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The theme of renewable and sustainable energy has gained increasing relevance in the global context, with a growing focus on mitigating climate change and seeking environmentally responsible energy solutions. However, to achieve true transformation, it is essential to consider not only the technical and economic aspects but also the social and community implications of this transition.

This presentation proposes to explore the intersection between renewable and sustainable energy and community social intervention, highlighting the potential synergies between these areas to drive local development. By adopting a holistic approach, we can identify opportunities to integrate clean energy initiatives with social intervention programs that strengthen communities, promote social inclusion, and stimulate the local economy, prioritising community participation and sustainable development, to build a more resilient and inclusive society, where renewable energy not only powers our homes but also strengthens our communities.

Case studies and best practices demonste how the implementation of renewable energy projects can catalyze community development, creating local jobs, improving quality of life, and strengthening community resilience in the face of socio-economic and environmental challenges. The challenges and opportunities associated with integrating renewable energy in community contexts, include issues of access, equity, and governance, and simultaneously strategic ways to actively engage communities in the planning and implementation of sustainable energy initiatives aligned with local needs. By joining efforts and sharing knowledge, we can create a future where renewable energy is not just a source of electricity, but also a driving force for human and community development.

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Helena Belchior Rocha, PhD in Social Work, is an Assistant professor at ISCTE- University Institute of Lisbon in the Department of Political Science and Public Policies and subdirector of the Soft Skills Lab and Director of the Transversal Competences Nucleos. Integrated researcher at CIES, Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, linked to national and international research projects, namely 3 from Marie Curie Actions. She was pionner in Ecology and sustainability in Social Work creating the EcoSocial Model for intervention. Coordinator of the 1st year of Social Work Graduation,. Scientific Coordinator of the Cost Action Line - Digital Human Rights, and member of K-Peritia (culture expertize) Cost Action Line. Author of papers and communications at national and international congresses, in the areas of social work theory and methodology, environment, sustainability, community Intervention, ethics, human rights, social policies and Well-being, education and soft skills. Member of the Editorial Board of national/international journals. Member of Inclusive Policy Lab UNESCO. Award of the Development Networks Award - Project "Promotion of Education for Global Citizenship - UN17" (ISCTE-IUL / COI Foundation)

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Multicellular bacterial biofilms form spatial patterns and interfaces to achieve complex functionality, promising applications like programmable biomaterials, artificial tissues, and metabolic consortia for synthesizing chemicals. Our ability to rationally engineer such systems is still limited, and synthetic cell-cell adhesins play a key role. My lab developed synthetic and optogenetic approaches to cell-cell adhesion for bacterial self-assembly and patterning [Glass, Cell, 2018; Jin, PNAS, 2018]. I will discuss demonstrate a synthetic 4-bit cell-cell adhesin logic to experimentally program and mathematically model universal two-dimensional interface patterns [Kim, Nature, 2022]. These interfaces are generated through a swarming adhesion mechanism that enables precise control over interface geometry as well as adhesion-mediated analogs of developmental organizers and morphogen fields. I will discuss the biophysical characterization of these synthetic adhesin tools and their applications to engineering biomaterials [Costan, Matter, 2024 in press]. Finally, I will discuss how such patterned microbial consortia can facilitate biochemical synthesis of drugs and the reduction of green-house gases – with a particular focus on the two-way-conversion between methane and value chemicals / electricity [Wood, RSER, 2023]. 

Biography

Ingmar H. Riedel-Kruse received a Diploma in theoretical solid-state physics (Technical University Dresden), a PhD in experimental biophysics (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics), followed by a postdoc (California Institute of Technology). He became an Assistant Professor for Bioengineering (Stanford University), and later an Associate Professor for Molecular and Cellular Biology (University of Arizona; courtesy affiliations in Applied Mathematics, Biomedical Engineering, and Physics). He runs an interdisciplinary lab integrating synthetic biology, biophysics, and human-computer interaction design, with a current research focus on engineering and modeling and multicellular bacterial systems to foster the human condition and support sustainability.

