Koninklijke Nederlandse Chemische Vereniging-KNCV’s Post

Have a look at this eyeopener clip that I recorded for our research on #methane #electricity #microbiology!

⚡ Is your organization facing hurdles in transitioning away from #fossilfuels? Many companies are embracing the challenge of realizing their climate goals by integrating electrical alternatives like green heat pumps. However, policy constraints are still impeding progress. 💡 How can we make sure that companies can quickly shift to #greenheat? Come find out during the seminar 'How can companies make the transition to green heat?'! 👉 Network with policy makers and industry leaders driving sustainable change 👉 Discover concrete projects and solutions presented by experts in Flemish industry 👉 Explore opportunities to overcome current bottlenecks in adopting green energy technologies 📅 May 7th, 13:00 - 17:00 📍 Les Ateliers des Tanneurs, Brussels 🔗 have a look at the program and secure your spot here: https://lnkd.in/dQBByX98 Hosted by Bond Beter Leefmilieu, in collaboration with Energy Saving Pioneers and The Shift vzw/asbl. #committedtoact #climatechange #greenheat

To meet the goals set by the Dutch Climate Agreement and the European Union’s Green Deal, it is essential to take great strides to reduce CO₂ emissions at scale to contribute to the energy transition. Capturing and storing CO₂ (Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)) underground can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere. The Aramis project, a collaboration between TotalEnergies, Shell, EBN B.V. and Gasunie, aims to make a significant contribution to the energy transition through enabling the transport of CO₂ to depleted offshore gas fields under the North Sea. To explain what CO₂ capture, transport and storage entails and why it is important, our partner Gasunie had several short film clips made to explain CCS, the first of them is available now! #CCS #co2transport #carbonstorage

At a time of great urgency to address the climate crisis, the energy transition is hitting walls on multiple fronts: grid congestion, labor shortages, inflation, limited supply of precious metals, limited availability of land, public opposition to renewables. There is one thing that could help enormously: Sufficiency. Sufficiency is about reducing demand for energy, materials, land and water while providing human well-being for all within planetary boundaries. It is about designing infrastructure and society so that low-energy, low-impact lifestyles are the norm, not the exception. Sufficiency is currently neglected in the energy debate. This is a huge missed opportunity: Recent research suggests that an increased focus on sufficiency could reduce energy demand in 2050 by 25-40% compared to the scenarios of the Dutch Nationaal Plan Energiesysteem, TNO, and Netbeheer Nederland. As a result, the energy transition would require far fewer resources than is currently assumed. This means fewer wind turbines, solar fields, batteries and power lines, less labor to install these facilities, fewer materials such as steel or precious metals, lower investment costs and a much smaller impact on our environment and land use. This allows us to meet our climate goals faster and with less environmental impact. Sufficiency can not only ease the energy transition on multiple fronts, but also seed the societal changes needed to achieve true sustainability. It helps us move from a growth-dependent society, with its 'hustle culture' and energy-hungry lifestyles and industries, to a sharing and caring economy, where we rebuild our relationship with nature and focus on what truly matters. Let us embrace it. Together with Michiel den Haan (https://powor.nl/) and John Grin, I argue for a stronger focus on sufficiency in de Volkskrant today: https://lnkd.in/dA9PK6Jy [unpaywalled: https://archive.is/pkyib]

Important to remember - Bioenergy is a circular pillar.

A successful energy transition starts with "less is more"...

