The quagmire of Dutch innovation policy
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CO2 will substitute sugars as an industrial feedstock, in due time
In our minds, Photanol is one of the potential winners among start-ups, the company owned by professors Joost Texeira de Mattos and Klaas Hellingwerf of the University of Amsterdam. Their ‘third generation’ company produces all kinds of chemicals, like lactic acid and many other base products, using cyanobacteria, a kind of algae. For the time
Innovation, will we ever see it coming
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Huub de Groot: artificial photosynthesis is going to be the backbone of energy supply
‘I expect artificial photosynthesis to be fully operational in 2050; by that time it will be the backbone of energy supply,’ says Huub de Groot, professor in biophysical organic chemistry at Leiden University. ‘We know from experience that a new technology needs 30 years to come to its full deployment, and that means that by
Thin film PV maintains its rapid development pace
Whereas silicon wafer based PV technology keeps improving and production costs of PV electricity keeps falling, thin film PV is on its way to develop as a mass product as well. Most experts judge that thin film solar cells will dominate the solar electricity market in due time. This is because of their inherent advantages:
Wind power: lessons from an industrial past
It was a wonderful reunion, Forty years of wind power in the Netherlands, organized by Chris Westra, the man whose self-built wind turbine in 1972 marked the beginning of an upsurge of sustainable energy. Many stories about the past forty years, nice images, wonderfully edited and presented. Optimistic views of the future, increasingly framed in
Crib captures CO2, as coal-fired power stations do not
During advent, almost 50 tons of olivine sand will be dumped on stately Lange Voorhout in The Hague as a construction material for a crib. Olivine is a mineral rock which captures CO2. It would seem to be a ridiculous answer to the news that the companies which construct two new coal-fired power stations in
BioAmber: the success of open innovation and partnering
It is just a small company, BioAmber, and it is quite young as well. Yet, is has concluded a large number of cooperation agreements, and many chemical companies are interested. The secret? BioAmber is the first company to offer biosuccinic acid in commercial quantities on the market. Babette Pettersen, VP Marketing and Sales, tells us
