DENV-R, a data center on water
Digital, Energy, Energy & environment, Environment, In the News, Start-up-en, Uncategorized
By continuously ensuring the seamless operation of the digital chain, data centers give off a considerable amount of heat and require additional energy to power their cooling systems. DENV-R, a start-up incubated at IMT Atlantique and present…
Improving battery performance with Entroview
Energy, Energy & environment, In the News, Start-up-en
To optimize the production of batteries for electric vehicles, the start-up Entroview develops diagnostic solutions to speed up the testing phase. The young company’s primary targets are gigafactories and industries specialized in battery…
A New Nuclear Plan for France? Understanding current events in the light of history
Energy, Energy & environment, In the News
Michaël Mangeon, Université Paris Nanterre – Université Paris Lumières and Mathias Roger, IMT Atlantique – Institut Mines-Télécom
On February 10, 2022, a few weeks before the first round of the French presidential…
IN-TRACKS: tracking energy consumption
Energy, Energy & environment, In the News, Start-up-en
Nowadays, companies are encouraged to track their energy consumption, specifically to limit their greenhouse gas emissions. IN-TRACKS, a start-up created last November, has developed a smart dashboard to visualize energy usage.
“With…
Plastic waste: transforming a problem into energy
Energy, Energy & environment, Environment, In the News
The linear life cycle of plastics, too rarely recycled, exerts a heightened pressure on the environment. The process of gasification makes it possible to reduce this impact by transforming more waste – currently incinerated or left in landfill…
Antoine Fécant, winner of the 2021 IMT-Académie des Sciences Young Scientist Prize
Energy, Energy & environment, In the News
Antoine Fécant, new energy materials researcher at IFP Energies Nouvelles, has worked on many projects relating to solar and biosourced fuel production and petrol refining. His work has relevance for the energy transition and, this year, was…
Nuclear fission reveals new secrets
Energy, Energy & environment, In the News
Almost 80 years after the discovery of nuclear fission, it continues to unveil its mysteries. The latest to date: an international collaboration has discovered what makes the fragments of nuclei spin after fission. This offers insights into…
ThermiUp: a new heat recovery device
Energy, Energy & environment, In the News, Start-up-en
ThermiUP helps meet the challenge of energy-saving in buildings. This start-up, incubated at IMT Atlantique, is set to market a device that transfers heat from grey water to fresh water. Its director, Philippe Barbry, gives us an…
Eclore and ThermiUp, new beneficiaries of the IMT “Industry & Energy 4.0” honor loans
Energy, Energy & environment, In the News, Start-up-en, Uncategorized
After the IMT Digital Fund, Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT) and the Fondation Mines-Télécom launched a second fund last October, dedicated to the sciences of energy, materials and processes: “Industry & Energy 4.0”. Its committee,…
In search of a future for fast neutron reactors
Energy, Energy & environment, In the News
In August 2019, it was announced that the Astrid project for sodium fast reactors (SFR) was to be abandoned. In late 2020, Stéphanie Tillement, a researcher at IMT Atlantique, analyzed the rationale behind this abandonment in an article…