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if not Now WHEN??????????????????????????????






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Sensation

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Rat’s sex is FLEX

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from Smugglers to Scientists: NEW Dino Species

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2nd stage
www.deinove.com/en/news/all-press-releases/deinove-and-flint…
www.deinove.com/en/science-and-technologies

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Biologisierung und Digitalisierung der Wirtschaft erGÄNZEN sich, mit IHR wird es gelingen, Mensch +Natur wieder in EINklang zu bringen

http://biooekonomierat.de/aktuelles/die-neue-hightech-strate…

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SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO sieht das Essen der Zukunft aus

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GrößTE urbane Zerstörung, geplant

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suspicion LEAKED: hat E.T. gar nicht nach Hause telefoniert?!?!?

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ULTRA-High Yield Para-Xylene, from Biomass-Derived 2,5-Dimethylfuran
http://license.umn.edu/technologies/20170038_ultra-high-yiel…

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ONLY time will tell

www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/178790/powerhous…

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.084.585 von Popeye82 am 06.06.17 00:54:17

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.084.585 von Popeye82 am 06.06.17 00:54:17

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Climeworks launches world’s first commercial plant to capture CO2, from air; Climeworks wäscht CO2, aus der Luft

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.118.725 von Popeye82 am 10.06.17 23:59:47

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- Climeworks is capturing CO2 from air with the world’s first commercial carbon removal technology. Our direct air capture plants remove CO2 from the atmosphere to supply to customers and to unlock a negative emissions future.

We built and operate the world’s first commercial direct air capture plant in Hinwil (Switzerland), removing 900 tonnes of CO2 from ambient air per year (as seen in the video). Our plants capture atmospheric carbon with a filter, using mainly low-grade heat as an energy source.

The pure CO2 gas is sold to our customers in key markets, including: commercial agriculture, food and beverage industries, the energy sector and the automotive industry. Customers utilise this atmospheric CO2 in carbonated drinks or for producing carbon-neutral hydrocarbon fuels and materials. By using Climeworks’ CO2, our customers can reduce their overall emissions as well as lowering their dependence on fossil energy. Our plants are modular, scalable and can be located independently of emission sources, allowing security of supply wherever there is atmospheric air.

Importantly, our plants can be utilised for negative emissions, which will be vital in the quest to limit a global temperature rise of 2 °C. Compared to other carbon removal technologies, direct air capture does not depend on arable land, has a small physical footprint, and is fully scalable.

Founded by engineers, Christoph Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher, Climeworks has assembled the largest team of experts in the field and developed high-quality testing and production facilities.

We’ll keep working to realize our mission to capture one percent of global emissions by 2025.

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Covestro breakTHROUGH

http://press.covestro.com/news.nsf/id/Key-chemical-now-deriv…
http://news.bio-based.eu/covestro-gelingt-wissenschaftlicher…

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EU’s SWEET 16

------> www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2017/04/10/the-eus-sweet-16-1…

[Steveguied]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.118.743 von Popeye82 am 11.06.17 00:06:22

Also wenn ich Climeworks eingebe, dann war das wohl mal eine Aktie. Auf der Homepage finde ich auch nichts über Investor Relations.

Auf den ersten Blick ne coole Idee.

Gruß
Stefan!
Bist du irgendwie sauer, oder verstehe ich deinen Witz nicht?

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.129.928 von Steveguied am 13.06.17 10:09:05

Tag Stefan

auch wenn es glaube ich schon leichter mal vorkommen kann meine Witze falsch zu verstehen,
Nein: ich wüsste nicht sauer auf Dich zu sein, ganz im Gegenteil!
ich verstehe auch gerade nicht durch welchen Kommentar, oder gewählte Formulierung, die Vermutung aufkam, oder das möglicherweise angedeutet wurde.
zu den (Klima)Anlagemöglichkeiten wollte ich nochmal 2,3 Sachen anmerken,
etwas später dann im Münchener Rück Thread


machs Gut!
der P.

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.129.928 von Steveguied am 13.06.17 10:09:05

also wie ich sehe sind Sie die ursprüngliche Gründung einer schweizer Universität,
aber Wie kommst Du denn darauf dass sie "schonmal börsennotiert waren"?

ich kann Nichts derartiges erkennen

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Launch of New Revolution
http://investors.biohitechglobal.com/2017-06-13-BioHiTech-Gl…

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.129.928 von Steveguied am 13.06.17 10:09:05

ich hatte auch noch eine israelische Firma,
privat-Ursprung glaube ich auch wieder Universitätsseitig-,
die im Prinzip an "CO2 zu Treibstoff" arbeiten.
-bis dato-Testergebnisse schienen mir ausserordentlich gut,
und es schien sich eben AUCH eine ziemlich problemlose
größerskalierbarkeit anzudeuten.



das ist aaaaabsolut unkonkret,
ganz lose,
meinerseits,
so far,
aber die wollte ich evt nochmal anschreiben ob Die denn vorhaben irgendwann -sooner or later-mal "öffentlich zu gehen".

SOLLTEN Die Das tun(solche teile kommen i.d.R. aber auch nicht gerade "niedrigpreisig"), wäre ich vermutlich hochhochinteressiert dran

[Steveguied]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.133.918 von Popeye82 am 13.06.17 20:24:56

Gib doch mal Climeworks im Wallstreet Online suchfeld ein. Da wird sogar ne schweizer WKN angezeigt. und ein roter Text für dieses Wertpapier können keine Aufträge gegeben werden. Also irgendwas muss da mal gewesen sein.

Gruß
Stefan!

[Popeye82]

Researchers use light

https://news.nd.edu/news/researchers-use-light-to-manipulate…

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www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/amazon-kauft-bio-kette…

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.136.771 von Steveguied am 14.06.17 10:47:28

Moin(sen) Steve!

ich hatte noch Verschiedene Sachen zum ansprechen,
das mit Der Quotierung bin ich gerade am checken.
sollte Etwas Anwendbares rauskommen, melde ich mich nochmal dazu.



aktuell habe ich aber nur Dieses Anliegen,
ansonsten RUNDUM glücklich:

mal -hypothetisch-angenommen dass man sich $1,67(pro Jahr) vom Munde abgespart(1/2 Zigarettenschachtel vorzeitig verkauft) hat,
und man will Die verballern.
für Was sinnVOLLES.

du kennst Dich da ja glaube ich Etwas aus,
hast mal Etwas von Sozialprojekten geschrieben, Die Du unterstützt?

Hintergrund ist Folgender:
ich überlege schon seit längerer Zeit vielleicht ein soziales Projekt pro Jahr mit einem kleinen Sümmchen zu unterstützen.
und Das dann Jedes Jahr zu wechseln.

- es ginge mir nicht um eine bestimmte Summe
- einige Sachen müsste man sich dabei wahrscheinlich noch durchdenken,
VORbereiten
- was, wenn, wichtig wäre: dass gespendetes Geld nicht irgendwo auf dem "Verwaltungsweg" versickert,
und man weiss dass Es sinnvoll verwendet, damit gearbeitet wird
- folglich wäre es, auch, schön Das Jeweilige "Projekt" näher kennenlernen zu können,
und -keine Ahnung, zum Beispiel-wenn es jetzt um Ernährung/Bildungsmöglichkeiten in Afrika gingen,
da Einen Tropfen auf den HEISSEN Stein beizutragen,
dass man da(nn) z.B. -im Patenfalle-mit dem Kind dann zum Beispiel auch Briefe schreiben kann,
oder Sowas, also dass man wirklich ein "bisschen weiss Was los ist"(das Er 1mal im Monat schreibt dass Er auch fleissig lernt, bald eine wichtige Prüfung bevorsteht, oder sooo, zum Beispiel )
- das wäre jetzt Keine "Bedingung", aber Afrika, oder Kinder in Afrika, könnte ich mir zum Beispiel sehr gut vorstellen
- also im prinzip geht es mir darum dass man, wenn, WIRKLICH ETWAS BEWIRKT, VERÄNDERT.
wenn es auch nochnochnoch so klein sein mag
- das ist jetzt nur mal ein "grober Vorstellungsrahmen",
ist sicherlich Etwas anpassbar, aber so in Der Richtung vielleicht



Hast Du da vielleicht ein paar gute Informationen, Seiten, Projekte, Organisationen................
mit Denen an sich mal beschäftigen kann?

Gruss
mach weiter So!!
der P.

[Steveguied]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.158.680 von Popeye82 am 18.06.17 02:38:18

ALso mit Projekten in Afrika kenne ich mich gar nicht aus. Ich habe aber über die Homepage vom ZDF für Hilfsorganisationen zur Hungerbämpfung in Afrika gespendet. Hintergrund ist, dass in Somalia und weiteren angrenzenden Ländern die größte Dürre wohl seit über 50 Jahren herrscht und die Leute ihr Vieh geschlachtet haben, da es kein Wasser mehr für die Tiere gab. Somalia und weitere Länder in Afrika haben erleben eine extreme Dürre.

Sonst kenne ich nur 3-4 Organisationen in D für die ich regelmäßig spende. Meine Schwester hat eine geistige Behinderung mit stark autistischen Zügen und einigen psychischen Problemen, die über das normale autistische weit hinaus gehen. Ich habe auch in Ihrem Umfeld verstärkt gespendet, weil ich hier weiß und auch sehe, dass es ankommt.

Gruß
Stefan

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.161.869 von Steveguied am 19.06.17 08:03:16

Danke für die Informationen Stefan.
Mit dem ZDF werde ich mir vielleicht mal ein bisschen ansehen.

Mir geht es da aber mehr um arme Länder
-also vermutlich sprechen Wir über "bisschen Anderes"-,
die im Prinzip -auch-materielle Unterstützung (bitter)benötigen.
In Unseren Breitengraden geht es mir viel, viel, viel zu sehr
-inzwischen-um idiotische Luxusprobleme.

In Diesen Eintopf muss ich nicht reinspucken,
das dürfen Andere tun

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biodegradable microbeads

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.182.104 von Popeye82 am 22.06.17 00:55:54

Weißt du Popeye das mit der materiellen Unterstützung in armen Ländern hat auch den Teufel gesehen. Wenn du Klamotten spendest, was vielleicht am einfachsten ist, zerstörst du sehr wahrscheinlich die lokale Textilindustrie und es gibt noch mehr Arbeitslose. Spendest du Lebensmittel passiert, man ahnt es schon, genau das bei den Kleinbauern. Viele Hilfsorganisationen kaufen im Westen ein, weil es von der Logistik am einfachsten ist, verfrachten jetzt mal plakativ gesagt in hilfebedürftige Länder und deren lokale und sehr kleinteilige Landwirtschaft, wo oft sehr viel mehr Existenzen dran hängen als bei uns, werden vernichtet.

Da finde ich es noch am besten auf Bildung zu setzen. Wenn dann aber die Möglichkeiten fehlen das in diesen Ländern auch anzuwenden, weil es meist eigentlich keine Industrie gibt ist auch Kacke. Kapitalgeber sowieso Fehlanzeige.

Ganz ehrlich Popeye, ich hab keine Ahnung wie man das sozial richtig gestaltet. Dann spende ich lieber im Umfeld meiner Schwester.

Bei sowas wie der Dürre in Somalia mache ich ne Ausnahme, weil das ne akute Notsituation ist mit Existenzsorgen die so krass aussehen, dass man nicht weiß, ob man am nächsten Tag noch lebt. Dann ist Hilfe von aussen nötig, auch wenn sie der lokalen Industrie schadet. Es geht da aber ums nackte Überleben.

https://www.zdf.de/service-und-hilfe/zuschauerservice/aufruf…
Ich hab beim ZDF bei der ersten Hilfsorganisation dem ZDF Bündnis gespendet.

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Ich habe einem Verein der sich für hochbegabte Kinder und Jugendliche einsetzt wie auch Menschen mit geistigem handicap auch Geld gespendet. In meinem Umfeld kenne ich jemand den man völlig falsch gefördert hat, nur weil er hochbegabt ist. Ich kriege das kotzen wenn ich daran denke. So geht man nicht mit Menschen um und schon gar nicht mit Kindern. Unser Bildungssystem ist defizit orientiert und Menschen mit leicht überdurchschnittlichen Fähigkeiten werden am besten gefördert. Das Bildungssystem ist ausserdem noch auf den Durchschnitt ausgelegt. Menschen mit besonderen Talenten und Begabungen, auch wenn es nur um Inseltalente handelt werden nicht, oder viel zu wenig gefördert. Menschen wie meine Schwester mit geistigem und psychischem Handicap bekommen auch nicht die Förderung, welche ihr eigentlich zustehen sollte. Ich kritisiere das und habe deshalb gespendet, weil ich denke, dass beiden Gruppen zu wenig Aufmerksamkeit/ Förderung gegeben wird. Damit man ja den Durchschnitt möglichst gut fördern kann.


Gruß
Stefan

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.154.813 von Popeye82 am 16.06.17 21:41:47

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.197.297 von Popeye82 am 24.06.17 13:17:49

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Neue Inseln aus Dem NICHTS

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http://aheadoftheherd.com/Newsletter/2017/Deveron-UAS-First-…

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Vermischtes


www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/9715669-vermischtes-norwe…

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Shell goes carbon NEGATIVE, bombshell arrived last week


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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.256.833 von Popeye82 am 03.07.17 23:39:41

www.sbibioenergy.com

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a bus runs , on hydrozine –formic acid that is sustainable, CO2-neutral, safe +liquid; Yesterday Team FAST, a student team from Eindhoven University of Technology(TU/e), unveiled the design of the world’s first system that allows a bus to drive on formic acid. Their self-built system comprises an electric bus, that is hooked up to a small trailer –which the students have christened ‘REX’ –in which formic acid is converted into electricity. The benefits of using formic acid are that it is sustainable, CO2-neutral, safe +liquid


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Billy BOY



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Turin goes
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Future farmers

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www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/9745412-deutsche-elektro-…

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wegWEISEND




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EATINGtheFarm

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the Battle for the Moon BEGINS

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.373.831 von Popeye82 am 21.07.17 19:46:26

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Musk: Ich bin der Schlauste, UND Schönste

www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/9746795-tesla-chef-plant-…

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.378.178 von Popeye82 am 22.07.17 23:11:31

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www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/9780812-tierschutzbund-po…

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www.businessnews.com.au/article/WindTurbine-seeks-ASX-listin…

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JUST hit the peak



http://reneweconomy.com.au/coal-lobby-hits-peak-denial-batte…

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.462.800 von Popeye82 am 04.08.17 23:07:22

[Popeye82]

www.silentspring.org/press-releases/septic-systems-are-major…

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www.weblakes.com/company/resources/lakes_patent_announcement…

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5,000-hp electric dragster has world records in its sights; an Australian company is working , from scratch to build the biggest, baddest electric powertrain, ever, hooked up, to a set of wheels. Top EV Racing is aiming to, violently, end the dominance of fire-breathing Top Fuel cars qthe drag strip, +smash acceleration, +landspeed world records, to boot

http://newatlas.com/top-ev-electric-drag-racing-top-fuel/507…

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.249.423 von Popeye82 am 03.07.17 00:07:18

http://aheadoftheherd.com/Newsletter/2017/AOTH-With-DeveronU…

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.378.178 von Popeye82 am 22.07.17 23:11:31

Elon M.: und Meine Attraktivität STEIGT NUR -EXPONENZIAL-ZU MEINEM ALTER

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-24/tesla-doubles-its…

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.466.820 von Popeye82 am 06.08.17 03:54:48

Neeeee: Deutsche sind (viel)schöner
www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/9794436-aufgewacht-achtun…

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.373.831 von Popeye82 am 21.07.17 19:46:26

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die sind ja totaaal vom MOND
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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.276.540 von Popeye82 am 06.07.17 18:31:13

www.mmnews.de/index.php/politik/121784-2017-08-07-17-39-27

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http://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/9819186-roundup-sp…

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.509.954 von Popeye82 am 11.08.17 21:54:24

Merkel verBIETET eAutos; quote: "NUR über meine Leiche"

www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2017-08/angela-merkel-wahlka…

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its NOT easy being Green

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http://www.carboncapturejournal.com/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=393…

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.531.695 von Popeye82 am 16.08.17 00:13:23

How Carbon Clean Solutions is helping industries cut their carbon footprint; Carbon Clean Solutions, a start-up involved in the niche carbon capture technology, does its job , @rates much lower than market standards, +even allows industries to sell the captured carbon

www.livemint.com/Companies/kIHWcUF3RdHDEJkVhKYRON/How-Carbon…

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.531.722 von Popeye82 am 16.08.17 00:19:50

http://www.carboncleansolutions.com/about-us/company

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.531.722 von Popeye82 am 16.08.17 00:19:50

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MAJOR step, forward

http://www.seedquest.com/news.php?type=news&id_article=89914…

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.546.398 von Popeye82 am 17.08.17 19:21:28

TIME tunnel created

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"Columbus-based biologicals producer 3Bar has raised a $2 million Seed Round lead by Rev1 Ventures, an Ohio-focused early-stage VC with a focus on healthcare, materials, agribusiness, and cleantech. Maumee Ventures, Ohio TechAngel Funds, Queen City Angels, Carmen Innovations, and SVG Thrive Fund also participated in the round.

3Bar creates yield-boosting biologicals delivered in a unique container that allows the user to activate the microbes just before application, increasing the effectiveness of the product, according to CEO Bruce Caldwell, who founded 3Bar in 2013 after seven years heading R&D at Miracle-Gro.



3Bar will use the new funds to expand the market for its first product, a yield enhancer called Bio-YIELD, through retailers and cooperatives in Ohio and around the region. The company claims to deliver a five times return on investment for farmers and 1 gallon covers 40 acres of corn or soybeans. The company’s second product will likely be a bio-pesticde, developed through a grant from the USDA, which will require more regulatory scrutiny than the beneficial biological product. The first pesticidal product from 3Bar will likely target soybean nematodes.

3Bar microbes “hibernate” in solid form in the cap of a 1 gallon container until the grower is ready to use them. The user then pushes a button and releases the microbes into a “growth solution” where they “activate” through fermentation and multiply exponentially, producing hundreds of millions of microbes over a 24-hour period. The microbes are then applied just after seeding so that the cultures can colonize and grow as the seed grows, increasing the plant’s defenses and therefore increasing overall yield.

Caldwell says that this patented activation and delivery process makes the beneficial microbes much more effective and has some skepticism for other biologicals on the market that are delivered ready-to-use. “For every other product that is relying on living microorganisms in the market today, that fermentation happened back at a facility months ago.”

He says that though the microbes will stay active for a time, they start to decline eventually and growers have no way of knowing wether what they are applying is still effective. The timeline for decline is different for every species

According to Caldwell, some companies are limiting their product offering to accommodate this degradation cycle. “What the larger companies are doing is limiting themselves to a few common species that form spores so that they have some chance… I’m convinced that this is the achilles heel of the industry,” said Caldwell, who seeks to change the mixed reputation of biologics on the whole.

3Bar raised $150,000 in seed funding also from Rev1 Ventures in July 2015.

“We made an early investment in 3Bar because we saw the promise of their research-backed offering and their unwavering commitment to providing farmers with a solution that works,” said Dave Bergeron, of Rev1 Ventures.

3Bar’s technology originated at Ohio State University."

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.547.631 von Popeye82 am 17.08.17 21:55:52

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"Rabobank and UN Environment announce new billion dollar partnership to kickstart climate smart agriculture
Press Release
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October 16, 2017

Rabobank and UN Environment join forces to finance sustainable agriculture with new billion-dollar facility
Facility aims to finance sustainable land use and help achieve the Paris Climate Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals
Facility aims to provide grants, de-risking instruments and credit to clients involved in sustainable agricultural production




16 October 2017 – Rabobank and UN Environment announced today the creation of a new 1 billion dollar facility to finance sustainable agriculture using a combination of public and private funding. Together they also invite other interested financial institutions to sign up and work actively with global food companies to put this into practice.

The facility aims to provide grants, de-risking instruments and credit to clients involved in sustainable agricultural production, processing or the trade of soft commodities who adhere to strict provisions for forest protection, restoration and the involvement of smallholders.

Rabobank CEO Wiebe Draijer and UN Environment Regional Director, Latin America and the Caribbean, Leo Heileman will sign the partnership at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development plenary session, Tuesday 17 October 2017 in Mexico City. As a contribution to the partnership, the World Business Council for Sustainable Development invites other major global players in primary production, the food industry and financial institutions to work together.

The coalition kicks off in Brazil and Indonesia. In Brazil the coalition commits itself to the promotion and, where feasible, the financing of integrated crop, livestock and forestry (ICLF) farming practices on the 17 million hectares of existing arable land under the management of Brazilian farmers financed by Rabobank. This activity is part of the strategic WWF Rabobank partnership. In Indonesia the coalition aims to finance replanting schemes for smallholders in partnership with corporate clients. These include forest and biodiversity protection, restoration and certification of oil palm.

“As the leading global food and agriculture bank, Rabobank recognizes its responsibility to combine long-term stability of food production for the growing global population and the transition to sustainable land use,” said Rabobank CEO Wiebe Draijer “That’s why we kickstart this initiative with our partners, UN Environment and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. We welcome other major global players in the primary production, food industry and financial institutions to work together with us. Our aim is to substantially increase the quality of existing arable land while protecting biodiversity and reducing climate change worldwide. It is clear that a different way of agricultural practices is needed that includes incentives and provisions to protect forest ecosystems and restore degraded lands if we are to meet the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals as well as keep global temperature rises to below 2˚C as agreed in the Paris Climate Agreement.”

“Support from industry leaders like Rabobank is an extremely important first step,” said Erik Solheim, head of UN Environment. “We want the entire finance industry to change their agricultural lending, away from deforestation and towards integrated landscapes, which provide good jobs, protect biodiversity, and are good for the climate. Sustainable land use and landscape restoration is also fundamentally about sound investments and good business. We want to speed up this trend so that it becomes the 'new normal' for the finance industry.”

“We need more initiatives that go beyond just talking about the issues at hand,” said Peter Bakker, President and CEO of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). “For this very reason this partnership is to be commended as it gives financing possibilities to feeding the world while using agricultural lands sustainably. This is just the beginning and we need other WBCSD members and major global players in primary production, the food industry and financial institutions to join this initiative and keep working on finding business solutions for climate smart agriculture.”

Halting climate change and an increasing agricultural footprint on the one hand, while ensuring growth in agricultural production to feed an estimated 9 billion people in 2050, are among the most defining challenges of the 21st century.

Agriculture is the second biggest driver of climate change related emissions, and represents about one quarter of total annual greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, there are more than 800 million people hungry at present and more mouths need to be fed in the future. We need to jointly stimulate existing and new best practices decreasing agriculture’s footprint and restoring quality of existing land used for agriculture and forestry. And to measure progress, generally accepted guidelines need to be established.

NOTES TO EDITORS

Rabobank is an international financial services provider operating on the basis of cooperative principles. It offers retail banking, wholesale banking, private banking, leasing and real estate services. As a cooperative bank, Rabobank puts customers’ interests first in its services. Rabobank is committed to being a leading customer-focused cooperative bank in the Netherlands and a leading food and agribank worldwide. Rabobank employs approximately internal and external 44,600 people. Rabobank Group is active in 40 countries. For more information about the Rabobank Group go to www.rabobank.com.

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development is a global, CEO-led organization of over 200 leading businesses working together to accelerate the transition to a sustainable world. We help make our member companies more successful and sustainable by focusing on the maximum positive impact for shareholders, the environment and societies. Our member companies come from all business sectors and all major economies, representing a combined revenue of more than $8.5 trillion and 19 million employees. Our global network of almost 70 national business councils gives our members unparalleled reach across the globe. WBCSD is uniquely positioned to work with member companies along and across value chains to deliver impactful business solutions to the most challenging sustainability issues. Together, we are the leading voice of business for sustainability: united by our vision of a world where more than nine billion people are all living well and within the boundaries of our planet, by 2050. www.wbcsd.org

UN Environment is the leading global voice on the environment. It provides leadership and encourages partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations. UN Environment works with governments, the private sector, the civil society and with other UN entities and international organizations across the world. Find out more at http://unep.org/
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"Environmental pollution—from filthy air to contaminated water—is killing more people every year than all war and violence in the world. More than smoking, hunger or natural disasters. More than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.

One out of every six premature deaths in the world in 2015—about 9 million—could be attributed to disease from toxic exposure, according to a major study released Thursday in the Lancet medical journal. The financial cost from pollution-related death, sickness and welfare is equally massive, the report says, costing some $4.6 trillion in annual losses—or about 6.2 percent of the global economy.

"There's been a lot of study of pollution, but it's never received the resources or level of attention as, say, AIDS or climate change," said epidemiologist Philip Landrigan, dean of global health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, and the lead author on the report.

The report marks the first attempt to pull together data on disease and death caused by all forms of pollution combined.

"Pollution is a massive problem that people aren't seeing because they're looking at scattered bits of it," Landrigan said.

Experts say the 9 million premature deaths the study found was just a partial estimate, and the number of people killed by pollution is undoubtedly higher and will be quantified once more research is done and new methods of assessing harmful impacts are developed.
Study: World pollution deadlier than wars, disasters, hunger
In this Dec. 12, 2015, file photo, visitors to a park gestures at each other near chimneys spewing smoke in Beijing. Environmental pollution - from filthy air to contaminated water - is killing more people every year than all war and …more

Areas like Sub-Saharan Africa have yet to even set up air pollution monitoring systems. Soil pollution has received scant attention. And there are still plenty of potential toxins still being ignored, with less than half of the 5,000 new chemicals widely dispersed throughout the environment since 1950 having been tested for safety or toxicity.

"In the West, we got the lead out of the gasoline, so we thought lead was handled. We got rid of the burning rivers, cleaned up the worst of the toxic sites. And then all of those discussions went into the background" just as industry began booming in developing nations, said Richard Fuller, head of the global toxic watchdog Pure Earth and one of the 47 scientists, policy makers and public health experts who contributed to the 51-page report.

"To some extent these countries look to the West for examples and discussion, and we'd dropped it," Fuller said.

Asia and Africa are the regions putting the most people at risk, the study found, while India tops the list of individual countries.

One out of every four premature deaths in India in 2015, or some 2.5 million, was attributed to pollution. China's environment was the second deadliest, with more than 1.8 million premature deaths, or one in five, blamed on pollution-related illness, the study found.
Study: World pollution deadlier than wars, disasters, hunger
In this Aug. 31, 2017 file photo, a barbed-wire fence encircles the Highlands Acid Pit that was flooded by water from the nearby San Jacinto River as a result from Harvey in Highlands, Texas. Environmental pollution - from filthy air to …more

Several other countries such Bangladesh, Pakistan, North Korea, South Sudan and Haiti also see nearly a fifth of their premature deaths caused by pollution.

Still, many poorer countries have yet to make pollution control a priority, experts say. India has taken some recent actions, such as tightening vehicle and factory emission standards and occasionally limiting the number of cars on New Delhi's roads. But they have done little about crop burning, garbage fires, construction dust or rampant use of the dirtiest fossil fuels.

A court ban on firework sales before the Diwali festival didn't stop New Delhi residents from firing rockets and lighting crackers throughout Thursday night. They awoke Friday morning to acrid, smoke-filled skies and levels of dangerous, lung-clogging particulate matter known as PM2.5 that went beyond 900 parts per million—90 times the recommended limit by the World Health Organization, and 22 times higher than India's own limits.

"Even though better pollution norms are coming in, still the pollution levels are continuously increasing," said Shambhavi Shukla, a research associate with the Delhi-based Center for Science and Environment, which was not involved in the Lancet study.

To reach its figures on the overall global pollution burden, the study's authors used methods outlined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for assessing field data from soil tests, as well as with air and water pollution data from the Global Burden of Disease, an ongoing study run by institutions including the World Health Organization and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.
Study: World pollution deadlier than wars, disasters, hunger
A cyclist pedals through the morning smog a day after Diwali festival, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. Environmental pollution - from filthy air to contaminated water - is killing more people every year than all war and violence …more

Even the conservative estimate of 9 million pollution-related deaths is one-and-a-half times higher than the number of people killed by smoking, three times the number killed by AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined, more than six times the number killed in road accidents, and 15 times the number killed in war or other forms of violence, according to GBD tallies.

It is most often the world's poorest who suffer, the study found. The vast majority of pollution-related deaths—92 percent—occur in low- or middle-income countries, where policy makers are chiefly concerned with developing their economies, lifting people out of poverty and building basic infrastructure. Environmental regulations in those countries tend to be weaker, and industries lean on outdated technologies and dirtier fuels.

In wealthier countries where overall pollution is not as rampant, it is still the poorest communities that are more often exposed, the report says.

"What people don't realize is that pollution does damage to economies. People who are sick or dead cannot contribute to the economy. They need to be looked after"—which is also costly, Fuller said.

"There is this myth that finance ministers still live by, that you have to let industry pollute or else you won't develop," he said. "It just isn't true."
Study: World pollution deadlier than wars, disasters, hunger
Raisina hill, government seat of power is seen engulfed in morning smog a day after Diwali festival, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. Environmental pollution - from filthy air to contaminated water - is killing more people every …more

The report cites EPA research showing that the U.S. has gained some $30 in benefits for every dollar spent on controlling air pollution since 1970, when Congress enacted the Clean Air Act, one of the world's most ambitious environmental laws. Removing lead from gasoline has earned the U.S. economy another $6 trillion cumulatively since 1980, according to studies by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Some experts cautioned, however, that the report's economic message was murky. Reducing the pollution quantified in the report might impact production, and so would not likely translate into gains equal to the $4.6 trillion in economic losses.

The report "highlights the social and economic justice of this issue," said Marc Jeuland, associate professor with the Sanford School of Public Policy and the Duke Global Health Institute at Duke University, who was not involved in the study.

Without more concrete evidence for how specific policies might lead to economic gains, "policy makers will often find it difficult to take action, and this report thus only goes part way in making the case for action," he said.

Jeuland also noted that, while the report counts mortality by each pollutant, there are possible overlaps—for example, someone exposed to both air pollution and water contamination—and actions to address one pollutant may not reduce mortality.
Study: World pollution deadlier than wars, disasters, hunger
Morning walkers exercise amidst smog due to firecrackers burnt in Thursday's Diwali festival, in New Delhi, India, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. Environmental pollution - from filthy air to contaminated water - is killing more people every year …more

"People should be careful not to extrapolate from the U.S. numbers on net (economic) benefits, because the net effects of pollution control will not be equivalent across locations," he said.

The study's conclusions on the economic cost of pollution measure lost productivity and health care costs, while also considering studies measuring people's "willingness to pay" to reduce the probability of dying. While these types of studies yield estimates at best, they are used by many governments and economists trying to understand how societies value individual lives.

While there has never been an international declaration on pollution, the topic is gaining traction.

The World Bank in April declared that reducing pollution, in all forms, would now be a global priority. And in December, the United Nations will host its first conference on the topic of pollution.

"The relationship between pollution and poverty is very clear," said Ernesto Sanchez-Triana, lead environmental specialist at the World Bank. "And controlling pollution would help us address many other problems, from climate change to malnutrition. The linkages can't be ignored.""

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"The 2017 Global Hunger Index (GHI) finds that despite long-term progress in reducing hunger in the world, 52 of 106 countries for which data are available face serious to extremely alarming levels of hunger.

Ethiopia was able to reduce under-5 mortality by 69 percent between 1990 and 2013 by combining activities in health, nutrition, and non-health sectors, finds a case study in The Lancet Global Health.

The implementation of multisectoral nutrition as part of the African Nutrition Security Partnership in Burkina Faso, Mali, Ethiopia, and Uganda, as well as its strategies, tactics and challenges of boundary-spanning actors are documented in a study in the International Journal of Health Planning and Management.

To accelerate agricultural growth and poverty reduction, countries should invest in education, agricultural research and development, rural infrastructure, and health, concludes a study in Economic and Political Weekly that draws lessons from India’s experience.

Investing in climate-resilient agriculture not only improves food security but contributes to eradicating malnutrition, finds of a new report from the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

Strengthening rural markets must be a key element in strategies to improve food security and dietary quality according to a new study in PLOS ONE that finds purchased foods play a larger role for dietary diversity than subsistence production.

The 2017 Global Agricultural Productivity Report finds that, for the fourth straight year, global agricultural productivity growth is not accelerating quickly enough to sustainably meet the demands of our growing world."

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"Modern agriculture faces a litany of challenges. Among these are severe weather conditions, a global food supply/demand imbalance, water shortages, high energy prices, and ecosystem degradation, to name just a handful.

One Israeli micro-cap operating in the thriving ag-tech space COULD have a unique solution that’s both cost-effective and environmentally sustainable.

Roots Sustainable Agricultural Technologies Ltd (ASX:ROO) is focused on developing, producing and commercialising disruptive precision technologies that address these kinds of problems.

Roots is currently conducting an IPO to raise $5 million through the issue of 25 million shares at $0.20 each. The offer closes on 17 October 2017 and is expected to list on 2 November 2017. This offer is currently live on Raisebook.com. (Raisebook is a related entity of Finfeed.com’s parent company S3 Consortium Pty Ltd as defined in Section 9 of the Corporations Act 2001).

It’s important to bear in mind that investing in an IPO is highly speculative, so those considering an investment should seek independent professional financial advice.

At the centre of Roots’ business is its IP-protected technology: the only two-in-one, low energy, root zone heating and cooling system.

This technology, which is called Root Zone Temperature Optimisation (RZTO). It has significantly increased crop yields upwards of 50 per cent and simultaneously reduced energy consumption of up to 80 per cent.

The abridged version of how this works:................



Roots’ technology has been implemented in a range of pilot and commercialised plants around the world.

Initial R&D has already been completed for RZTO, and it’s now well into its commercialisation phase.

On top of this, the company is also currently researching irrigation by condensation and smart pipe fertigation technologies.

Roots has international commercial operations across Israel, Australia and Spain, with a post-IPO expansion plan into Asia and the US.

Prior to the IPO, $3.5 million had been invested into the business.

Backing the company is also a solid foundation of industry expertise. Roots is a graduate of the Israeli Chief Scientist’s technological incubator program, and its board and management have significant ASX, agricultural and buyout/trade-sale experience.

Capital raised from the IPO will be used to fund commercialisation of current pilot plants, geographic expansion, sales and marketing, and R&D.

Those interested in learning more about the IPO can visit Raisebook.com.



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bioreactors, on a chip

https://btiscience.org/explore-bti/news/post/bioreactors-on-…

"For over a decade, companies have promised a future of renewable fuel from algae. Investors interested in moving the world away from fossil fuel have contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to the effort, and with good reason. Algae replicate quickly, requiring little more than water and sunlight to accumulate to massive amounts, which then convert atmospheric CO2 into lipids (oils) that can be harvested and readily processed into biodiesel.

Despite high-profile demonstrations, promises have fallen short, and start-ups have revised business models to include production of specialty lipids, such as those used in cosmetics and soaps. Yet the dream of producing commercial-scale renewable energy persists, as new technologies emerge that might finally lead algal biofuels toward a competitive niche in the marketplace.

One of many improvements necessary for sustainable production of algal biofuel is the development of better algae. This week, researchers from Boyce Thompson Institute and Texas A&M University report in Plant Direct exciting new technology that may revolutionize the search for the perfect algal strain: Algal droplet bioreactors on a chip.

