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the energy ‘Jouliette’ : Swapping real value with blockchain

17 februari 2018admin
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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 →

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

25 november 2017admin
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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 →

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Exnovation , the not applying of innovations

17 november 2017admin
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When something gets old, outdated, we don’t care very much anymore.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 →

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Speaker, writer , thinker, co-Founder iiSBE , consultant, researcher : main focus: Zero impact built environments The Netherlands
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RONALD ROVERS:
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chair and organiser 1 st World conference Sustainable Building (SB2000, Maastricht)
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co-founder iiSBE, International NGO: int.initiative for Sustainable Built environment
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honorary member of the Chinese academy for Science and Technology, Wuxi, PRChina
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guest lecturing, in several Europen universities
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Book: Sustainable Housing, a conceptual approach , R.Rovers 2006 ISBN: 978-90-8594-020-3

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