news 2010

One of the world's most accurate scales is currently being used for fusion research at the Institute of Applied Physics at the Vienna University of Technology (VUT). A clean, eco-friendly and virtually inexhaustible source of energy: using nuclear fusion to produce electricity has been the dream of countless scientists for many years.

Vienna (TU). Preventing global warming, obtaining energy from renewable sources in an environmentally friendly way - these tasks rank amongst the most important challenges facing us in the twenty-first century. In light of the importance of this topic, the Vienna University of Technology has declared the field of energy and environment to be one of its key areas of research.

The paper entitled 'The Next Generation of Scenarios for Climate Change Research and Assessment' has been featured in this week's press release for Nature. A new generation of plausible future climate pathways is needed to improve understanding of potential climate and socio-economic outcomes, suggests a Perspectives article in Nature.