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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Hans De Keulenaer

Hans De Keulenaer

5 Predictions for 2020: The Year PEOPLE Will Take Back Commercial Real Estate - 1 views

  • While health and well-being has been at the fore in real estate planning for a few years, the focus has been on employee engagement, space management for wellness and fitness, ergonomics and even food service. Now our needs seem more basic. Clean air. Sanitation. Space.
Hans De Keulenaer

How financial institutions can overcome barriers to climate alignment | GreenBiz - 1 views

  • While financial institutions aren’t monolithic, with each facing its own particular set of challenges, five common barriers make climate alignment difficult to deliver:
Hans De Keulenaer

Charged EVs | Critical battery metals could be mined from polymetallic nodules found on... - 1 views

  • DeepGreen Metals recently acquired Tonga Offshore Mining Limited (TOML), giving the company exploration rights to a 75,000-square-kilometer block of seabed believed to contain some 756 million wet tons of polymetallic nodules.
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    A story which sounds too good to be true usually is :-). Checking this story through CRM4EV.
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Sustainable business in Asia: 5 trends that will impact a decisive decade | GreenBiz - 1 views

  • The decisive decade of the 2020s has arrived and will deliver the impact of key sustainability trends on business in Asia.
Hans De Keulenaer

Miners Begin Cleaning Up Their Act With Renewables | BloombergNEF - 1 views

  • The mining industry faces an interesting paradox. It is the lynchpin of the transition to a low-carbon economy, providing the materials that go into new grids and electric vehicles, yet miners’ extraction processes gorge on large amounts of power. Miners account for 6% of the world’s energy demand, and meet most of it with fossil fuels.
  • Miners, which account for 22% of global industrial emissions, are facing more pressure to decarbonize than ever before – from investors, customers in the technology and auto industries, and even consumers further downstream.
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    Great benchmarks from climate-related disclosure.
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Sustainable by 2045: Three ways the mining industry can make it happen - Intergovernmen... - 2 views

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    3 challenges for sustainable mining: * innovation (which will help much on the environmental and economic challenges) * deep community engagement * breaking down sector silos Interestingly, two of the three challenges in this listing are social.
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Report Report: ESG, supply chains, net zero and EVs | GreenBiz - 2 views

  • The Report Report is a periodic article produced by Corporate Eco Forum, a by-invitation membership organization comprised of large, global companies that demonstrate a serious commitment at the senior executive level to sustainability as a business strategy issue.
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    16 recent trend reports on climate and sustainability
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Global Copper Wire Mesh Market Professional Survey 2019 by Manufacturers, Reg... - 1 views

  • EMI ScreensRFI ScreensGrounding GridsLighting Arrestor ElementsBio-Circuits
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    Another of the many specialised niche markets for copper.
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Europe plans to harness 'power of data' in support of Green Deal - EURACTIV.com - 1 views

  • One of the ways technology can contribute most to decarbonisation “is through the power of data,” the Commission says in a section dedicated to sustainability. Potential areas of application are multiple and include digital transport solutions, decentralised energy systems, and smart climate-neutral communities.
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2020 Global Copper Wool Filter Market - Industry Reports - 0 views

  • Copper Wool Filter is used for closing insect or rodent entry points. Prevent Rodent's, Small birds, bat's, bee's and many common insect's from entering through small openings. When properly packed into a gap, crack or weep hole, the copper net resists being pulled out.
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    Another application of our versatile material.
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China Oil, Copper, Iron Ore Prices Collapse Due to Coronavirus - Bloomberg - 3 views

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    "Chinese commodity prices collapsed on the first day of trading after the Lunar New Year break as investors returned to markets gripped by fear over the impact the coronavirus will have on demand in the world's biggest consumer of raw materials. The country's three major commodity exchanges were hit by a fevered bout of selling as they reopened with Chinese traders getting their first opportunity to catch up with losses inflicted on overseas markets while they had been on holiday."
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    Time will tell and media does overhype. What I found noteworthy that these stories were linked to Dr Copper, which rarely happens. Agreed that we do not need to stir the hive, but I alerted Joe that he may receive lots of interest for the January edition of his index.
Hans De Keulenaer

