Technology can save the planet | Rune Westergård | TEDxVasa
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- TEDxVasa 22.09.2017
Rune Westergård - Technology can save the planet
Rune is founder of the technical consulting company CITEC. The company was originally started as a summer job for two people in Vaasa. Today, the company employs 1300 people in 11 countries and operates mainly in field of energy- and power plant solutions. Rune was leading product development projects in field of environmental technology in many years which resulted in a number of patents and treatment plants. Rune’s has written a book ; ONE PLANET IS ENOUGH - Tackling Climate Change and Environmental Threats through Technology. Rune is founder of the technical consulting company CITEC. The company was originally started as a summer job for two people in Vaasa. Today, the company employs 1300 people in 11 countries and operates mainly in field of energy- and power plant solutions. Rune was leading product development projects in field of environmental technology in many years which resulted in a number of patents and treatment plants. Rune' s book; ONE PLANET IS ENOUGH - Tackling Climate Change and Environmental Threats through Technology. Published by the international Springer Nature, september 2017.
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Agree that technologies can and will create solutions..but unless the exploitation of natural resources are reduced and industrial processes minimized in manufacturing, we cannot achieve the level of technological support needed to save this planet...as it is reaching the tipping point very soon
Innovation in renewable energy & sustainable industrial technologies when combined w/ever increasing efficiencies is our only shot. The Finnish guy's thesis is correct: its about upping the rate of technological innovations, not the radical reduction of consumption. The former is not at an adequate rate to forestall "reaching the tipping point" while the latter is a political impossibility.
The only reason I'm here is because I'm having presentation in September ... And I have to speak like the narrators in Ted-Ed
I love his accent
My works too. Used Avasva handbooks and build it with no problems.
i didnt know they had a talk in Vasa
Where do you get your information from ? About the average weight of a car, I am pretty sure it has kept increasing in the last decades. And if you consider that more and more cars are produced each year, the impact on natural resources is even more negative.
you are not getting the point the pollution due to the car emissions have reduced, nowadays aluminium is used in cars so they are lightweight also only if you consider a normal car which is very simple and not over featured,if we used the cars that were built earlier the air pollution would a 100 times more than today's air pollution.
hope you understand
@@Jacksparrow-xv1wm I totally understand what you mean, but it is not quite right. Cars are definitely heavier nowadays, even though some cars use an aluminium chassis (mainly because modern cars trend to be larger and more powerful). My comment was not about pollution at all, and even though modern cars emit less microparticles and NOx, the CO2 pollution by car has barely decreased. I am preparing a master's degree in mechanical engineering, so I am quite up to date on the subject.
I recommend Avasva, there you will find great projects for the production of renewable energy.
Infinite growth on a finite planet is impossible.
No it can't. Quit lying. Economists live in an altered reality.
Innovation in renewable energy & sustainable industrial technologies when combined w/ever increasing efficiencies is our only shot. If he's lying then its to himself because the Finnish guy's thesis is correct: its about upping the rate of technological innovations, not the radical reduction of consumption. The former is not at an adequate rate to forestall "reaching the tipping point" while the latter is a political impossibility.
"Altered reality"; that's ironic, coming from someone who clearly thinks humanity reducing consumption is possible.