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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).
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