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Note: this is a work in progress which will be updated throughout the week. This especially applies to the notes from the sessions, so please regard them as somewhat preliminary! In case of the Great Debates mentioned below, EGU plans to release the recordings sometime after the conference ends. Once they become available, I'll include links to the ones I watched live.
This year's General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) will take place as a fully hybrid conference in both Vienna and online from April 24 to 28.
Alena Butusava/Getty Images A wearable wristband containing a thermoelectric generator (TEG) can convert body heat into enough electricity to power an LED. In future, the technology may be able to power smartwatches and end the need for traditional charging hardware. “Energy supply is always a big issue, and this could help alleviate the energy crisis,” says Qian Zhang of the Harbin Institute of Technology, China, one of the co-authors of the paper, who has worked on TEGs for more than 15 years. TEGs are used in a wide range of applications, but are often rigid – something Zhang and her...