#75 Solar Modules For The Whole World
We are very honored to meet Gerald Müller, the Head of sales of LONGi for Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Gerald represents LONGi Solar – the world leading solar technology company, which is our Platinum Sponsor and supported Larso with ultra-high-efficiency solar cells.
Under the mission of “To make the best of solar energy to build a green world” with a brand positioning of “The most trusted, reliable solar company that blazes the trail for green technology, LONGi is developing solutions for large-scale power plants, for different industries and households with its innovation-focused development.
With 15 manufacturing bases and more than 30 branches around the world, LONGi produces monocrystalline silicon wafers and modules, delivering solutions for distributed and ground mount power station systems, promoting the development of the global PV industry and driving energy transformation. The company’s shipments have been among the industry’s highest for a number of years and, in 2020, it became the first manufacturer to ship more than 20GW of modules in a year.
Learn more about LONGi: https://www.longi.com/en/
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#74 SUNfarming Food and Energy
SUNfarming has build structures with solar panels to gain energy and, at the same time, provide shelter for plants, crops and animals. This company promotes the dual-use concept of energy production and sustainable cultivation.
The SUNfarming Eco-Solar concept offers added value in terms of biodiversity and promotes greater biodiversity among the modules through vegetation with flowering seeds and grasses as well as maintenance through extensive sheep grazing.
The SUNfarming Agri-Solar concept offers an ideal weather protection and foil tunnel replacement. The agricultural use with approvable construction heights includes fruit & vegetables, herbs, flowers as well as cultivation of special crops & berry fruits (e.g. strawberries, raspberries, blueberries).
Learn more: https://sunfarming.de/en/home-2
#73 Liver Detoxification Providing Time For Regeneration or Bridging To Transplant
The SolarButterfly interviewed Dr. Ralf Kähler, Head of Research and Development at Albutec GmbH.
Albutec is a research and development company with a seasoned team of professionals gathering decades of experience in liver support. Their mission is to advance ECAD (Extracorporeal Albumin Dialysis) to the next stage. ECAD Systems were once considered a last resort (bridge to transplant). But this is changing as a new generation of clinicians are increasingly utilizing the devices in emerging therapy options for an entirely new range of indications and conditions in patients with acute or acute on chronic liver failure.
Therefore, they developed a proprietary platform technology for effective liver support that performs best in class detoxification in an extracorporeal set-up with the utmost safety and usability.
Liver disease accounts for approximately 2 million deaths per year worldwide with numbers rising over the last decade. The COVID-19 Pandemia will further accelerate the appearance of liver disease due to a worldwide increase of obesity and alcohol use.
Accumulated toxins due to liver failure lead to secondary organ failure & inhibit liver recovery. Many of these toxins are reversibly bound to albumin (ALB) in the blood circulation and cannot be removed by conventional dialysis treatments.
Albutec’s HepalbinTM adsorbents are capable of effectively removing albumin bound toxins through the dialysis membrane. Significant improvements can be demonstrated by laboratory measures including Albumin Binding Capacity (ABiC). This is the decisive change as the all new HepalbinTM Maxicycler has a significant impact on regeneration and survival.
Learn more: https://albutec.eu/
#72 Sustainable Climate Hotel Near the Baltic Sea
Eco? Logically!
Uta Janbeck is the Creative director, passionate photographer, source of ideas and master of housekeeping, hostess at Janbeck’s FAIRhaus. She lives by the sea and she is a host with a green heart passionate about sustainability. Janbeck’s FAIRhaus is a climate hotel located in Gelting, near the Baltic Sea. When they started everything at Janbeck’s FAIRhaus more than 20 years ago , the only thought at first was to save resources: combined heat and power plants, two water circuits, the fully biological sewage treatment plant.
Our team called Janbeck’s Fairhouse the “slow life paradise”. It is really so: the day begins with waking up in a bio bed created by a local carpenter.
Breakfast includes only local homemade ingredients. Then you can go for raspberry picking walk on their 4 hectares space. Or you can feed the chickens together with Uta. It’s only a 25-minute walk to the sea. Their guest house is one of 10 climate hotels in Germany.
Learn more about Janbeck’s Fairhouse: https://janbecks.de/
#71 Climate education park
Artefakt ist das nördlichste Kinder-, Jugend- und Erwachsenenbildungszentrum in Deutschland. Sie bieten ein breites Spektrum an Bildungsmöglichkeiten – darunter globales Lernen und Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung (BNE) – und sie machen die Energiewende in unserem Klimapark erlebbar. Sie haben auch die Möglichkeit, einen ökologischen Urlaub in unserem einzigartigen Gästehaus zu verbringen.
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Werner Kiwitt is the CEO of artefact, which is an International training centre for sustainable development in Glücksburg, Baltic Sea and Germany. Artefact operates the Centre as a meeting-place for educational programmes and congresses with a futuristic infrastructure.
Learn more: https://www.artefact.de/
#70 Capital city of cyclists
62% of the people of this city live and work there and they are commuting to work by bicycle. This is the leading cycling capital of the world. We are talking about the Danish capital city – Copenhagen. The SolarButterfly was honored to talk with Marianne Weinreich, Cycling Planner at the Danish Company Ramboll and Chair of the Cycling Embassy of Denmark.
Learn more about Ramboll: https://ramboll.com/
Cycling Embassy of Denmark: https://cyclingsolutions.info/cycling…
#69 Living Autark and Totally Autonomous
On the way to Malmö the SolarButterfly met Gert Thell. He is a great local pioneer who tries to produce as much electricity as he uses. His aim is to be totally autonomous while running his house, garden and leisure time.
You can contact Gert via his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/gert.thell
Also you can learn more about his services on his website: https://blagardenkonsulttjanst.se/
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#68 Silent Electric Boat Tours On The Fjords of Norway
How does a fully #electric boat look like? How many hours can the boat be in service without recharging? How many people can fit in this boat?
The #SolarButterfly interviewed Karoline Viberg Skahjem, Head of Content and Sustainability at Brim Explorer in Oslo, Norway.
By creating experiences that bring people closer to the ocean, Brim Explorer hope to leave its guests with a stronger #environmental understanding and #engagement than when they arrived.
Learn more about Brim Explorer: https://brimexplorer.com/
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#67 Fossil Free Steel
Did you know that steel industry is responsible worldwide for 8% of all the CO2 emissions? Steel was always have been produced with coal, because it takes a lot of energy to heat up all steal materials. Is it possible to produce steel without producing steel without using coal, without making any emissions at all?
YES! – says Thomas Hörnfeldt and the Swedish company SSAB which aims to be the first steel company in the world to bring fossil-free steel to the market already in 2026.
Believe it or not, we started 3 month ago in Geneva, we have so far covered northern Europe, we have gone to the North Cape and down in Sweden. Now we are in Copenhagen and next week our crew will be in Germany.
Find more information about SSAB on their website: https://www.ssab.com/en
#66 High Efficiency Tandem Solar Cells
Our #SolarButterfly has high-efficiency solar cells produced by LONGi – our Platinum Sponsor and our cells are converting 25% of solar of the sunlight into electricity. Many people says that we will never reach more energy, but in Uppsala they are doing research about tandem solar cells and they believe that in the future we may see 40-45% of efficiency.
Learn more about the efficiency of solar cells from Marika Edoff, Professor, Leader of the division of Solar Cell Technology.
Find more information about Uppsala University which is a TOP ranked research and education university: https://www.uu.se/en
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