By the year 2050, plastic production will account for 15 to 20% of CO2 emissions, according to figures from EIT Climate KIC, a European institution that supports start-ups. If we do nothing about...
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”Your sneak preview of the future” is the slogan of Innovation Origins, and that’s just what we will highlight with our Start-up of the Week column. Over the past few days, five start-ups of the day...
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Using building stock as an intelligent component in the energy transformation The dependence of renewable energy generation on the time of day and the seasons is one of the biggest challenges for...
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The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany is building a globally unique experimental plant that converts CO2 (carbon dioxide) from the atmospheric air into a pure and industrially...
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Many of you know that I regularly debunk the claim that diesel vehicles emit less CO2 than electric vehicles. But one thing that I hadn’t really worked out is just how much CO2 is emitted when...
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Simply reducing CO2 emissions is probably not enough to meet the Paris climate targets. The amount of CO2 that’s already in the air must also be lowered. Students at Eindhoven University of...
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Dutch European Commissioner Frans Timmermans (who will be responsible for climate issues) wants to introduce a CO2 tax at the outer border of the European Union. This is in order to avoid products...
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The best way to reduce CO2 emissions is to make the polluting industries pay at least four times as much for the quantity of these emissions as they do now. So says Steven Chu, the former Secretary...
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I show how in Europe, an electric vehicle becomes greener after 20 to 40 thousand kilometres of driving, not 700 thousand as a famous Belgian professor calculated on television recently. He has...
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An international team of researchers, including scientists from the Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT), has turned our previous assumptions on the CO2 uptake of forests upside down:...
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This is a guest contribution by Jan van der Meer, alderman for sustainability in Eindhoven. The last few weeks have seen a heated debate on the draft climate agreement in the Netherlands. As a...
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Green Minerals has won the Jan Terlouw Ambition Award. The award is an initiative of the kiEMT Foundation and supports innovations in sustainability. As the winner of the ambition award, Green...
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The student team SOLID, of the Eindhoven University of Technology, has built a working proof-of-concept installation for the incineration of iron powder. The installation has a capacity of 20...
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Industry, and manufacturing factories, in particular, use a tremendous amount of electricity, much of which comes from fossil fuels. One reason for this is that factories are operated on alternating...
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Each week we take a look with EV specialist and Innovation Origins columnist Auke Hoekstra at what caught his eye on topical issues or what he runs into where the preservation of our planet is...
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Architecture has (re)discovered wood as a building material for urban spaces. In recent months, the two tallest wooden buildings in the world were built in Vienna, Austria, and Brumunddal in Norway....
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Yvette Watson (37), the co-founder of PHI Factory, finished second in the Dutch bank ABN AMRO Sustainable Top 50 competition in 2019 and was nominated again for the award this year. Sustainability...
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The first metal recycling plant will open in Delfzijl around 2021. Team CORE, a student team of the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), the Netherlands, is contributing to this. The students...
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The Province of North Holland commissioned a study into the construction of a pipeline network that will enable the ultra-fast Hyperloop to glide from Amsterdam to neighboring European cities. The...
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The Dutch road construction company BAM Infra has built on-site the world”s first electrically powered road roller. The 10 to 12 metric ton roller is working on a project for the municipality...
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Each week we take a look with EV specialist and Innovation Origins columnist Auke Hoekstra at what caught his eye on topical issues or what he runs into where the preservation of our planet is...
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Environmentally friendly mining seems to be quite a contradiction in terms. In an effort to resolve this as soon as possible, an international consortium – funded by the European Commission-...
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“More and more people are wanting more and more stuff. That’s why we are using an ever-increasing amount of the earth’s resources. After having used these things for a relatively...
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Eating insects is a huge step for many people. But if it’s up to the Printec Bites student team, their product will make the consumption of insects a lot more appealing. After all, Printec...
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Growing up by the Belgium coast, Stephanie has always appreciated the sea. After graduating in geography, she started her career as an urban planner before stepping out on her own. She began her...
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