A single algal cell is captured in a tiny droplet of water encapsulated by oil – imagine the tiny droplets that form when you mix vegetable oil with water – then millions of algal droplets squeeze onto a chip about the size of a quarter. Each droplet is a micro-bioreactor, a highly-controlled environment in which algal cells can grow and replicate for several days, forming a genetically homogenous colony that goes through its typical biological reactions, including the production of lipids.

“This is the first microsystem that allows both lipid content analysis and growth rate measurement at high throughput, whereas previous work could only do one or the other,” remarked senior author and engineer, Arum Han of Texas A&M University.

Scientists are racing to identify a super algal strain that can reproduce faster and produce more lipid per cell. This summer, ExxonMobil announced the discovery of a strain with a single genetic modification that allows for twice as much lipid production per cell. But this is only a step in the right direction, as thousands of genes hold potential for further improving both traits.

With today’s gene-editing technologies, modifying algal genes can be relatively straightforward; however, identifying which genes to target is time-consuming and costly. Exposing an algal culture to a mutagen yields millions of unique, potentially improved algal cells that must each be tested for expression of a desired trait, such as increased lipid production. Mutated genes can then be identified through whole-genome sequencing.

“The important thing is to develop a tool that can screen millions of cells in a much shorter time frame and a smaller space. In a chip housing millions of droplets of cells, each droplet is like a flask or a bioreactor, and that’s how we can get results faster from just a tiny chip,” explained author and BTI post-doc, Shih-Chi Hsu.

The researchers first validated the chip system with algae known to grow faster or slower, or produce more or less lipid. They then screened 200,000 chemically mutated cells, identifying six mutants with both faster growth and higher lipid content. The screening, done on-chip, uses fluorescence detection of chlorophyll, representing total cell mass, and BODIPY, a fluorescent molecule that binds to lipids. All mutants with potential for improved growth or lipid production were recovered and verified off-chip.

While the results of this study are promising, 200,000 is still a low number of mutants compared to what is needed to find that super algal strain. “The most extraordinary variants will be found in one in a million, or ten million, so the throughput needs to be accelerated,” explained senior biologist and BTI President, David Stern.

Excitingly, the tools for improving throughput are already in development, including larger chips that can screen millions of droplets in one experiment. “Such high-throughput technologies can rapidly accelerate the development process to obtain strains that are more efficient for use in biofuel production,” Han remarked.

With the discovery and development of much more efficient algal strains, commercial-scale production of biofuel from algae may finally be a realistic promise.

Research reported in this news release was supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) Grant #1240478.



About the Boyce Thompson Institute

The Boyce Thompson Institute’s mission, “to advance and communicate scientific knowledge in plant biology to improve agriculture, protect the environment, and enhance human health,” specifies that the goal of plant science is to benefit society."

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.054.837 von Popeye82 am 29.10.17 23:27:04

http://phys.org/news/2017-10-small-asteroid-comet-solar.html

[Popeye82]

masked Dinosaur
http://www.scienceupdate.com/2017/10/mask/?utm_source=feedbu…

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.054.837 von Popeye82 am 29.10.17 23:27:04

http://rootssat.com/
http://rootssat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/1774211_4_Roo…

[Popeye82]

Merkel, quote: Ich "kauf mir wieder Einen Trabi"

https://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/10031693-studie-c…

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.054.837 von Popeye82 am 29.10.17 23:27:04

making desert BLOOM
















http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2014/may/israelis-u…

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.099.696 von Popeye82 am 04.11.17 13:51:13

(breaking)update; Merkel, quote: und "danach einen Käfer"

https://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/10040417-eu-kommi…

[Popeye82]

an Herr Picard und Steveguide:
vielleicht für Euch auch nochmal zu lesen.




http://www.ingenieur.de/Fachbereiche/Umwelt-Recyclingtechnik…

[Popeye82]

http://ilbioeconomista.com/2017/11/10/the-output-of-chinas-b…

[Popeye82]

http://www.livescience.com/60907-missing-link-first-life-on-…

" Four billion years ago, Earth was covered in a watery sludge swarming with primordial molecules, gases, and minerals — nothing that biologists would recognize as alive. Then somehow, out of that prebiotic stew emerged the first critical building blocks — proteins, sugars, amino acids, cell walls — that would combine over the next billion years to form the first specks of life on the planet.

A subset of chemists have devoted their careers to puzzling out the early chemical and environmental conditions that gave rise to the origins of life. With scant clues from the geological record, they synthesize simple molecules that may have existed billions of years ago and test if these ancient enzymes had the skills to turn prebiotic raw material into the stuff of life.

A team of such chemists from the Scripps Research Institute reported Nov. 6 in the journal Nature Chemistry that they identified a single, primitive enzyme that could have reacted with early Earth catalysts to produce some of the key precursors to life: the short chains of amino acids that power cells, the lipids that form cell walls, and the strands of nucleotides that store genetic information.

Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy is an associate professor of chemistry at Scripps and lead author of the origins of life paper. For a number of years, his lab has been experimenting with a synthetic enzyme called diamidophosphate (DAP) that’s been shown to drive a critical chemical process called phosphorylation. Without phosphorylation — which is simply the process of adding a phosphate molecule to another molecule — life wouldn't exist.

"If you look at life today, and how it probably was at least three billion years ago, it was based on a lot of phosphorylation chemistry," Krishnamurthy told Seeker. "Your RNA, DNA, and a lot of your biomolecules are phosphorylated. So are sugars, amino acids, and proteins."

The enzymes that trigger phosphorylation are called kinases. They use phosphorylation to send signals instructing cells to divide, to make more of one protein than another, to tell DNA strands to separate, or RNA to form. DAP may have been one of the first primordial kinases to get the phosphorylation ball rolling, Krishnamurthy believed.

To test his theory, Krishnamurthy and his colleagues simulated early Earth conditions in the lab, using both a water base and a muddy paste set to varying pH levels. They combined DAP with different concentrations of magnesium, zinc, and a compound called imidazole that acted as a catalyst to speed the reactions, which still took weeks or sometimes months to complete.

For DAP to pass the test, it had to successfully trigger phosphorylation events that resulted in simple nucleotides, peptides, and cell wall structures under similar conditions. Past candidates for origin-of-life enzymes could only phosphorylate certain structures under wildly different chemical and environmental conditions. DAP, Krishnamurthy found, could do it all, phosphorylating the four nucleoside building blocks of RNA, then short RNA-like strands, then fatty acids, lipids, and peptide chains.

Does that mean that DAP is the pixie dust that transformed random matter into life? Not quite, said Krishnamurthy.

"The best we can do is try to demonstrate that simple chemicals under the right conditions could give rise to further chemistry which may lead to life-like behavior. We can't make a claim that this is the way that life formed on the early Earth."

For one thing, Krishnamurthy has no proof that DAP even existed four billion years ago. He synthesized the molecule in his lab as a way to solve one of the fundamental challenges to phosphorylating in wet, early Earth conditions. For most phosphorylation reactions to work, they need to remove a molecule of water in the process.

"How do you remove water from a molecule when you are surrounded by a pool of water?" asked Krishnamurthy. "That's thermodynamically an uphill task."

DAP gets around that problem by removing a molecule of ammonia instead of water.

Krishnamurthy is working with geochemists to identify potential sources of DAP in the distant geological past. Phosphate-rich lava flows may have reacted with ammonia in the air to create DAP, or it could have been leached out of phosphate-containing minerals. Or maybe it even arrived on the back of a meteorite forged by a far-off star.

One thing is clear, without DAP or something like it, Earth might still be a lifeless mud puddle.

Originally published on Seeker."

[Popeye82]

SECRET Three Sex Live


http://news.utexas.edu/2017/11/06/tiny-bees-play-big-part-in…

[Popeye82]

plant Doctors




https://news.utexas.edu/2017/10/03/turning-plant-pests-into-…

[Popeye82]

280-Million-Year-Old Fossil Forest Discovered in … Antarctica

- A 280-million-year-old tree stump still attached to its roots in Antarctica. Plants grew on what is today the iciest continent from 400 million to 14 million years ago. Understanding ancient polar forests might help researchers develop predictions about how trees will react as man-made climate change warms the globe.
Credit: Erik Gulbranson -
https://www.livescience.com/60944-ancient-fossil-forest-disc…

[Popeye82]

http://www.mmnews.de/wirtschaft/36218-bericht-jamaika-will-e…

[Popeye82]

http://www.spektrum.de/news/wie-lebensfreundlich-ist-der-uns…

[Popeye82]

THESE are the melting glaciers that MIGHT -someday-drown your city


http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/201…

[Popeye82]

http://www.tagesschau.de/inland/klima-abschluss-101.html

[Popeye82]

https://www.wallstreet-online.de/video/10084628-e-mobility-i…
https://www.wallstreet-online.de/video/10084577-1-million-el…

[Popeye82]

BIIIIIG

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/technik/brine4power-so-fu…

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.273.810 von Popeye82 am 25.11.17 16:05:50

[Popeye82]

http://www.australianmining.com.au/news/wa-lithium-research-…

[Popeye82]

https://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/10094099-roundup-…

[Popeye82]

Steve und Herr Picrad, vielleicht für Euch auch Was zu lesen.
LanzaTech ist ein "RiesenDing".




https://ilbioeconomista.com/2017/11/27/lanzatech-is-partneri…

[Popeye82]

China recovery pushes CO2 emissions to global record
http://www.chinaeconomicreview.com/china-recovery-pushes-co2…

"Stronger Chinese economic growth will push global greenhouse gas emissions to a record high in 2017 after remaining flat for three years, dashing tentative hopes of a turning point in the world's efforts to curb climate change. A new report by the Global Carbon Project, an international research consortium, predicts that carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and industry will rise 2% this year. The report was released at the UN climate change meeting in Bonn on Monday. The increase – largely caused by China and developing countries – suggests the world is straying further from the course set at the landmark UN conference in Paris two years ago, according to the Financial Times. Countries agreed at the time to limit the rise in global temperatures to no more than two degrees Celsius from the pre-industrial era. But scientists warn that the emission reduction pledges made by individual governments since then do not go far enough to secure that overarching goal."

[Popeye82]

http://www.scienceupdate.com/2017/11/diaper/?utm_source=feed…

[Popeye82]

https://web.de/magazine/wissen/schwarzes-loch-stellt-rekord-…

[Popeye82]

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Teurer-Energietraum-B…

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.408.347 von Popeye82 am 08.12.17 19:15:30

http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Kernfusion-Drei-Start…

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.408.347 von Popeye82 am 08.12.17 19:15:30

https://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/Tri-Alpha-Energy-Die-Sonnenm…

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.408.347 von Popeye82 am 08.12.17 19:15:30

http://www.livescience.com/61132-first-fusion-plant-plasma-c…

[Popeye82]

http://www.wiwo.de/politik/europa/vorbild-im-norden-daenemar…

[Popeye82]

https://stocknessmonster.com/announcements/bgt.asx-3A484481/

[Popeye82]

http://benchmarkminerals.com/al-gores-fund-releases-ev-batte…
http://www.generationim.com/sustainability-trends/sustainabi…

[Popeye82]

https://arena.gov.au/blog/greatcell/

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.427.649 von Popeye82 am 12.12.17 00:31:33

http://www.automobilwoche.de/article/20170705/NACHRICHTEN/17…

[Popeye82]

https://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/10130633-hendrick…

"Hendricks und andere Umweltminister wollen 'wirksamen' CO2-Preis Nachrichtenagentur: dpa-AFX | 12.12.2017, 16:25 | 145 | 0 | 0 PARIS (dpa-AFX) - Bundesumweltministerin Barbara Hendricks hat sich gemeinsam mit Kollegen aus vier weiteren EU-Ländern dafür ausgesprochen, den CO2-Ausstoß mithilfe eines "wirksamen" Preises zu senken. Die Umwelt- und Klimaminister aus Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien, Schweden und den Niederlanden wollten dieses Instrument einführen, hieß es in einer gemeinsamen Erklärung auf dem Pariser Klimagipfel am Dienstag. Der CO2-Preis sei ein effektives Mittel, um den Ausstieg der Weltwirtschaft aus fossilen Brennstoffen voranzutreiben, wenn er von passenden Regelungen und Maßnahmen begleitet werde. Mit der Erklärung machte Hendricks (SPD) einen Schritt auf Frankreichs Präsidenten Emmanuel Macron zu. Auch viele Experten und Unternehmer sind dafür, einen Preis pro ausgestoßener Tonne CO2 festzusetzen, der etwa die Stromgewinnung aus Kohle teurer machen würde. Derzeit gibt es in der EU zwar einen Emissionshandel. Der Preis ist aber so gering, dass er kaum eine Lenkungswirkung entfaltet./ted/DP/zb

Hendricks und andere Umweltminister wollen 'wirksamen' CO2-Preis | wallstreet-online.de - Vollständiger Artikel unter:
https://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/10130633-hendrick…

[Popeye82]

Dieses Bild ist nicht SSL-verschlüsselt: [url]http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/uploadedImages/wnn/Images/Prototype%20Kilopower%20reactor%20-%20460%20(NASA).jpg

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http://www.golem.de/news/kilopower-ein-kernreaktor-fuer-raum…
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/ON-NASA-to-test-prototype-…

[Popeye82]

http://www.mcc-berlin.net

http://iopscience.iop.org/journal/1748-9326/page/Negative%20…

[Popeye82]

https://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/10132183-finanzsp…

https://ispace-inc.com/

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.438.893 von Popeye82 am 13.12.17 15:01:17

planet based; Houston: we've FOUND the mistake



"ispace is a private lunar exploration startup centered on micro-robotics.
Our vision is to expand our living sphere and create a sustainable world.

The Moon’s water resources represent untapped potential. Our aspiration is to explore and develop these water resources and spearhead a space-based economy.

Water can be broken down into hydrogen and oxygen to produce fuel,
so we are mapping lunar resources to accelerate the pace of space development.

Imagine the Moon supporting construction, energy, steel procurement, communications, transportation, agriculture, medicine, and tourism…

We believe that by 2040 the Moon will support a population of 1,000, with 10,000 people visiting every year.

ispace will be instrumental in supporting life on Earth through space-based infrastructure."
https://ispace-inc.com/

[Popeye82]

[Popeye82]

https://web.de/magazine/wissen/nasa-kepler-weltraumteleskop-…

[depodoc]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.442.999 von Popeye82 am 13.12.17 22:42:16

so so, man erwartet voller Spannung dass "Google-Intelligenz" endlich die langersehnten Aliens als echt vorhandene Lebewesen beweist. Auch wenn sie real nicht auf unserer Erde in Erscheinung treten, sind sie in ca. 1400 Lichtjahren Entfernung doch schon vor unserer Haustür.

Wie könnte nun "Google-Intelligenz" "denken" um zu solchen Schlussfolgerungen zu kommen ?
Da ich einen "Google-Browser" nutze schätze ich den IQ von "Google-Intelligenz" aufgrund der vielen Macken auf ca. 30 bis 40, nicht viel, aber immer noch um Größenordnungen Größer als alle IE-Browser von Bill Gates zusammen.

Ein solcher Planet würde nach meiner Meinung von "Google-Intelligenz" als „habitable“, also "bewohnbar" erkannt werden, wenn sich in den Daten aus dem Durchgang des Planeten zu dem zugehörigen Sonnenhintergrund zeitliche Varianzen zeigen, die systematisch und gleichförmig periodisch auftreten und sich nur erklären lassen wenn gleiche Varianzen auch auf unserer Erde vorhanden sind, -deren Herkunft sich erklären lassen.

Einmal wäre eine Varianzursache eine zeitliche Veränderung der Erdrotationsdauer durch das Laub auf den Bäumen die im Herbst herunterfallen und die Erdrotation beschleunigen, das ist berechnet worden und kann auch gemessen werden.
Zweite Ursache wäre eine Steigung des Meeresspiegel durch Erwärmung, denn dadurch würde sich die Erdrotation verlangsamen, -dies ist auch real gemessen worden, allerdings nicht in Bezug auf die aktuelle Erwärmung und dazugehöriger Steigung des Meeresspiegel der letzten 40 Jahre, sondern der Erwärmung seit Ende LIA.

Von diesen Zwei Ursachen nach denen man auf "Habitable" schliessen kann, ist die erste wahrscheinlicher als die zweite, denn eine Steigung des Meeresspiegel bedarf keines anthropogenen Zutuns, sonder kann z.B. durch eine Zunahme der Globalstrahlung zustandekommen, -wie dies hier auf Erden ja seit gut 40 Jahren der Fall ist.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_(Weltraumteleskop)

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0004-637X/822/2/86…

[Popeye82]

https://theconstantinvestor.com/turning-waste-wonder-fluence…

[Popeye82]

http://iqxinvestments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Series-…

[Popeye82]

https://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/10145900-deinove-…

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.419.581 von Popeye82 am 11.12.17 04:13:22

https://stocknessmonster.com/announcements/bgt.asx-3A485088/

[Popeye82]

Gore WINS

https://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/10147490-saubere-…

[Popeye82]

http://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/Envision-Sola…

[Popeye82]

('s)
https://newatlas.com/world-first-solar-train-byron-bay/52652…
http://byronbaytrain.com.au/

[Popeye82]

[Popeye82]

YOGHURT Fuel










------>http://www.scienceupdate.com/2017/12/yogurt/?utm_source=feed…

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.443.439 von depodoc am 14.12.17 01:21:46

würden Sie Ihr Benzin essen???

[depodoc]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.495.987 von Popeye82 am 19.12.17 20:37:39

ich gestehe, JA, ich esse zumindest Benzinbrötchen, denn so nenne ich die belegten Brötchen, die in fast allen Tankstellen zum Verkauf angeboten werden.
Hab mal an der Kasse eine Kassiererin gefragt "was kostet denn so ein Benzinbrötchen ?" woraufhin diese so sprachlos war dass sie nix mehr sagte.

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.496.692 von depodoc am 19.12.17 21:38:32

ich bin froh dass es auch noch Vernünftige Menschen in unserem Land gibt.
könnte ein echter Megatrend werden.

[Popeye82]

http://ir.codexis.com/news-releases/news-release-details/cod…

[Popeye82]

http://www.globalbioenergies-invest.com/global-bioenergies-s…

[Popeye82]

http://www.bio-on.it/immagini/comunicati-finanziari/CS_36_BI…

[Popeye82]

https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/NC6/01930225.pdf
https://wcsecure.weblink.com.au/pdf/NC6/01930676.pdf

http://nanollose.com/technology/overview/

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.497.850 von Popeye82 am 20.12.17 01:37:13

[Popeye82]

http://www.croplogic.com/about.html

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.497.862 von Popeye82 am 20.12.17 01:53:12

https://www.croplogic.com/downloads/croplogic_prospectus.pdf

[Popeye82]

https://universalbiosecurity.com/our-technology/

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.497.835 von Popeye82 am 20.12.17 01:21:05

http://www.bio-on.it/immagini/comunicati-finanziari/CS_25_17…
http://www.bio-on.it/immagini/comunicati-finanziari/CS_21_KO…
http://www.bio-on.it/immagini/comunicati-finanziari/CS_05_BI…

[Popeye82]

https://www.aquabotix.com/

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.497.889 von Popeye82 am 20.12.17 02:18:26

[Popeye82]

https://foodtank.com/news/2017/12/news-timeline-2017/

"As 2017 comes to a close, Food Tank has collected news highlights from the food and agriculture world to share with you. We witnessed a monumental shift in global politics, a series of natural disasters, and indications of growing malnutrition and obesity. And yet, the signs of a growing movement for food security, justice, and sustainability are everywhere. Companies are updating animal welfare policies, governments are starting to step up to protect pollinators, and young people are not only speaking out, but are increasingly forcing change in our food system.

Food Tank has changed, too. We hope you enjoy the look of our new website, launched late last year. With your help, we are expanding our summit series, where we have real discussions about the food system with stakeholders from across the political, social, and economic spectrums. And thanks to our generous members, we are increasing our research staff to provide more of the expert interviews, untold stories of hope and success, and regular feed of food movement news that sets Food Tank apart. If you like what we’re doing and are not already a member, please consider joining us (we have new membership benefits, too).

We look forward to filling in the 2018 timeline with your help!


January

—Farmers prepare for agricultural policy shifts in Europe and the United Kingdom in reaction to Brexit. The largest foreseeable changes to European and British agriculture involve the reformation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which began as a reaction to post-World War food shortages.

—Report released by GRAIN outlines the connection between industrial meat and dairy production and global climate change. The report suggests limiting consumption in developed countries, protecting small farmers and pastoralists, and regulating industrial operations.

February

—Karen McVeigh and Ben Quinn’s Guardian article explores the root causes of each of the world’s four current famines in Nigeria, South Sudan, Yemen, and Somalia. Drought and conflict are the primary causes, which continue to impact tens of millions of lives.

—United States Congress House Committee on Agriculture begins hearings on the Farm Bill 2018 reauthorization, the primary agricultural and food policy bill of the federal government. The bill addresses a broad swath of topics including international trade, food safety, and environmental conservation, and must be reauthorized every five years.

—The U.S. Federal Patent and Trademark Office rules in favor of The Broad Institute‘s ability to patent and own gene editing technology developed by university researchers. The case centered on the ownership of the CRISPR patent, which allows scientists to edit DNA more quickly and accurately.

—Famine officially declared in South Sudan by the United Nations.

—In a briefing to the U.N. Security Council, U.N. Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O’Brien states that food insecurity in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan, and Nigeria is “the largest humanitarian crisis since the creation of the United Nations.”

March

—U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to cut the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s budget by 21 percent meets criticism by the American Farm Bureau Federation. The new budget will reduce the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) by $150 million and eliminate foreign food aid.

—The Rusty-Patched Bumblebee becomes the first bee listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act in the U.S., paving the way for pollinator protection.

April

—With the merger of ChemChina with Syngenta, three companies now control 60 percent of the seeds sold on earth.

May

—European citizens demand agricultural reform from the European Commission to update the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) to support sustainable farming practices in Europe.

—Foodservice company Aramark updates its animal welfare policy to adhere to stricter UN recommendations made in October 2016.

—German non-profit OpenSourceSeeds creates an open catalog of genetic material and seed licenses designed to be accessible and free for farmers around the world.

—Former President Obama discusses the link between agriculture and climate change with former White House chef Sam Kass at the Seeds and Chips Global Food Innovation Summit in Milan, Italy.

—Kimbal Musk invests in the future of food with his business Square Roots, an incubator for urban shipping container farms. In addition to his investment in indoor farming, Kimbal Musk opened several “local, sustainable, affordable” Next Door restaurants across the U.S. and, through the Musk Foundation, donated hundreds of Learning Gardens to U.S. schools.

—The European Council of Young Farmers (CEJA) demands the inclusion of young farmers in the decision-making process on the future of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

—Dan Charles explains how Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue’s U.S. Department of Agriculture budget cuts will affect farmers. The new budget minimizes crop-insurance, eliminates international food aid programs like Food for Peace, and reduces the national Supplemental Nutritional Access Program (SNAP) budget. The budget immediately received criticism from the American Farm Bureau Federation, the American Soybean Association, and the National Corn Growers Association.

—In his article for Guardian, Former President Barack Obama shares hopeful message about the future of agriculture and climate change, “we can still act, and it won’t be too late.”

June

—The UN hosts the first-ever Ocean Conference in New York to discuss Sustainable Development Goal 14, to protect and sustainably use oceans, seas, and marine resources. The Ocean Conference addressed overfishing, reducing plastic waste, and improving sustainable fisheries management in order to ensure healthy future oceans that will continue to feed the world.

—Food insecurity continues to rise in every county in the U.S., according to research by Feeding America. Children are particularly vulnerable to hunger; 21 percent of children nationwide experience food insecurity.

—Monsoon rains in Sri Lanka create the most damaging flood experienced in decades. Sri Lankan farmers encountered landslides and evacuations due to the flooding of the Galle and Kalutara Rivers. The flooding in Sri Lanka followed the country’s worst drought in 40 years.

—President Trump withdraws the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accord, refusing to meet the new emission standards enacted by former president Barack Obama.

—Amazon announces its intention to purchase Whole Foods Market, expanding Amazon’s plans to redesign retail at all levels. The merger is predicted to reshape the future of grocery store shopping.

—Researchers confirm that more than 10 percent of the world’s population is obese, with a body mass index of 30 and higher. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine that examined 195 countries found that obesity increased in most countries from 1980 to 2015 and doubled in 73 countries.

—U.S. Congress House Committee on Agriculture starts public listening sessions on the Farm Bill 2018 reauthorization, the primary agricultural and food policy bill of the federal government.

—Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank, is named the 2017 World Food Prize Laureate for his role in developing the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) and increasing rural food security across the continent.

—After four years of boycotts and strikes, a group of farmworkers in the U.S. called Familias Unidas por la Justicia (FUJ) successfully organizes the first new farmworker union in the U.S. in a quarter century. FUJ is a “movement of indigenous people,” designed initially to protect farmworkers from Oaxaca and Southern Mexico working in Washington State.

—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency repeals the 2015 Clean Water Rule, which regulated and protected U.S. waterways from development and pollution. While the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) favored the repeal of the Clean Water Rule, representatives from the Center for Biological Diversity and the Environmental Law & Policy Center (ELPC) opposed the change due to its threat to clean drinking water and wetland health.

July

—The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) confirms that world hunger is on the rise again, reversing years of progress. The organization stressed that almost 60 percent of the people suffering from hunger live in countries affected by conflict and climate change.

—California lists glyphosate as a carcinogen. Glyphosate is a popular herbicide, the active ingredient in RoundUp, and the most heavily-used agricultural chemical in history.

—The EU holds a conference and public hearings to discuss the future of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the primary agricultural policy, including subsidies, of the EU.

—The remaining 19 of the G20 countries reaffirm their commitment to the Paris Climate Accord, after Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the agreement.

—Research by Bayer and Syngenta demonstrates that pesticide exposure reduces honey bee survival, creating irrefutable evidence that insecticides kill bees.

—The EU and Brazil file a joint proposal with the World Trade Organization (WTO) to create a global level playing field for agricultural products by limiting trade-distorting farm subsidies.

—The U.S. State of Maine passes the first Food Sovereignty Bill in the U.S., allowing the legal sale of raw milk and homemade goods, among other major provisions. The legislation allows consumers and producers to make their own food safety evaluations.

August

—The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Zambian farmers carve pie charts, figures, and numbers relevant to African agriculture into a field to make their case for more investment in small farms.

—Antitrust regulators in Europe announce an in-depth investigation of Bayer-Monsanto Merger citing concerns over effective competition in seed and pesticide products.

—Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods Markets is finalized as U.S. Federal Trade Commission and Whole Foods shareholders approve the merger.

—U.S. Food and Drug Administration announces new nutrition and calorie labeling regulations for restaurant menus.

—Severe monsoon flooding in Southeast Asia kills over 1,000, destroying homes and crops. UN sets up over 2,000 relief camps to help.

—Hurricane Harvey hits Houston, Texas as a Category 4 major hurricane, causing catastrophic flooding and an estimated US$150 million in agricultural damage.

September

—Food Tank hosts a summit in New York City with the Rockefeller Foundation focused on preventing food waste.

—Food Tank sponsors “Garjana” event in New York City, a free dance fitness experience to promote healthy lifestyles.

—Hurricane Irma travels up Florida peninsula after devastating the Caribbean and Cuba, making landfall in the Florida Keys as a Category 4 major hurricane, with agricultural losses up to 90 percent in some areas.

—Hurricane Maria ravages the Caribbean, directly hitting Puerto Rico as a Category 4 major hurricane, destroying 80 percent of crop value.

—Five UN agencies collaborate on a report on food security and nutrition, showing an increase in hunger due to climate change and conflict.

—Advocate, consultant, and farm hero Gus Schumacher passes away at age 77. Father of the farm-to-table movement, he empowered underserved consumers to make better food choices by increasing affordable access to healthy food and tirelessly promoted food justice.

October

—James Beard Foundation (JBF) announces 2017 leadership award winners: Dan Barber (Chef and Author), Olivier De Schutter (Co-chair, International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems and Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food), Joan Dye Gussow (Professor, Author, Food Policy Expert and Environmentalist), Joann Lo and Jose Oliva (Co-Directors, Food Chain Workers Alliance), and The Honorable Chellie Pingree (Member of Congress, Maine’s First Congressional District).

—The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Rockefeller Foundation release reports that reveal that two-thirds of residential food waste is still edible while wasted food could provide 68 million more meals to people in need in New York City, Denver, and Nashville.

—Chicago Council on Global Affairs launches Outrage and Inspire podcast that tells stories of hunger and humanity based on the books of Roger Thurow, author and Chicago Council Senior Fellow.

—New report from the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), The Nature Conservancy, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, indicates that better farmland soil management may be able to sequester the same amount of carbon as is emitted globally by the transportation sector and developed sequestration potential maps that can assist in developing mitigation strategies for reaching the targets set out in the Paris Climate Agreement.

—Wildfires in Northern California wine country kill more than 40, cause US$3 billion in damages, and strand seasonal farm workers.

—The Campbell Soup Company announces it is joining the Plant Based Foods Association (PBFA), the only trade group in the United States that represents the plant-based food sector. Campbell is the first major food company to join PBFA.

November

—UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) releases a report revealing that the number of chronically undernourished people in sub-Saharan Africa increased by 24 million between 2015 and 2016. Adverse climatic conditions, conflict, and increasingly challenging global economic conditions are key factors driving the recent increase in food insecurity, the report states.

—UN climate talks (COP23) conclude having made progress in creating a formal process for world leaders to track and report climate mitigation efforts, with peer-pressure enforcement. Although in attendance, the U.S. delegation’s only official appearance was hosting a forum on coal that was disrupted by protesters.

—Food Policy Action (FPA) releases its 2017 National Food Policy Scorecard to help the public track actions taken by lawmakers in the U.S. Congress. FPA reports that the scores are down significantly this year because neither the House nor the Senate spent much time on food issues, leaving FPA with little to grade.

—A new report from the National Young Farmers Coalition discusses the results of the 2017 National Young Farmer Survey. This survey examines the needs and challenges of young farmers to determine how to encourage a new generation of farmers.

December

—France is ranked number one in the 2017 Food Sustainability Index, which grades 34 countries according to their food system sustainability

—France hosts the One Planet Summit, a call to action on climate change. Governments and businesses pledged financial investments in mitigation projects, including US$650 million by the Gates Foundation for eco-agriculture and food systems in developing countries, US$10 billion in capital funding by the UN Environment and BNP Paribas, and US$1 billion for energy and technology development by the Breakthrough Energy Coalition.

—Ongoing wildfires in Southern California have burned hundreds of thousands of acres and thousands of structures, including in the biggest avocado and lemon producing regions in the U.S., a US$45 billion industry in California."

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China prepares to launch world’s largest carbon-trading market
http://www.chinaeconomicreview.com/china-prepares-launch-wor…

"China is getting closer to launching the world;s biggest carbon-trading market, Caixin reports. The launch of a national "cap and trade" system will play an important role in China's battle against choking air pollution. It's not yet clear when the scheme, which is currently operating on a trial basis, will be expanded. But when it does, China will overtake the European Union as home to the world's largest carbon market in terms of total volume of carbon traded.

The National Development and Reform Commission - the country's top economic planning body - laid out a detailed road map for building a nationwide carbon-trading system Tuesday. At first it will cover 1,700 power plants, but will be expanded to more industries, the commission said. President Xi Jinping has previously pledged to get a carbon-trading system up and running before the end of 2017."

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.505.839 von Popeye82 am 20.12.17 16:20:04

http://www.b-t.energy/

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.505.839 von Popeye82 am 20.12.17 16:20:04

ENDING hunger




"2017: A Year in Review

2017 saw key steps toward ending hunger and malnutrition; but there have also been setbacks: Here are some of the most interesting policy developments, research findings, and major events. Thank you for your continued interest in and support for the Compact2025 News in Brief. Please send your suggestions for resources to include and ideas to [e-mail].
China issued the 2017-2030 National Nutrition Plan in July: It details nutrition and health goals on anemia, stunting, and breastfeeding for 2020 and 2030, and highlights the importance of nutrition and health regulations, research, and monitoring.

The Bangladesh National Nutrition Council approved the Second National Plan of Action on Nutrition 2016-2025—developed in collaboration with key stakeholders—in August: It aims to improve the nutritional status of all citizens and reduce all forms of malnutrition, with a focus on children, adolescent girls, pregnant women and lactating mothers.

The Government of India launched its National Nutrition Strategy in September—with detailed information on the country’s nutrition status and objectives: It is committed to ensure that every child, adolescent girl, and woman attains optimal nutritional status by 2022.

Tanzania launched the National Multisectoral Nutrition Action Plan in September: It aims to reduce the country’s stunting rate from 34 to 28 percent in the next five years by scaling up evidence-based multisectoral nutrition interventions.
HarvestPlus released a review of evidence in March: It showed that biofortification measurably improves human health and nutrition and reduces iron and vitamin A deficiencies.

A study on Bangladesh, Nepal, Ethiopia, Odisha, Senegal, and Zambia—released in June—showed: Asset accumulation, parental education, and access to antenatal care are the largest drivers of nutritional improvement.

UNICEF, WHO, and the World Bank released the 2017 joint estimates for child malnutrition including an interactive dashboard in June: Malnutrition rates remain alarming, stunting is declining too slowly while overweight continues to rise, and Africa and Asia bear the greatest share of all forms of malnutrition.

The Malabo Montpellier Panel released its report “Nourished: How Africa Can Build a Future Free from Hunger and Malnutrition” in August: It reviews progress in reducing malnutrition levels in Africa and draws lessons from successful experiences in seven countries.

State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report—launched by five UN agencies in September—found that world hunger is on the rise: The estimated number of undernourished people increased from 777 million in 2015 to 815 million in 2016. The report is the first consolidated UN report on progress towards eradicating hunger and malnutrition by 2030.
G20 leaders committed to using water more sustainably in food and agricultural production at the Agriculture Ministers' Meeting in Berlin in January. IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan called for innovations in technology, institutions, policy, and financing that will improve water-use efficiency and help achieve food, water, and nutrition security for all.

The High Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development met in New York in July to review progress on seven SDGs: It concluded that while results have been encouraging, the pace of implementation must be accelerated.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation hosted the first ever Goalkeepers event in September: It highlighted the progress toward the SDGs. It also highlighted a set of “accelerators”—including The Power of Nutrition—that are catalyzing investments and innovations to achieve these goals. During the event, the first Goalkeepers Report was launched: An annual progress check on the SDGs with a case study on Peru’s success to reduce stunting rates.

US$640 million in new funding was committed to accelerate the global response to malnutrition at the Global Nutrition Summit 2017 in November. The 2017 Global Nutrition Report—launched at this high-level event—finds ‘significant burdens’ of malnutrition in all 140 countries studied."

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.497.889 von Popeye82 am 20.12.17 02:18:26

Bio: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON
https://ilbioeconomista.com/2017/12/21/kartell-takes-a-2-sta…

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https://www.biobasedworldnews.com/adidas-committed-to-redefi…

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https://agfundernews.com/farmwise-raises-seed-round-weeding-…

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Wer an Der Umwelt interessiert ist:
sollte man mal lesen.








http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/elektroschrott-44-700-000-t…

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https://indaily.com.au/news/business/2017/11/22/sa-energy-st…

"SA energy storage company prepares for ASX listing
Business

South Australian energy storage company 1414 Degrees has opened a new factory and will begin building its first commercial system next month before listing on the Australian Stock Exchange in early 2018.