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The talk by Prof. Friedrich Grimm concerns a fusion reactor for which quantum effective geometry conditions are described to achieve permanent electromagnetic plasma confinement. Symmetry conditions within a double helix are identified for charged particles with spin quantum number 1/2 to return to their original spin state within one orbit through the double helix, allowing the electromagnetically induced fluid dynamics of the plasma to be understood as a harmonic ring oscillation. This harmonic oscillation achieves dynamic equilibrium within the high-energy state of a fusion plasma. The proposal for a novel fusion reactor also includes the technical principles for assembling the fusion reactor with the quantum-mechanically effective double helix, designed as an integrated system composed of modular components and functional elements. This integrated system enables continuous plasma confinement in the plasma vessel of the fusion reactor for an unlimited period of time. The fusion reactor in question is centred at the intersection of a space defined by longitudinal, transverse and vertical axes. It's designed to achieve stable electromagnetic confinement of a plasma volume within a plasma vessel surrounded by multiple Helmholtz coils. The plasma volume is organized in a multitude of layers around a central magnetic field line consisting of four identical arcs with four vertices and four connecting points arranged on a radius around a centre point. This central magnetic field line is surrounded by concentric helix surfaces, which provide space for the inclusion of off-centre magnetic field lines in multiple layers. Helmholtz coils, positioned at regular intervals across the central magnetic field line, induce an electromagnetic current in the plasma and, in conjunction with a chiasmus of the looped magnetic field lines, force a fourfold inversion of the spin of charged particles with a quantum number of 1/2 along a zero line of the ring oscillations, spanning two periods of harmonic ring oscillations. Within the concentric layers of the plasma volume and between the tube surfaces, deuterium and tritium nuclei and electrons are guided along spiral eccentric magnetic field lines, with equal path lengths for electrons and ions. The operational capability of the fusion reactor is made possible by a coil cooling system, a plasma heating system, a plasma vessel heat transfer system, a plasma vessel support structure and a fuel injection system. The reactor enables continuous operation by allowing the nuclei of deuterium and tritium to collide at temperatures between 100 and 400 million degrees Celsius and speeds exceeding 1000 km/s. This collision triggers a chain reaction that causes the nuclei to fuse to form helium, releasing a million times more thermal energy than would be possible in any exothermic chemical reaction. This is why fusion is so fascinating, and why it holds the promise of elegantly solving humanity's pressing energy problems.

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Prof. Friedrich Grimm was born in Stuttgart in 1954. He studied architecture at the University of Stuttgart and at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago in 1980. After having finished his studies in 1981, he worked as an employed architect and later on temporarily joined the scientific staff of the Institute for Building Construction at the University of Stuttgart. During his practice as a freelanced architect, since 1989 he took part in competitions and completed several multifamily houses in southern Germany. Due to a series of books, which he has written in the field of steel construction, edited by Ernst & Sohn in Berlin (2003), and one the subject of one family homes, edited by Callwey in Munich (2006), he was nominated a professor honorary in 2009 by the faculty one, for architecture and urban design at the university of Stuttgart. In 2016, he founded the RES- Institute as a completely independent think tank in the field of renewable energies. Since then he works with passion and endurance on projects matching the RES-Institutes obligation to provide blueprints for a friendly climate on earth. Several patents in the field of concentrated solar thermal systems led him into the field of optics where he invented a wide angel sensor, recording light signals with infinite depth of field in real time. Among his inventions there is also a new achromatic lens focusing light of different wave lengths, even x-rays. His latest invention relates to a quantum mechanical device which, making use of the electronic spin of quantum particles with spin number 1/2, to create a fluid dynamic equilibrium within an electromagnetically enclosed plasma of a fusion reactor, by a regular change of the spin's angular momentum.

