Cave stalactites can be a unique archive for researching historical climate fluctuations – this has been shown by a team from KIT and Heidelberg University with other partners. The researchers analyzed the isotopic composition of oxygen in the stalactite limestone of the small Devil’s Cave in Bavaria. For example, they […]
Researchers at KIT in Karlsruhe are investigating how Europe can extract more lithium for batteries to become climate neutral. Europe produces only 1% of the world’s lithium, but geothermal energy could help. In Germany, geothermal power plants in the Upper Rhine Graben and North German Basin could supply 2-12% of […]
To curb the climate crisis, a lot of CO2 has to be taken out of the atmosphere. One approach comes from Karlsruhe, where high-tech raw materials are made from air – which are also in demand in industry. It is the high-tech raw material carbon black that researchers at the […]
Frowning in the greentech industry: Fracking for the extraction of domestic gas in deep rock strata is wrongly taboo in the view of an expert at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). “Modern fracking is absolutely justifiable in the current situation and should play a role in a rational energy […]
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