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2020-2040: What goes up, must come down…

21 december 2020admin
2020-firework-2b

Last year I wrote about a publication from 20 years ago, in which prominent figures looked 20 years ahead. [1] The result was not that good, the future is always more different as expected. However, a number of reactions wondered… Continue Reading →

climate, CO2, economy, future, innovation, policies, politics, society, transition

Time for claiming penalty payments by the government

20 oktober 2019admin
dwangsom

If the government does not protect the citizen, but its decisions are influenced by a few rebellious farmers, some flying fanatics, some screaming builders, and exporting parasites, then it’s time for action. After all, we have appointed civil servants and… Continue Reading →

CO2, economy, innovation, politics, value

Transition: charging points madness

11 augustus 2019admin
portland-airport-ev-chargers-laadpalen-3

Amsterdam needs around 50,000 charging points for electric cars. 50,000? Really? Have we gone completely nuts or what? Doesn’t alarm bells start ringing: “What the hell are we doing?” Where do all these raw materials come from, and the energy… Continue Reading →

climate, CO2, future, innovation, materials, politics, resources, smartcities, transition

“The living temperature should be lowered”… Energy Policy from 1974

12 januari 2019admin
autoloze-zondag-titel

A little bit of history this time, especially about the Dutch Energy Strategy of 1974. In the period leading  to that bill, we had two moments in history where we had taken the wrong turn . In the 19th century… Continue Reading →

climate, energy, history, innovation, politics, transition

the energy ‘Jouliette’ : Swapping real value with blockchain

17 februari 2018admin
ceuvel-jouliette-1

Recently I wrote about the Bitcoin, and other crypto currencies, as being the clothes of the emperor. They represent “ NOTHING”. Have no other value as ‘faith’. Which will become problematic, when it turns out there is no ‘heaven’. No… Continue Reading →

0-energy, circular, CO2, economy, energy, future, innovation, resources, smartcities, technology

Technology : from fuel-tech to human-tech, and to Bionology…?

25 november 2017admin
stoel-groeien-spanjaard-4d-1024x550

Policies, (financial-) economy , technology, religion, and even science to some level, are all human thought up constructs, that are not grounded in physical reality, but in human perception of life and how to live it. There is no natural… Continue Reading →

assessment, biobased, Embodied Land, innovation, resources, sustainable, technology

Exnovation , the not applying of innovations

17 november 2017admin
deurbel

When something gets old, outdated, we don’t care very much anymore. Or in other words: we don’t derive any ‘commercial democratic happiness’ from it anymore. Its there , fulfills its function, without pushing up the adrenaline in us. Its the… Continue Reading →

assessment, innovation, resources, society, technology

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