Once upon a time, Volkswagen made the most powerful and fastest production car - the Bugatti Veyron EB 16.4. The objective behind Volkswagen XL1 was completely different – develop the most environmentally friendly hybrid car and hopefully slightly less expensive than Bugatti. Like the Bugatti Veyron, the XL1 owes its existence...
15 years ago, in March 2007, the first commercial solar power plant – PS10 (Planta Solar 10) – was put into operation in Sanlucar la Mayor near Andalusia, Spain. Although demonstration power plants with solar concentrators had already been built long before this date, the launch of PS10 marked the beginning of the large-scale...
In its news release at the beginning of this year, Itaipu Binational announced a unique development in the energy sector. Central HidroeléctricaItaipú, operated by this company on the border of Paraguay and Brazil, reached a colossal 2.77 billion MWh of accumulated electricity production by the end of 2020, which has not been...
The capital of Bavaria is filled with historic routes which over the centuries have shaped the modern face of Munich and Germany itself. Numerous craft workshops, which later grew into factories and plants, turned Munich and its surroundings into a powerful industrial innovation center, driving the development of the city....
Tuscany is an historic area in the West of Italy, between the Ligurian and the Tyrrhenian Seas and the Apuan Alps (Alpi Apuane). The cultural heritage of Tuscany is daunting. It is the birthplace of Dante and Petrarch, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, Puccini and Mascagni. This region has accumulated many fine architectural...
