Engineering Matters

Five times winner of the Publisher Podcast Awards, including Best Technology Podcast, Engineering Matters celebrates the work of engineers who use ingenuity, practicality, science, theory and determination to build a better world. In the UK alone 5.7milli

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#24 Unleash the Hydrogen Potential

Posted June 13, 2019 • 00:31:00

Could the lightest element in the periodic table be the answer to the world’s most weighty challenge of decarbonising energy? Hydrogen is the most...

#20 Electric Vehicles: Lessons from world leading Norway

Posted May 3, 2019 • 00:34:51

How did Norway become the world’s most successful electric vehicle market? Last month almost 80 percent of all new cars sold in Oslo were EVs and...

#18 Cocoa Power

Posted April 4, 2019 • 00:26:38

Four thousand years after it was first used as a form of nutrition for the Olmec people of Mesoamerica, engineers are finding new ways to harness the...

#16 Designing green buildings

Posted March 8, 2019 • 00:21:10

Do plants hold the key to making cities healthier? Could we design buildings that don’t take away green space, but create it? That don’t demand...

#13 Secrets of the Hoover Dam

Posted January 27, 2019 • 00:37:23

Are there really bodies buried in the Hoover Dam? Was the hard hat really invented here in 1931? And why was it originally called Boulder Dam? In this...