Students recreate the historical experimental setup to explain the greenhouse effect in the open laboratory at Fachhochschule Dortmund - and make it available to the CSR Office. A project for innovation, sustainability and interdisciplinary collaboration.
As early as 1856, US researcher Eunice Newton Foote laid the foundation for understanding the greenhouse effect with a simple experiment: she showed that gases such as carbon dioxide store heat and thus contribute to global warming - early experimental proof of the link between greenhouse gases and global warming. She only received recognition for this more than 150 years later: during her lifetime, as a woman, she was not allowed to publish herself.
Today, this pioneering spirit is being rekindled in the "42 nibbles" open laboratory of the Faculty of Computer Science at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts. During a three-week student internship, interns Vanja and Alex modernized the experimental setup under the guidance of experts Mathias Raschke and Dieter Zumkehr: Programming, 3D printing and electronics were used to create a functional replica that will enrich teaching and urban society.
"I was overwhelmed by the result: In just three weeks, we created an experimental setup that we will be able to use in teaching and in exchanges with urban society in the future. It's amazing," emphasizes Sebastian Kreimer. The setup will celebrate its premiere at the Dortbunt Festival on May 10 in the Sustainability Village at Fachhochschule Dortmund.
