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Mining the Technosphere: Solutions for Industrial Ecosystems

Posted by Rembrandt on August 16, 2009 - 10:15am
Topic: Supply/Production
Tags: ecosystems, empa, industrial ecosystems, material flows, materials, metals, minerals, mining, recycling, technosphere [list all tags]

This is a slide video of the presentation given by Rolf Widmer and David Rochat at the Oil Drum/ASPO Conference at Alcatraz, Italy in June 2009. Rolf and David work at EMPA and SOFIES on more efficient material management for industrial society. Their talk is about the flows, availability, and recycling of minerals in industrial ecosystems, called Mining the Technosphere: a Solution for the Industrial Ecosystem (Presentation PDF no.1 no.2, 1.8 MB each).

Mining the Technosphere: a Solution for the Industrial Ecosystem? from Rembrandt Koppelaar on Vimeo.

I apologize for the poor sound quality, if there are Oil Drum readers who have expertise in sound editing and can tell me how to upgrade the quality besides basic noise removal please contact me at contact @ peakoil.nl

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