The Prince of Wales has been treated to a tour of EcoLabs, a hub for innovation supporting energy sector start-ups at Nanyang Technological University. Prince William spoke to environmental innovators developing autonomous electric vehicles, semi-autonomous drones and electrolysers to produce green hydrogen. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 It houses about 40,000 members of the university.
00:05 But we started to embrace the student policy, what we do,
00:10 education, research, innovation, and campus development,
00:14 in harmony with the university.
00:18 Together with harming our youth.
00:21 As most of the university has dropped drastically,
00:24 one way to empower ourselves, net zero, is by putting products in the ground.
00:28 One is highly non-sustainable, one is indium from Red Bull.
00:32 Low-gloss crude oil has many metals like indium and nickel.
00:35 We recycle the battery very importantly.
00:37 And if 95% we can power the battery, 5% we can do by the end of the next time.
00:43 This is the team we found recently.
00:45 This is the chief of staff.
00:47 He is from Oxford.
00:48 Oxford is actually short for Autonomous Fire.
00:51 And of course, a spin off from the university.
00:53 So we have three core competences.
00:55 One is autonomous navigation, for which we built these autonomous vehicles.
01:01 It's very weird that he sat in the wrong seat.
01:03 It doesn't look very peculiar.
01:05 Actually, this was a regulatory safety requirement.
01:08 Some of the materials are from the older.
01:11 Intentionally.
01:13 Intentionally, it was like that.
01:15 You need a component like this, you are going to work with hydrogen.
01:21 But they had a problem with the hydrogen parts.
01:23 So that's where we came in and built the device.
01:25 These electrodes are nano-engineered so that you can produce more.
01:30 The properties of the material.
01:32 So that we have a dramatically increased amount of surface area available.
01:36 For the water-fitting reaction in this case.
01:38 These are water-fitting electrodes that produce hydrogen.
01:40 Young company, we are growing really fast.
01:42 We have clients all over Asia, Europe and the US.
01:46 We are working with a number of UK-based companies as well.
01:49 This is to recover the performance of the solar panel.
01:53 Because all solar panels face degradation.
01:55 We are leaving about 7 billion British pounds of oxygen.
02:01 Is that in every generation of solar panels?
02:03 Or is that some of the earlier ones that are doing that?
02:05 The early ones.
02:06 So at the moment we are going from P-type to N-type.
02:09 For N-type, we are on a spin-off of the Solar Energy Research Institute.
02:15 The only method that we have at the moment to measure large plants is drone infrared thermography.