Jeremy Rifkin on global issues and the future of our planet

Vergeet de kredietcrisis, het is niet vergeleken met de problemen die nog gaan komen. Dit zegt topeconoom Jeremy Rifkin in een exclusief interview met EenVandaag.
http://www.eenvandaag.nl/binnenland/3...

Volgens Rifkin hangt alles af van de vraag; hoe we met energie omgaan?
Blijven we vasthouden aan fossiele brandstof dan staat het voortbestaan van de mens op het spel.
Gaan we over naar een duurzame samenleving waarin iedereen zelf energie opwekt en uitwisselt dan hebben we een kans om te overleven.

Hij baseert zijn 'Third Industrial Revolution' op vier pijlers:

1.de produktie van hernieuwbare energie
2.de herinrichting van de gebouwen zodat deze instaan voor hun eigen energieverbruik en beperking van hun CO²-uitstoot
3.de opslag van energie om plotse uitvallen op het energienetwerk te voorkomen
4.de verdeling van de energie via smart grids waarbij elke gebruiker ook leverancier wordt.
Deze vier pijlers vindt Rifkin terug in Vlaanderen in Actie, het toekomstplan waarmee de Vlaamse Regering naar de top vijf van Europese regio's wil tegen 2020. De Vlaamse doelstelling om tegen 2020 minstens 13 % van de totale energievoorziening uit hernieuwbare energie te halen, springt het meest in het oog.

Binnenkort nemen Jeremy Rifkin en minister-president Kris Peeters weer contact met elkaar op. Ook Vlaams minister van innovatie Ingrid Lieten en Vlaams minister van energie Freya Van den Bossche zullen hierbij betrokken worden. Op de agenda staan dan de mogelijkheden bij een eventuele samenwerking met Jeremy Rifkin in verband met de verdere uitbouw van het Vlaamse energiebeleid.

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[Juiva]

Next time you make an interview, don`t put the mic in your mouth.

[Niels Van Limberghen]

+1 if your right ear is deaf

[boeitni94]

i did not mean to promote my vid, and it has nothing todo with being arrogant! we made an energy management system for a company in Belgium. Our system would save the company €40.000/yr and 280 tons CO2/yr. This system can easily be transferd to any companies or even houses.

Dont tell me thats not impressive!

It doesnt bother you that he is getting paid for telling an idea that others will have to figure out how to do it? it is time you think on your own and dont believe what others say!

[suny123boy1]

Where is your video? You are clearly either egotistic or arrogant about yourself.

[Arviell Simmons]

I agree, boetini, but consider some points as well:

1. This video is old. The technologies he describes were in their infantile stages... 3 years has changed quite a bit.

2. I agree that everyone should be involved, and they are. You can see that by this little forum here.

3.Fuel and Gas companies are fairly new power structures and are already losing because coal is getting expensive as alternatives are getting cheaper.

Feel free to inbox me for some relevant data

[boeitni94]

i agree that there are many new and innovative ways. We have two problems: 1 everyone should be involved (not only Europe). 2 the companies who deliver fuel, gas, ... will suppress this evolution.

Scientists/ engineers are the ones who developed it, we need to give them more attention then this guy. they are the ones who can change our world, not he who has an "idea" about distributing elek(which i still dont believe in).

Ow and we are aware of innovation(check my channel for typography ESS)

[Arviell Simmons]

Professor Gang Chen has been working on a revolutionary new way to make solar power — micro solar thermal — which could theoretically produce electricity at 8 times the efficiency of the word's best solar panel. Solar thermal usually requires huge arrays of mirrors that heat up an element to run a steam turbine. Chen's system uses nanostructured thermoelectric generators that capture the heat differential created by the sun's light striking the top of the panel.

[Arviell Simmons]

An MIT team led by professor Karen Gleason has discovered a way to print a solar cell on just about anything, using low temperatures and vapor as opposed to liquid solutions that are expensive, require high temperatures and degrade the substrate materials. The resulting printed paper cell is also extremely durable and can be folded and unfolded more than 1,000 times with no loss in performance.

[Arviell Simmons]

MIT associate professor Jeffrey Grossman and others successfully created a new molecule called azobenzene using carbon nanotubes to structure the molecules so that they "lock in" stored solar thermal energy indefinitely. These molecules have the remarkable ability to convert solar energy and store it at an energy density comparable to lithium ion batteries. As Grossman says, "You’ve got a material that both converts and stores energy. It’s robust, it doesn’t degrade, and it’s cheap.”

[Arviell Simmons]

already working on it again boetini... just because you're an electrician doesn't mean you're aware of innovation. don't make that mistake. ironically enough... they've been using neurons to manage small grid simulations with excellent fidelity. they figure they can use neurons to manage future smart grids quite feasibly

[Arviell Simmons]

actually, boetini, i disagree. due to costs in price-performance and technologies like graphene becoming super cheap to produce, solar panels are becoming increasingly cheap and efficient

[boeitni94]

yes, i did to for school :( and all of us (electricians) came to the same conclusion that the idea was good but distributing elek. is not realistic. We will have to make a system that can manage the output/input from the net so it will not be overloaded. And this for every house! Also not to mention, the ppl that will take advantage from this system.

Do you even know what a FUSION reactor is? its in development and it has NO nuclear waste! this guy is getting rich for saying useless words.