Wellington Harbour’s Matiu/Somes Island will soon be a step closer to becoming a showcase for sustainable energy, with IRL playing a key role in the project. Tenders were recently announced for the supply and installation of a renewable energy system on the island.
Two of New Zealand’s pre-eminent scientists, whose work enabled the creation of a new, high-value industry for New Zealand, were today jointly awarded the inaugural Prime Minister’s Science Prize.
Two years of painstaking work by IRLs high temperature superconductivity team has culminated in the manufacture and sale of the world’s longest second-generation HTS[?] cables.
IRL research collaborator John Watt may have been named 2009 MacDiarmid Young Scientist of the Year for his groundbreaking work at the nanoscale, but his world-leading studies could have a very big impact both locally and on the global stage.
IRL’s efforts to take its cutting-edge photonics and wave power[?] research to the global marketplace achieved a boost recently thanks to the contributions of two Stanford MBA students, Alberto Nanes and Tyler Warnock.
It took more than two million cycles of vertical flapping and ever-increasing intensity loads but Windflow Technology’s 16 metre Windflow 500 blade has now met a level of certification which no other turbine in the world has achieved.
Tim Kemmitt, senior research scientist with IRL's Hydrogen and Distributed Energy team, has won a Sustainable Electricity Association of New Zealand (SEANZ) Industry Award for his work on photovoltaics (PV) for solar power generation.
Cryogenics — the branches of physics and engineering that work with very low temperatures – has always taken a back seat to the more attention-grabbing medical technology, cryonics. However, a world-leading development by New Zealand researchers could soon be set to change all that.
The small farming community of Totara Valley is home to a world-first energy research project that could change the way remote rural communities around New Zealand get their power supply.
Setting the scene for a 3D revolution
Island's elemental efficiency
The sound of science
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