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Water diversions from rivers and torrents for anthropic uses of the resource alter the natural flow regime. As a measure, environmental flows have been prescribed and often are enforced by law to follow policies (e.g., minimal flow, proportional redistribu ...

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Yael Frischholz, Noémie Alice Yvonne Ségolène Jeannin, Fabian Heymann

We present a two-staged statistical and geospatial analysis exploring the discrepancies of household electricity tariffs across 1,913 Swiss municipalities. First, we perform a multilinear regression analysis, considering structural, sociodemographic data a ...

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A systematic framework for the multi-time integration of industrial complexes and urban systems

François Maréchal, Daniel Alexander Florez Orrego, Meire Ellen Gorete Ribeiro Domingos

The energy integration of industrial complexes and urban agglomerations has many benefits in terms of rational energy use and reduced environmental impact, especially during scenarios of supply chain uncertainty and volatile market prices. In fact, the div ...

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SWEET-EDGE: Enabling Decentralized renewable Generation in the Alps

Michael Lehning, Jérôme François Sylvain Dujardin, Annelen Kahl

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3D Printed Acoustically Programmable Soft Microactuators

Mahmut Selman Sakar, Murat Kaynak, Amit Yedidia Dolev

The concept of creating all-mechanical soft microrobotic systems has great potential to address outstanding challenges in biomedical applications, and introduce more sustainable and multifunctional products. To this end, magnetic fields and light have been ...

2022

Large-eddy Simulation of a Wind-turbine Array subjected to Active Yaw Control

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Regulated CO adsorption by the electrode with OH− repulsive property for enhancing C–C coupling

Michael Graetzel, Jing Gao, Mingkui Wang, Jingshan Luo, Dan Ren, Xiaoyu Zhang, Qixing Zhang, Jialin Wang

Electrochemical CO2 reduction driven by renewable electricity is one of the promising strategies to store sustainable energy as fuels. However, the selectivity of value-added multi-carbon products remains poor for further application of this process. Here, ...

2022

Demographic and Geographic Region Definition in Energy System Modelling. A case study of Canada’s path to net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and the role of hydrogen

The urgency of reducing greenhouse gas emissions is greater now than ever, with the impacts of climate change becoming more apparent each year. Due to this, governments are setting ambitious targets such as reaching net zero GHG emissions by 2050, as annou ...

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