In today’s Episode Alexander Prinsen interviews István Kenyeres, Founder of Biopolus about the Future of Waste Water Systems and Rebirthing of Water.
About István Kenyeres
https://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.istvan.kenyeres
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenyeres/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Istvan_Kenyeres
2:40 Biopolus website: www.biopolus.org/
Biomakery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTvXRCTty9k&t=17s
4:30 Technology Platform
http://www.biopolus.org/technology/
The Power of Water (Dutch) https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/tegenlicht/kijk/afleveringen/2013-2014/de-kracht-van-water.html – 36.40
5:25 Urban Metabolic Hubs – Biomakeries
http://www.biopolus.org/challenge/
Urban Metabolism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_metabolism
Urban Metabolism: A Review of Current Knowledge and Directions for Future Study
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.est.5b03060?src=recsys
08:25 Open Innovation Platform
08:55 Metabolic Network Reactor System
https://www.budapestwatersummit.hu/data/images/%C5%B0rlapok%20ki%C3%A1ll%C3%ADt%C3%B3khoz/BIOPOLUS.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_network
09:05 John Todd – Living Machine [1]
https://news.psu.edu/story/140601/2000/09/01/research/living-machine
http://www.toddecological.com/index.php?id=services
11:30 John Todd – Living Machine [2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_machine
http://archive.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/uu16se/uu16se0d.htm
13:50 Artificial Root structures & Sub Ecosystems
16:50 Effluent water becomes Spring Quality
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effluent
18:00 Decentralised & Hub System approach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_wastewater_system
https://www.wateronline.com/doc/the-water-revolution-moving-to-a-decentralized-system-0001
20:10 Circularity Challenges – Create closed habitat
Returning of matter (including harm full ones)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_ecological_system
https://www.wired.com/2016/02/the-strange-messy-history-of-self-sustaining-habitats/
http://www.spacestationresearch.com/tag/closed-habitat/
http://closedhabitatsforum.esa.int/
21:45 Physics first, than biology and finally chemical solutions
How to clean waste water systems.
23:20 Circularity Mindset – Example
Samantha Cristoforetti – Italian European Space Agency astronaut,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Cristoforetti
https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Astronauts/Samantha_Cristoforetti
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/cristoforetti_transcript.pdf
25:10 Monastery & Trappist brewery Koningshoeven The Netherlands
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koningshoeven_Abbey
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Koningshoeven_Brewery
https://english.rvo.nl/initiatives/energy-innovation-projects/biomakerij
26:10 Rebirthing of Water
See also my conversation with Curt Hallberg: https://youtu.be/QED8yCbGW0w
28:00 MELiSSA European Space Agency Closed Loop Research
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MELiSSA
https://www.esa.int/esasearch?q=melissa
http://www.melissafoundation.org
https://phys.org/news/2018-09-closed-loop-astronauts-alive-space-circular.html
35:00 Metabolic Network Hubs – Cellular System
36:00 Urban Planning – Urban Cellular Cells
37:50 Projects
Trappist brewery water recycling system
Strijp-S Industrial Redevelopment – Eindhoven – http://edepot.wur.nl/391156
https://www.deingenieur.nl/artikel/trappisten-zuiveren-water-ecologisch
43:25 Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University –
https://www.wctv.tv/content/news/FAMU-signs-agreement-to-create-ecologically-engineered-energy-water-waste-facility-419315924.html
44:45 Ted Talk Istvan
http://www.tedxdanubia.com/videos/going-to-mars-healing-the-earth-istvan-kenyeres-tedxdanubia-1
Ellen MacArthur Foundation Summit 2017 : https://youtu.be/BmQ5ifkkBAU
48:00 Entrepreneurship Lessons
49:35 Arthur Rimbaud – French Poet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rimbaud
Poet as a Chair
53:45 Creative Ecologist
Ecosystems are adaptive, evolving, dynamic, resilient and thus moving into a direction.
Creativity: find the solution which is not there. Seeing the missing part for the system
Discovery the void which can be filled
56.40 One Straw Revolution – Masanobu Fukuoka
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Fukuoka
58:50 Urban City Planning Challenges
https://resourceefficientcities.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Urban-Metabolism-for-Resource-Efficient-Cities.pdf
What is Urban Metabolism? – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu-a1hFEV7Q
01:01:00 City Doctor
01:05:55 Alexander Von Humboldt – The invention of Nature
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/13/the-invention-of-nature-the-adventures-of-alexander-von-humboldt-andrea-wulf-review
https://www.amazon.com/Invention-Nature-Alexander-Humboldts-World/dp/0345806298
01:07:25 David Quammen – Tangled Tree, Radical History of Life
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Quammen
http://www.davidquammen.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Tangled-Tree-Radical-History-Life/dp/1476776628
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/books/review/david-quammen-tangled-tree.html
01:09:30 Ed Yong – I contain multitudes
https://edyong.me/i-contain-multitudes
https://www.amazon.com/Contain-Multitudes-Microbes-Within-Grander/dp/0062368591
https://youtu.be/MbTntA0kLZ4
01:12:00 Rap up – Until Next time!
