Tiny Impact: Using tiny houses as a springboard to reduce our reliance on critical raw materials and fossil fuels in the human building interaction

European climate goals to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celcius are unachievable in their current form because current green energy technologies needed for the energy transition rely too much on critical raw materials (CRMs). This thesis sought to design something that reduces the negative impact living has on the climate while making...

Entrepreneurship in Africa: Improving Lives through Clean Energy and Clean Cooking: Discovering the barriers and drivers for entrepreneurs in the SSA Clean energy sector

In Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) energy poverty is a widely spread challenge and access to energy is a key imperative for economic development. With the exponential population growth in the region the pressure on the energy that is available grows and the numbers on energy poverty rise. In an effort to promote change, Sustainable Development Goal ...

Feasibility of using wave enhancement methods to optimise wave conditions in wave energy converter arrays

Wave energy is a promising renewable resource for the extraction of energy. To increase the efficiency of this technology a parabolic reflection wall is located behind a wave farm of heaving point absorber wave energy converters (WECs) to increase the power output of the WEC array by altering the wave field. The WECs are modelled with patches of...

Sustainable Energy Dam: Research into possible improvement of dam/dike safety by application of sustainable energy on dams/dikes

A study on the use of the Afsluitdijk (or more generic, enclosure dams in general) for the generation of energy. Focus in this study in on solar panels on the dike.