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Susbainable development is the ideology and practical strategy of the present and future socio-economic development in harmony with nature. A wide range of policies and practical activities have been launched at a global, national and regional level for achieving sustainable development since WCED suggested its concept and implication in 1987. In 2015, United Nations adopted a set of sustainable development goals to be achieved over the next 15 years as a follow-up action plan of millennium development goals. However, it is true that sustainable development is not achieved as successfully as planned. Its evidences are the facts that we are still faced with serous climate change and natural disasters. This would mean that sustainable development has limitations in its concept and implication. Nonetheless, it is quite rare to conduct a research on the limitations. In such a context, this presentation aims at exploring the limitations and how to overcome them.

This paper will first review the concept and implications of sustainable development and the critical debates on sustainable development from the 19th century and to the 2000s, and then will draw the limitations inherent in sustainable development from the review.

The limitations are synthesized into four categories – horizontal perspective, not includisve coverage of social sector as a conceptual component, less efficient approach to the adhievement of sustainable development, and no mechanism for drawing social consensus necessary for achieving sustainable development. Then, this paper examines what and how to overcome the limitations in a way to focus on what the existing concept and implications of sustainable should be modified and/or supplemented. Finally, this paper lies in proposing a new direction of the coexistence between humans and nature for achieving sustainable development

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Dr. Dai-Yeun Jeong is presently the Director of Asia Climate Change Education Center and an Emeritus Professor of Environmental Sociology at Jeju National University (South Korea). He received BA and MA Degree in Sociology from Korea University (South Korea), and PhD in Environmental Sociology from University of Queensland (Australia). He was a Professor of environmental sociology at Jeju National University (South Korea) from 1981 to 2012. His past major professional activities include a Teaching Professor at University of Sheffield in UK, the President of Asia-Pacific Sociological Association, a Delegate of South Korean Government to UNFCCC and OECD Environmental Meeting, etc. He has published 13 books including Environmental Sociology, and has conducted 95 environment-related research projects funded by domestic and international organizations.

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Russia’s unprovoked, unjustified war of aggression on Ukraine is a clear and poignant example of the real threat to democracies from autocratic states. Yet, Russia’s invasion is not an isolated case, as the 2022 war follows a period of democratic retrenchment worldwide from 75% (119) in 1995 to 67% (or 101) of the number of democratic countries by 2015. The observed global rise of autocracies calls for a debate on the worldwide state of democracy today and a reflection on the potential outcome of the global surge of autocracies in the political arena and the danger this poses to global peace and security. The debate is particularly vital given the current invasion of a democratic, sovereign Ukraine by the autocratic regime of Russia that includes targets of energy infrastructures, including nuclear power stations, and that uses energy security as a weapon against Ukrainian civilians. Russia's use of its fossil fuel supply as a hostage tool against other sovereign nations or as a tool of persuasion in its aggressive political game aimed at the subjugation of sovereign countries amplifies the urgency to consider Global Renewable Energy and Energy Security as the Pathways to Global Peace and Security.  The proposed study’s objective is to use a broad, multivariate, multilevel analytic framework to develop a deeper look at the effects of rising authoritarianism on global energy security and to propose a comprehensive model of the dynamic trends of receding democracy and the rise of autocracy across the world, and its relation to global energy security as pathways to Global Peace and Security. Compared to my previous published work on the worldwide diffusion of democracy, the proposed study assumes that these processes are likely multivariate and include endogenous and exogenous factors. Multilevel, multivariate analysis of the effects of weakening democracies and rising autocracies on global energy security allows us to derive empirical data explaining the impacts and consequences on individual countries' security and peace.

