researchers

Media Releases Energy and Environment Renewable Energies

Decision support for car buyers: Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute have developed a web tool called the Carculator that can be used to compare the environmental performance of passenger cars in detail.

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5 May 2020
Tom Kober

Long-term developments of energy pricing and consumption in industry

Media Releases Energy and Environment Renewable Energies

Researchers from the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, on behalf of a research project funded by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE), have studied how energy consumption by Swiss industry develops depending on energy prices. One result: Price increases for energy usually affect energy consumption only over the long term.

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13 March 2020
Teaser: Erstmals chemische Reaktionen direkt im Feinstaub nachgewiesen

First-time direct proof of chemical reactions in particulates

Media Releases Environment Energy and Environment

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have developed a new method to analyse particulate matter more precisely than ever before. With its help, they disproved an established doctrine: that molecules in aerosols undergo no further chemical transformations because they are enclosed in other particulate matter.

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4 March 2020
Teaser Interview Christian Bauer

"Electric is already the right choice today"

Energy and Environment Renewable Energies

An interview on automotive power systems with Christian Bauer, a scientist at PSI's Laboratory for Energy Systems Analysis who specialises in life cycle and sustainability analyses.

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18 February 2020
Teaser Vorfahrt für E-Autos

Make way for electric cars

Energy and Environment Renewable Energies

Petrol, diesel, fuel cell or electric – which is the automobile of the future? A PSI study has examined the overall climate impact of various vehicle engines in use today and also projected it to the year 2040.

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3 February 2020
Teaser Mobilität von morgen

Toward better motors with X-ray light

Energy and Environment Renewable Energies

Making Switzerland's road traffic fit for the future calls for research, first and foremost. In the large-scale research facilities of PSI, chemists and engineers are investigating how to improve the efficiency of motors and reduce their emissions.

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14 October 2019
Teaser Interview Petr Novák

From the Walkman to the electric car

Media Releases Energy and Environment Materials Research

Three researchers share this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry. They are being honoured for their respective contributions to the development of lithium-ion batteries. Petr Novák of PSI likewise works in this area of research and has known the three laureates personally for decades. In an interview, he tells about sitting directly across from one of them at the crucial moment.

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20 September 2019
Teaser 13 Monate in der Arktis

Thirteen months in the Arctic

Environment Energy and Environment

A PSI research project investigating atmospheric chemistry will be on board the icebreaker Polarstern on 20th September 2019. Researcher Julia Schmale talks about the upcoming expedition and her role in it.

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10 September 2019
Teaser Interview mit Tom Kober

"This is incredibly ambitious"

Energy and Environment Renewable Energies

Every three years, the World Energy Council explores possible developments of the global energy system under different scenarios. Tom Kober, head of the Energy Economics Group in PSI’s Laboratory for Energy Systems Analysis and one of the lead authors of the study, explains what the individual scenarios mean and how global warming could be mitigated.

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15 August 2019
Xiaohan Wu (links) und Federica Marone

Observing solid-state batteries during deformation

Energy and Environment Matter and Material Industrial co-operation Research Using Synchrotron Light

PSI researchers have observed mechanical processes in solid-state batteries with unprecedented precision. Using X-ray tomography at the Swiss Light Source SLS, they discovered how fissures inside the batteries propagate. These insights can help to make batteries for electric cars or smartphones safer and more efficient.

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25 July 2019
Teaser Forschen über den Wolken

Research above – and about – the clouds

Environment Energy and Environment

At the Jungfraujoch research station, PSI scientists study particulate matter in the atmosphere. And have to deal with the fact that the human body is not made for life at 3,500 metres above sea level.

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