Categorie: Embodied Land

For my final thesis during my study, I had to design a small theater. And since I combined studies in architecture and building physics, the question was how to combine these two. Nobody knew in the University. (And today, that is mostly still the case.) But I had to please…

So how could you do that, restoring minerals or metals? It happened that last week I was participating in the “Exergy, LCA & sustainability conference, ELCAS, 5th edition, originating from a EU COST project. And I presented a paper (with co-authors) about precisely this topic, closing cycles, with the title:…

(below is a improved English text compared to the first one published. Thanks to (editing by) Simon McGuinness..!) The circular economy, is about closing production cycles, is it not? So, it is about restoring the original stock. Otherwise the resource is depleted, and we run out of stock. Yes? But…

Labor, as argued in the previous blog, is a often neglected energy factor. [1]Which might seem not that important , given the immense quantities of energy that we require for our society. Nevertheless, its interesting to give it a try to quantify this. And when I did that, some years…

Now and then there is debate about the land use of energy generation, usually around renewable energy. But these are often only addressing the direct ‘ visible’ land use and efficiencies; For instance: A energy Atlas in the Netherlands counts only the land needed for a fossil fuel power plant…