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Dr. Barbara Wejnert is Professor in the Department of Environment and Sustainability and is also a faculty member at the Jaeckel Center for Law, Democracy, and Governing at the University at Buffalo. She is an award-winning author of research papers specializing in democracy, politics and energy security, political sociology, environmental sustainability, and gender. Her interdisciplinary, transnational research focuses on the worldwide diffusion of democracy, the rise of autocracy, and the effects of these changes on energy democracy, environmental sustainability, and gender equity. She is an author and editor of 14 books, including Diffusion of Democracy ( 2014), published by Cambridge University Press, a database Nations, Development and Democracy (2005) published by the Interuniversity Consortium for Social and Political Research, and over 80 peer-reviewed articles in professional journals related to democratizing processes and their consequences on environmental politics and sustainability, gender equality, and development. In 2016, her work on gender and democracy received the Inaugural Arlene Kaplan Daniels Paper Award. Her work on the diffusion of democracy was honored by its presentation at the US Congressional Reception as a poster highlighting sociological research with national policy significance.

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Mikes achievements reflect his dedication to creating a sustainable future by creating technology that recycles 100% of aerosol cans and their contents. Not only does this technology capture the metals but it also captures the liquid contents and propellant gasses for further waste to energy solutions,” Under the joint leadership of Mike Mackay and Eelco Osse of Despray environmental the transformation of aerosol recycling from a previous unsafe, unrecyclable waste stream into a safe and 100% recyclable waste stream. “Eliminating these aerosol greenhouse gas emitting propellants and the hazardous liquid waste contents from entering our atmosphere contributes to a more sustainable planet.”  Every spray can counts! Currently over 16 Billion Aerosol cans per year are produced worldwide. Due to the potential Fire and Explosion risks, Aerosol cans are almost completely untouched as recyclable yet the technology exists right now to turn an otherwise unrecyclable into a 100% recycling success story. Great efforts are currently being made to recycle the metal cans. Upwards of 90% less energy is needed to recycle the metal vs. mining raw materials. Mike will be focusing on 100% recycling of the Liquid contents and the LPG propellants. The metals will also be recycled 100% as a result.

Despray's half of a billion milestone of recycled aerosols is more than a numerical achievement. It represents a steadfast commitment to reducing the environmental impact of aerosol waste which has otherwise been unchecked. As Despray continues to innovate this technology and expand its influence, it remains focused on leading the industry towards a more sustainable future. Join Mike to learn more about the Aerosol recycling methods and a new way to view the recycling of this challenging waste stream.

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Mike Mackay is a visionary leader and a globally recognized expert in aerosol recycling technology. As the managing director at DeSpray Environmental, he has devoted 2 ½ decades to the advancement of aerosol recycling. His leadership has been crucial in developing and promoting DeSpray's innovative recycling technology on a global scale. Under Mackay's direction, DeSpray Environmental has achieved significant milestones, including a collaboration with some of the largest waste companies Worldwide. In the USA mike is responsible for system installation in with key recycling companies including US Ecology , Aerosol recycle, GRR, and Cleanlites. These companies can now offer 100% aerosol recycling services in the United States. Implementing 100% aerosol recycling safely and efficiently addresses an otherwise hard to handle waste streams by offering a complete waste-to-energy solution for aerosol cans. Under MacKays guidance DeSpray's unique technology is capable of safely capturing the metal, the liquid waste and the propellant back into LPG for 100% reuse as an alternative fuel. Despray leads the World in technology and commitment to sustainable and profitable recycling solutions. Mackay's passion and dedication are evident in his role in initiating and developing aerosol recycling technologies since 1998. His efforts have been fundamental in introducing DeSpray's advanced recycling systems to the international market, reinforcing the company's status as a trailblazer in the industry.

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Semiconductor based photochemical and photoelectrochemical water splitting is an ultimate source of hydrogen generation as renewable green energy for tackling the ongoing fuel crisis. g-C3N4 is an ideal candidate for overall water splitting as a result of the excellent alignment of its band edges with water redox potentials. However, a single catalyst with a limited number of active sites does not exhibit significant photo/electrocatalytic activity for hydrogen production. Therefore, we have developed the semiconductor heterostructures of g-C3N4 with CuFe2O4 , Cu2O, CdSe, CdS and MoS2 NPs and QDs as the highly efficient nanocatalysts for enhanced hydrogen evolution reactions. The monophasic heterostructures have been designed in different weight ratios with fairly uniform distribution of nearly spherical particles and high specific surface area which creates an interfacial charge transfer between two semiconductors. As prepared heterostructures showed significant hydrogen evolution which is evident by observing high apparent quantum yield, low onset potential, lower overpotential and high electrochemical active surface area that will be presented in detail.

