On a beautiful day in the very beginning of June, two busloads of YES-DC people headed off on a brave expedition to the Jülich Research Center, near Aachen in Germany. This impressively large state-owned non-profit institution with roughly four and a half thousand employees, has a large department on climate and energy research. So, besides […]
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Forschungszentrum Jülich is one of the largest independent interdisciplinary research centres in Europe, and covers an area of 2.2 square kilometres. Research at Jülich is divided into four research areas: health, information, environment, and energy. We will visit TEXTOR, the largest nuclear fusion experiment in Julich. In experiments, hydrogen is heated to a temperature of
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Well, that was surely one of the more flashy and entertaining activities we’ve had in a while! We were visited by Gieljan de Vries of the Dutch institute for nuclear fusion Rijnhuizen, who gave us an excellent show, starting of with some basic thoughts on energy use and ending up talking about current developments in nuclear fusion. We
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Doors open: 19.00 Start road show: 19.30 Fusion Reactor JET in the UK is world record holder in fusion energy since 1996. The Fusion Road Show presents the story behind nuclear fusion, the energy source of the sun and the other stars. Physicists try to ‘tame’ nuclear fusion as an energy source on earth: a
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19:00 Doors open (tea/coffee) 19:30 Start of presentation Context The USA have recently overtaken Russia as the largest gas producer in the world, thanks to new technologies to extract unconventional natural gas in the form of tight gas, shale gas, and coalbed methane. The unconventional gas reserves in Europe are estimated to be enormous by
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Dear all, yes, another year has passed already! Time for this board to make place for a new excited team. Over the past months we’ve scouted for new people to organize YES-DCs activities and we’re proud to present a wonderful mix of members that will gladly continue YES-DCs developments, to make sure you all can
In January YES-DC organized a meeting on sustainable entrepreneurship in Utrecht. We heard two very interesting stories from an idea generator that ‘invests/develops’ from the one side (ENVIU), and from an entrepreneur who started everything from the ground up on the other side (Ampyx Windpower). Both showed various opportunities on how to make your sustainable
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We are developing an activity where we would like to give (sustainable) energy entrepreneurs the opportunity to present their own business and or projects to YES-DC members and Alumni. It will be a win-win setting, for our younger members to learn from experienced people, for the entrepreneurs a chance to discuss (new) ideas with a
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That 2011 will be a year with more interesting contact, many high quality YES-DC activities and some great excursions. We would like to thank you for your great contribution during all our activities in 2010! With as a highlight most probably the excursion to the Wind Park, the Debate on Energy (DEO) day and the
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15 December 2010: Get to know your peers! Annual YES-DC networking drinks. Each year YES-DC organizes one evening aimed solely at getting to know your fellow energy specialists. Though of course all of YES-DCs activities are a lot of fun, this is generally considered one of the most fun and useful evenings of YES-DC,
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