Global Conductive Inks Market to 2030 - Copper & Silver Inks Will Continue to Dominate ... - 1 views

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    "The global market for conductive inks is estimated at >$2.5 billion in annual revenues and will continue to grow as applications proliferate in sensors, wearables, smart packaging, flexible electronics, OLEDs, thin-film transistors, photovoltaics, smart textiles, automotive and more."
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Escalating Global Demand & Increased Consumption of Copper to Drive Revenues in 2020 - 1 views

  • Various industry publications from around the world point out that global demand for copper metal (produced from refined copper and recycled scrap) is projected to advanced 4.2 percent per year through 2019 to 36.0 million metric tons, valued at $261 Billion.
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Techno-economic and environmental evaluation of passive cooled photovoltaic systems in ... - 3 views

  • Passive cooling was enabled by application of perforated aluminium fins fixed on the back side surface of the PV panel.
  • can increase power yield of the PV system by 5% on at maximum
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The Future of Transportation World Conference | Home - 1 views

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    "We have to think again about transportation. We cannot just continue down a dead end (cul de sac) just because it's convenient and avoids disruption"
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    According to this (marketing) conference, we will all be flying around in personal drones by 2025. Let's wait and see :-). One thing is sure: lots of change in the transport sector.
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The geopolitics of metals and metalloids used for the renewable energy transition - Sci... - 4 views

  • This study examines the geopolitical role of 14 metals and metalloids needed for renewable energy technologies. The analysis focuses on three factors with potential geopolitical importance: the geographic concentration of resources, potential revenues of resources rich countries and the size of total global markets.
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    This paper (open-access) looks at the future needs for 14 metals, including copper, in the context of the energy transition. Coming from a credible source, the paper presents a balanced and reasonably complete perspective adding a new geopolitical element. For the latter, the Herfindahl-Hirschman index, well known from competition policy, is introduced, and 14 metals are compared to the geopolitics of oil. Interesting as well is the discussion what mineral revenues mean for producer countries.
Hans De Keulenaer

iea-pvps.org - Survey Report of Selected IEA Countries from 1992 - 5 views

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    The market for PV is booming, but prices for PV-generated power are decreasing, leading to increasing cost pressures.
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    See also our webinar on this report, in partnership with IEA-PVPS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph9AW2PEgBg
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Review of critical metal dynamics to 2050 for 48 elements - ScienceDirect - 3 views

  • There are also many studies on copper in the case of nuclear, geothermal and biomass power plants.
  • Assessing environmental implications associated with global copper demand and supply scenarios from 2010 to 2050
  • How will copper contamination constrain future global steel recycling?
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  • Elshkaki and Graedel (2015) further estimated future demand for tellurium, selenium, indium, and germanium for the deployment of solar PV, highlighting the possibility of an oversupply of copper and zinc if these host metals are mined according to by-product demand.
  • Global distribution of used and unused extracted materials induced by consumption of Iron, copper, and nickel
  • Estimating global copper demand until 2100 with regression and stock dynamics
Hans De Keulenaer

Is AI Objectivity Possible in a Biased World? | UL - 1 views

  • Can thinking machines be ethical machines? UL experts David Wroth and Christian Anschuetz discuss the subtle biases shaping the very systems we're dependent upon to transform our future.
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    AI is certainly a disruptive technology, but opinions differ how far it can go. Certainly in rule-based environments (chess, Go), AI seems unbeatable. Some however go as far as to claim that computers will be able to do anything that humans can do, replacing doctors and artists, to name a few.
Hans De Keulenaer

Tony Seba #CleanDisruption @ Robin Hood Investors Conference 2019 #RHIC2019 - YouTube - 2 views

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    Storyline of the disruption that might happen over the coming decade if TaaS (Transport as a Service) becomes a reality. Implications for the oil & gas industry (stranded assets), cities (lots of free space), construction (a boom), grids (no peakers, no market for ancillary services), and of course for the automotive sector.
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