Science - Technology
BACKLIGHT: CARS 2.0
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With rising temperatures and rising gas prices, cars need to become greener fast. And superficially, the large car manufacturers seem to work hard to improve the fuel efficiency of their products. But are they really? The technology to make cars much more fuel efficient already exists for decades, but it never makes it to the showroom. Why do we have to wait so long for fuel efficient vehicles? read more >
Backlight: Energy War
The Cold War and the War on Terror were about ideology and globalization. The 21st century will be dominated by the struggle for energy: It will be every man for himself and it's going to get dirty. read more >
BACKLIGHT: HERE COMES THE SUN!
Here Comes the Sun! is a 50-minute story that will change your ideas about the future of energy
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Backlight: Hydrogen Revolution 1& 2
A two part series on the fuel that will change the world forever. read more >
Backlight: Waste = Food
A documentary about the Cradle to Cradle principle: designers and manufacturers should incorporate the recyclability of the materials of which the products are made off. read more >
CopyCats / Science Shorts
This series of science shorts shows how nature still outsmarts us and how scientists try to draw lessons from that. read more >
Delta Finale 1988
In October 1986 the official 'closing' of the Delta Project took place in the presence of Her Majesty Queen Beatrix and many European Chiefs of State. read more >
Delta phase 1
The first estuary to be dammed off as part of the Delta Project was the Veerse Gat. This was done with a special kind of caisson. read more >
Fuel for the future
Global warming is said to be creating climatic changes that threaten disaster for our tortured earth. read more >
Happy birthday Connie
When an international passenger airline decides to retire one of its hardworking aircraft, it usually ends up as a pile of scrap metal. Not so with Connie. read more >
Red Stuff, The
A film about the first real explorers of the universe, the Russian cosmonauts, read more >
The kiss that would last a billion years
In 1977 two unmanned spacecraft were launched to explore the universe. Today Voyager 1 and 2 have reached the far side of our solar system, fourteen billion kilometers from Earth. read more >
