In one of the more politically themed activities in recent (YES-DC) history, two great lecturers shared their ideas on the political/ideological distortion of climate science. In a world where the effects of our changing climate are becoming more apparent with every passing year, getting the climate science right is surely a topic worthy of discussion. […]
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Clear your agenda for the YES-DC Young Energy Party in Utrecht, where you will meet YES-DC members as well as young professionals and students from sister organizations in the field of energy from the Netherlands. Event details: Time: From 19:00 until late… Location: Irish Pub ‘Mick O’ Connells’, Jansdam 3, Utrecht (http://www.mickoconnells.nl) From Utrecht Centraal,
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YES-DC takes you to the largest energy port in Europe: Rotterdam! On September 30, we will visit E.ON, the Tweede Maasvlakte, and Argos. In the morning we visit E.ON to learn about the construction of their new coal-fired power plant. Afterwards, we tour the Tweede Maasvlakte to see the expansion of the harbour with our
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On the the 27th of june our YES-DC activity was on local renewable energy initiatives. Pauline Westendorp was truly a very interesting speaker. She told us about her work with NewNRG and the initiatives she is involved with like “Wij Krijgen Kippen”. Its aim is to unite all initiatives in Amsterdam-Zuid to work together in
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This event will be about the very exciting and rapidly developing field of local renewable energy initiatives. It will offer a ‘view in the kitchen’ of different local renewable energy initiatives and organisations that support them. Speakers Saskia Kluit Chairman of Energie U, the local renewable energy initiative from Utrecht, and board member of
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By Katrin Heer Once per year the world’s policy makers meet under the auspices of the United Nations in order to negotiate on common strategies to tackle climate change. Between and as a preparation to these annual high-level conferences, there are several intermediary climate change conferences where advisory committees and working groups to the UN
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This event is organised by the NJR (National Youth Council), and will be held in Dutch. De GasTerra Challenge is de wedstrijd over energietransitie. Je bedenkt tijdens de Transitie Inspiratiesessie in groepjes ideeën voor duurzame energie. Voorkennis is geen must, leuke ideeën wel. Quintel intelligence geeft een interactieve presentatie over het Energie Transitie Model. Inspiratrice
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On a beautiful day in the very beginning of June, two busloads of YES-DC people headed off on a brave expedition to the Jülich Research Center, near Aachen in Germany. This impressively large state-owned non-profit institution with roughly four and a half thousand employees, has a large department on climate and energy research. So, besides
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Forschungszentrum Jülich is one of the largest independent interdisciplinary research centres in Europe, and covers an area of 2.2 square kilometres. Research at Jülich is divided into four research areas: health, information, environment, and energy. We will visit TEXTOR, the largest nuclear fusion experiment in Julich. In experiments, hydrogen is heated to a temperature of
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Well, that was surely one of the more flashy and entertaining activities we’ve had in a while! We were visited by Gieljan de Vries of the Dutch institute for nuclear fusion Rijnhuizen, who gave us an excellent show, starting of with some basic thoughts on energy use and ending up talking about current developments in nuclear fusion. We
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Young Energy Specialists and Development Co-operation (YES-DC) is an association of students and young professionals interested and/or working in the field of energy and international co-operation.