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Prof. Tokeer Ahmad is graduated from IIT Roorkee and Ph.D. from IIT Delhi. Presently, he is full Professor at Department of Chemistry, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi since 2019. Prof. Ahmad has supervised 16 PhD’s, 79 postgraduates, 10 projects, published 184 research papers, one patent and three books with research citation of 6800, h-index of 49 and i10-index of 139. Prof. Ahmad is active reviewer of 163 journals, delivered 162 Invited talks, evaluated 56 external doctoral theses and presented 128 conference papers. Prof. Ahmad is the recipient of MRSI Medal, SMC Bronze Medal, ISCAS Medal, Inspired Teacher’s President of India Award, DST-DFG award, Distinguished Scientist Award, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Excellence Award of Education, Teacher’s Excellence Award and elected as Member of National Academy of Sciences India. Prof. Ahmad has been figured in World Top 2% Scientists for consecutive last four years in both coveted lists including career long by Stanford University, USA. Prof. Ahmad has been recently admitted as Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), UK.

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Our economic system has been sustained for several hundred years by energy, which has played a fundamental role in the development and implementation of most of sectors. According to the International Energy Agency, energy-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have grown by 1% in 2022. To avoid further damage to the planet, major changes are needed, then an energy transition is indispensable if the planet is to have a cleaner future in terms of energy consumption and production. Climate finance play a key role in this transition because it allow to study public and private investment flows to mitigate the risks associated with climate change and thus redirect investments towards cleaner energies. Given the relevance of climate finance in the energy transition, this study aims to empirically analyze the risk-return duality for a global set of energy companies framed in fossil fuels and renewable energy. Through portfolio management, an optimization and simulation analysis is carried out to verify the portfolio’s performance according to the weights of each company in the portfolios. The results show that fossil fuel companies have a greater presence than renewable energy companies in the portfolios optimized by standard deviation and by the modified Sharpe ratio, indicating that, a priori, the financial markets are not in favor of renewable energies in terms of risk-return. These results have worrying practical implications as it highlights the lack of predisposition of the financial markets towards the energy transition in terms of investment. Public agencies and institutions should be held accountable for these issues in order to try to modify their economic and energy policies.

Biography

Antonio García holds a degree in Marketing and Market Research from the University of Almeria. of Almeria; Master's Degree in Accounting and Corporate Finance and MBA from the University of Almeria; Master in Financial Management from NEXT Business School; and PhD in Sustainable Finance and the Oil and Gas industry from the University of Almeria. After more than 5 years of experience in the private sector in the accounting and financial department of several companies, he is currently working as an Assistant Professor within the Area of Financial Economics and Accounting at the University of Almeria. With more than 15 communications to congresses and several publications in academic journals, the main pillars of the research line are: sustainable finance, energy transition and the Oil and Gas industry.

