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Retrofitting houses: from object approach to a source approach 2/2

9 februari 2020admin
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In the Netherlands most houses are heated by natural gas, but now we want to phase out that gas heating. Which of course is in principle easy: just close the tap, which is in the gas-fields in the North of… Continue Reading →

0-energy, climate, CO2, exergy, housing stock, policies, retrofit, transition

People vs Resources, update and annex (Max Power)

4 november 2019admin
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It has been a year since the Dutch version of the book was published, Gebroken Kringlopen (Broken Cycles). I handed out the first copy to Marjan Minnesma, who is on top of the required transition with NGO Urgenda. The English… Continue Reading →

energy, EROI, exergy, news, society, transition

A 0-marginal resource society does not exist

21 juni 2019admin
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Rifkin some time ago wrote about the 0-marginal cost society. The book had a lot of attention. But cost is a complete different measuring unit as energy or greenhouse gasses. A 0-marginal cost society is not the same as a… Continue Reading →

0-energy, circular, economy, exergy, labor, materials, resources, society, transition

Every agriculture hectare requires 7,7 ha input…. Embodied Land

26 januari 2019admin
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Before going into agriculture, and the available figures for it, I will briefly summarize how evaluate keeping resource loops closed. Fot this a calculation method has been developed, called MAXergy, with Embodied Land as a measuring unit. To close resource… Continue Reading →

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From Tetra Materia, to Trias eXergetica 2/2

22 september 2018admin
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The Tetra Materia (see previous article) approach might be useful for practice, its not the whole story. It guides direction, but does not set targets. And our system has an overall limit as well. Materials, even renewables, come exclusively from… Continue Reading →

circular, energy, exergy, materials, resources, system boundaries, tools

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