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Success stories from the past few years
SINTEF has had both large and small successes to celebrate in the course of the years – from company spin-offs to the important contributions that our research has made to successful major projects.
| Radar to stop aerial collisionsA new Norwegian invention prevents planes and helicopters from colliding with high-tension lines, wind-turbines, telecommunications masts and oil platforms.
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 | Earplug lets the message throughAn earplug with a built-in computer that allows speech to pass but shuts out unwanted and hazardous noise will make life easier in noisy environments.
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| Life-saving designProfessional fishermen have one of the most dangerous work-places in Norway. Between January 1988 and June 2005, 80 Norwegian fishermen died on the job. Shipwrecks and falling overboard were the cause of more than half of such accidents. For generations, fishermen have used oilskins as their normal working clothes to protect themselves from spray and dirt.
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 | Green refrigeration and heat-pump technologyBy 2010 Japan aims to install five million heat-pumps that use CO2 as a working medium. Technology from SINTEF/NTNU is a central part of the process.
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 | Emission-free air-conditioningThe air-conditioning system in your car is full of chemicals; substances that can end up in the atmosphere if they leak out. SINTEF Energy Research has done something about it.
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 | Jobs for young people in TuzlaSINTEF has helped to establish an innovation centre in Bosnia-Herzegovina, offering new opportunities to the young people of the city of Tuzla. In the course of two and a half years, 65 jobs have been created for highly qualified job-seekers.
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| Watching over Las Vegas’ waterLas Vegas needs to prevent water being lost from its pipeline network. To help improve the situation, the city authorities have bought a specially developed analytical tool from Trondheim.
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Published November 6, 2007
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