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The concentrated solar power plants contains an advantage of storing thermal energy, this storage technique allows to have a control and guarantee the operation of the solar power plant during the night and the passage of clouds. Energy storage can be classified into three main families such as; latent storage, sensitive storage (temperature rise of solid or liquid material) and thermochemical storage (reversibility principle of a reaction). A nanofluid is a combination between nanoparticles and a base fluid, the nanoparticles such as (single element, alloys, single element oxides, multi element oxides ), and the base fluid can be (water, oil, glycerol, molten salt, etc). The integration of nanoparticles in a base fluid can play a very important role on the improvement of these thermophysical properties, and can be used as fluid storage. The main objective of this work is to study numerically the effects of nanoparticles on the thermophysical properties of the nanofluid, and to determine the most optimal nanofluid for use as a heat transfer fluid in concentrated solar power plants. The nanoparticles examined were metal oxides (SIO ,MgO and Fe3O4), which were dispersed in two different base fluids ( Therminol VP-1 , Syltherm 800),and we evaluated their thermal properties such as: density, thermal conductivity and heat capacity. First, we set the temperature at 400°C and varied the nanoparticle concentration from 0 to 4%. Finally, we set the temperature from 200 to 400°C and set the nanoparticle concentration at 1%. The results obtained are very encouraging and show that the addition of nanoparticles to a base fluid improves its thermophysical properties compared with the pure base fluid, and the nanofluid (Fe3O4 /Therminol Vp1) is the best selected for use as a heat transfer fluid in concentrated solar power plants.

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Dr Zouaoui Salah is a Senior Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering option Energy , Faculty of Construction Engineering, University of Mouluod Mammeri, Tizi Ouzou, Algeria. Mr Boufoudi Fatah is a PhD-researcher in Mechanical Engineering option Energy, Faculty of Construction Engineering, University of Mouluod Mammeri, Tizi Ouzou, Algeria

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Our physical and cyber environments are becoming increasingly intertwined with smarter sensing, communication, and data analytics. Our daily livings are indeed surrounded by a wide variety of sensors, IoT connectivity, and edge computing devices, constituting smart grid, smart city, smart transportation, and so on. The availability of sensing devices with measurement, communication, and processing capabilities is providing fine-grained data. Together with multimodal sensory data collection and sensor fusion can result in actionable insights and decisions. This synergy can lead to improved ways and quality of life in what we call smart living. 

Magnetism is one of the six energy forms of measurands in sensing. Magnetic sensing plays a critical role in smart living due to various sources of magnetic fields such as magnetic fields from current-carrying wires and permanent magnets which are geometrically determined by Biot-Savart Law and Ampere's Law respectively. These magnetic fields can range from DC to AC, from low frequency to high frequency. Modern civilization heavily relies on electricity which are generated, transmitted, and utilized through various kinds of transmission medium and electrical machines that are composed of current-carrying conductors, electromagnets, and permanent magnets. As such, magnetic field sensing is an important source of data and thus information for condition monitoring of power generation, transmission, and distribution.   

In this talk, we will discuss the various opportunities and alternatives magnetic field sensing can offer in condition monitoring and anomaly detection in smart grid and smart city. Since it is contactless sensing, its installation is easy and it can be easily retrofitted to the existing plant and equipment. This will minimize cost, avoid wear and tear, and meet stringent reliability requirement. Contactless magnetic sensing can complement the traditional contact measurement techniques and help to overcome the major obstacle towards pervasive sensing due to its scalability.

Biography

Philip W. T. Pong received a B.Eng. from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2002 with 1st class honours. Then he obtained a PhD in engineering at the University of Cambridge in 2005. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Magnetic Materials Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for three years. Currently he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). His research interest focuses on the fault detection, predictive maintenance, and anomaly detection of power grid. He is the Founding Director of the Green Technology Research and Training Laboratory, leading the research and education activities of offshore wind energy at NJIT. Philip Pong is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET), a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP), a Fellow of the Energy Institute (FEI), a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM), a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (FHKIE), a Fellow of the NANOSMAT Society (FNS), a chartered physicist (CPhys), a chartered engineer (CEng), a chartered energy engineer, a registered professional engineer (R.P.E. in Electrical, Electronics, Energy), and a Senior Member of IEEE (SMIEEE). He serves on the editorial boards for several IEEE and SCI journals.