The company has spent almost a decade developing its Thermal Energy Storage System (TESS) technology to store electricity as thermal energy by heating and melting containers full of silicon at a cost estimated to be up to 10 times cheaper than lithium batteries.

1414 Degrees has moved into a 3000sq m factory on the site of the former Mitsubishi engine plant in the southern Adelaide suburb of Lonsdale where it will build its first 10MWh TESS-IND system and the first 13.3MWh test cell for a 200MWh TESS-GRID system.



The company is ALSO planning , to initially build two grid scale 1GWh systems in South Australia, which would be comprised of five 200MWh units and potentially play a significant role in stabilising the state’s renewable energy-dependent electricity network.

1414 Degrees has submitted three applications to the South Australian Government’s $150 million Renewable Technology Fund, which has already allocated up to $20 million towards Tesla’s ‘world’s biggest’ lithium-ion battery being built in the state’s Mid North.

Executive Chairman Dr Kevin Moriarty said 1414 Degrees was aiming to list on the Australian Stock Exchange in March or April after it had learned the outcome of its funding applications, which require matching funding.

He said the IPO would plan to raise at least $30 million to support the development of the technology.

“It hasn’t been difficult to raise money but we do need to offer liquidity to shareholders so we are planning to list at the earliest opportunity rather than continuing to raise privately,” Moriarty said.

A tonne of silicon can store enough energy to power 28 houses for a day.

Its high latent heat capacity and melting temperature of 1414 C make silicon ideal for storing large amounts of energy.

The process also generates clean useable heat, which can easily be utilised for district heating or industrial purposes.

The 10MWh systems would use about 20 tonnes of silicon and be targeted at industries that required electricity and heat. It is likely the first units will be sent to New South Wales and used in large greenhouses.

“We can extract about half of the energy as electricity and the rest is available as heat. If we can use that heat, which is required by industries and households around the world, we can achieve 90 per cent or more efficiency from the renewable sources,” Moriarty said.

“Our target is industry seeking to reduce energy costs or emissions.

“We allow them to do all of that by putting in their own solar or buying energy when it’s cheap and then releasing it when it’s expensive.”

South Australia leads the nation in the uptake of wind energy and rooftop solar with renewable sources accounting for more than 40 per cent of the electricity generated in the state.

Howeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeever, the intermittent nature of renewable energy has been the cause of intense debate in Australia in the past 12 months.

“There’s a number of solutions out there from batteries to pumped hydro but the one thing missing is something that’s proven, scalable and is going to provide a low-cost solution that can be adopted everywhere,” Moriarty said.

“If we are going to solve the issues around renewable energy we have to solve the issues around storage.

“South Australia is a particularly good laboratory because it’s one of the first places in the world where a very large proportion of renewable energy is exposing the issues around incorporating these technologies into the electricity grid.”

The proposed 1GWh systems include one near the 1414 Degrees factory in Adelaide. It would be connected to the electricity grid and purchase electricity when prices are low, store it and sell it back at times of peak demand and higher prices.

Moriarty said the second system would likely be connected to a solar farm and would store the excess energy it couldn’t sell directly to the grid. He said ideally it would be co-located with industries that were looking for a lot of heat such as poultry producers, food manufacturers and greenhouses.

“These industries all currently use gas and this will mean that solar will effectively be displacing gas and therefore reducing emissions,” he said.

“Once you generate the electricity the heat that’s coming off is anything from 400 to 600 degrees and that’s ideal for driving steam and other processes.”

The first 10MWh “off the shelf” unit is expected to be commissioned in January.

1414 Degrees has been approached by distributors in Australia, South Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Europe to sell the 10MWh systems as part of a renewable energy technology solution.

“We expect to draw up our first agreements very soon. This will mean the company can use its workforce to manufacture the machines and the distributors will take care of the assessment of sites and sales,” Moriarty said.

“Once we get a production line going it will be quite fast – it’s just a question of building a supply chain.

“This technology is going to have major growth and it’s going to be manufacturing intensive because the market is huge.

“That means there’s going to be thousands of the smaller 10MWh units and hundreds at least of the large units required in Australia and around the world.”

– The Lead "

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NEW



http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/51171/…

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Haus die Maus






https://web.de/magazine/unicef/unicef-foto-des-jahres-320898…

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http://www.streetwisereports.com/article/2017/12/22/an-early…

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.572.357 von Popeye82 am 30.12.17 01:33:28

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http://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/china-to-extend-tax-rebates-…

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NEXT big thing(?)




http://rohstoffbrief.com/2017/12/11/vanadium-batterien-sumit…

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http://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/fiat-and-hyundai-may-soon-te…

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Specim Ooooooooooooooy



's FIRST mobile hyperspectral camera, for the, fast, high-level, analysis, of a range of samples
www.vttresearch.com/media/news/specim%E2%80%99s-hyperspectra…

"Mobile hyperspectral camera can be used to detect plant diseases, skin diseases, counterfeit art, faults in food and more

Specim Oy, a VTT spin-off, has developed the world’s first mobile hyperspectral camera for the fast, high-level analysis of a range of samples. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland contributed its own expertise to the development project, in the form of fast measurement data processing algorithms and methods. The extremely high-precision hyperspectral camera, which resembles a normal digicamera, recognises materials and their differences from an image and provides results immediately on-site. Such information can be used to detect plant diseases, skin diseases, counterfeit art, faults in food and medicines, or detecting and identifying traces of blood and other samples at crime scenes.

The hyperspectral camera measures the intensity of light in different wavelengths when reflecting off a surface. The measured spectrum reveals the chemical composition of a sample and is thereby a ‘fingerprint’ of a subject’s material. In practice, a spectral image can be used to identify the substances and materials in a sample by comparing the spectrum measured with known spectra in a library.

“A high-precision hyperspectral camera can see visible and near infrared wavelengths of 400-1,000 nanometers, whereas the human eye can only see visible wavelengths of 400-700 nanometers. In addition to detecting a wider spectrum, the camera is far superior to the human eye in terms of its wavelength resolution,” says Senior Scientist Pasi Hyttinen from VTT.

Sample recognition is considerably faster and easier with a lightweight, compact and easy-to-use device than with similar, larger devices. Measurements and results are produced immediately, on-site, without complex mathematical or signal processing skills, whereas the traditional approach involves packing the sample and sending it to a laboratory, from which the result will come in a few days at the earliest.

“A truly portable hyperspectral camera enables measurements previously done in a laboratory to be performed in the field, at sites where imaging was not previously possible. For users, this will markedly accelerate decision-making and reduce costs,” says Harri Salo, Program Manager at Specim.

For example, the age of a blood sample can be calculated. This enables the timing of a set of events, which is critical in a criminal investigation. Blood changes chemically as it ages, which can be seen directly in its spectrum.

“It is easy to develop new detection applications for the camera with its application development environment. These applications can be loaded directly into the hyperspectral camera and thus its measurement and analysis can be modified. In addition to research, the new product therefore offers a platform for measurement solutions serving a range of industrial sectors such as food and health, forensic investigation, security, recycling, art or agriculture,” says Esko Herrala, Sales Manager at Specim."

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http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news%2C27248%2Cdemogra…

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.507.525 von Popeye82 am 20.12.17 18:09:11

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is it REALLY possible??????????????




http://anthillonline.com/agtech-startup-flurosat-raises-1-5-…

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NEW innovations




- 1. An Australian company has been working on a system that uses underwater buoys to convert sea waves into zero-emission energy and desalinated water.
2. Scientists in China are producing solar panels that can produce energy from the last source you’d expect — rainwater.
3. A Japanese engineer has designed a new type of wind turbine that he believes would be able to harness power from typhoons.
4. Researchers at Binghamton University have come up with an interesting way to harness energy, using a resource we have far too much of — bacteria.
5. US scientists have developed a bionic leaf that can convert solar energy into liquid fuel.


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NEW green Revolution

http://www.jic.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2017/12/speed-bree…
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-017-0083-8

"Speed breeding technique sows seeds of new green revolution

Pioneering new technology is set to accelerate the global quest for crop improvement in a development which echoes the Green Revolution of the post war period.

The speed-breeding platform developed by teams at the John Innes Centre, University of Queensland and University of Sydney, uses a glasshouse or an artificial environment with enhanced lighting to create intense day-long regimes to speed up the search for better performing crops.

Using the technique, the team has achieved wheat generation from seed to seed in just 8 weeks. These results appear today in Nature Plants.

This means that it is now possible to grow as many as 6 generations of wheat every year - a threefold increase on the shuttle-breeding techniques currently used by breeders and researchers.

Image courtesy of the University of Queensland

Dr Brande Wulff of the John Innes Centre, Norwich, a lead author on the paper, explains why speed is of the essence:

“Globally, we face a huge challenge in breeding higher yielding and more resilient crops. Being able to cycle through more generations in less time, will allow us to more rapidly create and test genetic combinations and find the best combinations for different environments.”

For many years the improvement rates of several staple crops have stalled, leading to a significant impediment in the quest to feed the growing global population and address the impacts of climate change.

Speed breeding, says Dr Wulff, offers a potential new solution to a global challenge for the 21st century.

“People said you may be able to cycle plants fast, but they will look tiny and insignificant, and only set a few seed. In fact, the new technology creates plants that look better and are healthier than those using standard conditions. One colleague could not believe it when he first saw the results.”

The exciting breakthrough has the potential to rank, in terms of impact, alongside the shuttle-breeding techniques introduced after the second world war as part of the green revolution.

Dr Wulff goes on to say: “I would like to think that in 10 years from now you could walk into a field and point to plants whose attributes and traits were developed using this technology.”

This technique uses fully controlled growth environments and can also be scaled up to work in a standard glass house. It uses LED lights optimised to aid photosynthesis in intensive regimes of up to 22 hours per day.

LED lights significantly reduce the cost compared to sodium vapour lamps which have long been in widespread use but are ineffective because they generate much heat and emit poor quality light.

The international team also prove that the speed breeding technique can be used for a range of important crops. They have achieved up to 6 generations per year for bread wheat, durum wheat, barley, pea, and chickpea; and four generations for canola (a form of rapeseed). This is a significant increase compared with widely used commercial breeding techniques.

Speed breeding, when employed alongside conventional field-based techniques, can be an important tool to enable advances in understanding the genetics of crops.

“Speed breeding as a platform can be combined with lots of other technologies such as CRISPR gene editing to get to the end result faster,” explains Dr Lee Hickey from the University of Queensland.

The study shows that traits such as plant pathogen interactions, plant shape and structure, and flowering time can be studied in detail and repeated using the technology.

The speed breeding technology has been welcomed by wheat breeders who have become early adopters.

Ruth Bryant, Wheat Pathologist at RAGT Seeds Ltd, Essex, UK, said: “Breeders are always looking for ways to speed up the process of getting a variety to market so we are really interested in the concept of speed breeding. We are working closely with Dr Wulff’s group at the John Innes Centre to develop this method in a commercial setting.”

Dr Allan Rattey, a wheat crop breeder with Australian company Dow AgroSciences, has used the technology to breed wheat with tolerance to pre-harvest sprouting (PHS) a major problem in Australia.

“Environmental control for effective PHS screening and the long time taken to cycle through several cycles of recurrent selection were major bottle necks. The speed breeding and targeted selection platform have driven major gains for both of these areas of concerns.”

The full paper: Speed breeding is a powerful tool to accelerate crop research and breeding is available at Nature Plants. "

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"An interview with Marc Palahí, director of EFI. “We must place the bioeconomy at the core of the EU Industrial, Climate and Sustainability Agenda”
https://ilbioeconomista.com/2018/01/03/an-interview-with-mar…
3 January 20183 January 2018Il Bioeconomista

Marc Palahi at the European Bioeconomy Summit in Helsinki

“We need an ambitious and long-term bioeconomy policy framework to enable the creation of a Bioeconomy Single Market. The framework needs to ensure predictability to investors and companies, enhance risk-taking capacity and define priority pathways to move towards a low carbon economy, where a circular bioeconomy becomes a growth engine”. Marc Palahí, director of the European Forest Institute, talks to Il Bioeconomista. In this long and exclusive interview, released after the Second edition of the European Bioeconomy Summit, he talks about the next steps which are needed to place the bioeconomy at the core of the EU industrial, climate and sustainability agenda.

Interview by Mario Bonaccorso

Mister Palahí, the Bioeconomy Investment Summit, which took place last December in Helsinki, leaves many proposals on the table. What are, from the point of view of the European Forest Institute the five priorities emerged?

I think the five clear priorities emerged from the Bioeconomy Investment Summit are:

Narrative

We need to create a compelling bioeconomy narrative to engage our increasingly urbanized societies, which are more and more disconnected from nature and its biological cycles. A science-informed narrative that is based on the need for a new economic paradigm. One that ensures that prosperity takes place within the renewable boundaries of our planet.

Long-term policy framework

We need an ambitious and long-term bioeconomy policy framework to enable the creation of a Bioeconomy Single Market. The framework needs to ensure predictability to investors and companies, enhance risk-taking capacity and define priority pathways to move towards a low carbon economy, where a circular bioeconomy becomes a growth engine (measures should include effective carbon price and the cancellation of subsidies for fossil fuels).

Bring together the Circular Economy and the Bioeconomy

The bioeconomy in the future will need to provide solutions for major industrial sectors to move from fossil-based and non-renewable materials to renewable biological solutions (as part of the solution to fight climate change and other environmental problems). However, biological resources are renewable but not unlimited. This means that their use and transformation needs to be intelligent, efficient and sustainable. In this context, the circular economy and the bioeconomy “concepts” need to be brought together as the basis for the new economic paradigm. They are two concepts that mutually reinforce each other and cannot succeed in becoming mainstream without each other.

Investments

Investments are key to catalyzing a transformational change in our economy. Moving from the current linear fossil economy towards the future circular bioeconomy requires massive investments to transform the current technological reality that is the bioeconomy now, into the future economic reality. Massive Investments do not only mean investments for massive projects, as many bioeconomy companies face challenges in finding the correct scale investments for their level of operations.

Forests

Forests are our most important biological infrastructure and the main source for non-food non-feed renewable biological resources in Europe. Sustainable forestry as basis for a bioeconomy also implies understanding and providing other important ecosystem services like biodiversity, water and soil. Recognizing the role of forests for a sustainable European bioeconomy is fundamental, and sustainable forestry provides great possibilities to create synergies between bioeconomy and biodiversity due to the long-term nature of forests. Investing in biodiversity and our natural capital is a key priority, to help ensure the resilience of forest resources and combat climate change.

The summit brought together in Helsinki some of the most important representatives of the world bioeconomy and financial institutions. The absence of the leadership of the European Commission has not however gone unnoticed. What is your opinion on this?

Yes, it was unfortunate that due to several reasons, participation by high-level representatives from the Commission was not possible. But I know the Commission appreciated very much the event and they will use the outcomes and discussion points from the Summit in preparing the new EU Bioeconomy Strategy. The European Forest Institute will continue to be at the disposal of the Commission to support a science-informed dialogue and policy framework to build a successful bioeconomy. We are truly committed!

Much has been said regarding the need to support R&D investments, new skills and smart regulations enabling new products to come rapidly to the market . From your point of view, what has the European Commission concretely to do on this front?

Two main issues. First, during recent years the European Commission has made very important and necessary investments in creating the R&D Bioeconomy knowledge base. In the future, such research investments still need to continue, expanding the scope from technology-oriented projects to cross-disciplinary research sustainability questions (explicitly addressing the Paris Agreement targets and the Sustainable Development Goals) as well as bioeconomy markets research and relevant socio-economic issues. Furthermore, we need proper Bioeconomy Higher Education to develop many of the skills needed to realise the bioeconomy potential (which requires interdisciplinary education approaches).

But second, very clearly stated in the Bioeconomy Investment Summit, it is time to bring the bioeconomy to a political dimension. It is time to create the Bioeconomy Single Market. It is time for a long-term policy framework that provides the right incentives and attracts the right scale of investments (not always an issue of scale but also flexibility) to transform the technological reality and emerging business opportunities that the Bioeconomy represents into a future mainstream economic reality. Esko Aho proposed 10 action points to bring the Bioeconomy from a niche to a norm. I suggest all interested to watch his speech.

Former Swedish Prime Minister, Göran Persson, said “We have talked so much about bioeconomy. We now need to take the next step forward!”. What is from your perspective the next step which is absolutely needed?

Place the bioeconomy at the core of the EU Industrial, Climate and Sustainability Agenda and create the Bioeconomy Single Market. Use the bioeconomy as the political and economic project that Europe needs to look forward and transform challenges (climate change, etc) into new business opportunities, for Europe to lead…

The Helsinki Summit showed once again how Finland and the Nordic countries are leaders in the bioeconomy. What do you think are the strengths of the Nordic bioeconomy? And what is the role that the forest sector can (and want to) play in the European circular bioeconomy?

The strength of Nordic bioeconomy relies on the most important biological infrastructure we have in our planet: our forests. I believe that Nordic countries, due to their special relationship to forests, are well positioned to understand the bioeconomy in a broader sense. Forest-based bioeconomy thinking, in my view, leads to seeing the bioeconomy more as an economic paradigmatic transformation. A forest-based bioeconomy has a unique opportunity to build a long-term synergistic relationship between economy and biology to ensure prosperity within our planetary boundaries Empowering nature as the main prosperity engine of our economy supports inclusive growth and provides ecosystem services to urban areas. At least I see this as the great opportunity."

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"Today, The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON), announced 17 advancements accelerating through its R&D pipeline, including global expansion of the company’s research footprint to deliver science-driven, digital agriculture innovations to more farmers around the world. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180104005848/en/ Anzeige Digitale Immobilien-Investments: Marktführer EXPORO auf Erfolgskurs HAMBURG (EXPORO AG) – 5-6 % Zinsen p.a., nur 1-3 Jahre Laufzeit, kein Agio: Mit der innovativen Crowdinvesting-Plattform EXPORO haben Sie ab 500 € Mindestanlage Zugang zu ausgewählten Immobilienprojekten. 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In August 2017, the company advanced seven projects to new phases of the pipeline. Today, Climate is sharing the acceleration of an additional 10 R&D advancements, combining unique field data with state-of-the-art science and powerful analytics to support farmers in the crucial management decisions they make throughout the year. Key Technology Capabilities and R&D Advancement Highlights Employing machine learning and predictive modeling techniques enables Climate to quickly deliver digital solutions to farmers that are customized to their individual operations. These capabilities are central to the advancements moving through Climate’s innovation pipeline. Disease Diagnosis - Today, as much as 40 percent of global crop production is lost to disease, pest and weeds. Advanced disease insights can help farmers protect their crops from plant diseases that can devastate entire fields. Through Climate’s disease diagnosis research, the company is using artificial intelligence (AI) to diagnose diseases in corn, soybeans and wheat. The machine learning model continues to demonstrate strong performance in categorizing stresses on an individual plant and providing the correct disease diagnosis through a mobile or tablet device. Corn disease diagnosis (U.S.) advancing from development to pre-commercial phase. Seed Scripting and Selection - With access to the industry’s most robust plant genetics library, Climate is uniquely positioned in digital agriculture to understand how plant genetics interact with their environment. Climate’s seeds and planting research is tailored to specific genetics aimed to help farmers understand how to place the right seed in the best place for maximum performance and can help farmers sustainably enhance their productivity. The company is applying predictive modeling and machine learning to pool data from numerous sources, like seed genetics, disease pressure, soil composition, water movement, historical performance and more, to help farmers select the most ideal seed products for their fields. Advanced seed scripting research in Brazil is advancing from concept to development phase; Europe advancing to concept phase. Regionally-based seed selection for soybeans (U.S.) advancing from concept to development phase. Fertility Scripting - Through advanced modeling, Climate embraces the complexity of soil fertility cycles, capturing key processes that impact nitrogen levels in the field to help farmers optimize the placement of key inputs. In August 2017, the company introduced manual fertility scripting for nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and lime as the next step in building the industry’s first comprehensive fertility solution in the Climate FieldView platform. The company is continuing to invest in research efforts globally for the delivery of fertility prescriptions for additional crops, including soybeans, wheat and canola. P&K scripting research in Brazil, Eastern Canada and Western Canada advancing from concept to development phase. As Climate continues to expand its digital technologies to help more farmers access advanced agronomic insights, it adds new data layers to feed its R&D engine, ultimately enabling the development of valuable new features for farmers. First launched in the United States in 2015, the Climate FieldView platform is on more than 120 million acres with more than 100,000 users across the United States, Canada and Brazil. In October 2017, the company announced the launch of the Climate FieldView platform in Western Canada. Shortly after, the company announced the pre-commercial launch of the Climate FieldView platform into regions of Europe, including Germany, France and Ukraine. It has quickly become the most broadly connected platform in the industry and continues to expand into new global regions, with plans to expand the platform into Australia, Argentina and South Africa over the next few years. To learn more about the Climate FieldView platform, contact your local Climate dealer or visit climate.com. About The Climate Corporation The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto Company, aims to help all the world’s farmers sustainably increase their productivity through the use of digital tools. The integrated Climate FieldView™ digital agriculture platform provides farmers with a comprehensive, connected suite of digital tools. Bringing together seamless field data collection, advanced agronomic modeling and local weather monitoring into simple mobile and web software solutions, the Climate FieldView platform gives farmers a deeper understanding of their fields so they can make more informed operating decisions to optimize yields, maximize efficiency and reduce risk. For more information, please visit www.climate.com and follow the company on Twitter @climatecorp. About Monsanto Company Monsanto is committed to bringing a broad range of solutions to help nourish our growing world. We produce seeds for fruits, vegetables and key crops - such as corn, soybeans, and cotton - that help farmers have better harvests while using water and other important resources more efficiently. We work to find sustainable solutions for soil health, help farmers use data to improve farming practices and conserve natural resources, and provide crop protection products to minimize damage from pests and disease. 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Gasoline-eating bacteria

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news%2C27715%2Cgasolin…

"Gasoline eaters - bacteria that cope well where almost nothing can survive - become the industry's object of desire. These bacteria are already helping to create drugs - Prozac equivalents and can accelerate the production of hydroxylated vitamin D.

On a stretch of the Weser River in Germany, tankers illegally cleaned their tanks. Scientists who took samples of material from the bottom of this river in the 1990s did not expect to find much life there. And yet it turned out that certain strains of bacteria were doing quite well there.

"For example, the bacterium Aromatoleum aromaticum is a very unusual organism. It munches on petrol and breathes nitrates, it also inhabits oil deposits" - said Dr. Maciej Szaleniec, professor at the Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry PAS in Kraków. He added: "The name of this bacteria comes from the fact that these organisms grow on ethylbenzene - a compound that gives gasoline a characteristic smell" - he explained.

The chemist examines the enzymes produced by these and other anaerobic bacteria. And these enzymes are interesting chemical compounds that can be useful in the production of drugs, such as synthetic drugs from vitamin D. "These enzymes are like from another planet" - he commented. He added that they contain such unusual elements as molybdenum or tungsten. For his research he received the award of the Division III of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

REACTION TO BE EXPECTED

Enzymes are, in other words, catalysts. They accelerate the chemical reaction and guide it to the right track. "Catalysis is needed so that reactions can proceed quickly and in convenient conditions - for example in the body and not in a high-pressure chemical reactor at 600 degrees C. All life processes are catalysed, for example decomposition of sugars, fats, synthesis of all biological compounds..." - said the chemist.

Catalysts are also useful in industry. The use of suitable catalysts can accelerate the production of various chemical compounds such as drugs, and reduce the costs of reactions. "Bacteria are a goldmine of new catalysts. The resources are huge, and we only slightly scratched their surface with a fingernail" - illustrated the scientist.

SO THAT FREE RADICALS BECOME SLOW

The scientist explained that reactions that occur in aerobic organisms are more typical. "Metabolising organic compounds usually involves oxidation" - said the scientist. But enzymes of anaerobic organisms still have many secrets.

The enzymes that Prof. Szaleniec studies they are responsible for hydroxylation, among other things. They precisely introduce the group -OH (derived from water) into hydrocarbons. This process is much easier when the body has oxygen molecules and of course suitable catalysts at its disposal. Meanwhile, the enzymes that Maciej Szaleniec investigates, make this process possible also with a complete lack of oxygen molecules - thanks to the use of atypical enzymes. Interestingly, these catalysts allow the introduction of a hydroxyl group into molecules with greater precision than is often the case with traditional oxygen reactions.

IDEA FOR APPLICATION!

Using such an enzyme from bacteria, it is possible to synthesize compounds that are valuable for the pharmaceutical industry. "This year we obtained a Polish patent for a practical method of synthesis of some chirally pure alcohols" - said the researcher. He noted that these compounds can be used, for example, to produce fluoxetine, also known as Prozac.

According to Prof. Szaleniec, the production of such compounds - alcohol dehydrogenases - has been commercialised by BASF, but the patent no longer applies in Poland. "We studied these enzymes in parallel with them, and our technology is available for Polish industry" - commented Maciej Szaleniec.

The second method also based on an enzyme from this class is the vitamin D hydroxylation method (enzyme from Sterolibacterium denitrificans). The chemist said that the chemical synthesis has 9 stages and takes 3 months in the laboratory. And Polish researchers can do it in one stage, which takes three days. Although the reaction efficiency is high, it is still expensive to synthesize the bacterial catalyst itself. "We will be able to further improve it" - he announced.

The scientist explained that individual enzymes obtained from petrol-eating bacteria are not enough to handle pollution - for example an oil spill from a tanker. For this you need the entire chemical route - sometimes these are reactions carried out by various bacteria that slowly clean the area.

Author: Ludwika Tomala

PAP - Science in Poland

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A fossil fuel technology that can use coal, shale gas and biomass while consuming carbon dioxide – NO pollution

https://news.osu.edu/news/2018/01/02/a-fossil-fuel-technolog…

"Process can use coal, shale gas and biomass while consuming carbon dioxide

Engineers at The Ohio State University are developing technologies that have the potential to economically convert fossil fuels and biomass into useful products including electricity without emitting carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

In the first of two papers published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science, the engineers report that they’ve devised a process that transforms shale gas into products such as methanol and gasoline—all while consuming carbon dioxide. This process can also be applied to coal and biomass to produce useful products.
Liang-Shih Fan

Under certain conditions, the technology consumes all the carbon dioxide it produces plus additional carbon dioxide from an outside source.
Andrew Tong

In the second paper, they report that they’ve found a way to greatly extend the lifetime of the particles that enable the chemical reaction to transform coal or other fuels to electricity and useful products over a length of time that is useful for commercial operation.

Finally, the same team has discovered and patented a way with the potential to lower the capital costs in producing a fuel gas called synthesis gas, or “syngas,” by about 50 percent over the traditional technology.

The technology, known as chemical looping, uses metal oxide particles in high-pressure reactors to “burn” fossil fuels and biomass without the presence of oxygen in the air. The metal oxide provides the oxygen for the reaction.

Chemical looping is capable of acting as a stopgap technology that can provide clean electricity until renewable energies such as solar and wind become both widely available and affordable, the engineers said.

“Renewables are the future,” said Liang-Shih Fan, Distinguished University Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, who leads the effort. “We need a bridge that allows us to create clean energy until we get there—something affordable we can use for the next 30 years or more, while wind and solar power become the prevailing technologies.”

Five years ago, Fan and his research team demonstrated a technology called coal-direct chemical looping (CDCL) combustion, in which they were able to release energy from coal while capturing more than 99 percent of the resulting carbon dioxide, preventing its emission to the environment. The key advance of CDCL came in the form of iron oxide particles which supply the oxygen for chemical combustion in a moving bed reactor. After combustion, the particles take back the oxygen from air, and the cycle begins again.

The challenge then, as now, was how to keep the particles from wearing out, said Andrew Tong, research assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Ohio State.

While five years ago the particles for CDCL lasted through 100 cycles for more than eight days of continuous operation, the engineers have since developed a new formulation that lasts for more than 3,000 cycles, or more than eight months of continuous use in laboratory tests. A similar formulation has also been tested at sub-pilot and pilot plants.

“The particle itself is a vessel, and it’s carrying the oxygen back and forth in this process, and it eventually falls apart. Like a truck transporting goods on a highway, eventually it’s going to undergo some wear and tear. And we’re saying we devised a particle that can make the trip 3,000 times in the lab and still maintain its integrity,” Tong said.

This is the longest lifetime ever reported for the oxygen carrier, he added. The next step is to test the carrier in an integrated coal-fired chemical looping process.

Another advancement involves the engineers’ development of chemical looping for production of syngas, which in turn provides the building blocks for a host of other useful products including ammonia, plastics or even carbon fibers.

This is where the technology really gets interesting: It provides a potential industrial use for carbon dioxide as a raw material for producing useful, everyday products.

Today, when carbon dioxide is scrubbed from power plant exhaust, it is intended to be buried to keep it from entering the atmosphere as a greenhouse gas. In this new scenario, some of the scrubbed carbon dioxide wouldn’t need to be buried; it could be converted into useful products.

Taken together, Fan said, these advancements bring Ohio State’s chemical looping technology many steps closer to commercialization.

He calls the most recent advances “significant and exciting,” and they’ve been a long time coming. True innovations in science are uncommon, and when they do happen, they’re not sudden. They’re usually the result of decades of concerted effort—or, in Fan’s case, the result of 40 years of research at Ohio State. Throughout some of that time, his work has been supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Ohio Development Services Agency.

“This is my life’s work,” Fan said."

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breakTHROUGH

https://ilbioeconomista.com/2018/01/05/clariant-and-global-b…

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https://www.wallstreet-online.de/video/9401061-brain-ag-bio-…

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http://palisade-research.com/breaking-news-india-the-3rd-lar…

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world's FIRST

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Electrically Driven Bio-Inspired Soft Robots; Researchers design a bio-inspired batoid robot from non-toxic hydrogels operated with Au microelectrodes

http://www.advancedsciencenews.com/electrically-driven-bio-i…

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http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/51366/…
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/ingo-joint-statement-comp…
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/statement-humanitarian-co…
https://reliefweb.int/report/yemen/regular-press-briefing-in…

"Diphtheria Outbreak Worsens Amid Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen

More than 8 million people are on the brink of starvation, according to aid agencies.

By Jim Daley | January 17, 2018
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A mother spoon-feeds her child at a UNICEF-supported therapeutic feeding center in the city of Taiz, Yemen.ISTOCK, UNICEFYEMEN

International aid agencies published a joint statement on Tuesday (January 16), calling for the Yemeni port of Hudaydah to remain open past Friday, the end of a 30-day concession period to a blockade imposed by a Saudi-led military coalition.

The ongoing conflict between the coalition and Yemen’s Houthi rebels has resulted in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, according to Reuters. More than 8 million people are completely dependent on international food aid and some 400,000 children suffer from severe acute malnutrition, which is potentially fatal.

“The lives of Yemenis, of whom more than 22 million are in need of humanitarian assistance, depend on keeping the ports open without interruptions or delays,” Jamie McGoldrick, the United Nations Development and Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen, says in a statement.

The humanitarian crisis is compounded by a rapidly spreading outbreak of diphtheria. There have been 678 diphtheria cases and 48 associated fatalities in the past four months in Yemen, and the number of cases has doubled in the past month, Fadela Chaib of the World Health Organization said during a press briefing on Tuesday.

Chaib added that Hudaydah is one of the worst-afflicted Yemeni governorates struck by the disease and that 19 percent of diphtheria cases are in children under five years old—an age group with an elevated risk of dying from the illness. The disease can be controlled with vaccinations and by administering antibiotics."

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Gefällekraftwerk OHNE Gefälle

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/technik/energiewende-hein…

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.773.767 von Popeye82 am 19.01.18 21:38:08

INTERESTING situation today




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http://www.popsci.com/renewable-energy-infrastructure?CMPID=…

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.512.496 von Popeye82 am 21.12.17 08:54:12

https://ilbioeconomista.com/2018/01/22/hera-will-guarantee-c…
https://ilbioeconomista.com/2015/12/29/in-italy-the-worlds-f…

"Bio-on, Italian eco-sustainable chemical company, and Gruppo Hera, one of Italy’s main multi-utility providers, have reached an agreement for the supply of clean energy thanks to the realisation and management of a new technological-energy hub that will house a newly designed trigeneration plant. The deal was signed by Bio-on S.p.A. with Hera Servizi Energia, a subsidiary of Gruppo Hera, and will guarantee clean electric energy for the new plant producing innovative biopolymers that Bio-on is currently constructing in Castel San Pietro Terme, outside Bologna (Emilia Romagna Region).

The plant, due to open by the middle of 2018 and begin PHAs bioplastic production thanks to a 15 million euro investment, will employ approximately 40 people. It will occupy an area of 30,000 m2, 3,700 of which is covered and 6,000 land for development, and will have a production capacity of 1,000 tons per year expandable to 2,000. It will be equipped with state-of-the-art technologies and the most advanced research laboratories, where Bio-on will test and develop new types of PHAs bioplastic using agricultural and agro-industrial waste as raw material. Bio-on also demonstrates its focus on environmental sustainability in its choice of site, opting to convert a former factory, meaning no new land is wasted.

Through the agreement, Gruppo Hera will supply Bio-on’s new plant with a) Power produced and self-consumed, b) Heating in the form of steam, and c) Cooling. The multiannual agreement includes the realisation and maintenance of the entire technological-energy hub associated with the supply of energy, for a total investment from Hera Servizi Energia of 2.4 million Euro.

Hera Servizi Energia is the landmark ESCO in Gruppo Hera’s industrial sector, which over the years has developed a portfolio of cogeneration plants built with the best technologies on the market, able to guarantee major energy and economic savings. The project developed for Bio-on envisages the realisation of the entire technological-energy hub comprising a 1 MW trigeneration power plant, two steam boilers, two high-efficiency industrial coolers and a modern water treatment plant. The energy saving generated is over 800 TOE (tonnes of oil equivalent) per year, equivalent to the amount of CO2 a 320-hectare woodland absorbs in one year or the equivalent of 810 diesel cars being taken off the roads.

“We are extremely proud of this agreement – explains Bio-on Chairman and CEO Marco Astorri – because it allows us to increase and complete the industrial sustainability of our new production plant. We chose to not use agricultural land by converting a derelict plant, and with HERA we can add strong GREEN credentials in our energy usage to produce a biopolymer like MINERV PHAs that is sustainable and completely biodegradable in nature.”

All the PHAs (polyhydroxyalkanoates) developed by Bio-on are made from renewable plant sources with no competition with food supply chains. They can replace a number of conventional polymers currently made with petrochemical processes using hydrocarbons; they guarantee the same thermo-mechanical properties as conventional plastics with the advantage of being completely eco-sustainable and 100% naturally biodegradable. The agreement between the two companies has come out of a highly dynamic territory that represents the technological cutting edge in Italy.

“For a company such as ours, which has innovation and sustainability at its foundations – explains Giorgio Golinelli, managing director of Hera Servizi Energia – the collaboration with Bio-on is a natural meeting of the minds and a convergence of views that we believe can be developed with an increasing number of players operating in sustainably developing the economy and the territory. With this agreement, thanks to the breadth and quality of our service offering, we can put an additional green stamp on a project that aims to change the world of eco-plastics. Hera has been at the forefront of this sector for some time, encouraging the transition towards a circular economy model that extends the life of raw materials and resources through recycling, reuse and longer-lasting products.”

