room temperature at no cost. With harvested
nanowires and a phase-change material, the
team created a brushed-aluminium object
that looks something like an ordinary radia-
tor. It absorbs excess heat and releases it
when the ambient temperature drops.
As hard as it is to imagine a society
without gas, it’s perhaps even more difficult
to think about the day when utility bills are a
thing of the past and climate change isn’t an
ongoing source of anxiety. In the meantime,
we wait in anticipation. – LGM
wangsoderstrom.comENERGY – Amsterdam wants to reduce its
carbon emissions by 80 per cent by the year
- It’s a lofty goal. In addition to other
energy-related generators, 90 per cent of
businesses and homes in the city utilize gas
for heating. The increasing amounts of CO 2
impacting the environment make this kind
of extreme remediation and planning criti-
cal. The Dutch government even subsidizes
individuals who are willing to switch from
gas to electricity – a form of support that
can be seen as a stark wake-up call, not only
to Amsterdam but to other countries in the
developed world.
Design plays a part in widening the spectrum
of potential energy and heating solutions.
During Dutch Design Week 2018, a team of
Swedish designers and scientists presented
an exhibition called What Matter_s, a collabo-
rative effort to highlight new materials that
show promise for use on a broad scale. Anny
Wang and Tim Söderström of Copenhagen-
based design studio Wang & Söderström
worked with Professor Magnus Borgström
and Dr Vilgailè Dagytè of Nanolund, the
Center for Nanoscience at Lund University
in southern Sweden. Their project, Array,
is a prototypal radiator that can regulateHigh design helps SELL
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