A MEDIA COLUMN - ENERGY The world wants to use less coal but uses more. The only solution? LOCAL SOURCES and small interconnected grids. Electronics (48V DC) and changing the transformations to other places than we do now. We lose to much energy. We store to much energy. We don't do as nature would do. Local sources? In NL, we already applied heat exchangers in sheet pile walls of harbour and canals (company Crux). We also applied heat exchangers from earth water in further mining area (company Mijnwater). DIY, on our off-grid farms Peppelhof, Eykelenbosch and Hermanushoeve, we applied solar and wood gassing from our abundance food and resource forest (39 ha for 39 self-sustaining families). Rocket stoves and more. In Belgium, Blue Earth Innovation (biomimicry engineering company) is applying Nikola Tesla's patents for Free Energy on a heritage-listed estate. In Spain (canary island El Hierro), they have solar roads directly connected to the cars. In theory, you can outphase batteries and lithium mining this way. What are the biggest hurdles? 1. You have to use energy when you produce it. No storage. 2. Laws are hindering progress. Off-grid is forbidden in NL and it is still a huge fight with the law. Laws are just made for big companies and set in stone. Not for citizens wanting to live cheap with what nature provides. 3. Nothing is agile in our man made world. Everyone is just protecting their cashcows. 4. Low voltage DC appliances (fridge, freezer, hairdryer, cooking equipment, computers, etc) are hard to get in normal stores. You have to shop in boating or caravan stores... And when you do...? Life opens up to new possibilities and immense innovations. Free for all. Because nature does the work for us... You can become a nomad, like Mike and me. Simple life with one suitcase... 🌏😂❤️🤸🏽♀️ #restoring #planet #basicneeds

This week Aramis is mentioned in the EW magazine article 'CO2 storage under the North Sea' about Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) in the Netherlands. “Aramis makes the largest contribution to the scaling up of CO2 storage under the North Sea”. It also explains why investing is important; “It is crucial for the industry in the Netherlands and Northwestern Europe to ensure that this infrastructure really gets off the ground in the coming years”. Read the full article (behind paywall - in Dutch) here: https://lnkd.in/ek4CHmWV

Next Wednesday 19 June , I am delighted to be speaking at Ideas From Europe on Climate Impact of Hydrogen, Science and Action Perspective. From 14.00 hrs to 17.00 hrs at Platform Zero in Rotterdam. Key here is good workmanship, using appropriate safety standards and manufacturing standards, to stop hydrogen emissions. Certification and (periodically) measurement can be the necessary game changer as oversight. Sound engineering skills are needed for the upcoming green hydrogen projects to have safe installations and as low as possible impact on the environment. Hydrogen is not new to society, it is used in (petro)chemical industry, in large scale. Up to 10% of our Dutch natural gas consumption is used to produce via steam methane refraction hydrogen. Re-using current used standards but more important practices from industry is a no brainer. Share the knowledge is the essence for new comers for safe and good climate. Together with: Iris Westra and Wouter Peters of the University of Groningen Gigi van Rhee of Stratelligence Thomas Roeckmann of the Utrecht University Kiane de Kleijne of the Radboud University and Eindhoven University of Technology Arjan Hensen and Rene Peters of TNO and a huge thanks to Jody van der Vegte for the organisation. more information and how to attend: https://lnkd.in/e65pM_ts #climateimpact #hydrogen #climateaction #pressureequipment #ped #wbda Bureau Veritas Denmark Bureau Veritas Benelux

We support the German government's decision to authorise the more climate-friendly, but currently still more expensive alternative fuel 𝗛𝗩𝗢𝟭𝟬𝟬. At the same time, we see this as an opportunity to drive forward the decarbonisation of the mode of transport in the medium term. We have already acquired contingents of the biofuel in order to be able to refuel parts of our fleet exclusively with HVO100 in future. The use of this fuel, which is not derived from fossil sources, does not require any major technical conversion, even for older propulsion systems. This gives the industry the opportunity to continue using older ship fleets without significant investment and still make a significant contribution to the decarbonisation of European inland shipping by reducing CO2 emissions by up to 90 percent. Read the full press release here: 𝗘𝗡: https://lnkd.in/eCUSHA3W 𝗗𝗘: https://lnkd.in/ekqDyb4z 𝗗𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 #justact #justshow #justprove #hgkshipping #hgkgroup #innovation  #sustainability #hvo #hvo100 #biofuel #futuregoals