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Bright Green...

Governments, activists and industry all did their best to display their good intentions, their beliefs and their products at the COP15 conference in December 2009.

At the "Bright Green" in Forum, Copenhagen on December 12th and 13th it was the industry's turn as the Confederation of Danish Industry had arranged a conference focusing on cutting-edge climate change technologies. Really, there were quite many companies displaying their stuff. I was happy to snap a few photos along the way.

Below Toyota had setup a truck simulator explaining the driver in real-time how to use the gas pedal and how to change gears in the truck in order to save gasoline thereby minimizing CO2-emissions. Step on it! Gently...



Earlier on this blog we referred to the ICE09 conference where Jan-Eric Sundgren (Senior Vice President of AB Volvo responsible for public & environmental affairs) told us about the need to influence the curriculum.
Click here to see a video of Jan-Eric Sundgren's presentation from the ICE09 conference.
So new simulators for efficient driving should perhaps be a part of a truck driver's curriculum.

At Vestas - the leading Danish Wind turbine producer - they had the time of their lives December 2009. Being the pride of the Danish Wind turbinde industry they of course had a large stand at the expo showing and visualizing wind turbines.

Actually I didn't know that the wings of a windmill are adjusted each time they pass the tower in order to minimize air pressure on the wings. This close-up shows where the wings can turn.

So in the future there will be a continuing need to educate engineers to research optimal wind conditions for wind turbines in order to push turbine capacity to the limit while producing green energy.

At the Vestas stand you could also blow at the small windmills while their "production" was visualized with laser lights on the "smoke carpet" behind the small mills.

As we are continually amazed of what Google Earth can offer of visualizations for climate change for free this "Tangible Earth" was also really an eye-opener for visualizing the complexity of climate systems.



Being able to visualize different layers - with sea level temperature, surface temperature and the like - this globe really makes the complex systems of climate change more... well yes, tangible.

A neat but surely also an expensive geography book.
Click here to see more of the Tangible Earth.

Posted at 2010-01-04, 16:37 by Anders Raun in Generelt  |  Kommentarer[0]