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Economic and environmental benefits of technology fusion of solar photovoltaics with alternative technologies Hasselt University
Technology fusion refers to the blending of several previously separate fields of existing technology, creating novel markets and growth opportunities. In technology fusion, one plus one equals three. This is indeed the case when fusing solar PV with alternative technologies: besides greenhouse gas emission reductions, additional advantages such as the savings of scarce land area, grid independency, diminishment of the effect of power ...
Exergy: Its potential and limitations in environmental science and technology KU Leuven Ghent University
New technologies, either renewables-based or not, are confronted with both economic and technical constraints. Their development takes advantage of considering the basic laws of economics and thermodynamics. With respect to the latter, the exergy concept pops up. Although its fundamentals, that is, the Second Law of Thermodynamics, were already established in the 1800s, it is only in the last years that the exergy concept has gained a more ...
Do environmental attitudes and food technology neophobia affect perceptions of the benefits of nanotechnology? University of Antwerp
In recent years, a significant amount of research has focussed on the analysis of consumers' aversion to new technologies in food production and processing. At the same time, research has shown that environmental attitudes may be related to purchasing behaviour of consumers. This paper presents the result of an investigation into Canadian attitudes towards nanotechnology, in general, and in applications in the food industry. The relationship ...
Complementing the surveillance law principles of the Court of Strasbourg with its environmental law principles. An integrated technology approach to a human rights framework for surveillance Vrije Universiteit Brussel
If one looks at the case law of the European Court of Human Rights on surveillance matters, a well mature set of principles emerge, namely: legality, legitimacy, proportionality (the standard check) and, if the Court is "on it", also necessity and subsidiarity (the closer scrutiny check). We pass the surveillance case law and the principles developed therein in review and note that 1) not all surveillance is considered relevant to the right to ...
Policy-induced environmental technology and inventive efforts: Is there a crowding out? KU Leuven
Substantial policy effort is devoted to stimulate environmentally friendly technology through regulation and subsidies. Since innovation is a crucial productivity driver, a potential crowding out of inventive efforts in affected firms may increase the cost of regulation. We study the effects of regulation-induced environmental technology on innovation activities for a sample of firms in Germany. We find some evidence for a crowding out of firms' ...
Kevin C. Jones, 2020 ACS Award for Creative Advances in Environmental Science and Technology Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Technology as a Tool for Environmental Engagement. Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
The conservativeness of traditional scientific methods, which nevertheless still tend to dominate much of the (social) sustainability sciences, is challenged by technological progress when untested tools of research are proposed as innovative scientific methods. This is the case of online platforms. The knowledge creation process in the digital era, including forms of research communication, can be profoundly different from traditional research ...
Comparison of purified and crude extracted coagulants from plant species for turbidity removal. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The coagulation properties of crude extracts and purified proteins of seeds of Moringa stenopetala and tubers of Maerua subcordata, which are locally used for purification of turbid water in Ethiopia, were studied. The turbidity removal effectiveness was compared using synthetic turbid and natural river water where the initial turbidity of synthetic water was approximately 260 NTU, whereas, for river water, the initial turbidity was 30 NTU. ...
Technology as a tool for environmental engagement : the case of digital participatory mapping (DPM) Ghent University
The conservativeness of traditional scientific methods, which nevertheless still tend to dominate much of the (social) sustainability sciences, is challenged by technological progress when untested tools of research are proposed as innovative scientific methods. This is the case of online platforms. The knowledge creation process in the digital era, including forms of research communication, can be profoundly different from traditional research ...