Hera is one of Italy’s largest multi-utility providers working in Environment (waste collection and treatment), Energy (electricity and gas distribution and sale) and Water (waterworks, sewers and purification). The Group serves over 350 local municipalities mainly in the Emilia Romagna, Marche, Tuscany, Abruzzo, Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia regions."

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.524.004 von Popeye82 am 22.12.17 03:26:21

they claim they EXIST

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http://www.ncbiotech.org/events/microbiome-agbiotech-summit

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REthink tomorrow



Novozymes using Mushroom Enzymes, to Battle Dirt in Laundry; "Their work is helping ... develop enzymes for laundry and dishwasher detergents that would require less water, or that would work just as effectively at lower temperatures. The energy savings COULD be significant.

http://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/business/energy-environmen…

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Hawking: "Nano is FAKE science"
https://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/10205538-nanodrae…

"Enschede (pte020/17.01.2018/12:30) - Forscher der Universität Twente http://utwente.nl haben einen Weg gefunden, die Gewinnung von Treibstoff durch Solarenergie effizienter zu gestalten. Mithilfe der neuen Methode lassen sich Sonnenstrahlen direkt in Wasserstoff umwandeln. Möglich wird das durch die Verwendung mikroskopisch kleiner Nanodrähte, die weniger als ein Zehntel eines Millimeters lang sind und an ihren Enden mit einem Katalysator bestückt wurden. Dieser erzeugt durch chemische Reaktionen aus Licht Wasserstoff.

"Effizienteste Methode"

"Wissenschaftler rund um den Globus arbeiten mit Hochdruck an der Entwicklung einer brauchbaren, möglichst effizienten Technologie zur Erzeugung von Solartreibstoffen", erklärt Jurriaan Huskens, Studienautor und einer der leitenden Forscher am MESA+ NanoLab http://utwente.nl/mesaplus/nanolab der Universität Twente. "Uns ist es nun gelungen, die bislang effizienteste Methode für diese Art der Umwandlung zu finden", betont der Experte.

Um den Durchbruch zu ermöglichen, hat der Forscher mit seinem Team einen einfachen, aber wirksamen "Trick" angewandt: "Wir haben bei den Nanodrähten die Seite, auf der das Sonnenlicht eingefangen wird, von der Seite getrennt, auf der die chemische Umwandlungsreaktion stattfindet. Das ist wichtig, da die Katalysatoren ansonsten Licht reflektieren würden. Bei diesem Verfahren geht es aber darum, so viel Sonnenenergie wie möglich einzufangen", erläutert Huskens. Letztlich sei es auf diese Weise gelungen, eine maximale Effizienz von 10,8 Prozent zu erreichen, so der Wissenschaftler. Derzeit noch nicht rentabel

Derzeit noch nicht rentabel

"10,8 Prozent ist der bislang höchste Effizienzgrad, der mit einem Kohlenstoff-basierten Ansatz erzielt werden konnte", stellt Huskens klar. Bis die Technologie zur Umwandlung von Solarenergie in Brennstoff tatsächlich auch "ökonomisch rentabel" ist, braucht es dem Forscher zufolge aber dennoch einiges an weiterer Entwicklungsarbeit. "Wirklich brauchbar werden solche Systeme ab einer Effizienzrate von 15 Prozent", ergänzt Huskens.

Neben der hohen Effizienz hat die aktuell präsentierte Methode noch einen weiteren Vorteil: Sie kommt mit sehr günstigen Materialien aus, die auf der Erde in großen Mengen vorkommen. "Ziel ist es, Brennstoff nur durch Verwendung von Sonnenlicht, Kohlendioxid und Wasser herzustellen", erläutert Huskens abschließend.

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.124.473 von Popeye82 am 07.11.17 19:22:37

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http://reneweconomy.com.au/plunging-costs-make-solar-wind-an…

"The plunging cost of storage, along with that of wind and solar power, APPEARS TO HAVE CROSSED A NEW TRESHOLD AFTER A TENDER CONDUCTED BY A MAJOR US ENERGY UTILITY SUGGESTS “FIRM AND DISPATCHABLE” RENEWABLES ARE NOW CHEAPER THAN EXISTING COAL PLANTS.

The stunning revelation came from Xcel Energy in Colorado, and quietly released over the Christmas/New Year break, although some outlets like Vox and Carbon Tracker were quick to pick up on the significance.

Last year, XCel Energy put out a “request for proposals” (RFP) for how it could replace two coal-fired generators that it is considering shutting down – part of a plan that will take its share of renewables to more than 50 per cent.

The results were described by Vox’s David Roberts as “mind-blowing”. And he’s not wrong.



The median bid price for projects proposing a mix of wind plus battery storage was just $US21/MWh ($A25.80/MWh), while the median price for solar plus battery storage projects was just $US36/MWh ($A44.30/MWh).

(The graph above comes from the XCel documents. The areas blacked out were done by the utility for reasons of commercial in confidence).

And these prices do not represent just a few one-off, left field offers. All told, there were more than 100 bids combining wind and solar, or both, with battery storage, and 20 gigawatts of such capacity.

The “median” means that half the bids were cheaper than the median price cited above.

According to Carbon Tracker, these are the lowest renewables plus battery storage bids in the US to date, and most likely anywhere in the world.

“The median bid for wind plus storage appears to be lower than the operating cost of all coal plants currently in Colorado, while the median solar plus storage bid could be lower than 74 per cent of operating coal capacity,” it noted in a report earlier this month.

(See graph below. This shows that the operating cost of the cheapest coal plants in Colorado is just below $US40/MWh, rising to more than $40/MWh and then soaring beyond $100/MWh for the most expensive units)



The significance of the tender result is the small additional cost of storage – between $US3 and $US7/MWh. This is less than half the $US15/MWh priced in the previous lowest bid – $US45/MWh for solar and storage in a bid accepted by Tucson Energy easier last year.

The cost of wind without storage was $18/MWh, while the cost of solar without storage was $29/MWh – both prices benefit from federal tax incentives, and would likely be around $US25/MWh and $US40/MWh without them.

The significance for Australia is enormous. The battery storage sector has only just commenced, but the potential is clearly huge.

The success of the Tesla big battery in South Australia since its launch in early December has created great interest, and caused many to think how the operations of the electricity grid may be completely rethought and redesigned.

The Tesla big battery will be joined by numerous other battery storage installations in a relatively short time – smaller battery arrays in Alice Springs and near Cooktown in Queensland are due to come on soon, as will another battery at the Wattle Point wind farm in South Australia.

This will be followed by three new battery storage arrays in Victoria, another in the Northern Territory, at least two more in South Australia (Lincoln Gap and Whyalla) and numerous other potential projects in Queensland and NSW.

It was interesting that Franck Woitiez, the head of Neoen Australia which operates the Tesla big battery adjacent to its Hornsdale wind farm, last week spoke of the huge pipeline of solar projects in NSW – more than 2,000MW – that could readily adopt battery storage.

Woitiez noted how quickly the 150MW Coleambally solar project in western NSW will be delivered – less than two years after the project was first conceived – and said large scale solar and storage could be delivered in half the time, and at a much lower cost, than the massive Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro scheme.

The US tender bears that out. Wind, solar and storage costs in the US tend to be cheaper than in Australia, partly due to the lower cost of finance, the lower cost of labour, and the depth of the industry there.

The Xcel tender results are just part of story that illustrates the plunging cost of wind, solar, and battery storage. Bids of below $US20/MWh for solar projects have now been delivered in both Saudi Arabia and Mexico, and storage is matching predictions that its cost profile will be similar to solar.

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The Xcel tender elicited bids for stand alone battery storage with a media price of $US11/MWh, with storage ranging from

As Vox’s Roberts notes, a company called ViZn Energy Systems, which uses flow batteries rather than lithium-ion, is promising $US27/MWh solar+storage by 2023.

That is lower than many predictions for solar alone. When the Tucson bid results were announced, it was considered to be a death knell for the market for new gas plants.

As Danny Kennedy, formerly on Sungevity and now head of the California Clean Energy Fund, has noted, both GE and Siemens have taken an axe to their once enormous gas generation units because of the massive slump in orders because renewables and storage are beating out gas plant in tenders.

Now that the cost of wind or solar plus storage is beating out existing coal, that takes the market transition to a whole new dimension. "

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"Masdar, Abu Dhabi’s renewable energy company, signed a strategic partnership agreement with Bee’ah to develop the UAE’s waste-to-energy (WtE) sector. This partnership will help contribute to the UAE Government’s Vision 2021 which targets, among other goals, diverting waste from landfills by 75 per cent by 2021. Waste-to-energy is the process of generating energy in the form of electricity or heat from the primary treatment of waste.

A 100 MW facility, one of the world’s largest, is under development in Abu Dhabi by Abu Dhabi National Energy Company PJSC (Taqa), in coordination with the Center of Waste Management (Tadweer).

The plant was scheduled to be up and running by 2017, generating enough power for 20,000 households in Abu Dhabi as well as cutting greenhouse gases. It is expected to reduce CO2 emissions by more than one million ton per year.

The project will be set near the Mussafah Sea Port, and it will be one of the biggest waste-to-energy facilities in the world, stretching across an area of 100,000 square metres.

By the second quarter of 2020, Dubai will have the largest plant in the Middle East to convert waste-to-energy. The plant will be located in Al Warsan 2 and will be built at a cost of AED 2 billion.

The project is in line with Dubai Municipality’s vision to make Dubai the most sustainable and smart city by 2021, which will in turn achieve National Agenda’s objectives for a 75 per cent reduction in the number of landfills by 2021.

This will provide more land plots that are currently being used to store waste, in addition to protecting the environment from methane emitted by landfills.

The plant will begin its operations by the second quarter of 2020, and that it will be able to process 2,000 metric tonnes every day during the first phase of operations, producing 60 megawatts of energy.

Dubai Municipality, in co-ordination with the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy and Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, conducts studies to achieve the strategy of Dubai for Clean Energy, to produce 7 per cent of Dubai’s total energy from clean energy sources by 2020.

The emirate of Sharjah set up a municipal waste management company Bee’ah (the Arabic word for environment) in 2007 in the form of a public-private partnership. In October 2011, Sharjah announced an ambitious plan for 100 per cent landfill diversion by 2015.

To attain this goal, Bee’ah developed a state-of-the-art waste management centre to process and recycle waste. In 2012, the company introduced two-stream waste collection and a new tipping fee structure to incentivise waste reduction and to closely regulate landfill contents. Improved blue and green coloured odour-proof bins have been deployed across the emirate.

In addition, Sharjah is constructing a Waste-to-Energy (WtE) plant in in Sajja area that will eventually convert 400,000 tonnes of waste per year into 80 megawatts (MW) of electricity.

The project will convert 99 per cent of organic waste into energy. After using some of the generated power for the plant’s own needs, the electricity will be exported to Sharjah."

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- By 2050, it will take 100 billion land animals to provide the world's population with meat, dairy, eggs and leather goods. Maintaining this herd will take a huge, potentially unsustainable toll on the planet. What if there were a different way? In this eye-opening talk, tissue engineering advocate Andras Forgacs argues that biofabricating meat and leather is a civilized way to move past killing animals for hamburgers and handbags. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted.com/translate Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksD... -

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"GroKo-Verhandlungen: Union und SPD wollen Klimaziele per Gesetz festschreiben
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Nächste Einigung bei den Koalitionsverhandlungen: Für Energie, Verkehr und Landwirtschaft soll es bis 2030 verpflichtende Klimaziele geben.Beim Thema Diesel bleiben Union und SPD dagegen vage.

Union und SPD wollen bis 2030 gesetzlich verbindliche Klimaschutzziele für Sektoren wie Energie, Verkehr, Landwirtschaft und Gebäude vorschreiben. Das kündigte Umweltministerin Barbara Hendricks nach einer Einigung bei den Koalitionsverhandlungen an.

Hendricks räumte ein, dass man die nationalen Klimaschutzziele bis 2020 nicht ganz erreichen werde. Aber man wolle die Lücke so klein wie möglich halten. "Wir machen ganz klare Sektorziele bis zum Jahr 2030. Das werden wir erstmals in einem Gesetz festschreiben", sagte sie.

Sollte die Große Koalition zustande kommen, werde dies noch 2018 vorbereitet und dann 2019 in ein Gesetz mit auch international verbindlichen Vorgaben für die Sektoren gegossen. Damit sei Deutschland in der Lage, "Klimaschutzpionier zu bleiben und wieder zu werden", sagte die SPD-Politikerin. Anders als bisher soll der Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien künftig nicht mehr gedeckelt werden, sondern man strebe bis 2030 einen 65-prozentigen Anteil im Strommix an.

Nordrhein-Westfalens Armin Laschet (CDU) betonte, dass es einen Fonds für den Strukturwandel in der Energiewirtschaft geben soll. Dafür wollen die Parteien 1,5 Milliarden Euro bis 2021 bereitstellen. Diese Hilfe werde der Bund aber langfristig leisten, betonte Hendricks. Der CSU-Politiker Georg Nüßlein sprach von einer guten Balance von Umweltschutz und Wirtschaft. Deutschland wolle künftig den Energiebedarf national decken und werde auf umweltpolitische Alleingänge verzichten. Es würden keine Industrien aus Deutschland vertrieben.

Die Parteien wollen außerdem drohende Diesel-Fahrverbote in Städten verhindern und den schleppenden Ausbau der Elektromobilität beschleunigen. Dazu sollen laut Hendricks Hardware-Nachrüstungen bei Diesel-Fahrzeugen geprüft werden.

Man werde die mit Ländern und Kommunen besprochenen Maßnahmen umsetzen. "Dann wird es auch darum gehen zu prüfen, ob es tatsächlich - bei bestimmten Typen - zu sinnvollen Nachrüstungen kommen kann, sowohl wirtschaftlich betrachtet als natürlich auch nach dem entsprechenden Ergebnis zur Verminderung von Stickoxiden", sagte Hendricks.

Nüßlein betonte, dass man weder Fahrverbote noch die von den Grünen geforderten Blaue Plakette für Innenstädte wolle. Diese würde etwa alten Dieselfahrzeugen die Einfahrt in Innenstädte verwehren.

Laschet sagte, man habe den entschiedenen Ausbau der Elektromobilität und auch der Wasserstofftechnologie beschlossen. Man wolle gleichzeitig in die Brennstoffzellen-Produktion und die Speichertechnologie von Strom stärker einsteigen, um flächendeckend Verkehr mit niedrigeren Emissionen zu erreichen. Wahrscheinlich Ende des Monats wird das Bundesverwaltungsgericht über Fahrverbote in einigen Städten entscheiden.

Noch offen ist, ob die Unterhändler von Union und SPD am Sonntag fertig werden. Möglich sei auch, dass man bis Montag oder gar Dienstag weiter verhandele."

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"Enzyme Designed Entirely From Scratch Opens a World of (Biological) Possibility
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Ann Donnelly was utterly confused the first time she examined her protein. On all counts, it behaved like an enzyme—a protein catalyst that speeds up biological reactions in cells. One could argue that enzymes, sculpted by eons of evolution, make life possible.

There was just one problem: her protein wasn’t evolved. It wasn’t even “natural.” It was, in fact, a completely artificial construct made with random sequences of DNA—something that’s never existed in nature before.

Donnelly was looking at the first artificial enzyme. An artificial protein that, by all accounts, should not be able to play nice with the intricate web of biochemical components and reactions that support life.

Yet when given to a mutant bacteria that lacks the ability to metabolize iron, the enzyme Syn-F4 filled in the blank. It kickstarted the bacteria’s iron processing pathways, naturally replacing the organism’s missing catalyzer—even though it was like nothing seen in life.

“That was an incredible and unbelievable moment for me—unbelievable to the point that I didn’t want to say anything until I had repeated it several times,” says Donnelly, who published her results in Nature Chemical Biology.

The big picture? We are no longer bound by the chemical rules of nature. In a matter of months, scientists can engineer biological catalysts that normally take millions of years to evolve and fine-tune.

And with brand new enzymes comes the possibility of brand new life.

“Our work suggests that the construction of artificial genomes capable of sustaining cell life may be within reach,” says Dr. Michael Hecht at Princeton University, who led the study.
Cogs in the Machine

In 2011, Hecht was examining the limits of artificial biology.

At the time, many synthetic biologists had begun viewing biological processes as Lego blocks—something you could deconstruct, isolate, and reshuffle to build new constructs to your liking.

But Hecht was interested in something a little different. Rather than copy-and-pasting existing bits of genetic code across organisms, could we randomly build brand new molecular machines—proteins—from scratch?

Ultimately, it comes down to numbers. Like DNA, proteins are made up of a finite selection of chemical components: 20 amino acids, which combine in unique sequences into a chain.

For an average protein of 100 “letters,” the combinations are astronomically large. Yet an average cell produces only about 100,000 different proteins. Why is this? Do known proteins have some fundamental advantage? Or has evolution simply not yet had the chance to fashion even better workers? Could we tap into all that sweet potential?
A New Toolkit

Hecht and his group used a computer program to randomly generate one million new sequences. The chains were then folded into intricate 3D shapes based on the rules of biophysics.

The litmus test: one by one, the team inserted this new library of artificial proteins into mutant strains of bacteria that lacked essential genes. Without these genes, the mutants couldn’t adapt to harsh new environments—say, high salts—and died.

Remarkably, a small group of artificial proteins saved these mutants from certain death. It’s like randomly shuffling letters of known words and phrases to make new ones, yet somehow the new vocabulary makes perfect sense in an existing paragraph.

“The information encoded in these artificial genes is completely novel—it does not come from, nor is it significantly related to, information encoded by natural genes, and yet the end result is a living, functional microbe,” Michael Fisher, a graduate student in Hecht’s lab said at that time.

How?

A series of subsequent studies showed that many of these artificial proteins worked by boosting the cell’s backup biological processes—increasing the expression of genes that allows them to survive under selection pressure, for example.

The lab thought they had it nailed, until one protein came along: Syn-F4.
The New Catalyst

Syn-F4 is a direct descendant of one of the original “new” proteins. Earlier, the team discovered that the protein could help mutant bacteria thrive in a low-iron environment—just not very well.

Mimicking evolution, they then randomly mutated some of the “letters” of the protein into a library, and screened them for candidates that worked even better than the original for supporting low-iron life. The result? Syn-F4.

Donnelly took on the detective work. Normally, scientists can scour the sequence of a newly discovered protein, match it up to similar others and begin guessing how it works. This was obviously not possible here, since Syn-F4 doesn’t look like anything in nature.

The protein also escaped all attempts at crystallizing it, which would freeze it in 3D and allow scientists to figure out its structure.

In a clever series of experiments, Donnelly cracked the mystery. Like baking soda, Syn-F4 sped up iron-releasing reactions when mixed with the right ingredients. What’s more, it’s also extremely picky about its “clients”: it would only grab onto one structural form of an ingredient (say, a form that looks like your left hand) but not its mirror image (the right hand)—a hallmark of enzymes.

Several more years of digging unveiled a true gem: Syn-F4’s catalytic core, a short sequence hidden in the protein’s heart that makes its enzyme activity possible.

Mutating the protein’s letters one by one, Donnelly tenaciously picked those that rendered the protein inactive. This process eventually identified key letters that likely form the protein’s so-called “active site,” splattered across Syn-F4’s sequence.

Like petals on a rosebud, the process of folding brings these active letters together into a 3D core. And like the Syn-F4 itself, its structure looks completely different than that of any native enzyme.

The team explains, “We don’t think Syn-F4 is replacing the mutant bacteria’s missing enzymes; we think it’s working through a completely different mechanism.”

“We have a completely novel protein that’s capable of sustaining life by actually being an enzyme—and that’s just crazy,” says Hecht.
A New Life?

The implications are huge, says Dr. Justin Siegel at the UC Davis Genome Center, who wasn’t involved in the study.

Biotechnology routinely relies on enzymes for industrial applications, such as making drugs, fuel, and materials.

“We are no longer limited to the proteins produced by nature, and that we can develop proteins—that would normally have taken billions of years to evolve—in a matter of months,” he says.

But even more intriguing is this: the study shows that enzymes made naturally aren’t the solution to life. They’re just one solution.

This means we need to broaden our search for biochemical reactions and life, on Earth and elsewhere. After all, if multiple solutions exist for a biological problem, it makes it much more likely that one has already been found elsewhere in the universe.

Back on Earth, Hecht is extremely excited for the future of artificial life.

“We’re starting to code for an artificial genome,” he says. Right now we’ve replaced about 0.1 percent of genes in a bacteria, so it’s just a weird organism with some funky artificial genes.

But suppose you replace 20 percent of genes, 30 percent, or more. Suppose a cohort of completely artificial enzymes runs the bacteria’s metabolism.

“Then it’s not just a weird E. coli with some artificial genes, then you have to say it’s a novel organism,” he says.

Image Credit: Ann Donnelly/Hecht Lab/Princeton University"

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Wissenschaftler entdecken riesige Maya-Stätte; Zehntausende Bauwerke, Platz für ZEHN MILLIONEN(!!!) Menschen: Forscher haben in Guatemala eine riesige Maya-Stätte gefunden. Möglich machte das auch eine spezielle Laser-Luftbild-Technik

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"Archäologen sind im Dschungel Guatemalas auf eine Maya-Stätte enormen Ausmaßes gestoßen: Zehntausende bislang unentdeckte Häuser, Verteidigungsanlagen wie Gräben und Schutzwälle sowie Pyramiden, landwirtschaftlich genutzte Flächen von industriellem Ausmaß und Bewässerungskanäle. Das Areal im Norden des Bezirks Petén soll insgesamt etwa 60.000 Bauten auf einer Fläche von 2100 Quadratkilometern umfassen.

Geglückt ist die Entdeckung einer Gemeinschaft von Archäologen aus den USA, Europa und Guatemala. Die Forscher nutzten dabei auch eine spezielle Lasertechnik. Sie kommt bei Luftbildaufnahmen zum Einsatz und wird LiDAR genannt. Diese Kartierungstechnik macht Konturen sichtbar, die sonst unter dem dichten Blattwerk des Dschungels verborgen sind.

Archäologen glauben, dass diese Technologie den Blick auf die Maya-Zivilisation verändern wird. "Ich denke, dies ist einer der größten Fortschritte in mehr als 150 Jahren Maya-Archäologie", sagte Stephen Houston, Professor für Archäologie und Anthropologie an der Brown University im US-Bundesstaat Rhode Island, der BBC.

"Wir können viele weitere Überraschungen erwarten", sagte Houston. Er bezeichnete die aktuelle Entdeckung als "atemberaubend" und fügte hinzu: "Ich weiß, es klingt ein wenig übertrieben, aber als ich die Bilder sah, hatte ich Tränen in den Augen."


Die Wissenschaftler vermuten nun, dass einst etwa zehn Millionen Menschen in der Region lebten - etwa zwei- bis dreimal so viele wie bislang angenommen. Dies bedeute, es sei auch eine enorme Nahrungsmittelproduktion notwendig gewesen. So legen die LiDAR-Bilder den Angaben zufolge nahe, dass in einigen Regionen 95 Prozent der verfügbaren Fläche kultiviert war.

"Ihre Landwirtschaft war viel intensiver und nachhaltiger als bislang gedacht", sagte Francisco Estrada-Belli von der Tulane University in New Orleans. So hätten die Maya teilweise sogar sumpfige Gebiete trockengelegt, um sie landwirtschaftlich nutzbar zu machen. Ein System an Schutzzäunen, Gräben und Bewässerungskanälen lasse zudem auf eine hochorganisierte Lebens- und Arbeitsweise schließen.

Die Maya schufen in Mittelamerika eine der bedeutendsten Hochkulturen der Antike. Sie bauten komplexe Tempelanlagen, besaßen einen hochentwickelten Kalender und waren Meister im Maisanbau. Ihre Blütezeit war zwischen 1000 vor Christus und 900 nach Christus.

"Unglaubliche Verteidigungselemente"

Die Archäologen zeigten sich nach der jüngsten Entdeckung beeindruckt von den "unglaublichen Verteidigungselementen". Dies zeige, dass die Maya mehr Ressourcen in ihre Sicherheit investiert hätten als bislang vermutet, sagte Thomas Garrison vom Ithaca College in New York.

Eine andere Erkenntnis, die die Wissenschaftler überraschte, war ein komplexes Netzwerk von Dämmen, das alle Maya-Städte in der Region miteinander verband. Die erhöhten Wege erlaubten es, auch während der Regenzeit einfach von einem Ort zum anderen zu gelangen. Sie waren nach Ansicht der Archäologen auch breit genug, dass sie für den Handel genutzt werden konnten.

Im Gegensatz zu anderen alten Kulturen, deren Felder, Straßen und Gebäude von nachfolgenden Generationen zerstört worden seien, habe der Dschungel, der über die verlassenen Maya-Stätten gewachsen sei, diese bewahrt - aber auch versteckt, sagte Garrison.

Insgesamt legten die LiDAR-Aufnahmen den Angaben zufolge rund 60.000 Bauten dar, darunter vier große Stätten für zeremonielle Anlässe - mit Plätzen und Pyramiden.

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.856.956 von Popeye82 am 29.01.18 02:39:51

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"Ancient spider with a tail found preserved in amber
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Chimerarachne is a newly-discovered species of ancient spider that sports a tail

Chimerarachne is a newly-discovered species of ancient spider that sports a tail(Credit: University of Kansas)
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Scientists have discovered a brand new species of spider, with a feature that's not normally seen in the creatures – a tail. If that's making your skin crawl, you can probably take solace in the fact that the arachnid, dubbed Chimerarachne, lived 100 million years ago, and its remains were found trapped in amber in Myanmar.

Amber can give us an unprecedented view into prehistoric life, preserving softer elements that regular fossilization just can't. In the last few years, we've seen some incredible finds inside amber, including a tick in the middle of a meal, an otherworldly insect, a bug that's jumped out of its skin, mammalian red blood cells, and a dinosaur tail complete with feathers.

The Chimerarachne looks an awful lot like a spider: it has four pairs of walking legs, fangs, silk-spinning spinnerets at the rear, and pedipalps at the front. But of course, the eye-catching thing is its long, whip-like tail. Four specimens have been recovered, all of which have bodies about 2.5 mm (0.1 in) long and tails about that long again.

While no living spider species has a tail, the feature isn't unheard of in the arachnid world. Vinegaroons, or "whip scorpions", are close living relatives of spiders that sport tails, and the same research team has previously discovered older arachnids with tails but no spinnerets.


A Chimerarachne specimen, preserved in amber

That means Chimerarachne neatly plugs a hole in arachnid evolution. The previous discovery dated as far back as the Devonian period, some 380 million years ago, while the latest find is only about 100 million years old, from the mid-Cretaceous.

"The ones we recognized previously were different in that they had a tail but don't have the spinnerets," says Paul Selden, co-author of a study describing the new species. "That's why the new one is really interesting, apart from the fact that it's much younger — it seems to be an intermediate form. In our analysis, it comes out sort of in between the older one that hadn't developed the spinneret and modern spider that has lost the tail."

It's preserved pretty well, but the researchers can't elaborate too much on the spider's behavior. Given it was encased in amber, Chimerarachne must have lived on or around tree trunks, and like its modern counterparts it most likely would have fed on insects. Although its spinnerets indicate it could produce silk, the scientists don't think it was building elaborate webs for catching prey.


Four specimens of Chimerarachne have been recovered, all of which have bodies about 2.5 mm (0.1...

"Spinnerets are used to produce silk but for a whole host of reasons — to wrap eggs, to make burrows, to make sleeping hammocks or just to leave behind trails," says Selden. "If they live in burrows and leave, they leave a trail so they can find their way back. These all evolved before spiders made it up into the air and made insect traps. Spiders went up into the air when the insects went up into the air. I presume that it didn't make webs that stretched across bushes."

Before getting too comfortable, arachnophobes should note there's a chance that tail-sporting descendants of Chimerarachne could still be alive in the jungles of Southeast Asia today, according to the researchers. It is a tiny creature after all, and that habitat hasn't been all that well-explored.

The research was published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Source: University of Kansas"

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"UPM to build the world’s first biorefinery producing wood-based biodiesel

New facility to produce annually approximately 100,000 tonnes of advanced second generation biodiesel for transport

UPM is to invest in a biorefinery producing biofuels from crude tall oil in Lappeenranta, Finland. The industrial scale investment is the first of its kind globally. The biorefinery will produce annually approximately 100,000 tonnes of advanced second generation biodiesel for transport. Construction of the biorefinery will begin in the summer of 2012 at UPM’s Kaukas mill site and be completed in 2014. UPM’s total investment will amount to approximately EUR 150 million.

”The biofuels business has excellent growth potential. The quality of our end product and its environmental characteristics has gained significant interest among a wide range of customers, and the investment is profitable. Lappeenranta is the first step on UPM’s way in becoming a significant producer of advanced second generation biofuels. This is also a focal part in the realisation of our Biofore strategy”, says UPM President and CEO Jussi Pesonen.

UPM ’s advanced biodiesel, UPM BioVerno, is an innovation which will decrease greenhouse gas emissions of transport up to 80% in comparison to fossil fuels. The product’s characteristics correspond to those of the traditional oil-based fuels and highly complement today’s vehicles and fuel distribution systems.

”Our biorefinery in Lappeenranta is the first significant investment in a new and innovative production facility in Finland during the ongoing transformation of forest industry”, says Pesonen.

The construction of the biorefinery will offer work for nearly 200 people for approximately two years. When production commences, the biorefinery will directly employ nearly 50 people and indirectly about 150 people. UPM has not applied for a public investment grant for the project.

EU 2020 targets create demand for sustainable biofuels

The demand for biofuels is expected to grow by approximately 7% a year in the EU. The target of the EU is to increase the share of biofuels in transport fuels to 10% by the year 2020. In Finland, the corresponding target is even more challenging with an increase of 20%. The annual production of UPM’s biorefinery will contribute approximately one fourth of Finland’s biofuel target.

UPM’s biofuels exceed the current and continuously tightening sustainability requirements set by both the EU and Finland.

The main raw material of UPM’s hydrotreatment biorefinery in Lappeenranta is crude tall oil, which is a residue of chemical pulp production, mainly generated in the production of sulphate cellulose from softwood. A significant part of the raw material comes from UPM’s own pulp mills in Finland.

UPM’s wood sourcing is based on the principles of sustainable forest management, chain of custody and forest certification. By further processing crude tall oil UPM is able to utilise the wood it uses for its pulp production in a more efficient way without increasing wood harvesting. UPM does not use raw materials suitable for food.

”We utilise our own development work and sustainable wood-based raw materials. As a result we will have a cost-competitive high quality transport fuel that truly decreases emissions and is suitable for modern cars,” states UPM’s Vice President for Biofuels, Petri Kukkonen.

Next biorefinery in planning

The decision to construct a biorefinery in Lappeenranta does not affect UPM’s other existing biorefinery plans.

UPM has planned to build another biorefinery either in Rauma, Finland, or in Strasbourg, France. This biorefinery would use energy wood as raw material and different technology to that of the Lappeenranta biorefinery.

UPM will assess its other biorefinery plans after the EU has decided on its investment grants. The EU is expected to decide on the NER300 grants in the second half of 2012. In addition to an investment grant, the investment decision will be significantly impacted by the long-term outlook for wood price and availability in the market.


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About UPM

UPM leads the integration of bio and forest industries into a new, sustainable and innovation-driven future. Our products are made of renewable raw materials and are recyclable. UPM consists of three Business Groups: Energy and pulp, Paper, and Engineered materials. The Group employs around 24,000 people and it has production plants in 16 countries. UPM’s annual sales exceed EUR 10 billion. UPM’s shares are listed on the Helsinki stock exchange. UPM – The Biofore Company – www.upm.com
About UPM Biofuels

UPM plans to become a major player in high quality, advanced biofuels for transport. Biofuels are an essential part of the Biofore strategy. The innovative wood-based biofuels developed by the company and their production technologies are part of the sustainable future. UPM concentrates on liquid raw material based hydrotreatment technology and concepts utilising energy wood. UPM’s biofuels are frontrunners in quality, usability and sustainability. They will significantly decrease the greenhouse gas emissions compared to fossils fuels."

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REVOLUTION, in Food +Biomass Production; HIGH-tech strategy for a, sustainable, biomass supply

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"Today’s global agriculture has a bad reputation, it is often considered a problem rather than a solution. Desertification and loss of fertile soils, over-fertilization and eutrophication of soil and water pose high risks to biodiversity conservation and the food security for billions of people. Extensive pesticide use with strong environmental impacts damage insect population and cause the death of bees. Mass livestock farming leads to sick animals whose medicines also burden humans. Agriculture is one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gas emissions.

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It cannot go on like this. The good news is that research and industry are working on solutions – we are on the brink of a high-tech revolution in production of food, feed and biomass in the future. The goals are to achieve significantly less resource consumption at more output, which would mean to strongly increase resource efficiency. In parallel, the negative impacts on ecosystems need to be minimized – human cultivation needs to find a new harmonious way to co-exist with nature. Engineers and researchers from all over the world are developing new applications and revolutionary technologies that tackle the mentioned problems of agriculture, forestry, aquaculture and mariculture from all sides.

The new conference “Revolution in Food and Biomass Production” (www.refab.info) will showcase leading solution approaches from the wide range of the following topics:

For the first time in history, we understand in detail how a healthy soil works, what role bacteria and fungi play in the nutrient uptake of plants and trees. We know how to achieve healthy and productive soils with biostimulants while nitrogen-fixing bacteria will reduce the use of additional nitrogen. Precision farming with Artificial Intelligence (AI), robots and drones can help to fertilise and protect plants more efficiently and with lower environmental impacts. Latest gene editing technologies can improve plant ingredients and make better use of solar radiation with an updated photosynthesis system.

Mariculture or marine farming is about to become an important sector. This means the cultivation of marine organisms for feed, food and other products in the open ocean and enclosed sections of the ocean, in tanks, ponds or raceways filled with seawater. Forestry will supply a wide range of chemicals and bio-based products in biorefineries, including environmentally friendly textile fibres.

With indoor farming in our kitchens and vertical farming on an industrial scale, healthy food can be produced efficiently and locally. Insects, algae and bacteria can be used to develop new sources of protein. Bacteria can even digest CO2 to produce feed proteins for aquaculture. Organic farming as well as smallholders will also strongly benefit from many of these new developments and increase their efficiency while respecting their original ideals and principles.
Food and biomass production will be possible even under the most extreme conditions: In dry areas, “greening the desert” will become reality through solar technology, deep water or desalination plants as well as hydroponics. In the icy north, productivity can be increased through LED lighted greenhouses and some technologies will even enable food production in space stations, on the moon and on Mars.

The conference “Revolution in Food and Biomass Production” in Cologne on 1-2 October 2018 will bring together all future-oriented experts from companies, start-ups and research to have a look at the future of food and biomass production. What high-tech strategies are emerging on the horizon to sustainably supply a growing world population with healthy food – and at the same time provide industry with sustainable biomass for environmentally friendly products?
The conference gives a unique opportunity to meet the pioneers and forerunners of the future of food and biomass production. Please find information on the Call for Papers, sponsoring opportunities and other important details on the website mentioned below. Don’t miss the revolution, BE part of it."

