J. Ruud van Ommen 🟥

This is not Florida 😁

Op welke van de twee vragen antwoord je "yes"?

The EU wants to develop a network of fast train connections; it should be ready by 2040.

Message in Dutch:
nos.nl/artikel/2589...

The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

A Classic Graphic Reveals Nature’s Most Efficient Traveler. Spoiler: human on bicycle.

(I guess @nataliabarbour.bsky.social will like this)

www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

The successes and challenges of US–Soviet scientific communication Research exchanges between US and Soviet scientists during the second half of the 20th century may be instructive for navigating today’s debates on scientific c

The successes and challenges of US–Soviet scientific communication.

Research exchanges between US and Soviet scientists during the second half of the 20th century may be instructive for navigating today’s debates on scientific collaboration.

pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

A Nobel medal

BREAKING: The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal-organic frameworks”

Stay tuned for more.
#NobelPrize

Putting the Dutch offshore wind train back on the tracks Putting the Dutch offshore wind train back on the tracks

The Dutch offshore wind programme is in trouble. While 4.5 GW is in operation and another 1.5 GW under construction, the plan was to rapidly build out capacity to 21 GW by 2032. That is now out of reach.
My thoughts on how this happened, and what to do about it!
www.commonfutures.com/en/insights/...

This week, we had a great #PARTEC2025 symposium on particle techn.
Contributions from our team:
Hardlife Rambwawasvika on coating particles with #ALDep for controlled release pharma.
Rens Kamphorst on modeling agglomeration of nanoparticles.
Gabrie Meesters on stickiness.
Me on X-ray tomography.

Heel mooi, van harte Cees!

Switch off permission to use your content for AI

To do for Linkedin users.

What Will China’s Green-Tech Ambitions Cost the World?

“China’s clean-tech exports in 2024 alone will represent a 1 percent reduction in global emissions outside China.”

Bouw megatunnel tussen Duitsland en Denemarken opnieuw vertraagd KOPENHAGE - De bouw van de tunnel tussen het Duitse eiland Fehmarn en het Deense eiland Lolland loopt opnieuw vertraging op, meldt de projectontwikkelaar. Het miljarden euro's kostende project moest i...

More delays in construction of 18 km long tunnel Germany - Denmark. The opening of the rail&road tunnel, now planned for 2029, will be delayed further.

www.transport-online.nl/99954/bouw-m...

Die moet ik even gorgelen, sorry. Maar: veel plezier / succes.

‘Article broker’ in China trying to hook journal editors with fishy publishing deals Earlier this year, China’s supreme court said companies selling fake or low-quality research papers should be punished. But shady middlemen there continue to offer questionable deals to journal edi…

“It was clear to me that the ‘fast-track fee’ was a euphemism for ‘bribe,’” she told us, adding that fast-tracking is “unheard of” in mathematics.

Opening of the academic year at Delft University of Technology. Theme: can you hear the music?

Enjoy! And pls visit the poster of Kalani & Doga!

Map showing where capacity information is available (for supply and demand)

Daring project by my former colleague @maartensta.bsky.social, in his spare time: compiling a European grid capacity (scarcity) map! www.gridcapacitymaps.eu
Still a challenge to access the detailed information, due to language and other barriers, but a very useful project indeed.

Thanks! Will keep it in mind for our next Sweden trip!

Great! Where in Sweden are you currently?

Nice! But, it is already fall in the USA?

Come join us!

Another acceleration for Rotterdam’s energy transition | Rotterdam Partners Another acceleration for Rotterdam’s energy transition Air Liquide has made the final investment decision to build ELYgator – a 200 MW large-scale electrolyzer in Maasvlakte, Port of Rotterdam. Bac...

Air Liquide has taken a final investment decision on a 200MW electrolyser to produce H2 in the Port of Rotterdam, with TotalEnergies as a major client.

www.linkedin.com/posts/rotter...

Air Liquide greenlights 200MW Rotterdam green hydrogen plant The project will use both PEM and alkaline electrolyser technologies to produce 23,000 tonnes of hydrogen per year to meet demand in industrial and heavy-duty mobility applications.

Air Liquide has taken final investment decision on its 200MW green hydrogen project at the Port of Rotterdam, after securing subsidies from the Dutch government.
23,000 tonnes of green hydrogen per year, using electricity from offshore wind. To be operational in 2027.
www.h2-view.com/story/air-li...

Congrats!! 😬

Nu jij nog terug naar de Alma Mater... 😉

Een schuimende oplossing voor het PFAS-probleem Er ontstaat regelmatig ophef rondom PFAS. Het wordt steeds duidelijker hoeveel we in onze bodem en ons water hebben en hoe moeilijk het is om ervan af te komen. Sanne Smith heeft een oplossing om PFAS...

Een oplossing voor PFAS! Het wordt steeds duidelijker hoeveel PFAS we in ons water hebben en hoe lastig het is om ervan af te komen. Sanne Smith @tudelftceg.bsky.social heeft een oplossing om PFAS met schuim uit water te halen, in bestaande waterzuiveringssystemen.

www.tudelft.nl/stories/arti...

Frans Saris is overleden

Dirk van Delft schreef in NRC een prachtig in memoriam.

Ik sprak hem eens over de vraag of Rechten wel een wetenschappelijke discipline is.

Ik overtuigde hem niet en zei: ‘Frans, we heten dan ook Rechtsgeleerdheid’.

Hij antwoordde: ‘Ja, geléérd zijn jullie wel!’

#RIP