Johannes Eckert
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Johannes Eckert
@futureasapresent.org
Energie, Material, Kreislaufwirtschaft & Bioökonomie
Selbstständig, Wissensarbeiter (Wolf Lotter), ohne Auftrag unterwegs
Picture above: Temperature change in the mediterranen sea from 1950 till today https://ogy.de/4bki
Web: https://futureasapresent.org/
"One big advantage is a 90% reduction in auxiliary power use - a direct benefit of passive cooling. Grid-scale LFP batteries draw significant amounts of power to run the active cooling systems needed to prevent thermal runaway, reducing their cost-effectiveness" www.utilitydive.com/news/are-sod...
October 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
"So the broader picture is of a world which is already paying a huge price from global heating, but which is also nearing positive economic tipping points – towards a safer, healthier, wealthier world, powered by clean energy and climate resilience" @alevermann.bsky.social unfccc.int/news/the-dir...
October 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
"It’s time to put human welfare at the center of our climate strategies, which includes reducing the Green Premium to zero and improving agriculture and health in poor countries" www.gatesnotes.com/work/acceler...
October 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Indeed! MIT Spin-Off Fourth Power tries to bring TPV to market gofourth.com as it is already head on head with steam engines news.mit.edu/2022/thermal...
October 17, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"Alongside those tests, the company is designing a 1-megawatt-hour demonstration battery. To build that project, Fourth Power has raised $20 million in a round it’s calling a Series A Plus, the company exclusively told TechCrunch" techcrunch.com/2025/09/16/f... + IMAGES: www.inc.com/tim-crino/wh...
September 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
"Ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE), particularly through approaches like alkaline mineral addition, has the potential to remove several billion tons of CO₂ with a credible path to under $100 per ton" frontierclimate.com/writing/plan...

Website Planetary:
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September 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
"The metaverse was never a vision of the future. It was a coping mechanism for a civilization unwilling to maintain its foundations" terraformindustries.wordpress.com/2025/03/05/a...
August 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"According to Dales’ calculations, the energy savings from the passive cooling of Peak Energy’s battery enclosure over a period of 20 years more than cover the initial cost of the battery cells" www.canarymedia.com/articles/bat...
August 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
"A further sign of momentum is that many consumer-goods companies, mindful of customers’ concerns, supported a global production cap" climate.cmail19.com/t/d-e-gldhyn...
August 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"The company’s Titan Forge Alpha prototype has successfully integrated a full-scale 50-cell Faraday Reactor validating its core technology at TRL 9, ... already generating e-methanol from air and solar power" www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...
July 22, 2025 at 6:02 AM
"Social media, news, games, email, apps… They can suck a person in and hold them captive. ... This poem is my attempt at expressing some of these ideas. It’s actually an acrostic poem - the first letter of each line spells out incurvatus in se" onceuponawrittenword.wordpress.com/2021/07/31/i...
June 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
As the energy demand for destillation is mentioned, the membrane of Prometheus Fuels founder Rob McGinnis (a chemist) might still be useful: "... his membranes could cut the distillation cost by 90% in an ethanol market worth $50 billion per year in the United States" www.science.org/content/arti...
June 16, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Thanks for that interesting article, adding some news from Brazil from February, the results have been published in nature agencia.fapesp.br/new-enzyme-c...
June 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
You can vote for the young Inventors Prize 2025 of @epo.org, 19 great ideas have been selected www.epo.org/en/news-even... They include sustainable paper components for electronic devices, recycling of rare earth elements or cellulose textiles made of CO2
June 16, 2025 at 8:02 AM
True. But I keep up with what they are doing. And building really new stuff is incredible hard. Terraform now has about 50 open positions on their website, so it seems that they are busy doing things. And their bet on cheap solar could be a win www.pv-magazine.com/2025/06/05/f...
June 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
So if sequestration is scarce, RFNBO is still to expensive and degrowth seems no option, I just want to mention Prometheus Fuels and Terraform Industries that work on cheap RFNBO. Here's an on-site visit at Terraform, aiming at 'good enough' tech to scale (⬇️🪨-DAC) www.freethink.com/series/hard-...
June 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
"Now, a team of chemists ... has developed a catalyst that can cleave these C–F bonds within seconds and at room temperature. ... the catalyst consists of 2 boron atoms, which have been embedded in a carbon framework in a manner that makes them resistant to air and moisture" tinyurl.com/5y2jjvuw
June 13, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Thank you for this interesting episode. For motor innovation I just want to add Infinitum bsky.app/profile/futu... (and yes, 66% less copper is a thing news.umich.edu/can-we-mine-...)
June 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"Looking ahead, two key areas to watch are how startups improve performance and drive down costs - with effective systems integration being key to both" rmi.org/innovation-t... @rockymtninst.bsky.social
June 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
"The membrane is a thin film that can be manufactured using a technique that is already widely used in industrial processes, potentially allowing it to be scaled up for widespread use" news.mit.edu/2025/new-app...
June 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Dem Mittleren Teil der Abgründe haben wir Frankfurt ein Denkmal gesetzt (ich denkmal ...) frankfurt.de/themen/umwel...
June 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"These simulations show that global CO2 flows increase linearly when the two methods are used in combination - in other words, efficiency losses do not occur" www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/...
June 6, 2025 at 10:09 AM
"This is because solid oxide electrolysis cells for the production of hydrogen contain around 150 kilograms of rare earth metals per 10 megawatt module" tu-freiberg.de/en/news/gree...
June 4, 2025 at 6:16 AM
"Now the goal is to transfer the process to larger facilities and systems and move into series production. ... . Plans for a spin-off that markets these developments are already in the pipeline" www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/res...
June 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
"While the device so far exists only as a small, single-cell prototype, Chiang says the system should be quite straightforward to scale up ... . Members of the research team have already formed a company, Propel Aero, to develop the technology" news.mit.edu/2025/new-fue...
May 30, 2025 at 5:29 AM