• <strong>10 YEARS: SATELLITE</strong> Ten years in the making (1/2): From 2002 to 2012, the satellite Envisat orbited the Earth every 100 minutes, analysing the hole in the ozone layer, documenting the state of the Poles, measuring greenhouse gases, recording natural catastrophes, and mapping forests.
    10 YEARS: SATELLITE Ten years in the making (1/2): From 2002 to 2012, the satellite Envisat orbited the Earth every 100 minutes, analysing the hole in the ozone layer, documenting the state of the Poles, measuring greenhouse gases, recording natural catastrophes, and mapping forests.
  • <strong>10 YEARS: ELBPHILHARMONIE </strong>Ten years in the making (2/2): In the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, audiences can listen to impressive concerts. It took the same length of time to build as the satellite Envisat, which observed the state of our planet.
    10 YEARS: ELBPHILHARMONIE Ten years in the making (2/2): In the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, audiences can listen to impressive concerts. It took the same length of time to build as the satellite Envisat, which observed the state of our planet.
  • <strong>15 SQUARE KILOMETRES: TELESCOPE </strong>15 km² (1/2): This is the surface area on which the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is going to be built in South Africa as of 2019. 200 radio telescopes will be complemented by further telescopes and antennas in Australia to create a giant telescope equivalent to a square kilometre in surface area.
    15 SQUARE KILOMETRES: TELESCOPE 15 km² (1/2): This is the surface area on which the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) is going to be built in South Africa as of 2019. 200 radio telescopes will be complemented by further telescopes and antennas in Australia to create a giant telescope equivalent to a square kilometre in surface area.
  • <strong>15 SQUARE KILOMETRES: SOLAR POWER PLANT </strong>15 km² (2/2): The solar power plant Desert Sunlight in the Mojave Desert in California currently has a capacity of 550 megawatts – one-and-a-half times that of the Mühleberg atomic power station in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It has the same surface area needed by the Square Kilometer Array to observe the stars. Image: 2015 Jamey Stillings
    15 SQUARE KILOMETRES: SOLAR POWER PLANT 15 km² (2/2): The solar power plant Desert Sunlight in the Mojave Desert in California currently has a capacity of 550 megawatts – one-and-a-half times that of the Mühleberg atomic power station in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It has the same surface area needed by the Square Kilometer Array to observe the stars. Image: 2015 Jamey Stillings
  • <strong>1,300,000 MEGAWATT HOURS: LHC </strong>1,300,000 MWh energy consumption (1/2): How much energy can we afford to use in the hunt for new particles? After the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, the physicist James Beacham would now also like to build an accelerator on the moon. Image: Maximilien Brice/Cern
    1,300,000 MEGAWATT HOURS: LHC 1,300,000 MWh energy consumption (1/2): How much energy can we afford to use in the hunt for new particles? After the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, the physicist James Beacham would now also like to build an accelerator on the moon. Image: Maximilien Brice/Cern
  • <strong>1,300,000 MEGAWATT HOURS: LAUSANNE </strong>1,300,000 MWh energy consumption (2/2): The city of Lausanne uses the same amount of energy as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. While the population and businesses are encouraged to save electricity, physicists are dreaming of what they can do with even more. Image: Reproduced with permission of swisstopo (BA18106)
    1,300,000 MEGAWATT HOURS: LAUSANNE 1,300,000 MWh energy consumption (2/2): The city of Lausanne uses the same amount of energy as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. While the population and businesses are encouraged to save electricity, physicists are dreaming of what they can do with even more. Image: Reproduced with permission of swisstopo (BA18106)
  • <strong>ONE BILLION EUROS: NEURONS </strong>One billion euros (1/2): The Human Brain Project has already had to overcome many serious crises, but is still barely closer to its main goal of simulating a human brain. Image: Blue Brain Project/EPFL ©2005–2018. All rights reserved
    ONE BILLION EUROS: NEURONS One billion euros (1/2): The Human Brain Project has already had to overcome many serious crises, but is still barely closer to its main goal of simulating a human brain. Image: Blue Brain Project/EPFL ©2005–2018. All rights reserved
  • <strong>ONE BILLION EUROS: RHÔNE CORRECTION </strong>One billion euros (2/2): The first phase of the third Rhône correction will cost as much as the Human Brain Project – here we can see current work on the correction near Visp (VS). The goal is to protect the region from flooding and to help nature to flourish on the river’s banks. Image: Alexandra Jäger, Foto Grafik Fux Naters
    ONE BILLION EUROS: RHÔNE CORRECTION One billion euros (2/2): The first phase of the third Rhône correction will cost as much as the Human Brain Project – here we can see current work on the correction near Visp (VS). The goal is to protect the region from flooding and to help nature to flourish on the river’s banks. Image: Alexandra Jäger, Foto Grafik Fux Naters
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