62: Facing up to environmental challenges
In a rapidly changing world where environmental issues show multi-facets, UTC is getting its act together, so to speak. The laboratories are mobilising their forces. This is the case for UTC-TIMR, whether it be in the field of green energy with solid hydrogen, research into alternatives to phytosanitary products for agriculture or chemical products for soil decontamination and finally recovery processes for both organic and non-conventional waste. Projects with external academic and industrial partners are expanding. These include the Living Lab for optimum management of electrical charging points as part of EE4.0 and the Industrial Chair designed to pursue research in ecodesign. Finally, the arrival of two Nvidia supercomputers at the Biomechanics and Bioengineering Laboratory (UTC-BMBI) will benefit the lab’s research activity as well as that of UTC as a whole. These supercomputers, which each provides comparable performance levels, have seen their energy consumption cut by a factor of 1 000, from one megawatt for a cluster of machines to two kilowatts.