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"EPA’s Scott Pruitt asks whether global warming ‘necessarily is a bad thing’; The EPA chief says humans have “most flourished” during periods in which temperatures trended upward.



By Dino Grandoni, Brady Dennis and Chris Mooney February 8 Email the author

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt testifies before the Senate Environment Committee in January. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP)

As head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt has repeatedly questioned the scientific consensus that rising levels of carbon dioxide from human-fueled activity are warming the planet.

He’s now taking a different tack: Even if climate change is occurring, as the vast majority of scientists say it is, a warmer atmosphere might not be so awful for humans, according to Pruitt.

“We know humans have most flourished during times of what, warming trends,” Pruitt said Tuesday during an interview on KSNV, an NBC affiliate in Las Vegas. “So I think there’s assumptions made that because the climate is warming, that that necessarily is a bad thing. Do we really know what the ideal surface temperature should be in the year 2100, in the year 2018? That’s fairly arrogant for us to think that we know exactly what it should be in 2100.”

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Pruitt continued: “There are very important questions around the climate issue that folks really don’t get to. And that’s one of the reasons why I’ve talked about having an honest, open, transparent debate about what do we know, what don’t we know, so the American people can be informed and they can make decisions on their own with respect to these issues.”

Not long after taking office last February, Pruitt seemed to reject the established science of climate change in a nationally televised interview — a move that outraged scientists, environmental advocates and his predecessors at the EPA.

“I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do, and there’s tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact, so no, I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the global warming that we see,” Pruitt said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” in March. “We need to continue the debate and continue the review and the analysis.”

At the time, his comments represented a startling statement for an official so high in the U.S. government. They put him at odds not only with leaders around the world, but also with the EPA’s own official scientific findings. President Trump has famously called the idea of human-driven climate change a hoax. Other Cabinet members, including Energy Secretary Rick Perry, have questioned the scientific basis for combating global warming.

He now seems to have embraced an argument long held by other climate-science skeptics: that a warmer atmosphere may in fact be better for humanity.

“The climate is changing. That’s not the debate. The debate is how do we know what the ideal surface temperature is in 2100? . . . I think the American people deserve an open honest transparent discussion about those things,” Pruitt said in an interview with Reuters last month. He added, “This agency for the last several years has been more focused on what might be happening in 2100, as opposed to what is happening today.”

And during a hearing on Capitol Hill later in January, Pruitt said, “There are questions that we know the answer to; there are questions we don’t know the answer to. For example, what is the ideal surface temperature in the year 2100? [It’s] something that many folks have different perspective on.”

The theme echoes one advanced by Kathleen Hartnett White, Trump’s pick to lead the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality, who once touted carbon dioxide as “the gas of life on this planet.” The White House withdrew her nomination on Saturday after even Republican senators raised questions about her expertise.

Pruitt also has been the main administration official pushing for a governmentwide effort to debate the science of climate change. He first raised the possibility of such a “red team-blue team” exercise in an interview in June.

“What the American people deserve, I think, is a true, legitimate, peer-reviewed, objective, transparent discussion about CO2,” Pruitt told Breitbart’s Joel Pollack.

During his most recent congressional testimony, Pruitt came back to the same idea.

“That red team-blue team exercise is an exercise to provide an opportunity to the American people to consume information from scientists that have different perspectives on key issues,” Pruitt told Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), “and frankly could be used to build consensus in this body.”

It’s unclear why Pruitt thinks warmer temperatures may be better for people. The last 11,700 years, since the end of the last ice age, constitute a relatively stable period of climate for human civilization. Many of the cities built during those millennia dot the coasts of Earth’s continents and were situated there assuming relatively stable sea levels.

And while rising temperatures may indeed boost agricultural yield in some regions, they are projected to cause debilitating drought elsewhere.

Although the not-so-bad argument may be new for Pruitt, some conservative and fossil-fuel industry groups have used it for almost three decades. In 1991, for example, the Western Fuels Association funded “The Greening of Planet Earth,” a 30-minute video arguing that more CO2 in the air helps farmers.

In 2001, the Cato Institute echoed the video’s message. “The video was right,” Patrick J. Michaels, a senior fellow at the libertarian think tank, wrote. “The greens were wrong.”"

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Scientists Rush , to Explore Underwater World, Hidden Below Ice, for 120,000 Years

- Looking out from the sea ice to iceberg A68, around November 2017, just months after the berg calved from Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf in July.
Credit: NASA -
http://www.livescience.com/61728-hidden-world-beneath-antarc…

" A huge, trillion-ton iceberg about the size of Delaware broke free from Antarctica's Larsen C Ice Shelf in July 2017. As it moved away from its chilly birth mom and into the Weddell Sea, a vast expanse of water saw the light for the first time in up to 120,000 years.

And this month, a team of scientists will venture to the long-ice-buried expanse to investigate the mysterious ecosystem that was hidden beneath the Antarctic ice shelf for so long.

The newly exposed seabed stretches across an area of about 2,246 square miles (5,818 square kilometers), according to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), which is leading the expedition. The scientists consider their journey "urgent," as they hope to document the system before sunlight begins to change at least the surface layers. [In Photos: Antarctica's Larsen C Ice Shelf Through Time]

"The calving of [iceberg] A-68 [from the Larsen C Ice Shelf] provides us with a unique opportunity to study marine life as it responds to a dramatic environmental change. It's important we get there quickly before the undersea environment changes as sunlight enters the water and new species begin to colonize," Katrin Linse, of the British Antarctic Survey, said in a statement.


The edge of Larsen C Ice Shelf with the western edge of iceberg A68 in the distance
The edge of Larsen C Ice Shelf with the western edge of iceberg A68 in the distance
Credit: NASA

What lies beneath?

Scientists know little about the possibly alien-like life that has taken up residence beneath Antarctica's ice shelf. What they do know comes from similar calving events in the past: Chunks of ice broke off the Larsen A and B shelves (located north of Larsen C on the Antarctic Peninsula) in 1995 and 2002, respectively. Two German expeditions to those "newly" exposed areas revealed sparse life. However, it took five to 12 years for the expeditions to make it to those areas, and by that time creatures from other areas had made their way to both spots, Live Science previously reported.

In other icy realms around Antarctica, some bizarre creatures have turned up. For instance, a bristled marine worm that lives in the Southern Ocean, and Live Science previously reported as looking like a "Christmas ornament from hell," has an extendable throat tipped with pointy teeth. And some creatures have made a living under extreme conditions, including a crustacean called Lyssianasid amphipod, which was found thriving beneath the Ross Ice Shelf in western Antarctica. One of the more famous Antarctic animals, the icefish has natural antifreeze in its blood and body fluids, allowing it to survive the frigid temperatures of Earth's chilly bottom.

To explore the once-hidden ecosystem, the scientists — hailing from nine research institutes — will set off from the Falkland Islands on Feb. 21. They plan to spend three weeks aboard the BAS research ship, the RRS James Clark Ross. To navigate the ice-filled water to the remote location, the ship will rely on satellite data, according to the BAS.

Once they arrive, the team plans to collect samples of life (seafloor animals, microbes, plankton and any other inhabitants) as well as sediments and water.


STAY tuned.

Originally published on Live Science."

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world’s FIRST, commercial-scale, bioethanol operation






https://ilbioeconomista.com/2018/02/12/enerkem-completed-a-c…

"Enerkem completed a C$280 million investment round with BlackRock and Sinobioway
12 February 2018Il Bioeconomista


Great result in the Canadian bioeconomy. Enerkem Inc., a world leading waste-to-biofuels and chemicals producer headquartered in Montréal, completed a C$280 million investment round–its largest to date. In addition to new investors BlackRock and Sinobioway, existing investors also participated in this financing.

“We are very pleased to welcome new investors along with the support of our longstanding existing investors,” said Enerkem’s President and Chief Executive Officer Vincent Chornet. “This new and significant financing will help accelerate our growth and further expand project development and implementation. Now that we have launched the world’s first commercial-scale bioethanol operation in Edmonton, we can focus our efforts on building a strong circular economy for communities around the world by deploying new facilities that address the growing challenges related to waste management and sustainable mobility.”

“BlackRock is pleased to join the investment group on behalf of our clients and to help facilitate the launch of innovative waste-to-biofuel facilities worldwide,” said David Trucano, Portfolio Manager, BlackRock Global Credit team, which invested in the company’s senior notes.

Existing Enerkem investors include Rho Ventures, Braemar Energy Ventures, Waste Management of Canada, Investissement Québec, Fonds de solidarité FTQ, Cycle Capital, Fondaction, The Westly Group, and the National Bank of Canada.

BlackRock is a global leading investment management corporation, managing close to six trillion dollars in assets on behalf of investors worldwide. It operates globally with 70 offices in 30 countries and clients in 100 countries.

Sinobioway is a leading Chinese company engaged in the bio-economy. This industrial group, affiliated with Peking University, primarily invests in bio-energy, bio-environmental protection, bio-medicine, bio-agriculture, bio-service, bio-manufacturing, and bio-intelligence. National Bank Financial Inc. and Scotia Capital Inc. served as financial advisors to Enerkem.

Enerkem produces biofuels and renewable chemicals from waste. Its disruptive proprietary technology converts non-recyclable, non-compostable municipal solid waste into methanol, ethanol and other widely-used chemicals. The company operates a full-scale commercial facility in Alberta as well as an innovation centre in Quebec. Its facilities are built as prefabricated systems based on the company’s modular manufacturing infrastructure that can be deployed globally."

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BAD news for Paris







"EU under fire over capacity markets; oil industry has 20 years left; Germany's big energy plans; solar+storage spreading; + more

Energy Post Weekly brings you the bottom-line on European and international energy affairs from Energy Post's editor-in-chief Karel Beckman and EU correspondent Sonja van Renssen in Brussels.

IN KAREL BECKMAN’S ENERGY WATCH:

The oil industry's 20-year window of opportunity

ExxonMobil is OK - until 2040. The company is silent on what will happen after that.

100% renewable energy revisited

Mark Z. Jacobson is back - and now has three routes to 100% renewable energy in 2050

Solar, storage displacing fossil fuels faster than ever

Tesla´s Big Battery in South Australia is not alone: solar and storage is challenging the incumbent generators everywhere

Why electricity prices for UK industry are so high

Climate and renewabels have been blamed, but the story turns out to be much more complex than that

IN BRUSSELS INSIDER THIS WEEK:

EU ties itself into knots with capacity market decisions

The European Commission's approval of capacity market schemes in Poland and Italy has raised a storm of criticism. "Bad news for Paris and for the internal energy market"

Air quality concerns increasingly shape Europe's energy agenda

Bulgaria is trying to do something about its air pollution, environment minister Neno Dimov tells Energy Post. Through its energy polices. Other EU countries will have to do the same.

IN ENERGY POST WEEKLY EXPRESS

UK capacity auction: gas is the big winner - and the big loser

50 GW of contracts have been awarded - who are the winners and losers?

Climate, energy and transport in Germany's new coalition agreement

The new German government has agreed on a wide range of highly ambitious climate and energy policies. An overview.

European solar market grows, led by ... Turkey

But it's also held back - by tariffs.

"France can become powerhouse of global tidal energy industry"

The French government is considering putting its weight behind tidal enrgy."

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Novozymes breakTHROUGH(saccharomyces cerevisae(workhouse since Noah AND the Ark))

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BACK to Earth


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NRGene teams with Bridgestone, to develop resilient rubber-producing plants; Gene-mapping startup and tire firm will collaborate, to sequence and assemble genomes of guayule, an undomesticated American shrub

http://www.timesofisrael.com/nrgene-teams-with-bridgestone-t…

http://www.nrgene.com/

"Israel’s gene mapping startup NRGene has teamed up with Bridgestone Americas Inc., a unit of the world’s largest tire and rubber company, to develop a more resilient rubber-producing plant.

The two companies will be working together to sequence and assemble multiple genomes of guayule, a rubber-producing undomesticated plant that is indigenous to the hot, dry environments of the southwestern United States and Mexico. The idea is to use genetic analytics to help breed better and stronger varieties of the plant so that the rubber it produces can be used by Bridgestone as an additional source of rubber, generated in the US.

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The guayule plant is an evergreen shrub than can grow in totally different environments from those of the para rubber tree, the main source of natural rubber. Para rubber trees are native to South American tropical areas and are found in Europe and the Far East as well. The rubber produced by the guayule plant is similar to that of the para rubber trees, and it is thus expected to become a new source of natural rubber, Brigdgestone says on its website.

As part of the collaboration, NRGene, which is the only company in the world that has managed to map the genome for bread, pasta and wild emmer wheat, has already, for the first time ever, sequenced and completely assembled two guayule genomes.

In addition, “a physical and genetic map are being developed that will provide a high level of accuracy and efficiency for breeding improvement,” the two companies said in a joint statement on Monday.
A closeup of a rubber tire (UltraONEs; iStock by Getty Images)

“We are looking forward to utilizing NRGene’s capabilities and experience in agricultural genome analytics to move our guayule breeding program to a new level that will ultimately benefit our customers and society,” said Nizar Trigui, chief technology officer, Bridgestone Americas, in the statement.

NRGene’s software will develop comprehensive genome assemblies of multiple varieties of guayule to help discover the genetic variations in the species and to identify those species with the more resilient traits. This will help breed better plants — by protecting them from stresses and diseases — and increase the overall rubber yield.

The effort is part of Bridgestone’s push to develop a sustainable guayule natural rubber industry in North America for the production of tires. The firm already has a team of scientists working to improve productivity of the crop though breeding and genetics, agronomy, and working with growers.

“Rubber is critical to every aspect of our lives, from tires to medical devices,” said Gil Ronen, the CEO of NRGene. “Sustainable use of our natural resources is always a key concern, so this represents a major step forward. With more insights into guayule, Bridgestone will be able to increase rubber yields while reducing the resource requirements.”

Nashville, Tennessee-based Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM) is the US subsidiary of Japan’s Bridgestone Corporation, the world’s largest tire and rubber company.
A Bridgestone truck at a warehouse in Denmark (ricochet64; iStock by Getty Images)

Founded by Ronen and Guy Kol in 2010, NRGene is a genomic company that enlisted code crackers from the Israeli Defense Forces’ elite 8200 unit to write algorithms and software to breakdown the genetic makeup of humans, plants, and animals, with the aim of mapping complex genomes quickly and accurately to help breeding and research programs.

NRGene’s software is used by some of the leading seed companies in the world as well as academic researchers globally."

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researchers turn fashion waste into multifunctional material, Scientists converted cotton-based fabric waste into highly compressible and ultralight cotton aerogels; a research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Engineering has successfully devised a fast, cheap and green method to convert cotton-based fabric waste, such as unwanted clothing, into highly compressible and ultralight cotton aerogels. The researchers also demonstrated the application of this novel material to keep military water bottles cold and for effective control of rapid bleeding

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"33 Presentations and 7 valuable Comments on Carbon Dioxide as Feedstock for Fuels, Chemistry and Polymers
6th Conference on Carbon Dioxide as Feedstock for Fuels, Chemistry and Polymers

kms-head-en15 – 16 March 2018, Maternushaus, Cologne, Germany: www.co2-chemistry.eu



33 Presentations and 7 valuable Comments on Carbon Dioxide as Feedstock for Fuels, Chemistry and Polymers:
Dannenberg, Bruce100Bruce Dannenberg, Phytonix Inc. (US): “Phytonix’s Technology leverages the ancient and highly evolved process of natural photosynthesis with the cutting edge 21st century science of synthetic biology. With this approach we have created a commercial process, powered by the sun, that utilizes industrial carbon dioxide emissions as the sole feedstock for the production of dramatically carbon-negative, cost leadership industrial chemicals such as Butanol and Octanol.”
Breyer,Christian100Christian Breyer, Ph.D, Lappeenranta University of Technology (FI): “The electricity system can be run on a 100% renewable energy basis. Due to the very low cost of solar and wind energy in places of excellent resources it will be also possible to convert electricity, water and air to synthetic fuels and all major feedstock chemicals, sooner than many expect.”
Carus-Michael100Michael Carus, nova-Institut GmbH (DE): “From an ecological point of view, there is still considerable need for discussion as to how CCU processes can be assessed. The framework conditions and the specific applications have a significant influence on the ecological assessment of the CCU technology.”
Majid,Muhammad100Dr.-Ing. Muhammad Majid, Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Europe GmbH (DE): “We are on the way to optimise the route of Methanol production based on renewable energies. Furthermore, connecting different sectors in this field will be presented.”
Schouten, Klaas Jan100Klaas Jan Schouten, Avantium N.V. (NL): “Avantium is developing a powerful electrocatalytic technology platform to convert carbon dioxide to chemical building blocks.”
Simell,Pekka100Simell Pekka, VTT (FI): “Latest findings on the pilot scale process to make liquid fuels by FT-synthesis from renewable hydrogen, based on FT-synthesis by a novel microstructured heat exchanger reactor, direct air capture unit used for CO2 and PEM electrolyzer for H2.”
North,Michael100Michael North, University of York (UK): “The separation of CO2 from other gases can be realised by using biomass derived carbonaceous materials. The electrochemical mineralisation of CO2 is already attracting substantial interest from both the scientific press and global news agencies due to its ability to convert CO2 into an inert solid using just scrap metal, sea water and renewable energy.”

We are pleased to announce our speaker line-up:

Dr. Klaas Jan Schouten, Avantium (NL)
Christian Schweitzer, bse Engineering Leipzig GmbH (DE)
Evar Umeozor, Canadian Energy Research Institute/University of Calgary (CA)
Daniel Egger, Climeworks AG (CH)
Louis Fradette, CO2 Solutions (CA)
Dr. Stefanie Kesting, CO2 Value Europe (EU) / Uniper SE (DE)
Dr. Jochen Norwig, Covestro AG (DE)
Dr.-Ing. Frank Köster, EnergieAgentur.NRW (DE)
Dr. Remko J. Detz, Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) (NL)
Jürgen Tiedje, European Commission (EU)
Dr. rer. nat. Helmut Löwe, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (DE)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Görge Deerberg, Fraunhofer UMSICHT (DE)
Dr.-Ing. Achim Schaadt, Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme (DE)
Lisa Buchner, German Emisssions Trading Authority (DEHSt) within the German Environment Agency (UBA) (DE)
Dr. Günter Harp, Harp Process Chemistry Consulting (DE)
Prof. Dr. Arjan Kleij, ICIQ / ICREA (ES)
Prof. Christian Breyer, Lappeenranta University of Technology (FI)
Minister Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalization and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (DE)
Dr.-Ing. Muhammad Majid, Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Europe GmbH (DE)
Gunnar Holen, Nordic Blue Crude (NO)
Michael Carus, nova-Institut GmbH (DE)
Bruce Dannenberg, Phytonix Inc. (US)
Misha Valk, SkyNRG (NL)
Nils Aldag, sunfire GmbH (DE)
Dr. Markus Oles, Thyssenkrupp AG (DE)
Marleen Ramakers, University of Antwerp (BE)
Aleksandar Lozanovski, University of Stuttgart (DE)
Prof. Dr. Michael North, University of York (UK)
Linsey Garcia-Gonzalez & Heleen de Wever, VITO (BE)
Dr. Sc. Juha-Pekka Pitkänen & Dr. Pekka Simell, VTT (FI)
David Strik, Wageningen University (NL)

Participants from:

+++ 3M +++ Avantium +++ BASF +++ Cargill +++ Clariant +++CLIB2021 +++ Climeworks +++ Covestro +++ ECN +++ European Commission +++Evonik +++ Fraunhofer +++ INEOS +++ KIT +++ LyondellBasell +++ Mitsubishi Hitachi +++ Nordic Blue +++ Phytonix +++ REPSOL +++ Robert Bosch +++ Suez +++sunfire +++ ThyssenKrupp +++ Total +++ VITO +++ VTT +++ WUR +++

Final programme is online here. Book your booth and register now to the conference!

Join the revolution, visit the conference, meet the leading entrepreneurs of the new industry!"

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(SELF)healing concrete ; Concrete degradation of our infrastructure could have been avoided, if we had used self-healing concrete in the first place
http://news.bio-based.eu/self-healing-concrete-in-full-devel…

"Concrete degradation is one of the most costly problems of our time. Concrete will always crack, although less so if well-designed and well-constructed. Cracks will allow water and air to enter into the structure and eventually reach the steel reinforcement. When this erodes, it swells, causing more cracks. Concrete degradation of our infrastructure now requires major repair costs – which could have been avoided if we had used self-healing concrete in the first place.

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Hendrik Jonkers shows a sample of his self-healing concrete. Photo: Basilisk.

Self-healing concrete by bacterial action

In the past, building regulations may have been tuned too much towards the short term. Self-healing concrete will no doubt raise costs in the short term, but this should be more than offset in the longer term. A promising technology developed by Hendrik Jonkers of Delft Technical University in the Netherlands and commercialized by Basilisk Concrete, uses bacteria. In their self-healing concrete, these bacteria produce limestone if triggered by contact with water and air, and in doing so they repair the crack. Basilisk uses this autonomous repair system in several products that are applicable both for new constructions and in existing structures. For instance, they sell a self-healing agent for fresh concrete mixtures and a self-healing repair mortar for existing structures. And they sell a liquid repair solution for small, narrow cracks in concrete which cannot be sealed with a mortar. After application the liquid forms a gel which seals the crack watertight.

The bacteria then convert the gel into limestone for a permanent seal. Because small cracks are sealed watertight, frost resistance and durability of the structure will increase considerably. Basilisk has formed collaborations with renowned names in the international world of concrete. As a result, they have created a platform for a broad introduction of the technology. Their work has been applied in major projects and has also attracted international attention.

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By adding a slight excess of calcium hydroxide to the concrete, it may perform autogenous repair in small cracks. Photo: University of Ghent.

At Ghent University in Belgium, they research more options of self-healing concrete. Bacterial repair is one of them. Like Basilisk, the Ghent researchers embed the bacteria in microcapsules or microgels, where they may survive hundreds of years, whereas they would not be long-lived when introduced into the concrete mixture right away. But they also investigate the use of these hydrogels as such. These gels swell when water enters into the concrete; this partly seals the crack. Then the gel will provide the fluid to the surrounding matrix for internal curing, further hydration and the precipitation of calcium carbonate. In this way, cracks may close completely. Alternatively, encapsulated polymers can be used in self-healing concrete. When a crack appears, the capsules break and the content is released. Due to capillary action, the agent will flow into the crack. After reaction, the crack faces are bonded together and the crack is thus healed. Polyurethane, methyl methacrylate, water repellent agents and elastic polymers are among the polymers used, depending on the primary goal of crack repair: reduction of water permeability, strength restoration, aesthetic view or effective crack sealing. And finally, a form of self-healing concrete can be obtained by adding fly-ash or blast-furnace slag to the concrete mixture. These would seem to be inferior with regard to early age microstructure and strength development, but their self-healing capability can be high, because they will still contain some unreacted particles that can be activated when cracks appear.

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The Pantheon in Rome, a concrete structure, has survived almost 2,000 years. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

MANY options for self-healing concrete

The ultimate goal is to develop concrete materials that continually monitor, regulate, adapt and repair themselves without external intervention. Such self-healing concrete will save both lives and resources, and significantly reduce life cycle carbon emissions. A whole new and promising area of research lies in the incorporation of nano-scale mineral and chemical additives into concrete. This might add new properties, like enhanced mechanical and durability performance, or self-cleaning. Some researchers get excited at the prospect of adding graphene to concrete, which might deliver these new properties and even eliminate the problem of steel corrosion, the biggest and most expensive deterioration problem in concrete.

But will these innovations actually make a breakthrough in the construction industry with its risk-averse attitude? Take the example of Danish concrete hardener, a material with superior properties by its description. This rather inexpensive hardener will do away with the need for maintenance afterwards for decades, because of the strong surface it adds to the concrete, making it very long-lasting and keeping the cracks at bay. Moreover, as the company stresses, the product is environmentally friendly and safe to handle. But in 30 years, they have never had major orders. Although acceptance may also be low because they do not reveal the composition of the product (for commercial reasons), their case seems to testify clearly to the inherent conservatism of the industry, to which we referred in our article on innovative concrete as well.

The ancient Romans already developed a self-healing concrete

And then, the problem of self-healing concrete may have been solved by the ancient Romans already. Some of their concrete structures survive until this day, most famously of course the Pantheon. And piers, objects that nowadays are infamous for concrete degradation under the influence of sea water. That these Roman structures still exist is a 2,000 year achievement that will not easily be met by modern-day structures. The secret seems to be a ‘pozzolanic’ reaction of the material with intrusive water that takes place after construction and produces calcium/aluminium silicate crystals that fill voids and cracks. Strengthening the structures long after the works were finished. Old technologies that need to be revived! Even if this would imply rethinking our the very approach of building with concrete."

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http://www.caixinglobal.com/2018-01-29/new-energy-car-startu…

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.075.789 von Popeye82 am 21.02.18 04:35:35

http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2018/02/20/carbon-nega…

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HIGH Performance Fuels: 2018 Multi-Slide Guide to DOE's Co-Optima Project and HP fuels; the US Department of Energy has a signature project called Co-Optima, which aims to determine key fuel properties that enable improved engine efficiency, provide key science to enable high efficiency combustion modes, and capitalize on unique properties available from bio-blendstocks; Dan Gaspar of PNNL prepared this illuminating overview of High Performance Fuels research and the project's promise and progress for the DOE Project Peer Review meetings

http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2018/02/20/high-perfor…

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WOODEN car



http://www.biobasedworldnews.com/a-wooden-car-with-a-green-h…

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.786.545 von Popeye82 am 22.01.18 10:28:36

italian FIRST

https://ilbioeconomista.com/2018/02/23/maccaferri-group-and-…

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBODY knows










The Deepest Hole Known To Man Goes So Far Down, Nobody Even Knows What’s At The Bottom


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First exoplanets spotted beyond the Milky Way

https://newatlas.com/extragalactic-exoplanets/53244/?utm_sou…
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/aaa5fb

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Blue Innovation: Hoooooooooooooooooooooooow to fill fishing nets, without emptying the seas??????????????????????????????; as natural stocks become depleted and overfished, the EU is looking to develop new, sustainable, forms of mariculture. The idea is beginning to attract entrepreneurs

https://sciencebusiness.net/news/blue-innovation-how-fill-fi…

"Entrepreneurs, investors, and some environmentalists are beginning to back new forms of mariculture as a potential long-term solution to the depletion of wild fish stocks and the world's increasing demand for protein.

Mariculture is a burgeoning branch of seawater farming that involves cultivating fish, crustaceans, molluscs and aquatic plants in the ocean. Many see it as the next frontier in sustainable food production.

“It is a vastly under-exploited food source; often an after-thought,” Pearl Dykstra, deputy chair of the European Commission’s Scientific Advice Mechanism (SAM), told a Science|Business event on Blue Innovation held in Brussels on February 27.

Dykstra is part of a six member SAM panel that has been looking at how more food and biomass can be obtained from the oceans in a sustainable way.

According the data collected by SAM, mariculture could add an extra 300 to 400 million metric tonnes of biomass for food or animal feedstock each year. That is a three to fourfold increase on current yields, and would help compensate for declining catches of wild fish.

Expanding mariculture would also “hopefully avoid putting more land under agriculture,” said Ricardo Serrão Santos, Portuguese member of the European Parliament and an expert on marine biodiversity and ocean ecosystems.

“We mostly eat conventional fish from the top trophic layer, and pay much less attention to everything underneath,” said Poul Holm, professor of environmental history at Trinity College Dublin and member of the Horizon 2020-funded Science Advice for Policy by European Academies (SAPEA) consortium. “We shouldn’t disregard the opportunities when they’re there. Really, the way in which we deal with the ocean today is unenlightened and involves poor management.”

Given the growth in the food sector, investors are looking for new opportunities, and sustainable, large-scale mariculture is beginning to take shape in Europe.

Marina Gebert, head of the marine biotechnology department at the German Fraunhofer Research Institution for Marine Biotechnology and Cell Technology, is using macro-algae to develop lemonade and beer, and undersised mussels for a paste for spreading on bread. “We are seeing a growing trend to work with organic, local ingredients. Ours come from the Baltic Sea,” said Gebert. “We are in the testing phase of our beer but if the reaction is positive, the craft beer brewery that we are working with is willing to commercialise.”

Interest in aquaculture and mariculture is growing as global fish production approaches its sustainable limit.

Quotas have helped to rein in out-of-control fishing in Europe, but elsewhere activity has long passed the point at which most fish stocks are sustainable. Some 90 percent of the world’s fisheries are fully exploited or “facing collapse", according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation.

“We need to give the big stocks time to recover,” said Serrão Santos. “Recovered stocks will need small pelagic and mesopelagic fish, and krill to feed on. Any approach concerning targeting these resources should have taken that into scope.”

However, participants at the meeting also cautioned that policymakers should not rush to support a burgeoning industry without knowing the full environmental implications, such as the possible eutrophication of water and the need for some wild fish to feed on smaller animals and plants.

“We probably still lack a complete understanding of how mariculture will affect the whole ocean web,” said Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi, vice rector for European and international research at the University of Pisa. EU research can certainly help “fill the knowledge gap,” said Sigi Gruber, head of marine resources at the Commission’s DG Research and Innovation.

Politicians also need to consider the many sea activities, from shipping and seismic surveys to undersea drilling and offshore wind farming, jostling for coastal space, the conference heard.

Boosting investment in the sector requires harmonised rules for licences, which presently vary widely between jurisdictions, according to the SAM report.

A switch to consuming smaller sea animals would also entail a “broader shift in public perception” and eating habits, said Holm.

Felix Leinemann, European Commission head of unit for blue economy sectors, aquaculture and maritime spatial planning, referenced a promotion campaign in Japan to interest consumers in fish other than salmon, tuna and shrimp that would be retrieved as so-called bycatch.

New tastes take time to evolve, but even then, “seaweed is definitely not the next potato,” said Pi Nyvall Collen, R&D manager at Olmix, a French agrifood company.

War on plastic

Sustainable fishing and mariculture must go hand in hand with a drive to tackle plastic pollution, the meeting heard.

At current rates, in 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean, by weight.

Growing populations and wealth in countries including China, a major source of plastic pollution, is having an outsize impact on the globe’s oceans.

“The issue around plastics in the sea is scary, particularly in Asia,” said Serrão Santos. “We need plastics, but we need to correct the way we use them.”

The EU is mulling various ways to tackle the problem, including new taxes to reduce single use plastic in packaging.

A recent report for the European Commission by Mariana Mazzucato, director of University College London's Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, suggested there should be an EU research mission to reduce the amount of plastics entering the seas by 90 per cent.

The target is too high, but the general effort is laudable, many people at the meeting agreed.

“Most animals will likely have some plastic in their guts,” said Erik van Sebille, an oceanographer and climate scientist at Utrecht University. He has a grant from the European Research Council to trace the distribution of plastics around the world and says the problem is much bigger than most people realise, he said.

“Around five million metric tonnes of plastic enter the oceans every year,” said van Sebille. “But only 1 per cent floats at the surface of the ocean. The rest is either on coastlines, on the seafloor or inside organisms.”"

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.107.730 von Popeye82 am 24.02.18 05:46:38

REVOLUTION, in the use of fertilisers

https://ilbioeconomista.com/2018/03/14/bio-on-launches-a-new…

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some of the first ferry boats EVER , to be powered entirely by batteries

http://www.jwnenergy.com/article/2018/3/oil-rich-norway-move…

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Artificial North Sea Island COULD become world’s largest wind power farm

http://resourceglobalnetwork.com/2018/01/08/artificial-north…

https://www.tennet.eu/

"Dutch energy company TenneT has unveiled ambitious plans to build the North Sea Wind Power Hub, an artificial island which could supply renewable energy to 80 million Europeans, by as early as 2027.

TenneT’s plans outline how a 6km² island will be created in the Dogger Bank region of the North Sea, before being populated with thousands of wind turbines.

Dogger Bank is a shallow area of the sea, located around 125km off the East coast of the UK, which has consistently recorded high wind readings.

The electricity produced from the turbines would then provide power, via long distance cables to six European countries – the Netherlands, the UK, Belgium, Norway, Germany and Denmark.

Wider plans within the North Sea Wind Power Hub project involves the construction of an airport, harbors and crucially converters which change wind-generated electricity from AC to DC.

“It’s crucial for industry to continue with the cost reduction path,” said Rob van der Hage, who manages TenneT’s offshore wind grid development programme.

“The big challenge we are facing towards 2030 and 2050 is onshore wind is hampered by local opposition and nearshore is nearly full. It’s logical we are looking at areas further offshore.”

Current cost estimates for the project stand at US$1.75 billion, with TenneT likely to shoulder much of this figure although national energy network operators will likely be required to help pay for the long distance power cable.

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Tags: Dogger Bank, North Sea, North Sea Wind Power Hub, renewable energy, Tennet, wind energy, world's largest wind farm"

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"First 100% biodegradable PG tips tea bags in stores
Date: 2018-03-14 10:27:12.0
Author: Unilever

•PG tips tea bags will be made with new plant-based material that is 100% renewable and biodegradable
•The first run of tea bags made with the new material are ready to hit the shelves from next week
•PG tips working to make all tea bags from 100% plant based material by the end of the year


Today PG tips is announcing the latest step in its journey to improve the impact of products on the environment by moving to fully biodegradable, plant based material in the nation’s favourite tea bag, PG tips, over the course of 2018.

As part of an initial run, the new tea bags have been made using a new material that is 100% plant-based and 100% renewable. Unlike polypropylene the new material is made from corn starch and is fully biodegradable. The aim is that all tea bags manufactured will use the new material by the end of 2018.

Noel Clarke, Vice President Refreshment, Unilever: “Tea is the most consumed beverage after water in the UK 1 with 9 billion PG tips tea bags made every year and after 85 years of making PG tips, we have a great understanding on how brits love their tea. The new 100% plant based material we’re moving to is an innovation based on cutting edge science and technology and we’re all really excited that, starting from now, the PG tips that you know and love will come from 100% plant based material from a renewable source that’s fully biodegradable.”

Mike Falconer Hall, Organics Programme Manager, WRAP: “We’re keen to see the UK’s tea drinkers recycle their tea bags and it’s great to hear that PG tips is helping them to do this with the introduction of their new fully biodegradable tea bag. If you have a food waste recycling collection in your area, you can put your used tea bags in there. Alternatively, you could pop it into your home composter, however, our climate means it can take a long time to break down, so you may want to sieve out the leftover part of your tea bag and discard it or dig in with the compost.”

PG tips pyramid bags are currently made mostly with paper, with a small amount of polypropylene used to seal the tea bag, a method used widely across the industry. R&D scientists at Unilever have been actively exploring plant based alternatives for PG tips for some time and have already converted some ranges in Canada, Poland and Indonesia.

This is the latest move from PG tips and Unilever to reduce the environmental impact of the way products are manufactured and used. PG tips was the first major UK tea brand to sell fully Rainforest Alliance certified black and green teas.

Unilever’s tea brands, including PG tips, are continually finding new ways to make a difference to products. The announcement today provides another option for people who may have concerns about the sustainability of the material used to produce tea bags.

