Workshop talks: Hydropower in a double pack
Hydraulic engineering is a demanding field of tension between protection against natural hazards, the use of hydropower and ecological requirements. In addition, climate change will exacerbate this tension. And hydroelectric power is politically challenged, because it is to be expanded as part of the Energy Strategy 2050.
Robert Boes, Professor of Hydraulic Engineering at ETH Zurich, talks about this during a virtual walk along the Sihl and at the Grimsel power plants.
(Videos in German only)
There Prof. Boes also meets Daniel Fischlin, CEO of Kraftwerke Oberhasli: Together the scientist and the practitioner discuss the "Holy Trinity" of hydraulic engineering.
