Geo Engineering to Counteract Global Warming The conversion away from fossil energy sources is happening only very slowly. Political inertia to agree on common global rules and regulations is enormous. Engineering of the earth’s climate has therefor been suggested as an approach to help counteract global warming. One suggested technique Read more…
Plant Based Meat Plant- and fungi based meat is made from non-animal sourced materials. Some plant based meats are traditional while others have been developed recently, or are in the process of being developed. Traditional meat analogs were developed thousands of years ago in Asia and include derivatives from soybeans Read more…
Alternatives to meat – plant based or cell-based – are likely to replace animal-based meat in the diet of coming generations to a large extent. The rising demand of meat as it occurred during the last decades, and is expected to grow in the future, is problematic. Current methods of Read more…
Impact on Demand – Number of Days with Temperatures between 0°C and -12 °C Salt is used for de-icing, mainly to melt existing snow and ice, or to melt remaining snow and ice after snow-removal operations. Salt is also used as anti-icing agent. It is then proactively applied to driving Read more…
Climate change is impacting supply and demand of salt. In a series of blogs, I will present recent findings about the impact of climate change on the security of supply and the changes in demand, most importantly in de-icing. Unseasonal rainfalls, brought by the cyclonic storm Tauktae, caused a significant Read more…
The different carbon footprints of the three types of crystallized salts – solar salt, rock salt, vacuum salt – will play an increasingly important role in the future, with CO2 tax adding to the cost of the product. The calculation of the carbon footprint of a given salt type is Read more…
Thinking about the future use of salt for de-icing, global warming is probably a term that comes immediately to your mind. Over the past decades, volumes of de-icing salt that was spread on roads and public spaces grew at an annual average rate of 2.5%. From 2005 to 2011, global Read more…