About Unilever

We've been serving the UK for well over a century and our mission is to meet everyday needs for nutrition, home hygiene and personal care with brands that help people feel good, look good and get more out of life.

For further information about Unilever, please visit the website here."

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http://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2018/03/thanks_to_the_pa_sen…

"Thanks to the Pa. Senate for this bill that will help clean up Chesapeake Bay | PennLive letters
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Newtrient would like to commend the Pennsylvania Senate for its passage of legislation sponsored by Sen. Richard Alloway, R-Adams, which will which will open the door for dynamic, new technologies to help clean up the Chesapeake Bay, address Pennsylvania's growing drinking water crisis and support Growing Greener initiatives.

Many factors contribute to Pennsylvania's water quality problem, including agricultural runoff from Pennsylvania's long-standing livestock population. Livestock, however, provides viable solutions for the state's complex water challenges.

We know Alloway's legislation(SB799) is going to help because it will provide farmers with access to more than 100 new technologies to reduce manure impacts. The bill also will direct taxpayer funding away from expensive infrastructure projects to low- cost, on-farm reductions.

The bill will transfer the performance risk of reducing nutrient losses to that portion of the private sector, which can deploy comparatively low-cost technologies and have significantly greater impacts.

Most importantly, many of these manure management technologies can reduce the nitrogen, phosphorus, ammonia and other greenhouse gas impacts from livestock manure that are the most costly and difficult to capture by the current publicly financed facilities.

This is of great importance to local communities since nitrogen is a key factor in the Chesapeake Bay municipalities' growing drinking water challenges. In fact, a full third of Lancaster County municipalities must treat their water before it can be consumed.

Newtrient has developed a catalogue of over 250 technologies that address various aspects of livestock manure management.

See for yourself here.

Agriculture all across the nation is embracing 21st century technology. Pennsylvania can, too. In the process, it will help farmers, provide clean drinking water and cut costs dramatically for taxpayers.

STEVEN ROWE, President and CEO, Newtrient, Chicago

(Editor's Note: Newtrient is a business collective of the leading U.S. dairy farmer cooperatives, Dairy Management Inc. and the National Milk Producers Federation.) "

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 55.136.771 von Steveguied am 14.06.17 10:47:28

B. Gates, quote: I' "ve NO ambitions"

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/04/carbon-em…

"How Bill Gates aims to clean up the planet
Carbon capture and storage (CCS)
The Observer

It’s a simple idea: strip CO2 from the air and use it to produce carbon-neutral fuel. But can it work on an industrial scale?

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An artists impression of what Carbon Engineering’s ambitious direct air capture project would look like when completed. Photograph: Carbon Engineering

It’s nothing much to look at, but the tangle of pipes, pumps, tanks, reactors, chimneys and ducts on a messy industrial estate outside the logging town of Squamish in western Canada could just provide the fix to stop the world tipping into runaway climate change and substitute dwindling supplies of conventional fuel.

It could also make Harvard superstar physicist David Keith, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and oil sands magnate Norman Murray Edwards more money than they could ever dream of.
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The idea is grandiose yet simple: decarbonise the global economy by extracting global-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) straight from the air, using arrays of giant fans and patented chemical whizzery; and then use the gas to make clean, carbon-neutral synthetic diesel and petrol to drive the world’s ships, planes and trucks.

The hope is that the combination of direct air capture (DAC), water electrolysis and fuels synthesis used to produce liquid hydrocarbon fuels can be made to work at a global scale, for little more than it costs to extract and sell fossil fuel today. This would revolutionise the world’s transport industry, which emits nearly one-third of total climate-changing emissions. It would be the equivalent of mechanising photosynthesis.

The individual technologies may not be new, but their combination at an industrial scale would be groundbreaking. Carbon Engineering, the company set up in 2009 by leading geoengineer Keith, with money from Gates and Murray, has constructed a prototype plant, installed large fans, and has been extracting around one tonne of pure CO2 every day for a year. At present it is released back into the air.

But Carbon Engineering (CE) has just passed another milestone. Working with California energy company Greyrock, it has now begun directly synthesising a mixture of petrol and diesel, using only CO2 captured from the air and hydrogen split from water with clean electricity – a process they call Air to Fuels (A2F).


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“A2F is a potentially game-changing technology, which if successfully scaled up will allow us to harness cheap, intermittent renewable electricity to drive synthesis of liquid fuels that are compatible with modern infrastructure and engines,” says Geoff Holmes of CE. “This offers an alternative to biofuels and a complement to electric vehicles in the effort to displace fossil fuels from transportation.”
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Synthetic fuels have been made from CO2 and H2 before, on a small scale. “But,” Holmes adds, “we think our pilot plant is the first instance of Air to Fuels where all the equipment has large-scale industrial precedent, and thus gives real indication of commercial performance and viability, and leads directly to scale-up and deployment.”

The next step is to raise the money, scale up and then commercialise the process using low-carbon electricity like solar PV (photovoltaics). Company publicity envisages massive walls of extractor fans sited outside cities and on non-agricultural land, supplying CO2 for fuel synthesis, and eventually for direct sequestration.

“A2F is the future,” says Holmes, “because it needs 100 times less land and water than biofuels, and can be scaled up and sited anywhere. But for it to work, it will have to reduce costs to little more than it costs to extract oil today, and – even trickier – persuade countries to set a global carbon price.”

Meanwhile, 4,500 miles away, in a large blue shed on a small industrial estate in the South Yorkshire coalfield outside Sheffield, the UK Carbon Capture and Storage Research Centre (UKCCSRC) is experimenting with other ways to produce negative emissions.

Critics say these technologies are unfeasible. Not producing the emissions in the first place would be much cleverer

The UKCCSRC is what remains of Britain’s official foray into carbon capture and storage (CCS), which David Cameron had backed strongly until 2015. £1bn was ringfenced for a competition between large companies to extract CO2 from coal and gas plants and then store it, possibly in old North Sea gas wells. But the plan unravelled as austerity bit, and the UK’s only running CCS pilot plant, at Ferrybridge power station, was abandoned.

The Sheffield laboratory is funded by £2.7m of government money and run by Sheffield University. It is researching different fuels, temperatures, solvents and heating speeds to best capture the CO2 for the next generation of CCS plants, and is capturing 50 tonnes of CO2 a year. And because Britain is phasing out coal power stations, the focus is on achieving negative emissions by removing and storing CO2 emitted from biomass plants, which burn pulverised wood. As the wood has already absorbed carbon while it grows, it is more or less carbon-neutral when burned. If linked to a carbon capture plant, it theoretically removes carbon from the atmosphere.

Known as Beccs (bioenergy with carbon capture and storage), this negative emissions technology is seen as vital if the UK is to meet its long-term climate target of an 80% cut in emissions at 1990 levels by 2050, according to UKCCSRC director Professor Jon Gibbins. The plan, he says, is to capture emissions from clusters of major industries, such as refineries and steelworks in places like Teesside, to reduce the costs of transporting and storing it underground.

“Direct air capture is no substitute for using conventional CCS,” says Gibbins. “Cutting emissions from existing sources at the scale of millions of tonnes a year, to stop the CO2 getting into the air in the first place, is the first priority.


CO2 solidified into carbonate minerals after being injected into basalt formations at Hellisheiði geothermal power plant in Iceland.
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“The best use for all negative emission technologies is to offset emissions that are happening now – paid for by the emitters, or by the fossil fuel suppliers. We need to get to net zero emissions before the sustainable CO2 emissions are used up. This is estimated at around 1,000bn tonnes, or around 20-30 years of global emissions based on current trends,” he says. “Having to go to net negative emissions is obviously unfair and might well prove an unfeasible burden for a future global society already burdened by climate change.”

The challenge is daunting. Worldwide manmade emissions must be brought to “net zero” no later than 2090, says the UN’s climate body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). That means balancing the amount of carbon released by humans with an equivalent amount sequestered or offset, or buying enough carbon credits to make up the difference.

But that will not be enough. To avoid runaway climate change, emissions must then become “net negative”, with more carbon being removed than emitted. Many countries, including the UK, assume that negative emissions will be deployed at a large scale. But only a handful of CCS and pilot negative-emission plants are running anywhere in the world, and debate still rages over which, if any, technologies should be employed. (A prize of $25m put up by Richard Branson in 2007 to challenge innovators to find a commercially viable way to remove at least 1bn tonnes of atmospheric CO2 a year for 10 years, and keep it out, has still not been claimed – possibly because the public is uncertain about geoengineering.)

The achilles heel of all negative emission technologies is cost. Government policy units assume that they will become economically viable, but the best hope of Carbon Engineering and other direct air extraction companies is to get the price down to $100 a tonne from the current $600. Even then, to remove just 1% of global emissions would cost around $400bn a year, and would need to be continued for ever. Storing the CO2 permanently would cost extra.


Richard Branson and Al Gore at the 2007 launch of the $25mVirgin Earth prize for carbon capture solutions, as yet unclaimed.
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Richard Branson and Al Gore at the 2007 launch of the $25mVirgin Earth prize for carbon capture solutions, as yet unclaimed. Photograph: Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images

Critics say that these technologies are unfeasible. Not using the fossil fuel and not producing the emissions in the first place would be much cleverer than having to find end-of-pipe solutions, say Professor Kevin Anderson, deputy director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, and Glen Peters, research director at the Centre for International Climate Research (Cicero) in Norway.

In a recent article in the journal Science, the two climate scientists said they were not opposed to research on negative emission technologies, but thought the world should proceed on the premise that they will not work at scale. Not to do so, they said, would be a “moral hazard par excellence”.
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Instead, governments are relying on these technologies to remove hundreds of millions of tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere. “It is breathtaking,” says Anderson. “By the middle of the century, many of the models assume as much removal of CO2 from the atmosphere by negative emission technologies as is absorbed naturally today by all of the world’s oceans and plants combined. They are not an insurance policy; they are a high-risk gamble with tomorrow’s generations, particularly those living in poor and climatically vulnerable communities, set to pay the price if our high-stakes bet fails to deliver as promised.” According to Anderson, “The beguiling appeal of relying on future negative emission technologies is that they delay the need for stringent and politically challenging policies today – they pass the buck for reducing carbon on to future generations. But if these Dr Strangelove technologies fail to deliver at the planetary scale envisaged, our own children will be forced to endure the consequences of rapidly rising temperatures and a highly unstable climate.”

Kris Milkowski, business development manager at the UKCCSRC, says: “Negative emissions technology is unavoidable and here to stay. We are simply not moving [to cut emissions] fast enough. If we had an endless pile of money, we could potentially go totally renewable energy. But that transition cannot happen overnight. This, I fear, is the only large-scale solution.”
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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.294.331 von Popeye82 am 16.03.18 03:18:03

REVOLUTIONIZING the world’s transport industry(air TO FUELS)(equivalent of mechanising photosynthesis) ( )





http://carbonengineering.com/company-profile/
http://www.greyrock.com/about/
http://www.climeworks.com/about/
https://ukccsrc.ac.uk/
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/
http://www.ipcc.ch/
http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/
http://www.cicero.oslo.no/en/

[Popeye82]

World’s TINIEST Tomato(MAYbe)

http://nocamels.com/2018/01/israel-farmers-tiny-tomato/?utm_…








-A tomato smaller than an Israeli shekel? Yes, three Israeli farmers from the agritech company Kedma in Moshav Idan in the southern Arava desert have produced what is said to be the world's tiniest tomato. Video by Daphna Mergi for NoCamels To read our story: http://nocamels.com/2018/01/israel-fa... -

[Popeye82]

whoooooooooooooooooooooo has the BIGGEST



https://smallcaps.com.au/uk-billionaire-sanjeev-gupta-tesla-…

[Steveguied]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.294.331 von Popeye82 am 16.03.18 03:18:03

Bin ich mal gespannt wie sich das weiter entwickelt. Könnte interessant werden. Ich persönlich denke es wird aber noch Jahrzehnte dauern, bis die Forschungsergebnisse so solide sind, dass man es industriell verwenden kann.

Gruß
Stefan

[rv_2011]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.318.434 von Steveguied am 19.03.18 13:04:54

Ich halte es für unsinnig, Treibstoffe aus Luft-CO2 zu gewinnen:

Erst verbrennt man Kohle und Öl, um Strom zu erzeugen - und bläst dabei CO2 in die Luft.
Wirkungsgrad ist maximal 40%.

Dann nutzt man dieses CO2, um daraus mit Hilfe von Strom Treibstoffe zu erzeugen. Der Energieaufwand dafür ist mindestens drei mal so hoch wie die im ersten Schritt erzeugte Energie. Wo soll diese Energie herkommen??? Etwa wieder aus Kohle, Öl oder Erdgas?

Es wäre viel effizienter und kostengünstiger, die fossilen Ressourcen gar nicht erst zu verbrennen - d.h. den Umstieg auf erneuerbare Energie zu forcieren: Man benötigt dafür nur ein Drittel der bei dem vorgeschlagenen Verfahren benötigten Energie.

Wenn mit diesem Verfahren aus CO2 und fossiler Energie Treibstoffe hergestellt und dann wieder verbrannt werden, entsteht im Endeffekt etwa drei mal so viel CO2 wie bei einer direkten Verbrennung fossiler Brennstoffe.

Auch wenn man für den Sprit aus CO2 Elektrizität aus erneuerbarer Energie einsetzt, benötigt man etwa drei mal so viel Energie, wie bei der Emission dieses CO2 gewonnen wurde. Wenn man die gewonnen Treibstoffe wieder zum Antrieb von Fahrzeugen nutzt (wozu sonst?), hat man wieder nur etwa 30% Wirkungsgrad. Man braucht also auch dann drei mal mal soviel (Öko-)Strom, als wenn man die Fahrzeuge direkt mit (Öko-)Strom antreibt (Wirkungsgrad bis 90%). Die Herstellung und Nutzung von Biotreibstoffen ist mit Sicherheit effizienter: Sie benötigt nur geringen Energieeinsatz.

Wenn wir die Energiewende nicht schnell genug schaffen und zur Begrenzung des Temperaturanstiegs tatsächlich CO2 aus der Atmosphäre wieder entfernen müssen, dürfte man die gewonnenen Kohlenstoffverbindungen nicht wieder verbrennen, sondern müsste sie dauerhaft einlagern. Wahrscheinlich könnten biologische Verfahren den Kohlenstoff wesentlich effizienter binden: schnell wachsende Pflanzen, die dann unter Luftabschluss eingelagert werden. Wenn es aber darum geht, CO2 aus der Atmosphäre zu entfernen, wäre es weit effizienter, das CO2 direkt einzulagern, statt daraus mit hohem Energieaufwand wieder Brennstoffe herzustellen.

Wie man es auch dreht und wendet: Das technische Entfernen von CO2 aus der Luft um daraus Treibstoffe herzustellen, ist nicht nur aufwendig, sondern teuer und ineffizient.

Dass man selbst über solche unsinnigen Techniken nachdenkt, zeigt aber, wie wichtig es ist, die CO2-Emissionen so schnell wie irgend möglich herunterzufahren. Leider zeigt Deutschland mit dem verweigerten Ausstieg aus der Kohleverstromung ein schlechtes Beispiel.

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.319.277 von rv_2011 am 19.03.18 14:30:15

was Mich als scientifischischer 0blicker interessiert:

halten Sie es (nur) für unsinnig(Investoren mögen keine Zero return investments) Treibstoffe aus Luft-CO2 zu gewinnen, oder den GANZEN Ansatz aus CO2 versuchen noch Etwas Wertschöpfendes(*) zu gewinnen??
(*carbon capture AND utilization, soweit ich da auf Dem Stand bin)

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.318.434 von Steveguied am 19.03.18 13:04:54

Climeworks scheint übrigens die Ersten Systeme in die Arena schicken zu wollen:

http://news.bio-based.eu/climeworks-contracts-mark-first-tim…
http://news.bio-based.eu/neuer-mechanismus-zur-co2-entfernun…
http://www.climeworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/PR-Clim…



Steve

Entschuldige, habe Es bis Jetzt noch nicht gemacht.
Aber ich werde Mich bei Denen schon nochmal melden, und paar(inkl Deiner(Listening)) Fragen stellen.

[rv_2011]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.319.277 von rv_2011 am 19.03.18 14:30:15

Negative Emissionen ...

... sind notwendig, wenn das Ziel erreicht werden soll, dass Ende des Jahrhunderts die Globaltemperatur nur 1,5°C über der vorindustriellen Temperatur (d.h. knapp 0,5°C über der jetzigen) liegt. Dies zeigt eine neue Studie, die in Nature Climate Science erschienen ist:





Soll dieses Ziel erreicht werden, müssen die CO2-Emissionen ab 2020 sinken und ab ca. 2050 negativ werden.

New scenarios show how the world could limit warming to 1.5C in 2100

Für negative Emissionen (d.h. man entfernt mehr CO2 aus der Atmosphäre als emittiert werden) gibt es die in der folgenden Graphik dargestellten Verfahren:

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.321.101 von rv_2011 am 19.03.18 16:52:56

TOTAL inline





NEGATIVE Emissionen ...... sind notwendig, wenn das Ziel erreicht werden soll, dass Ende des Jahrhunderts die Globaltemperatur nur 1,5°C über der vorindustriellen Temperatur (d.h. knapp 0,5°C über der jetzigen) liegt.........................................

Soll dieses Ziel erreicht werden, müssen die CO2-Emissionen ab 2020 sinken und ab ca. 2050 negativ werden.
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genau, das ist auch Meine Meinung.
einschätzung der stratLage.


daher ja auch die Frage nach UTILISATION.
(shit(waste) "to" gold finde ich auch sexy
(Vereinzelte: You' "re JUST so Negative"-article Hier drin waren auch nicht vollumfänglich grundlos))

[rv_2011]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.320.837 von Popeye82 am 19.03.18 16:35:10

Wie mein letztes Posting zeigt, halte ich es sogar für unumgänglich, CO2 wieder aus der Luft zu entfernen. Ohne dies werden wir wahrscheinlich auch das Ziel 2°C reißen. Da ein Entfernen von CO2 in jedem Fall sehr aufwendig ist (teuer und Energie-intensiv), sollten wir alles daran setzen, die Emissionen so schnell wie möglich zu reduzieren.

Ich fürchte, dass es zu den teuersten Verfahren gehört, das CO2 technisch aus der Luft (Gehalt unter 0,05%) zu entfernen. Die Pflanzen haben sich in der Evolution darauf spezialisiert und es ist sicher günstiger, deren Expertise zu nutzen.

Aus CO2 Treibstoff zu erzeugen ist ebenfalls wahrscheinlich erheblich teurer (und Energie-aufwendiger!), als ihn aus Biomasse zu gewinnen. Auch andere Verwendung von CO2 (z.B. zu Kunststoffen) verbraucht mehr Energie, als vorher beim Verbrennen gewonnen wurde. Vor allen führt all dies nicht zu negativen Emissionen - im Gegenteil.

Für die nähere Zukunft, in der es noch Kohlekraftwerke gibt, sollte man das CO2 aus den Abgasen entfernen, wo es in konzentrierter Form vorliegt - und nach sicheren Lagerstätten dafür suchen. Ich war bei CCS zwar auch immer skeptisch, aber es scheint kein Weg daran vorbei zu führen.

Man sollte aber alle jetzt schon verfügbaren Verfahren für negative Emissionen nutzen. Z.B. sollte man Holz nicht verfeuern, sondern verstärkt als Baustoff nutzen, wo es dem kurzfristigen Kohlenstoffkreislauf entzogen ist.

[rv_2011]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.321.503 von rv_2011 am 19.03.18 17:25:17

Nachtrag:

Ich habe mir den verlinkten Artikel im Carbon Brief erst jetzt angeschaut. Dort kann man nachlesen, dass eine Entfernung von CO2 aus der Luft extrem teuer ist:

The concentration of CO2 in air (0.04%) means it theoretically need many times more energy to capture than the CO2 in a coal plant chimney, where the concentration is around 300 times higher. This would make direct capture costly. Some firms say they will be able to capture CO2 from air for $25 a tonne. Other estimates for capture, storage and regeneration of the capture medium range from $400 to $1,000 per tonne of CO2.

Die 25 $/t halte ich auch für ein Hirngespinst.

[Steveguied]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.321.503 von rv_2011 am 19.03.18 17:25:17

Du schneidest ein paar Dinge kurz an mit denen ich mich bisher so nicht befasst habe. Es gibt ja durchaus Ambitionen die CO2 Emissionen der Kohlekraftwerke abzutrennen, zu verflüssigen und in alten Öl und Gasbohrlöchern tief unter der Erde wieder einzulagern.

Fragestellung, was passiert bei seismischen Aktivitäten wie beispielsweise einem Erdbeben? Die Menschen welche darüber leben, ersticken sie dann, wenn sich so eine CO2 Blase aus der Erde löst?

Das ist alles nicht so einfach. Es wird wirklich ein verdammt schwerer Weg. Trump hilft in der Sache auch überhaupt nicht weiter.

Gruß
Stefan

[rv_2011]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.321.932 von Steveguied am 19.03.18 18:00:36

Ich sagte ja, dass ich CCS auch für problematisch halte. Vor allem könnte es ein Anreiz sein, die fossilen Kraftwerke weiter zu betreiben. Voraussetzung ist in jedem Fall eine sichere Lagerung. Vielleicht kann man es ja zu Karbonaten wandeln...

Aber viel aufwendiger als Carbon Capture aus Abgasen ist doch CC aus der Luft! Und auch dabei stellt sich die Frage, wohin mit dem CO2. Spritproduktion ist keine Lösung, es ist allenfalls Emissions-neutral und nur dann, wenn die Energie für die CO2-Extraktion CO2-frei gewonnen wird: Bei der Verbrennung wird das der Luft entzogene CO2 wieder frei.

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.321.503 von rv_2011 am 19.03.18 17:25:17

Danke, Ihre Ausführungen waren interessant für Mich.
Wollte evt nochmal darauf zurückkommen.
Zu CCS schätze ich ähnlich ein:
Mir scheint Es auch nicht die "tolle" Lösung, aber vmtl wird/MUSS Es erstmal (tlw)kommen.

Ich würde sagen vmtl ein "bisschen" Wie Uran, Kernkrafttechnologien.
Es ist nicht wirklich Das Was man will, braucht. Aber als Brückentechnologie.

Zu Diesem "CCS" -wäre Sowas hier vielleicht noch eine Art "Zwischen"ding, zwischen CCS und ???
http://www.or.is/carbfix


Beschrieben ist Es als mineralisation,
also m.V. ein deutlicher Unterschied zum "Capture and Storage".

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.325.256 von Popeye82 am 20.03.18 03:40:48

hier ist Das DIng bisschen optisch









- Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a major contributor to global warming. But what if there were a way to turn that gas into rock and store it safely, thousands of feet underground? One power plant in Iceland is attempting to do just that, through a process called “Carbfix.” Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports, in the first of his “Breakthrough” series. -


Im Link im Vorschreiben(Webpage, Frontpage, bisschen runter(nur kein "YT")) ist Das als praktischer Vorgang aber nochmal besser gezeigt.

[rv_2011]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.325.256 von Popeye82 am 20.03.18 03:40:48

Ja, so etwas meinte ich mit "zu Karbonaten wandeln". Man muss aber abwarten, ob sich das großtechnisch und effizient verwirklichen lässt.

Meine Skepsis gegenüber CCS betrifft aber nicht nur die Endlagerproblematik.

[Popeye82]

first EVER

http://www.popsci.com/volcano-thunder-recordings?CMPID=ene03…

[Popeye82]

http://www.popsci.com/why-do-bigger-animals-live-longer-than…

[Popeye82]

https://newatlas.com/trappist-planets-too-much-water-life/53…
http://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-018-0411-6

[Popeye82]

http://www.popsci.com/trappist-exoplanet-water-alien-life?CM…

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.321.101 von rv_2011 am 19.03.18 16:52:56

für Die, für Die Klima"wandel" im Kern Die; äusserst kritische; Frage darstellt ob man Die Badehose 2 Wochen früher oder später rausholt:



Climate action saves the planet—and lives
"If the world's governments managed to keep global temperature rise to less than 3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century, 150 million human lives would be spared, says a new study. But as the story above made clear, we have work to do"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/201…

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.387.788 von Popeye82 am 26.03.18 14:58:32

What's the opposite of a pick-me-up article?
"Because that's what this is. Worldwide carbon pollution hit an all-time high last year after three years of plateauing. The International Energy Agency cited increased demand and slowing energy efficiency improvements as reasons. As IEA executive director Fatih Birol put it, "The significant growth in global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in 2017 tells us that current efforts to combat climate change are FAR from sufficient." "

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-energy-carbon-iea/global-c…

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.328.658 von rv_2011 am 20.03.18 11:44:19

Meine Skepsis gegenüber CCS betrifft aber nicht nur die Endlagerproblematik.
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Ich hatte mal 1,2 Papiere zu "CCS" gelesen.
Schon länger(Jahre) her, ("key findings") nicht mehr wirklich präsent, aber Ja: Damit sind eine Menge "issues"/pot Probleme verbunden.

- zum Einen ist Es Keine(nicht falsch verstehen) "End"Lösung.
- bisher kaum praktische Erfahrungen(10 +/- ein paar Derartiger Anlagen gibt es bis Jetzt glaube ich. Weltweit. So war jedenfalls Der Stand wohl vor ein paar(3,4??) Jahren)
- das bauen solcher Anlagen ist wahnsinnig, wahnsinnig teuer.
Soweit ich Es in Erinnerung habe bedarf Es dafür auch uuungefähr so 10Mrd(+/- ein "paar")$.
Für EINE Anlage.
- neben Dem "End"lösungsthema ist sicher auch Das Der Sicherheit ein ganz grosses.


Das Jetzt nur Vereinzelte Aspekte Die Mir wieder einfielen.
Es sind wahrscheinlich noch Viel mehr; Die in Diese Erwägungen reinspielen;
technisch/wissenschaftlich/wirtschaftliche vermutlich am Meisten.

[Popeye82]

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/klimawandel-quecksilber-pe…

[Popeye82]

https://ilbioeconomista.com/2018/03/26/the-marine-stakeholde…

[rv_2011]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.388.034 von Popeye82 am 26.03.18 15:24:50

Außer den von Ihnen genannten Gründen fällt mir noch ein: CCS benötigt viel Energie. Der Wirkungsgrad von Kraftwerken wird durch CCS also drastisch verringert.

Das einzig wirklich sichere Endlager ist die Umwandlung in Karbonate, was die Sache aber wohl weiter verteuert. Die Verarbeitung zu Treibstoff oder Plastik wäre völlig unsinnig: Dann würde von den Kraftwerken Energie verbraucht statt erzeugt.

Die Kosten (etwa 5 Ct/kWh nach eher optimistischen Schätzungen) werden wohl verhindern, dass mehr als ein paar Prototypen gebaut werden. Trotzdem ist CCS die von den Kraftwerksbetreibern favorisierte Lösung. Das zeigt, wie verzweifelt sie sind.

Noch viel teurer ist es allerdings, CO2 aus der Luft zu holen, wo es nur in großer Verdünnung vorliegt.

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.393.713 von rv_2011 am 27.03.18 05:24:10

Vorab: Du passt für Mich auch, Das liegt an Ihnen.




Die Verarbeitung zu Treibstoff oder Plastik wäre völlig unsinnig: Dann würde von den Kraftwerken Energie verbraucht statt erzeugt.

Die Kosten (etwa 5 Ct/kWh nach eher optimistischen Schätzungen) werden wohl verhindern, dass mehr als ein paar Prototypen gebaut werden...........

Noch viel teurer ist es allerdings, CO2 aus der Luft zu holen, wo es nur in großer Verdünnung vorliegt.
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hmmmmm.
O.K., da(nn) Die Nächste Zeit wahrscheinlich trotzdem nochmal EIn Gegenhalten, EInwurf von Mir.
Ich bin Mir nicht sicher ob Das ein berechtigt, nachvollziehbarer Einwurf ist(wird), oder total naiv.
Mal sehen.

[rv_2011]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.395.477 von Popeye82 am 27.03.18 09:57:20

Es kommt übrigens noch ein Einwand gegen CCS-hinzu: Der Wirkungsgrad der CO2-Abscheidung liegt nur bei 70-90%. Da durch CCS ca. 30% mehr Brennstoff benötigt wird, fallen immer noch ca. 30% der jetzigen CO2-Emissionen an. Das entspricht etwa den Emissionen von Gaskraftwerken ohne CCS.

Die Kosten für CO2-Abscheidung aus der Luft betragen derzeit 600 $ je Tonne CO2. Wenn man annimmt, dass dieses CO2 aus Kohlekraftwerken stammt, ergeben sich Kosten für die Beseitigung dieses CO2 von 44 Ct/kWh (ohne Kosten der CO2 Endlagerung).


Ich aber aber noch eine Nachfrage zu Ihrem Beitrag #1.372:
Haben Sie eine Quelle für die Investitionskosten von 10 Mrd $ für eine CCS-Anlage? Das kommt mir 10fach überhöht vor.
Die Kosten für Kohlekraftwerke mit CCS werden mit 2.550 €/kW angegeben. Das wären für ein 1000 MW-Kraftwerk 2,55 Mrd einschließlich CCS.

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.396.758 von rv_2011 am 27.03.18 11:57:47

Ich aber aber noch eine Nachfrage zu Ihrem Beitrag #1.372:
Haben Sie eine Quelle für die Investitionskosten von 10 Mrd $ für eine CCS-Anlage? Das kommt mir 10fach überhöht vor.
Die Kosten für Kohlekraftwerke mit CCS werden mit 2.550 €/kW angegeben. Das wären für ein 1000 MW-Kraftwerk 2,55 Mrd einschließlich CCS.
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Ich müsste nochmal nachsehen ob sich Das(oder Ähnliches) wiederfinden lässt.
Keine Ahnung, ob.

Möchte Es nicht beschwören, aber bin Mir eigentlich reeecht sicher dass Es Diese Größenordnung war.
Allerdings, Wie gesagt ist Das; Diese Angabe; schon Einige Zeit her.
Muss nicht sein, aber vielleicht "irgendwas zwischen 3-5ys"??

Als kööönnte Es vielleicht auch sein dass Diese Daten Damals zutreffend waren,
aber inzwischen schon deutlich "runtergearbeitet" wurden.

[rv_2011]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.398.198 von Popeye82 am 27.03.18 14:07:53

Meine Zahl stammte aus dem verlinkten Vergleich verschiedener Studien aus dem Jahre 2012 und bezieht sich auf die Jahre 2020-2030:



Bei Steinkohle sind die Investitionskosten etwas geringer:



Die Differenz zwischen konventionell/CCS beträgt zwischen 500 und 800 €/kW - für ein 1000 MW-Kraftwerk also 0,5 bis 0,8 Mrd Euro.

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.393.593 von Popeye82 am 27.03.18 01:57:20

https://ilbioeconomista.com/2018/03/01/an-interview-with-phi…

"An interview with Philippe Mengal, executive director BBI JU: “We need to reinvent our economy to face the challenges of climate change and resource constraints”
1 March 2018Il Bioeconomista


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Philippe Mengal

“Europe is becoming a very attractive area to invest in bio-based Industries: where BIC members were announcing a portfolio of 2bn euros investment in 2014 the same survey announced 5 bn euros investments in 2017”. To say it – in this long, exclusive interview with Il Bioeconomista – is Philippe Mengal, executive director of the BBI JU. The Bio-Based Industries Joint Undertaking is a €3.7 billion Public-Private Partnership between the EU and the Bio-based Industries Consortium. Operating under Horizon 2020, it is driven by the Vision and Strategic Innovation and Research Agenda (SIRA) developed by the industry

According to Mengal, “The next decade is a critical period for the EU. We need to reinvent our economy to face the challenges of climate change and resource constraints. Europe is committed to excelling in smart, sustainable growth and mobilizing investment to create new products and new markets is key”.

Interview by Mario Bonaccorso

What is your evaluation of the activity done till now by BBI JU?

Through its collaborative model, BBI JU is bridging the gap between research and market, stimulating the Research & Innovation in Europe and integrating economic actors along the whole value chain. BBI JU remains an important pillar of Europe’s bioeconomy strategy, playing a key role in creating markets for bio-based products and enabling a sustainable bio-based circular economy. By demonstrating the scaling up effect, BBI JU is helping to convince brand owners to engage creating new markets and products for consumers, and leading to far-reaching impact on the economy at both regional and international level.

The achievements of the BBI JU project portfolio have been confirmed by the interim evaluation of BBI JU. This evaluation was carried out by independent experts and their report highlights that BBI JU is an instrument very relevant to the bio-industries and is very well aligned with the initial challenges. It states that BBI JU is an example in terms of transparency and openness, as well as in creating synergies and complementarities with other initiatives. According to the experts, the two main positive effects of BBI JU are the evident structuring effect in organising the value chains and the mobilizing effect on all stakeholders. In addition to these key aspects, other important achievements are also highlighted in the report, such as effectiveness in implementation; significant private sector participation, translating private investment into a high leverage effect; BBI JU’s specific KPIs well on track; and a high participation rate of SMEs (38%), well above the Horizon 2020 target of 20%.

The European Union is discussing the FP9. What are your evaluation and requests?

Indeed the FP9 will be one of the biggest inter-institutional debates between the European Parliament, the European Commission and the Member-States. However, we have seen encouraging signs from the European Parliament asking the increasing of the budget dedicated to Research & Innovation. To my opinion, the attention to R&I initiatives should continue in order to ensure that Europe will not only continue to be a hub for the creation and development of innovative ideas but the actual place where the investment is done and where those ideas come to reality. Having said that, I repeat these are questions that will be conducted at an inter-institutional level and we will be obviously following the debate among the institutions.

The European Commission aims at increasing awareness, acceptance and societal confidence in bio-based products and industries, improving end-consumers engagement in the bioeconomy. How is it possible to achieve these goals?

BBI JU further strengthens the whole value chain approach by a greater participation of end users and consumers so that bio-based products are part of consumers’ daily life. A lot of effort is still required to improve consumer awareness and education and several BBI JU projects are working towards that goal. One good example is the BioCannDo project, which aims to create and diffuse information about the potential and long-term benefits of a vibrant bio-based economy sector, explaining to the wider public that the bio-based economy offers something desirable, with new products, functionalities and day-to-day applications. We can already see that consumers are waiting for bio-based alternative products and the retailers claim their shelves would welcome those products. In parallel, brand owners are increasingly participating in the BBI JU initiative. Brand owners should further promote this market and sell bio-based products strongly supported by all major EU retailers. Thanks to this market push and huge investments in communication and education, consumers should be fully aware on the benefits of bio-based products. Moreover, NGOs and consumer associations could also encourage the use of bio-based products.

These are signs that will enable the end-consumers to trust that bio-based industries can lead to an environmentally friendly growth and at the same time boost employment, support the regional development and expand local economies. Overall, everyone benefits from a strong European bio-based industrial sector. A sustainable, resource-efficient bio-based economy is capable of delivering everyday products that are many times superior to fossil-based ones by their outstanding performance.

In the European Union, there are different funds to support the bioeconomy. How can we reconcile all in order to avoid waste of money and significantly support the bioeconomy?

Public-private partnerships are a unique model in the sense of the involvement and commitment they require from all the members. As such, they are an instrument covering an area not addressed by other initiatives. Overall, BBI JU has been creating an attractive arena for investment in Europe, by encouraging and support the cooperation throughout the value chains (structuring effect) and by its mobilizing effect. BBI JU represents a strong political signal at EU level, due to the stable long-term framework that it provides, critical to attract and secure long-term investments from the private sector.

BBI JU has a strong and unique emphasis on demonstration and flagship actions, paving the way for industry to deploy and commercialise the results and attracting significant industrial participation and leverage.

The Lamy report “Lab Fab App” concludes that investing in research and innovation is the best option we have to creating the future we want, rather than have the future created for us. By injecting public funding in BBI JU, policy makers continue to shape the sustainable European bio-based industries to generate competitiveness and create value for EU citizen. A consolidated and sustainable BBI JU that takes into account the proper management of the competition with food, the respect of biodiversity and the best practices of water and soil management, will be needed to fully deliver expected impacts for the environment and the society. The Lamy report also claims that Europeans remain good at generating scientific knowledge bur are not yet good enough at getting growth out of science. For that reason, funding Innovation Actions by BBI JU remains crucial for accelerating the transformation of research outputs into innovation and deployment in Europe. Besides that, the Lamy report states that Europe’s innovation deficit does not stem from the lack of ideas or a lack of start-ups, but rather lack of scale-up. In that sense, the attractiveness of Europe for investment should be further consolidated. Continuity is key in order to reap the full benefits of the overall initiative and a second generation of BBI JU is needed.

North America, Brazil or China have extensive biomass resources and are benefitting from R&D-investment programs and strong political impetus for the bioeconomy. How can Europe compete at global level in the bioeconomy?

Europe already competes efficiently thanks to its strengths (expertise, science, leading companies and research centers) and specificities. As an example, our primary sector is more diverse and fragmented than the one of North America or China. But most importantly Europe has a clear strategy targeting a sustainable bio-based economy for Europe creating competitiveness and value for citizen; it is not simply business-driven. Thanks to instruments like BBI JU, the growth of the EU bio-based market is aligned with the EU Bioeconomy Strategy. It is achieved by managing the risk of competition with the production of biomass for food and animal feed and without pressure on biodiversity. As a result and as illustrated by the survey performed by BIC every year, Europe is becoming a very attractive area to invest in bio-based Industries: where BIC members were announcing a portfolio of 2bn euros investment in 2014 the same survey announced 5 bn euros investments in 2017.

The next decade is a critical period for the EU. We need to reinvent our economy to face the challenges of climate change and resource constraints. Europe is committed to excelling in smart, sustainable growth and mobilizing investment to create new products and new markets is key. Europe’s commitment to building the world’s leading bioeconomy remains critical to achieve growth and this is our opportunity to create the bio-based industry sector that we want to have in Europe: a sustainable bioeconomy sector creating competitiveness, jobs, investment and added-value to the citizens."

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" Aussie farmers want AgTechs to help build a $100bn market, by 2030

Tech

11 hours ago | Melissa Yeo

Australia rode to prosperity on the sheep’s back in the early 20th century.

Now a wave of agricultural technology (or AgTech) companies are hoping to turbo-charge those sheep — metaphorically speaking — to regain Australia’s agricultural mojo.

The National Farmer’s Federation (NFF) wants to double Australia’s farm production to $100 billion by 2030 — and is encouraging the use of AgTech to attain that lofty goal.

This year farm gate output will total $59 billion – meaning it needs to grow 70 per cent in the next 12 years.

Last week Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull launched Talking 2030: Growing agriculture into a $100 billion industry — a strategy paper put together by the NFF and consultant KPMG to address that challenge.

“Agriculture is our future. It’s often seen as being an old-fashioned industry and it has been around a long time, as long as civilisation — but it is technologically advanced, and becoming more so,” Mr Turnbull said.

“It’s all about being able to better use our resources – whether it’s water, whether it’s pesticides for spraying weeds — and to be able to do so with precision and making every drop count.”

Blockchain, Internet of Things and robot fruit-pickers

The KPMG paper calls for technological advancement in areas as diverse as automated global trade compliance, water management via Internet of Things networks and digital supply chains that connect consumers and producers using blockchain technology.

Even robotics will play a part. Robotic fruit picking machines — set to become available this year — could be part of a $7.4 billion global market for agriculture robots in five years, the report says. Agricultural drones add another $3.7 billion.

But solving the simple equation of producing more food for more people may represent the biggest challenge — and the biggest potential profits for AgTech plays.

“The planet must produce more food in the next four decades than all farmers in history have harvested over the past 8000 years,” the report says. “That is because by 2050, the Earth will be home to as many as 10 billion people, up from today’s 7.5 billion.”

There is “a clear trend of sustainable intensification of food production in Australia as a clear enabler towards the $100 billion target”, the report says.

The appetite of governments, investors, entrepreneurs, researchers, corporates and farmers for new yield-enabling technology is very strong, says KPMG’s Head of AgTech, Ben van Delden.

“Our farming systems need to dramatically evolve to produce more food using less land and resources,” Mr van Delden says.

In total, new technology could unlock $20.3 billion in gross value for agricultural production, the report finds.

Here are five ASX-listed small cap stocks that are well-placed to benefit from the trend to AgTech:

Hybrid plant breeder Abundant Produce (ASX:ABT) is focused on developing high-yield seeds for “a range of food crops that can be grown under non-ideal conditions, particularly greenhouse vegetables, such as cucumbers and tomatoes.”

The group is developing intellectual property in plant science to make sweeter tomatoes and juicier cucumbers in a partnership with scientists from the University of Sydney.

Abundant has also been dabbling with vegetable-based skincare ranges.

Israeli-based AgTech Roots Sustainable Agricultural Technologies (ASX:ROO) has developed technology that heats or cools crop root zones to grow crops at their optimal temperature year-round.

A trial with basil saw an increase in yield by 66 per cent when the root zone was heated, compared to plants that were untreated. Average plant size grew by more than a third.

CropLogic (ASX:CLI) offers crop-management–as-a-service, initially targeting potato crops.

It uses equipment, based on technology developed by the New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research, such as probes that collect data on soil temperature and moisture as well as aerial imagery help farmers to better manage crops.

The in-field probes “provide underground information that allows early detection of plant health issues and better yield prediction ability”.

Sensera (ASX:SE1) makes Internet-of-Things chips that are tagged to the ears of cattle to transmit data.

The Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (or MEMS) chips are miniature electro-mechanical devices used to measure things like temperature, pressure, chemicals, radiation or location.

The chips and recently acquired location awareness platform Nanotron, mean Sensera owns the medium through which data is collected and transmitted.

Antara Lifesciences (ASX:ANR) is looking to treat pig’s diarrhoea — among other things.

It’s aiming to address the problem of increasing antibiotic use in animals, which can lead to infectious diseases resisting antibiotics or the creation of so-called “super bugs.”

The company’s lead product Detach is already clinically proven to be effective in treating Scour – a gastro-intestinal disorder in pigs — and has already had such success it was named as a potential M&A target by advisory firm Wilsons earlier this year.
ASX code Name Market Cap 12-month price change Price Mar 27, 2017 Price Mar 27, 2017
ABT ABUNDANT PRODUCE 20.86m -26% 40 0.52
ANR ANTARA LIFESCIENCES 76.6m 29% 155 1.2
CLI* CROPLOGIC 6.16m 75% 5 0.2
ROO* ROOTS SUSTAINABLE 26.84m 125% 45 0.2
SE1 SENSERA 39.32m -36% 24 0.38

** denotes listing price comparison"

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http://www.wastefreeoceans.org/single-post/2018/03/22/Waste-…

"Waste Free Oceans partners with Henkel, to fight marine plastic litter; Partners aim to remove enough plastic from rivers, lakes, seas and oceans to produce 100 tonnes of usable recycled material each year

8ace71_acc898d1f80042e9a111b5bfe532f7e8~mv2Waste Free Oceans has announced a new partnership with Henkel to remove plastic waste from oceans and rivers – and transform it into over a million bottles used for the Lovables laundry brand. The collaboration is the largest that WFO has agreed so far and will run for at least three years. Together, the partners aim to remove enough plastic from rivers, lakes, seas and oceans to produce 100 tonnes of usable recycled material each year.

Waste Free Oceans was founded in 2011 with the mission of partnering with businesses and other organisations to remove plastic from the world’s oceans and rivers – and transform it into new items. “Oceans and rivers are among the most expansive and diverse resources on Earth, but we don’t protect them as well as we should,” says Bernard Merkx, Co-Founder of Waste Free Oceans. “An estimated 8 million tonnes of plastic end up in our oceans every year, which is the equivalent of 15 grocery bags filled with plastic for every meter of coastline in the world. At Waste Free Oceans, our answer is to enter into partnerships to tackle this problem together. We’re now delighted to be working with Henkel and organising remediation actions together: It’s our largest and most ambitious partnership with one unique partner so far – aiming to remove enough marine litter from the environment to produce 100 tonnes of usable recycled material every year for at least three years.”
Collections along the Danube River and Mediterranean Sea

The partnership between Henkel and Waste Free Oceans will begin by collecting plastic waste from the Danube River in spring 2018. Activities will target locations ranging from Bulgaria through to Hungary and Romania that were selected based on a detailed analysis of the way the currents and geography of the river cause plastic to accumulate at certain points. Volunteers will gather plastic waste from the river banks and beaches, while teams of fishermen will trawl the river using a special device that removes floating plastic waste from the water. The trawlers are able to collect between 2 and 8 tonnes of marine litter on each journey. The collections along the Danube will be followed by activities at several locations in the Mediterranean Sea during the summer.
Transforming marine plastic litter into sustainable packaging

Once recycled, the plastic will be included in bottles for the Lovables laundry brand. Launched in 2018, Lovables offers special gentle cleaning that preserves consumers’ favourite clothing by protecting the quality of the fabrics and colours. Lovables bottles are made from 100 percent recycled material – and the brand aims to include recycled marine plastic litter from Waste Free Oceans in over a million bottles. “Our partnership with Waste Free Oceans is another step forward in our commitment to promoting sustainable packaging and recycling,” says Prof. Dr. Thomas Müller-Kirschbaum, Head of Global Research and Development in Henkel’s Laundry & Home Care business unit. “Together, we can remove a meaningful amount of plastic from the environment, while also raising consumer awareness of marine plastic litter and the need to better protect our oceans and rivers.”

Henkel’s commitment to sustainable packaging follows three focus principles: less packaging and waste, better packaging, and enabling a circular economy. In 2017, Henkel used recycled plastic in the packaging for more than 1.2 billion detergent, household cleaning and beauty care products globally. This new partnership with Waste Free Oceans builds on the company’s existing activities related to sustainable packaging and recycling, such as its partnership with the social enterprise Plastic Bank.

Waste Free Oceans will announce other major partnerships shortly."

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.321.503 von rv_2011 am 19.03.18 17:25:17

http://news.bio-based.eu/co2-use-is-slowly-picking-up-speed/
"CO2 use is slowly picking up speed; First semi-commercial facilities, technical advances, but political support still unclear


6th Conference on Carbon Dioxides as Feedstock for Fuels, Chemistry and Polymers in Cologne, 15-16 March, showed state of the art technologies, current levels of investment as well as stimulated discussions on the right implementation strategy.

Deutsche Fassung: http://news.bio-based.eu/co2-nutzung-nimmt-langsam-fahrt-auf…

With almost 170 participants, the conference in Cologne has established itself as one of the world’s most important annual meeting places for the new CCU industry (Carbon Capture and Utilisation). Nearly 30 leading companies and universities presented and discussed their latest activities in this dynamic industry.

Bruce Dannenberg (Phytonix) and Jürgen Tiedje (European Commission) (Source: nova-Institut ( PvP)

Bruce Dannenberg (Phytonix) and Jürgen Tiedje (European Commission) (Source: nova-Institut / PvP)

What are the most important news and topics that affect the industry? According to Nordic Blue Crude (Norway) and sunfire (Germany), the first semi-commercial plants for the production of kerosene from CO2 and hydropower are to be built in Norway. There are also big and concrete plans in the province of Quebec in Canada, as “CO2 solutions” reported. Again, large hydroelectric power plants with their low-cost renewable electricity are the main drivers of this development. In addition to many other applications, the focus here is on methanol and feed proteins. Mainly as a protein source for aquaculture, the latter will also be produced soon by a VTT spin-off in Finland, using CO2 and renewable electricity.

There is similarly a lot of activity in Germany. In addition to the largest CCU research programs in the world, ambitious projects are under preparation, especially in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). This interest is reflected in the patronage of the conference by the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Economics and Innovation and the premium partnership with the Energy.Agency NRW. For the state with its strong energy, chemical and steel industry, the use of CO2 is particularly attractive. ThyssenKrupp and Fraunhofer UMSICHT are preparing a major project on the use of emissions from the steel industry. Silver sponsor of the conference, Covestro, also headquartered in NRW, is the global pioneer for the use of CO2 in chemistry and plastics. Their CO2-based foams are already on the market and further products such as CO2-based TPU fibres have been announced. Gold sponsor Phytonix (USA), who is globally active in converting steel industry emissions into butanol with the help of bacteria, is also a frequent visitor to the Ruhr region.

Panel discussion (from left to right: Lisa Buchner (German Environment Agency-UBA), Dr. Remko J. Detz (Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands-ECN), Nils Aldag (sunfire), Prof. Christian Breyer (Lappeenranta University of Technology), Dr. Juha-Pekka Pitkänen (VTT), Michael Carus (nova-Institut) (Source: nova-Institut / PvP)

Panel discussion (from left to right: Lisa Buchner (German Environment Agency-UBA), Dr. Remko J. Detz (Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands-ECN), Nils Aldag (sunfire), Prof. Christian Breyer (Lappeenranta University of Technology), Dr. Juha-Pekka Pitkänen (VTT), Michael Carus (nova-Institut) (Source: nova-Institut / PvP)

There is still an ongoing political debate at the European level as to whether and how CCU should be supported under the Renewable Energy Directive II and the Emission Trading System (ETS). At the conference, participants were able to obtain comprehensive information on the latest state of this discussion and exchange views with the experts: Should the use of fossil CO2 emissions be made politically attractive, or only the use of biogenic or atmospheric CO2? Should the use of CCU fuels for cars and trucks be promoted, or only the use as kerosene and fuel for container ships, where CO2 fuels generate the greatest benefit? And how can CCU be considered sensibly in the ETS?

The almost 170 participants from 20 countries seemed highly pleased with the conference, in particular the quality of the presentations and the opportunities for intensive networking, which is crucial for young industries, received positive feedback.

The presentations of the conference will soon be available at www.bio-based.eu/proceedings. They are free of charge for all participants and will be available for 150 € for those who could not attend.

6th Conference on CO2 Utilisation in Cologne (Source nova-Institut / PvP)

Conference on CO2 Utilisation in Cologne (Source nova-Institut / PvP)

The conference will take place in Cologne again next year, please save the date:
7th Conference on Carbon Dioxide as Feedstock for Fuels, Chemistry and Polymers, 20 – 21 March 2019, Cologne (Germany) www.co2-chemistry.eu

Source: nova-Institut GmbH, press release, 2018-03-27.
Supplier

Covestro AG
EnergieAgentur.NRW
Fraunhofer-Institut für Umwelt-, Sicherheits- und Energietechnik (UMSICHT)
Ministerium für Innovation, Wissenschaft und Forschung des Landes NRW
Nordic Blue Crude AS
nova-Institut GmbH
Phytonix
Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT)
ThyssenKrupp AG"

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WILD Scientists Plan

http://www.livescience.com/62140-can-salt-stop-climate-chang…
http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2018/pdf/1834.pdf
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/dusting-salt-could-co…
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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.396.758 von rv_2011 am 27.03.18 11:57:47

zu konkreten Zahlen; Spanne; ob sich da evt Was finden lässt; muss ich nochmal nachsehen.
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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.433.406 von Popeye82 am 30.03.18 22:46:56

S.5(ff) evt auch nochmal:
http://b59d35675b007f59b1d7-0196d366fe21fa4c957de1aaf4b3fb16…

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- Icarus, whose official name is MACS J1149+2223 Lensed Star 1, is the farthest individual star ever seen. It is only visible because it is being magnified by the gravity of a massive galaxy cluster, located about 5 billion light-years from Earth. Called MACS J1149+2223, this cluster, shown at left, sits between Earth and the galaxy that contains the distant star. The panels at the right show the view in 2011, without Icarus visible, compared with the star's brightening in 2016. -
http://www.rdmag.com/news/2018/04/hubble-uncovers-farthest-s…

"Hubble Uncovers the Farthest Star, Ever Seen
Mon, 04/02/2018 - 3:03pm
by NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center


More than halfway across the universe, an enormous blue star nicknamed Icarus is the farthest individual star ever seen. Normally, it would be much too faint to view, even with the world's largest telescopes. But through a quirk of nature that tremendously amplifies the star's feeble glow, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope were able to pinpoint this faraway star and set a new distance record. They also used Icarus to test one theory of dark matter, and to probe the make-up of a foreground galaxy cluster.

The star, harbored in a very distant spiral galaxy, is so far away that its light has taken 9 billion years to reach Earth. It appears to us as it did when the universe was about 30 percent of its current age.

The discovery of Icarus through gravitational lensing has initiated a new way for astronomers to study individual stars in distant galaxies. These observations provide a rare, detailed look at how stars evolve, especially the most luminous stars.

"This is the first time we're seeing a magnified, individual star," explained former University of California at Berkeley postdoc and study leader Patrick Kelly now of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. "You can see individual galaxies out there, but this star is at least 100 times farther away than the next individual star we can study, except for supernova explosions."

Gravity as a Natural Cosmic Lens

The cosmic quirk that makes this star visible is a phenomenon called "gravitational lensing." Gravity from a foreground, massive cluster of galaxies acts as a natural lens in space, bending and amplifying light. Sometimes light from a single background object appears as multiple images. The light can be highly magnified, making extremely faint and distant objects bright enough to see.

In the case of Icarus, a natural "magnifying glass" is created by a galaxy cluster called MACS J1149+2223. Located about 5 billion light-years from Earth, this massive cluster of galaxies sits between the Earth and the galaxy that contains the distant star. By combining the strength of this gravitational lens with Hubble's exquisite resolution and sensitivity, astronomers can see and study Icarus.

The team - including Jose Diego of the Instituto de Física de Cantabria, Spain, and Steven Rodney of the University of South Carolina, Columbia - dubbed the star "Icarus," after the Greek mythological character who flew too near the Sun on wings of feathers and wax that melted. (Its official name is MACS J1149+2223 Lensed Star 1.) Much like Icarus, the background star had only fleeting glory as seen from Earth: It momentarily skyrocketed to 2,000 times its true brightness when temporarily magnified.

Models suggest that the tremendous brightening was probably from the gravitational amplification of a star, similar in mass to the Sun, in the foreground galaxy cluster when the star moved in front of Icarus. The star's light is usually magnified by about 600 times due to the foreground cluster's mass.

Characterizing Icarus

The team had been using Hubble to monitor a supernova in the far-distant spiral galaxy when, in 2016, they spotted a new point of light not far from the magnified supernova. From the position of the new source, they inferred that it should be much more highly magnified than the supernova.

When they analyzed the colors of the light coming from this object, they discovered it was a blue supergiant star. This type of star is much larger, more massive, hotter, and possibly hundreds of thousands of times intrinsically brighter than our Sun. But at this distance, it would still be too far away to see without the amplification of gravitational lensing, even for Hubble.

How did Kelly and his team know Icarus was not another supernova? "The source isn't getting hotter; it's not exploding. The light is just being magnified," said Kelly. "And that's what you expect from gravitational lensing."

Looking for Dark Matter

Detecting the amplification of a single, pinpoint background star provided a unique opportunity to test the nature of dark matter in the cluster. Dark matter is an invisible material that makes up most of the universe's mass.

By probing what's floating around in the foreground cluster, scientists were able to test one theory that dark matter might be made up mostly of a huge number of primordial black holes formed in the birth of the universe with masses tens of times larger than the Sun. The results of this unique test disfavor that hypothesis, because light fluctuations from the background star, monitored with Hubble for 13 years, would have looked different if there were a swarm of intervening black holes.

When NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is launched, astronomers expect to find many more stars like Icarus. Webb's extraordinary sensitivity will allow measurement of even more details, including whether these distant stars are rotating. Such magnified stars may even be found to be fairly common.

The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and ESA (European Space Agency). NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, in Washington, D.C."

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.417.470 von Popeye82 am 28.03.18 23:18:23

Chemie SOLL revolutioniert werden






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http://www.livescience.com/62203-antarctica-underwater-ice-l…

- A map showing the migration of the grounding line, or the spot where sea ice meets ocean bedrock, across Antarctica's perimeter. Warmer ocean temperatures have meant the grounding line has moved further inland, increasing the risk that inland glaciers will fall into the sea.
Credit: Hannes Konrad et al, University of Leeds -

"Antarctica's Underwater Ice Is Retreating 5 Times Faster Than It Should Be


When you imagine an Antarctic glacier melting, you probably envision great walls of ice avalanching into the ocean in jagged, splashing chunks. This is certainly happening — but it's only half the story.

At the same time, hundreds of feet inland and deep underwater where even remote-controlled submersibles cannot venture, the warming ocean is also chipping away huge swaths of Antarctica's frosty underbelly. According to a new study published yesterday (April 2) in the journal Nature Geoscience, ice is receding deep below eight of Antarctica's largest glaciers at an alarming rate — roughly five times faster than it should be. If this marine ice recession continues, it could lead to a total collapse of the world's largest ice sheet, the study found. [Images of Melt: Earth's Vanishing Ice]

"Our study provides clear evidence that retreat is happening across the ice sheet due to ocean melting at its base," lead study author Hannes Konrad, a climate researcher at the University of Leeds in England, said in a statement. "This retreat has had a huge impact on inland glaciers, because releasing them from the sea bed removes friction, causing them to speed up and contribute to global sea level rise."

In the new study, Hannes and his colleagues at the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM) at the University of Leeds used a combination of satellite imagery and buoyancy equations to map out the invisible retreat of underwater ice across roughly 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometers) of Antarctica's coastlines — roughly one-third of the continent's total perimeter.

The researchers focused on a geographic feature known as grounding lines — a vertical line projected upward from the underwater edge where glacier ice finally meets with solid ocean bedrock. On one side of this line, solid sheet ice sits atop the ocean floor like a sturdy continent; on the other side, ice swoops outward like a precarious ledge, which can float more than 0.6 miles (1 km) above the ocean floor. The further inland a glacier's grounding line retreats, the faster inland ice can flow into the attached ice shelf — and ultimately into the sea.


-In this animation, Hannes Konrad and colleagues from the University of Leeds illustrate how the retreat of glacier grounding lines is detected using satellite measurements of their elevation change. Credit: Hannes Konrad et al., University of Leeds Read more about their latest research: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02... -

Some grounding line retreat is expected in the centuries following an ice age, the researchers wrote, but current levels are far outpacing normal melt rates. Typically, grounding lines should retreat about 82 feet (25 meters) a year, they said. However, some of the studied regions — particularly in western Antarctica — have been receding at up to 600 feet (180 meters) per year. In total, the researchers found that, between 2010 and 2016, warming ocean temperatures melted away about 565 square miles (1,463 square km) of underwater ice from Antarctica — roughly the area of the city of London, England.

The good news is, only about 2 percent of the entire Antarctic grounding line retreated at such high rates, and some parts of the continent aren't seeing a retreat at all. The bad news is, these if these accelerated rates don't slow down, they could lead to parts of Antarctica's inland ice sheet totally collapsing into the ocean. According to a 2017 study, such a collapse would likely put the world on track for experiencing worst-case-scenario sea level rise of 10 feet (3 meters) by 2100.

Further study of Antarctica's grounding lines is needed to understand why some regions of the continent are receding so drastically while others stand still. According to the researchers, the methods developed for their new study should make future observations of this invisible melting ice much easier.

Originally published on Live Science."

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- One of the biggest questions that keep physicists up at night is why there is more matter than antimatter in the universe. -
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" Scientists have made the most precise measurement of antimatter yet, and the results only deepen the mystery of why life, the universe, and everything in it exists.

The new measurements show that, to an incredibly high degree of precision, antimatter and matter behave identically.

Yet those new measurements can't answer one of the biggest questions in physics: Why, if equal parts matter and antimatter were formed during the Big Bang, is our universe today made up of matter?

Universe in balance

Our universe is predicated on the balance of opposites. For every type of "normal" particle, made of matter, there is a conjugate antiparticle of the same mass that has the opposite electric charge produced at the same time. Electrons have opposing antielectrons, or positrons; protons have antiprotons; and so on. [The 18 Biggest Unsolved Mysteries in Physics]

When matter and antimatter particles meet, however, they annihilate each other, leaving only leftover energy behind. Physicists posit that there should have been equal amounts of matter and antimatter created by the Big Bang, and each would have ensured the other's mutual destruction, leaving a baby universe bereft of life's building blocks (or anything, really). Yet here we are, in a universe made up almost wholly of matter.

But here's the kicker: We don't know of any primordial antimatter that made it out of the Big Bang. So why — if antimatter and matter behave the same way — did one type of matter survive the Big Bang and the other did not?

One of the best ways to answer that question is to measure the fundamental properties of matter and its antimatter conjugates as precisely as possible and compare those results, said Stefan Ulmer, a physicist at Riken in Wako, Japan, who was not involved in the new research. If there's a slight deviation between matter properties and correlated antimatter properties, that could be the first clue to solving physics' biggest whodunit. (In 2017, scientists found some slight differences in the way some matter antimatter partners behave, but the results weren't statistically strong enough to count as a discovery.)

But if scientists want to manipulate antimatter, they have to painstakingly make it. In recent years, some physicists have taken to studying antihydrogen, or hydrogen's antimatter counterpart, because hydrogen is "oneof the things we understand best in the universe," study co-author Jeffrey Hangst, a physicist at Aarhus University in Denmark, told Live Science. Making antihydrogen typically involves mixing 90,000 antiprotons with 3 million positrons to produce 50,000 antihydrogen atoms, only 20 of which are caught with magnets in an 11-inch-long (28 centimeters) cylindrical tube for further study.

Now, in a new study published today (April 4) in the journal Nature, Hangst's team has achieved an unprecedented standard: They've taken the most precise measurement of antihydrogen — or any type of antimatter at all — to date. In 15,000 atoms of antihydrogen (think doing that aforementioned mixing process some 750 times), they studied the frequency of light the atoms emit or absorb when they jump from a lower energy state to a higher one. [Beyond Higgs: 5 Elusive Particles That May Lurk in the Universe]

The researchers' measurements showed that antihydrogen atoms' energy levels, and the amount of light absorbed, agreed with their hydrogen counterparts, with a precision of 2 parts per trillion, dramatically improving upon the previous measurement precision on the order of parts per billion.

"It's very rare that experimentalists manage to increase precision by factor of 100," Ulmer told Live Science. He thinks that, if Hangst's team continues the work for an additional 10 to 20 years, they will be able to increase their level of hydrogen spectroscopy precision by a further factor of 1,000.

For Hangst — the spokesperson for the ALPHA collaboration at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which produced these results — this achievement was decades in the making.

Trapping and holding antimatter was a major feat, Hangst said.

"Twenty years ago, people thought this would never happen," he said. "It's an experimental tour de force to be able to do this at all."

The new results are very impressive, Michael Doser, a physicist at CERN who was not involved in the work, told Live Science in an email.

"The number of trapped atoms for this measurement (15,000) is a huge improvement on [Hangst's group's] own records of only a few years ago," Doser said.

So what does the most precise measurement of antimatter even tell us? Well, unfortunately, not much more than we already knew. As expected, hydrogen and antihydrogen ­— matter and antimatter — behave identically. Now, we just know that they're identical at a measurement of parts per trillion. However, Ulmer said the 2-parts-per-trillion measurement does not rule out the possibility that something is deviating between the two types of matter at an even greater level of precision that has thus far defied measurement.

As for Hangst, he's less concerned with answering the question of why our universe of matter exists as it does without antimatter — what he calls "the elephant in the room." Instead, he and his group want to focus on making even more precise measurements, and exploring how antimatter reacts with gravity — does it fall down like normal matter, or could it fall up?

And Hangst thinks that mystery could be solved before the end of 2018, when CERN will shut down for two years for upgrades. "We have other tricks up our sleeve," he said. "Stay tuned."

Original article on Live Science."

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"Kanada: Unberührte Seen unter arktischem Eis entdeckt - Raum für Leben?
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Aktualisiert am 15. April 2018, 09:28 Uhr


Eine sensationelle Entdeckung haben Forscher im Norden Kanadas gemacht: Unter arktischem Eis liegen vermutlich unberührte Seen, in denen sich seit 120.000 Jahren isoliert Leben entwickelt haben könnte. Es wäre von immenser Bedeutung für die Wissenschaft.

Unter dem arktischen Eis im Norden Kanadas liegen vermutlich zwei unberührte, sehr salzhaltige Seen. Die bei Ultraschallmessungen entdeckten Gewässer könnten seit 120.000 Jahren von der Außenwelt abgeschnitten sein, berichten Forscher im Fachjournal "Science Advances". Das Team um Anja Rutishauser von der University of Alberta in Edmonton hofft auf ein unberührtes Ökosystem mit unbekannten Lebewesen.

Das Interesse von Wissenschaftlern an Proben aus Seen unter uralten Eisschilden ist groß. Bohrungen gab es in der Antarktis zum Beispiel am Ellsworthsee, über dem sich das Eis 3,2 Kilometer dick türmt, und am Wostoksee mit seinem fast vier Kilometer starken Eispanzer.

Russische Forscher gaben bekannt, im Wostoksee unbekannte Mikroorganismen entdeckt zu haben, doch die Ergebnisse sind umstritten. 2013 meldeten britische Wissenschaftler, aus dem Hodgsonsee (ebenfalls Antarktis) 20 verschiedene Bakterienkulturen gewonnen zu haben, von denen einige keiner bekannten Art zugeordnet werden konnten.

Die aktuelle Entdeckung von flüssigem Wasser unter dem Eis gelang den Wissenschaftlern auf Devon Island im Nordosten Kanadas. Der Devon Ice Cap genannte Eisschild ist bis zu 1.900 Meter hoch.

Seen bis zu 8,3 Quadratkilometer groß

Mit einem Echolot entdeckten die Forscher Zonen, in denen Ultraschallwellen besonders gut reflektiert werden, was auf flüssiges Wasser hinweist. Die Seen, bisher nur T1 und T2 genannt, liegen in Gebirgsmulden und sind vermutlich 5 und 8,3 Quadratkilometer groß. Über T1 liegen etwa 560 Meter Eis, über T2 etwa 740 Meter.

T1 und T2 könnten nach Angaben der Forscher unter den Unter-Eis-Seen etwas Besonderes sein. Anhand der Ultraschallmessungen bestimmten Rutishauser und Kollegen die Temperaturen in den Seen auf höchstens minus 10,5 und minus 12 Grad Celsius.

Wenn Wasser bei solch tiefen Werten flüssig ist, müsse es zwischen 140 und 160 Gramm Salz pro Kilogramm Wasser enthalten, schreiben die Forscher; nur ein so hoher Salzgehalt könne den Taupunkt des Wassers entsprechend herabsetzen. Zum Vergleich: In den Ozeanen sind durchschnittlich 35 Gramm Salz pro Kilogramm Wasser zu finden, im Toten Meer hingegen über 300.

Der Salzgehalt sei womöglich vergleichbar mit dem des Sees unter dem Taylorgletscher in der Antarktis. Allerdings sei dieser See "mit einem salzreichen Grundwassersystem verbunden, das aus uraltem Meerwasser stammt". Damit gebe es dort kein geschlossenes Ökosystem.

Entwickelte sich hier isoliert Leben?

Auch die Unter-Eis-Seen auf Grönland seien meist nicht abgeschottet, würden sie doch durch Schmelzwasser gespeist. Das Salz in T1 und T2 stammt sehr wahrscheinlich aus dem umgebenden Gebirge, das größere Mengen Halit (Steinsalz) enthält.

"Wenn Leben in diesen Seen existiert, könnte es sich isoliert entwickelt haben, da das Gebiet seit mindestens 120.000 Jahren von Gletschereis bedeckt ist", betonen die Forscher.

Dies würde Anlass zur Hoffnung geben, auch unter dem Eis des Jupitermondes Europa oder dem Eis der Polarkappen auf dem Mars Lebewesen finden zu können.© dpa"

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Peace Boat, a Japanese non-governmental organization which runs educational cruises, is working on an ambitious project to build the most sustainable vessel in the booming industry.Now in the last stages of planning, the "Ecoship" will be built by Finland's Arctech.It will cost about $500 million, financed in part by impact investors -- funds, rich families and individuals who want to use their cash to improve the world as well as make a profit."Ecoship was a dream for me," said Peace Boat founder Yoshioka Tatsuya."Using a conventional ship was frustrating for us, even though we tried our best to reduce the emissions." A conventional cruise ship can burn hundreds of tons of heavy fuel oil a day and emit as much particulate matter as a million cars, according to German environmental group NABU.The "Ecoship" will be fueled by a much cleaner combination of solar panels, wind power and liquid natural gas, and should produce 40% less carbon dioxide than a traditional cruise ship."We will have 10 sails, so it will use the wind like traditional sailing ships," Tatsuya explained.Peace Boat is talking to impact investors in Europe, America, China and Japan and could offer them bonds or equity.It will also use loans, and possibly crowdfunding, to raise the total.Related: Chinese tourists just can't get enough of cruises "We need to choose carefully who we work with, as they need to share our long-term vision, not just want to finance an asset," said Tatsuya."Shipping finance companies are quite conservative and our design and plan is quite creative, quite unique.That uniqueness adds value but it can be a challenge to convince conservative financiers." The "Ecoship" is designed to mimic the shape of a whale.While smaller than many cruise ships currently being built, it will accommodate 2,000 passengers, and host conferences and events while docked.Peace Boat hopes it will set sail on its maiden voyage in 2020, and that it will quickly become a showcase for the future of the industry."There's potential with a very green cruise ship to get a lot of attention at each port of call and that can make an impact," Tatsuya said.And he doesn't plan to stop at one ship.Demand for cruises, and green tourism is booming.Related: These ocean drones are trawling for climate change data "At least five ships by 2030 is necessary because of market demand," said the Peace Boat founder."That's the first step, but in time, 10 ships." Passengers on Peace Boat cruises pay between $15,000 and $18,000, which includes travel, meals and on board activities.There's a mixture of entertainment, wellness programs, lectures and workshops on topics such as peace, politics, environmental change and human rights. -

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A slice of the meteorite sample from asteroid 2008 TC3, which was found to have diamonds...

A slice of the meteorite sample from asteroid 2008 TC3, which was found to have diamonds that could only have formed inside a large planetary body(Credit: EPFL / Hillary Sanctuary)
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As leftover fragments from the formation of the solar system, meteorites can act as time capsules that have some strange stories to tell. Scientists at the EPFL have now cracked open one of these time capsules – a piece of an asteroid known as 2008 TC3 – and found diamonds that could only have come from a large, long-lost planet that roamed our neighborhood billions of years ago.

In October 2008, astronomers discovered a 4-m-wide (13-ft) asteroid on a collision course with Earth. Less than a day later, the space rock 2008 TC3 exploded over the Nubian Desert in Sudan at a height of 37 km (23 mi), showering the landscape in meteorites. About 50 of these fragments, measuring between 1 and 10 cm (0.4 and 4 in) wide, were gathered into a collection named Almahata Sitta, for scientific study.

Most of these meteorites are what are known as ureilites, meaning they have stony compositions and are often loaded with nanoscale diamonds. These tiny diamonds could form in a number of ways, and figuring out how can help unravel their history – and by extension, the history of the solar system.

One such origin story could be the pressure from the shockwaves as the meteor collides with the Earth. This has been put forward as the explanation for an ultra-hard form of diamond known as lonsdaleite, which has a hexagonal atomic structure that makes it 58 percent harder than regular Earthly diamond. Other possibilities include chemical vapor deposition, or the more familiar form of static pressure that gives birth to diamonds deep beneath a planet's surface.
A chemical map showing iron (yellow) and sulfur (red) impurities inside the diamonds


A chemical map showing iron (yellow) and sulfur (red) impurities inside the diamonds(Credit: EPFL / Earth and Planetary Science Laboratory)

To find out how the Almahata Sitta diamonds formed, the EPFL team, along with colleagues in France and Germany, analyzed samples of the meteorites. The researchers used transmission electron microscopes to determine their composition and morphology, and found that the diamonds contained inclusions (impurities) made of chromite, phosphate and iron-nickel sulfides.

These inclusions are common in diamonds formed underground here on Earth, but this marks the first time they've been found in alien rocks. That's interesting enough on its own, but it has much bigger implications – the team calculated that these diamonds could only have formed under pressure of more than 20 gigapascals. That means they must have been born inside a planet at least as big as Mercury, and possibly up to the size of Mars.

But there's still more to the story. The fact these diamonds made it to Earth implies that their home planet, whatever it may have been, is no longer with us, since it would take quite a cataclysm to wrench them out of their birthplace deep underground and fling them into space. Instead, the team believes the diamonds came from a planetary embryo.
A colorized scanning transmission electron microscope image of the meteorite samples, showing the diamond (blue), inclusions...


A colorized scanning transmission electron microscope image of the meteorite samples, showing the diamond (blue), inclusions (yellow) and the graphite region (grey)

In its early years, the solar system was a far more turbulent place than it is today. After the Sun formed, the huge cloud of dust and gas swirling around it slowly clumped together to form planetary embryos. These in turn smashed into each other fairly regularly, creating bigger and bigger planets until we were left with just the ones we see today. Moons formed in the same way, with particularly huge collisions likely creating our own satellite and the two orbiting Mars.

The researchers say the Almahata Sitta meteorite diamonds provide compelling evidence for the planetary embryo theory. Whatever lost planet these diamonds would have called home, it was most likely torn to shreds several billion years ago.

The research was published in the journal Nature Communications.

Source: EPFL"

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.569.043 von Popeye82 am 18.04.18 06:42:02

WasteAromatics





so Shitzeug-Richtung- interessiert Mich auch.



- Biorizon
Am 27.02.2018 veröffentlicht
The innovative Waste2Aromatics project, from Shared Research Center Biorizon, will bring the commercial production of cost-competitive bio-aromatics, along with the circular economy, significantly closer.

Waste2Aromatics: Turning waste, that would otherwise be incinerated or end up in landfill, into valuable raw materials for the chemical industry. Biodegradable waste, nappies, compost and sieving material from wastewater are converted to aromatic compounds, such as those used in the production of plastics. -

[Popeye82]

whale (mating) songs as complex as jazz

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/20…

[Popeye82]

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/16/asia/borneo-orangutan-pop…

[rv_2011]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.576.123 von Popeye82 am 18.04.18 19:04:11

Das macht sicher mehr Sinn als die (ungeheuer Energie-aufwendige) Synthese aus CO2 und Wasser (z.B. #1.435).

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.582.114 von rv_2011 am 19.04.18 13:51:32

2 Dinge.

1) Ich wollte wahrscheinlich nochmal Teile Ihres (inkl. Vor-)Schreiben(s) aufgreifen, Das dürfte; Wenn; aber, wahrscheinlich, schon 3-4 Schluck dauern.
Ich will eigentlich mal ein bisschen Ihre These angreifen.
Mal sehen ob sich an Dem Stuhl bisschen sägen lässt, oder eher Selber pulverisiert werde.
Ready, to find out.

2) Sind Sie generell auch anlageseitig (evt auch in Diesen Zusammenhängen) interessiert?
Grundüberlegung an sich, nur: aus Diesen Wissenschaftskenntnissen dürfte sich m.E. "schon Was machen lassen".

[rv_2011]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.582.459 von Popeye82 am 19.04.18 14:40:41

ad 1) Auf die Bindung von CO2 mit Wasser und Sonnenenergie und die Weiterverarbeitung zu Kohlenhydraten, Fetten und Proteinen sind Pflanzen seit Milliarden Jahren spezialisiert. Diese Pflanzlichen Stoffe eignen sich hervorragend zur Herstellung von Lebensmitteln und anderen organischen Produkten wie z.B. Kunststoffen oder Treibstoffen. Ich bezweifle sehr, dass wir den Pflanzen da wirtschaftlich Konkurrenz machen können. Selbst den Flächenertrag von manchen Pflanzen können wir mit einer Reaktion
CO2 aus Luft + H2O + Solarenergie -> Kohlenhydrate o.ä.
wahrscheinlich nicht erreichen.

ad 2) Nein - ich bin in ähnlichen Aktivitäten nicht investiert.

Grundüberlegung: Wissenschaftlich ist eine Nachbildung der Photosynthese oder andersartige Bindung von CO2 in organischen Verbindungen (unter hohem Energieaufwand) sicher interessant. Als Lösung unserer CO2-Probleme kommt das aber m.E. nicht in Frage.

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.582.882 von rv_2011 am 19.04.18 15:35:50

Das haben Sie ein bisschen fasch verstanden. Zumindest Wie Es gemeint war.
(Was ich Hin- und Wieder Einmal feststelle -MUSS- : Unsere Kommunikations"techniken" sind Die "Vermutlich modernsten Die Wir je gehabt haben", aber Die Kommunikation; als Solche; funktioniert; zumindest wenn Es nach Mir geht; vermutlich "eher Irgendwo gegen Allzeittief" (Dies Keinerlei Unterstellung, in Welcher Art auch immer.))

1) Es bezog sich nicht speziell auf Diesen ("Protein") Versuch.
SOndern war ein bisschen breiter gemeint.

2) Die Frage war nicht gemeint ob Sie an Solchen Dingen anlageinteressen haben,
sondern ob Sie a) ÜBERHAUPT anlageseitig interessiert sind. und b) Eventuell teilweise in; sagen Wir mal; "Greenzeug".

Vermutlich nochmal RÜckbezug Darauf.

Gruss

[Popeye82]

Neanderthal Dental Plaque

http://www.scienceupdate.com/2018/04/neanderthal-dental-plaq…

[Popeye82]

HELLO fresh!!






https://agfundernews.com/hellofresh-food-waste-spoiler-alert…

http://www.hellofresh.com/

http://www.spoileralert.com/

[Popeye82]

http://www.edie.net/registration/regwall.asp?mid=104843&orig…

[Popeye82]

http://www.rff.org/files/document/file/RFF-Rpt-Oil%26GasRegs…
http://www.rff.org/research/publications/2016-blm-methane-wa…

[Popeye82]

http://www.spektrum.de/news/energiewende-wie-gelingt-die-dez…

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.595.734 von Popeye82 am 21.04.18 00:31:03

EXECUTIVE order of the President

http://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/03/31/2017-065…

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.774.994 von Popeye82 am 20.01.18 07:13:40

der (Dr)SELBSTdenker








- DrSelbstdenker
Am 30.12.2012 veröffentlicht
Ein junger Mann von heute will Robinson Crusoe spielen. Xavier Rosset heißt dieser junge Schweizer. Er hat dieses Abenteuer gewagt und sich mit einer Videokamera ausgestattet 300 Tage lang auf die unbewohnte Pazifikinsel Tofua begeben. Sie gehört zum Königreich Tonga. Der "Aussteiger auf Zeit" wollte ausprobieren, ob er es schafft, unter solchen extremen Bedingungen zu überleben. Neben seiner Kamera hatte er nur eine Medizinbox, ein Messer und eine Machete dabei.

Sein selbst gedrehter Film zeigt ihn beim Kampf gegen tropische Stürme, gegen Hunger und Krankheit und auch gegen Heimweh und Langeweile. Der Film vermittelt, wie der "Herrscher" über eine 50 Quadratkilometer große Insel nicht nur die romantische Seite mit Palmen- und Meeresrauschen genießt, sondern auch, wie er eine Hütte baut, um sich vor dem Tropenregen zu schützen, wie er Fische fängt und Kokosnüsse erntet, den inseleigenen Vulkan besteigt und schließlich mit seinen Haus- bzw. Hüttentieren - einem geschenkten Hund und einem selbst gefangenen Wildschweinferkel - über die Insel stromert. Der Film offenbart hautnah, wie ein Mensch unserer Zivilisation ein echtes Abenteuer besteht. Dabei werden vermutlich die geheimen Sehnsüchte vieler Zeitgenossen angesprochen, selbst einmal vorübergehend aus der Alltagshetze auszusteigen und vollkommen auf sich selbst gestellt zu sein - materiell und auch mental. -

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.277.297 von Popeye82 am 14.03.18 16:02:42

bioOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON


https://ilbioeconomista.com/2018/04/18/bio-on-launched-a-bra…

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.575.043 von Popeye82 am 18.04.18 17:04:29

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.599.400 von Popeye82 am 22.04.18 01:39:42

[Popeye82]

scientists: ice is NEARLY hot as the Sun

http://www.livescience.com/62373-superionic-ice-lab-created.…
http://www.llnl.gov/news/first-experimental-evidence-superio…
http://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-017-0017-4

[Popeye82]

http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/technology/sh…

[Popeye82]

male swimmers


https://newatlas.com/male-contraceptive-pill-ep055/54314/?ut…
http://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2018/april/male-contracep…
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.…

[Popeye82]

just DO it, baby!!!!!






http://www.nanalyze.com/2018/04/8-startups-edible-insects-bu…

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.608.346 von Popeye82 am 23.04.18 16:37:40

molecular condoms






https://newatlas.com/molecular-condoms-plant-contraceptive-a…
http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/05/15/folk-contraceptives-lead…
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/05/09/1700367114
https://mcb.berkeley.edu/labs/lishko/home

[Popeye82]

rumors: Kanadier wooooohl innovativ UND lustig

http://www.footprintnetwork.org/2018/04/17/york-university-f…

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.610.608 von Popeye82 am 23.04.18 21:21:06

value proposition of eating insects is STRONG







Schatz, Essen fertig







http://www.ynsect.com/en/

http://innovafeed.com/

http://www.enterrafeed.com/






http://allthingsbugs.com/


https://chirpschips.com/


http://www.bittyfoods.com/


https://criknutrition.com/


entomofarms.com


https://chapul.com/


http://www.aspirefg.com/


http://entoafrica.com/

[Popeye82]

(100 Petawatt)lasers COULD tear apart vacuum (by 2023)


http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/04/100-petawatt-lasers-cou…

[Popeye82]

proposed multi-billion orbiting moonbase, used to justify $50 billion Space Launch System

http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/04/nasas-proposed-multi-bi…

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s-lunar-outpost-will-extend…

"As part of the fiscal year 2019 budget proposal, NASA is planning to build the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway in the 2020s. The station would be used as a staging point for the proposed Deep Space Transport, which is a concept of a reusable vehicle that uses electric and chemical propulsion and would be specifically designed for crewed missions to destinations such as Mars.

LOP-G has $504 million proposed for 2019 and $2.7 billion total penciled in over the next five years.

LOP-G is being designed for and as part of the justification for the grossly overpriced and wasteful Space Launch System. LOP-G could be launched by SpaceX Falcon Heavy or SpaceX superheavies (a SpaceX heavy with 4 boosters instead of 2).

If funded, its various components are to be launched on the Space Launch System as Orion co-manifested payloads on the flights EM-2 through EM-8. According to Roscosmos, they may also use Proton-M and Angara-A5M heavy launchers to fly payloads or crew.

It is being designed like the wasteful and expensive International Space Station. They are talking about ten launches using the over one billion per launch Space Launch System. The Space Launch System will take about $50 billion to develop between now and 2030. SLS will take $20 billion to get the first 2024 launch of a LOP-G component.

The Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) for the LOP-G will have a mass of 8-9 tons and be capable of generating 50 kW of solar electric power for its ion thrusters system for maneuverability, which can be supported by chemical propulsion

The platform will consist of at least a power and propulsion element and habitation, logistics and airlock capabilities. While specific technical and mission capabilities as well as partnership opportunities are under consideration, NASA plans to launch elements of the gateway on the agency’s Space Launch System or commercial rockets for assembly in space.

“The Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway will give us a strategic presence in cislunar space. It will drive our activity with commercial and international partners and help us explore the Moon and its resources,” said William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator, Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “We will ultimately translate that experience toward human missions to Mars.”




The power and propulsion element will be the initial component of the gateway, and is targeted to launch in 2022. Using advanced high-power solar electric propulsion, the element will maintain the gateway’s position and can move the gateway between lunar orbits over its lifetime to maximize science and exploration operations. As part of the agency’s public-private partnership work under Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships, or NextSTEP, five companies are completing four-month studies on affordable ways to develop the power and propulsion element. NASA will leverage capabilities and plans of commercial satellite companies to build the next generation of all electric spacecraft.

The power and propulsion element will also provide high-rate and reliable communications for the gateway including space-to-Earth and space-to-lunar uplinks and downlinks, spacecraft-to-spacecraft crosslinks, and support for spacewalk communications. Finally, it also can accommodate an optical communications demonstration – using lasers to transfer large data packages at faster rates than traditional radio frequency systems.

Habitation capabilities launching in 2023 will further enhance our abilities for science, exploration, and partner (commercial and international) use. The gateway’s habitation capabilities will be informed by NextSTEP partnerships, and also by studies with the International Space Station partners. With this capability, crew aboard the gateway could live and work in deep space for up to 30 to 60 days at a time.

Crew will also participate in a variety of deep space exploration and commercial activities in the vicinity of the Moon, including possible missions to the lunar surface. NASA also wants to leverage the gateway for scientific investigations near and on the Moon. The agency recently completed a call for abstracts from the global science community, and is hosting a workshop in late February to discuss the unique scientific research the gateway could enable. NASA anticipates the gateway will also support the technology maturation and development of operating concepts needed for missions beyond the Earth and Moon system.

Adding an airlock to the gateway in the future will enable crew to conduct spacewalks, enable science activities and accommodate docking of future elements. NASA is also planning to launch at least one logistics module to the gateway, which will enable cargo resupply deliveries, additional scientific research and technology demonstrations and commercial use.

Following the commercial model the agency pioneered in low-Earth orbit for space station resupply, NASA plans to resupply the gateway through commercial cargo missions. Visiting cargo spacecraft could remotely dock to the gateway between crewed missions.

Drawing on the interests and capabilities of industry and international partners, NASA will develop progressively complex robotic missions to the surface of the Moon with scientific and exploration objectives in advance of a human return. NASA’s exploration missions and partnerships will also support the missions that will take humans farther into the solar system than ever before.

NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft are the backbone of the agency’s future in deep space. Momentum continues toward the first integrated launch of the system around the Moon in fiscal year 2020 and a mission with crew by 2023. The agency is also looking at a number of possible public/private partnerships in areas including in-space manufacturing and technologies to extract and process resources from the Moon and Mars, known as in-situ resource utilization."

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.611.640 von Popeye82 am 24.04.18 04:48:10

FOUNDATION for human deep space exploration; spacecraft will launch on the most powerful rocket in the world and fly farther than any spacecraft built for humans has ever flown. It will travel 280,000 miles from Earth, thousands of miles beyond the Moon over the course of about a three-week mission. Orion will stay in space longer than any ship for astronauts has done without docking to a space station and return home faster and hotter than ever before.

- n the next eight minutes, you’ll experience a twenty-five-and-a-half-day mission from roll-out to recovery of the first integrated flight test of NASA’s Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System rocket, launching from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This uncrewed mission will be the first in a planned series of exploration missions beyond the moon, signaling what astronauts who dare to operate in deep space will experience on future flights. -
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/around-the-moon-with-nasa-s-firs…

[Popeye82]

whaaaaat's wrong here?????????????????????????????????








http://www.livescience.com/62386-brain-impaled-key.html?utm_…

[Popeye82]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-23/electric-b…

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.568.896 von Popeye82 am 18.04.18 03:30:28

http://bio-gene.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/180426-GPA…
http://bio-gene.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/180417-CSI…

http://bio-gene.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Bio-Gene-A…

[Popeye82]

Neanderthal STALKER

http://www.livescience.com/62409-humans-tracked-giant-ground…

[Popeye82]

https://reneweconomy.com.au/australias-super-nest-egg-delive…

[Popeye82]

Hammering out the Paris rulebook

http://www.c2es.org/site/assets/uploads/2018/04/general-issu…

[Popeye82]

"Germany's power problems, bioeconomy versus biofuels, E-bus booms, EU energy package takes shape, how safe is EU gas market? + more

Energy Post Weekly brings you the bottom-line on European and international energy affairs from Energy Post's editor-in-chief Karel Beckman and EU correspondent Sonja van Renssen in Brussels. Sign up here for a free trial

IN KAREL BECKMAN’S ENERGY WATCH:

Wake-up call: Germany headed for power shortage, France may not be able to help

German generation capacity shrinks
French and German energy transitions: how they compare, how they interact

Energy transition marches on: Engie+Sonnen offer solar+storage, “watershed” moment grid-scale storage

Engie and Sonnen offer solar+storage package in France
Results of German offshore wind tenders mixed
Grid-scale storage moving full speed ahead
Lockheed promises flow battery
India ramps up solar PV
Pros and cons of competitive tendering
Nuclear power can be flexible

How safe is the European gas market?

European gas storage levels down: can we survive a cold winter?
European gas demand: how it is likely to evolve

Electric bus takes bite out of oil market

Chinese e-bus revolution finds followers
Expert opinion on EV prospects

IN BRUSSELS INSIDER THIS WEEK

The ‘bioeconomy' promises to change the world - though possibly not through biofuels

As Brussels is preparing a review of its 2012 “bioeconomy strategy”, proponents of the bioeconomy are trying to ensure they won’t get tainted with the negative publicity around biofuels.

EU Clean Energy Package: how it is coming together

Deadlock on energy efficiency, but other major files of the Clean Energy Package are beginning to take shape: binding template for national climate and energy plans, assessment of ETS to remain in hands of Commission, a strategy on methane

IN ENERGY POST WEEKLY EXPRESS

Ireland to face stiff EU fine for not meeting renewable energy targets

Big Business says goodbye to Big Oil

Carbon capture is reaching a “tipping point”

Dutch government downgrades CCS, Deloitte sees bright future for solar in Netherlands"

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 56.786.689 von Popeye82 am 22.01.18 10:41:00

they CLAIM they exist







___________________________________________





http://www.1414degreesoffer.com.au/offer/?b=EDM&utm_source=W…

[Popeye82]

http://www.livescience.com/62445-hiroshima-atomic-bomb-radia…

[rv_2011]

Im Rest des Jahres leben wir Deutsche auf Pump ...

... d.h. auf Kosten künftiger Generationen und anderer Länder.

Deutscher Erdüberlastungstag: Ab 2. Mai leben wir ökologisch auf Kredit
Würden alle Menschen leben wie wir, würden wir drei Erden brauchen.

Global sieht es etwas besser aus: Der globale Erdüberlastungstag war 2017 am 2. August.

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.675.879 von rv_2011 am 02.05.18 11:32:20

Den "internationalen" Tag(Earth "OVERshoot Day") kenne ich(auch "früh August").
Ich wusste allerdings nicht dass Der "deutsche" Tag noch sosoooooweit "davor" ist.

Um es nüchtern zu sagen: Das ist ziemlich dramatisch.

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.454.817 von Popeye82 am 04.04.18 02:58:30

http://www.process-worldwide.com/chemicals-from-co2-breathin…
http://www.process-worldwide.com/waste-gas-or-valuable-raw-m…

http://www.fona.de/mediathek/pdf/ProjektsteckbriefCarbon2Che…

[Popeye82]

http://biontech.com/bion-issues-technology-update-recent-tes…

http://biontech.com/technology/
http://biontech.com/bion-technology-platform/

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.532.502 von Popeye82 am 13.04.18 02:51:38

making desert BLOOM
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http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2014/may/israelis-u…


world's FIRST
https://stocknessmonster.com/announcements/roo.asx-6A869442/
http://rootssat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/ROOTS-Announc…
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https://stocknessmonster.com/announcements/roo.asx-6A871084/
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http://www.finnewsnetwork.com.au/MediaCenter/MediaCenterMobi…

http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20180305/pdf/43s50yk3ggvpy4.pdf
http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20180227/pdf/43ryl98df3906y.pdf

http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20180228/pdf/43s1wfrj1h6z1j.pdf
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http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20180413/pdf/43t5mbk2d2w07p.pdf
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ist ne "watch"firma,
aber habe aktuell schon genug.
aber für SO ein Zeug ist Der "market" -m.M.da.
um Sowas TO the market zu bringen.


world’s FIRST solar, or wind,-operated Irrigation by Condensation(IBC) system that works , ‘off the grid’

- Roots’ IBC off-grid system produces food crops using irrigation sourced only from humidity in the air and energy from the sun or wind
- Allows small and medium scale food production in areas with no stable access to local electricity or water, including semi-arid areas, benefiting farmers who suffer from water quality, scarcity and infrastructure access issues
- Will be unveiled at Agri-Tech Israel 2018 International Exhibition and Conference (8-10 May)
- High protein crops, including beans and alfalfa, were planted at the company’s research site in
Israel, to demonstrate the system’s ability to provide irrigation for a complete growth cycle
- The off-grid installation follows a successful proof of concept with electric power, displaying the system’s ability to sustain full growth cycles of several crops.


http://www.asx.com.au/asxpdf/20180503/pdf/43tr5d89ggvksg.pdf
http://rootssat.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/201803XX-Root…

[Popeye82]

Alte VOLL: do we actually need a new globale Mülltonne??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/mikroplastik-meerei…

[Popeye82]

Earth’s atmosphere just crossed ANOTHER, troubling, climate change threshold


http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/201…

[Popeye82]

http://www.livescience.com/62454-flat-earthers-explain-pac-m…

[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.321.932 von Steveguied am 19.03.18 18:00:36

sehr, sehr ansehenswert.
Das kann ich JEDEM EMPFEHLEN.
soetwas mache ich nicht oft, aber DAS DIng würde ich mal.







rd (industrial) Revolution(a RADICAL new Sharing Economy(the MOST dramatic story human family has EVER faced(NO guarantee we're gonna make it)))




- VICE
Am 13.02.2018 veröffentlicht
The global economy is in crisis. The exponential exhaustion of natural resources, declining productivity, slow growth, rising unemployment, and steep inequality, forces us to rethink our economic models. Where do we go from here? In this feature-length documentary, social and economic theorist Jeremy Rifkin lays out a road map to usher in a new economic system.

A Third Industrial Revolution is unfolding with the convergence of three pivotal technologies: an ultra-fast 5G communication internet, a renewable energy internet, and a driverless mobility internet, all connected to the Internet of Things embedded across society and the environment.

This 21st century smart digital infrastructure is giving rise to a radical new sharing economy that is transforming the way we manage, power and move economic life. But with climate change now ravaging the planet, it needs to happen fast. Change of this magnitude requires political will and a profound ideological shift.

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[Popeye82]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.675.879 von rv_2011 am 02.05.18 11:32:20

... d.h. auf Kosten künftiger Generationen und anderer Länder.

Deutscher Erdüberlastungstag: Ab 2. Mai leben wir ökologisch auf Kredit
Würden alle Menschen leben wie wir, würden wir drei Erden brauchen.

Global sieht es etwas besser aus: Der globale Erdüberlastungstag war 2017 am 2. August.
____________________________________________________________________





Ich habe Dazu Heute nochmal Einen Artikel("deutsche Perspektive") -so Ähnlich- gelesen.

Also ich will Das Jetzt nicht zu brutal direkt drauf platt formulieren;
es ist vollkommen klar dass Das extrem, extrem, extrem komplexe Sachverhalte sind("short" story aber wohl: Planet mit begrenzten Resourcen, aber immer weiter Steigenden Bewohnern, die Obendrauf noch Einen immer höheren Lebensstandard wollen);
aber in Welche RICHTUNG müsste Es denn Deiner Meinung nach vielleicht gehen???

Um Diesem; Umstand; gegenzuarbeiten.


In will nicht sagen dass Das "DIE" Lösung ist, kann aber sagen;
nicht nur aus theoretischer Erfahrung(u.A. auch beruflicher);
dass Umlaufgeschwindigkeit durchaus auch Ein "Instrument" sein kann. Bei "Gleiche Menge(Güter), immer Mehr Personen".
In Einem "internationalem Wirtschaftssinne" funktioniert Das aber sicher auch nicht end"los", Das hat Grenzen.
Wie Wir Es ja; würde ich sagen; immer, immer Mehr schon(Stress, Druck, "Mental Health" Dinge, und Diverses Andere) zu spüren bekommen.


Also wenn Du da Eine "Richtung" Einer Meinung hast, würde Mich sehr interessieren.

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.675.879 von rv_2011 am 02.05.18 11:32:20

Ich wollte Sie eigentlich neulich schonmal fragen Was Sie von Einer Firma/Geschäftsmodell halten.
Jetzt sehe ich Aber Dieses Her.
Haben Sie Eine Meinung Dazu?



- CO2 Gro Inc (CVE:GROW) (FRA:4O21) VP of Business Development Sam Kanes discusses how Co2 is most efficiently delivered to plants in order to maximize their growth potential. Co2 Gro have a patented way to dissolve carbon into water which helps plants grow, but also reduces wasting Co2 from other methods such as blowing it into the air. This is because the water stocks to the plant and the Co2 stays there until it is used by the plant. Sam talks about their various trials and results they’ve been observing the efficacy of their systems. -

https://midasletter.com/2018/05/video-co2-gro-inc-tsx-v-grow…

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http://www.biopharma-reporter.com/Article/2018/04/04/Dyadic-…

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https://reneweconomy.com.au/musk-says-teslas-next-big-batter…

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-carbon-price-cuts-90-…

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https://qz.com/1268029/india-added-more-energy-capacity-from…

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https://newatlas.com/plate-tectonics-snowball-earth/54519/?u…
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180507153141.ht…
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ter.12321

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inspirational ideas

https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/en/news/inspirational-i…
https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/en/news-events/press-me…

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Europe is LOSING Leadership





" Iberdrola’s Climate Change Director: Europe is losing leadership; reality check: fossil fuels grow, renewables slow; Eurelectric: blockchain risky; return of the ETS + more


Energy Post Weekly brings you the bottom-line on European and international energy affairs from Energy Post's editor-in-chief Karel Beckman and EU correspondent Sonja van Renssen in Brussels. Sign up here for a free trial

IN KAREL BECKMAN’S ENERGY WATCH:

New: the “controllable renewable energy plant” – it’s “competitive with nuclear power”

Eastern European countries that are considering building new nuclear plants could also opt for “controllable renewable energy plants” - the two options are comparable in cost

The return of the ETS – and why it will wipe out coal

ETS reform will tighten the market considerably, but more is needed

Eurelectric: blockchain is risky, a hype, and needs more oversight – but not everyone agrees

Eurelectric stresses the limitations and risks of blockchain in the power sector; Marius Buchmann and McKinsey stress the potential

Technologies, markets, states, the public - who and what is driving the energy transition?

Market forces are driving a clean energy revolution in the US
Companies are buying record amounts of renewables
Jin Liqun, president and chairman of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB): to be green is our mandate
China in the lead on fusion energy
Future of energy = storage

IN BRUSSELS INSIDER THIS WEEK

Interview Iberdrola’s Director of Climate Change Saenz de Mira: “Europe is losing leadership”

European Commission: one-quarter of budget to go to climate

IN ENERGY POST WEEKLY EXPRESS

Reality check: worldwide renewable energy share declines, fossil fuels grow

Reality check (2): EU CO2 emissions go up

Morocco is building a solar farm as big as Paris in the Sahara Desert

Danish government presents ambitious climate plan – opposition goes one better"

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world's FIRST, Schwimmendes Atomkraftwerk(schippert Gerade durch die Ostsee)


http://www.golem.de/news/akademik-lomonossow-russisches-atom…
http://www.rosatom.ru/en/press-centre/news/the-world-s-only-…
http://www.iaea.org/inis/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Publ…
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKBM
http://www.iaea.org/INPRO/6th_Dialogue_Forum/session-2/6-rus…
http://www.golem.de/news/fukushima-die-technik-tat-genau-was…
http://www.kernenergie.de/kernenergie-wAssets/docs/fachzeits…
http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/pdfs/RSP-0299-eng.pdf

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http://www.rdmag.com/news/2018/05/planetary-waves-similar-th…

"An international team of scientists, led by Laurent Gizon, co-principal investigator of the Center for Space Science at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), have discovered planetary waves of vorticity on and inside the Sun similar to those that significantly influence weather on Earth.

Rossby waves are a natural phenomenon in the atmospheres and oceans of planets that form in response to the rotation of the planet. Like Earth, the Sun also rotates and should support Rossby waves, but their existence on the Sun has been debated, until now.

"There's no doubt what we're seeing are Rossby waves due to the measured, textbook relationship between frequency and wavelength, said Gizon.

Solar Rossby waves are gigantic in size, Gizon explained, with wavelengths comparable to the solar radius. They are an essential component of the Sun's internal dynamics because they contribute half of the Sun's large-scale kinetic energy.

"That these waves are so big and are only seen in the equatorial regions of the Sun is completely unexpected," he said.

Astrophysicists from NYUAD, the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, and Stanford University studied six years of space data, which revealed the Rossby waves moving in the direction opposite to the Sun's rotation.

Rossby waves on the Sun are close relatives to those known to occur in the Earth's atmosphere and oceans, Gizon said, but are extremely difficult to detect on the Sun because they have very small flow amplitudes, around one meter per second.

Solar Rossby Waves Characteristics

- waves of vorticity

- move in the direction opposite to rotation

- well-defined relationship between frequency and wavelength

- found only near the equator

- small amplitude, difficult to detect

- live for several months

- contribute half of the Sun's kinetic energy at large scales

Earth's Rossby Waves Characteristics

- found in at mid-latitudes in the atmosphere and ocean

- significant role in shaping weather

Analysis and confirmation

Scientists analyzed data collected from 2010-2016 by the Heliospheric and Magnetic Imager (HMI) instrument on board NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. The study required high-precision observations of the Sun over many months.

Granules were used as passive tracers to uncover the underlying, much larger vortex flows associated with Rossby waves. "The HMI images have sufficiently high spatial resolution to allow us to follow the movement of photospheric granules on the Sun's visible surface," said Bjoern Loeptien, scientist at the Max Planck Institute and first author of the paper. These granules are small convective cells roughly 1,500 kilometers in size on the solar surface.

Helioseismology, the study of the solar interior using solar internal acoustic waves, was used to verify the findings and observe the Sun's Rossby waves at depths up to 20,000 kilometers. "The results from helioseismology and granulation tracking are in excellent agreement," asserted Gizon.

"We don't yet know what role Rossby waves play in the Sun, but know that they can't be ignored in future studies," added Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, NYUAD Center for Space Science principal investigator, "their presence may help us understand solar convection at the largest spatial scales, which remains poorly understood. They are very hard to find because of low signal levels but this research team has used ingenious data processing techniques to discover their existence."

Their findings are reported in the journal Nature Astronomy.

NYUAD Provost Fabio Piano said, "We congratulate the researchers, including NYUAD Research Professor Laurent Gizon, for their work on this important discovery confirming the presence of Rossby waves on the Sun. The Center for Space Science is running a world-class research and outreach program in solar, stellar, and exoplanet science. In addition to being a hub of intellectual activity within NYUAD, the Center is quickly becoming a significant resource in supporting the priority space sector within the UAE.""

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Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 57.691.791 von Popeye82 am 04.05.18 08:01:44

America 1st DOESN'T help


https://www.wallstreet-online.de/nachricht/10524178-hilft-am…
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-…

" Klimawandel wird Wirtschaftswachstum entschleunigen


Ein kürzlich von der Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond veröffentlichtes Arbeitspapier kommt zu dem Schluss, dass die globale Erwärmung das Wirtschaftswachstum in den USA deutlich bremsen könnte. Insbesondere steigende Sommertemperaturen in den Südstaaten werden das Wirtschaftswachstum dämpfen. Diese Staaten stimmten 2016 für Donald Trump.

Die US-Bundesstaaten mit den heißesten Sommertemperaturen sind: Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Arkansas und Arizona. Alles Staaten, die Trump zum Amt des Präsidenten verholfen haben. Die nun vorliegende Studie bestätig abermals, dass Volkswirtschaften in Regionen mit einer Durchschnittstemperatur von etwa 14°C sich am Besten entwickeln. Industrieländer wie die USA, Japan und ein Großteil Europas befinden sich zufällig in der Nähe dieser idealen Temperatur. Jedoch wird die Erwärmung in einem Teil der Regionen dafür sorgen, dass zukünftig sich das Wirtschaftswachstum verlangsamt, so die Studie.

Das neue Arbeitspapier kommt zu dem Schluss, dass sich das Wirtschaftswachstum in den USA um etwa 5 bis 10 Prozent verlangsamt, wenn die Pariser Ziele - mit einer globalen Erwärmung unter 2°C - erfolgreich eingehalten werden. Auf dem derzeitigen Weg, einschließlich der bisher umgesetzten Klimapolitik würde sich das Wirtschaftswachstum in den USA um etwa 10 bis 20 Prozent verlangsamen. Bei einer höheren Kohlenstoffbelastung könnte sich das Wirtschaftswachstum in den USA allein aufgrund der höheren Temperaturen um etwa 12 bis 25 Prozent verlangsamen.

Wie die Forschung zeigt, wird die fehlende Eindämmung der globalen Erwärmung sicherlich zu weniger Wirtschaftswachstum führen. Aber es könnten Rechtsvorschriften erlassen werden, um diesem Problem zu begegnen.

Viel schlimmer als die USA, wird die Erwärmung die ärmeren Länder treffen. Die sogenannten Entwicklungsländer werden durch den Klimawandel deutlich schlechter gestellt. Ein neuer Aufsatz, der letzte Woche in Science Advances veröffentlicht wurde, ergab, dass diese ärmeren tropischen Länder größere Temperaturschwankungen in einer heißeren Welt erleben werden. Aufgrund dieser Kombination - aus heißen Temperaturen und größeren Schwankungen in Ländern mit geringeren Anpassungsmöglichkeiten - sind diese Länder am anfälligsten für die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels.



Bildquelle: The Guardian (siehe unten).

Somit wären die Länder, die am wenigsten zu dem Problem beigetragen haben, am anfälligsten für seine Folgen. Unterdessen hinken wohlhabende Länder bereits hinter ihren zugesagten Finanzhilfen und Klimazielen deutlich hinterher.


Quelle: The Guardian"

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