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Waves have an energy deposit that is constantly dissipated. SEWAT allows: • the exploitation of a new energy source; • the fight against energy waste; • the sustainable use of natural resources and territory; • to contribute to the energy transition; • to protect the coast from erosion; • to collect waste transported by the sea; • to monitor fish species. the SEWAT project: • reflects numerous Sustainable Development objectives of the UN 2030 Agenda ( 1 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 12 - 14); • does not produce waste, waste water and CO2 an uses common materials that are entirely recyclable; • it is free from risks, even accidental, for the environment and for the community; • it is scalable and replicable; • does not significantly impact the environment: The construction of a succession of modular concrete tanks, placed in the sea, is planned. The wall exposed to the waves is equipped to capture the water from the waves that crash and fill the tank. Energy is produced in three ways with the same device: • exploiting, with turbines, the flow of water accumulated in the tank into the sea • exploiting the movement of the mobile gates • exploiting the water hammer that is generated in the moving mass of water. The system is extremely simple but has a large production capacity. Taking energy from sea waves to make it available prevents the natural process of its waste and dissipation. Consequently, its use does not alter the balance of other ecosystems without occupying productive territory.

Biography

I was a soldier in the Italian Army serving as a technical services officer in the motorization sector.engineer, teacher of marine machinery and on-board technical systems, mechanics, mechanical technology, energy expert and energy transformations. I worked as an engineer in the construction and plant engineering field.

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Although the term of green has been often used to refer to energy consumption reduction or energy efficiency by many people and literatures, green actually should refer to environmental sustainability in more general senses. Environmental sustainability issues have been important topics for recent years, which has impacted and will further impact individuals, enterprises, governments, and societies. Environmental sustainability is not simply regarding reducing the amount of waste or using less energy, but relevant to developing processes leading to completely sustainable human society in the future. The long term consequences of the relevant serious issues have not yet been fully forecasted, but it has been generally accepted in many communities that immediate responses are necessary. From 30 November to 12 December 2015, the 21th United Nations Climate Change Conferences of the Parties (COP 21) was held in Paris, France, as the a historical breakthrough and milestone towards securing the future Earth, a global agreement on the reduction of climate change, the text of which represented a consensus of the representatives of more than 193 countries attending it, which was a profound milestone for global environmental sustainability. Nowadays there is another significant tendency on data driven intelligence. This talk would discuss the history, technical issues, challenges, and new trends of data driven environmental sustainability and Intelligence. Further this talk will extend the view to general green technologies.

Biography

Jinsong Wu (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada, in 2006.,He received the 2020 IEEE Green Communications and Computing Technical Committee Distinguished Technical Achievement Recognition Award for his outstanding technical leadership and achievement in green wireless communications and networking, the 2017 IEEE Green Communications and Computing Technical Committee Excellent Services Award for his excellent technical leadership and services in the Green Communications and Computing Community, the 2017, 2019, and 2021 IEEE Systems Journal best paper awards, and the 2018 IEEE Green Communications and Computing Technical Committee Best Magazine Paper Award. He was elected as the Vice Chair of the Technical Activities of the IEEE Environmental Engineering Initiative (EEI) from 2017 to 2022. He was the Founder and the Founding Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing (TCGCC) from 2011 to 2017. He was the Co-Founder and the Founding Vice-Chair of the IEEE TCBD in 2014 and from 2014 to 2022, respectively. Since 2022, he has been the Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Big Data (TCBD). He was the very first proposer of IEEE Green ICT Journals or Transactions in 2012. He was a Proposer in 2021, the Founder in 2022, and has been the Founding Editor-in-Chief since 2022, for the new international journal, Green Technologies and Sustainability, (KeAi). He was the leading Editor and the coauthor of the comprehensive book, titled Green Communications: Theoretical Fundamentals, Algorithms, and Applications (CRC Press, September 2012

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Buildings that are intelligent respond to the demands of the human sensory system in terms of physical, psychological and social needs. In doing this they are havens for work, learning and life in general. In the world today with increasing populations climate change pressures dominate our thinking so intelligent buildings need to be interconnected with the web of circumstances that are evolving and be resilient whilst also giving healthy contentment to the occupants within them. This chapter discusses various ways in which this can be achieved by valuing the lessons that vernacular architecture and Nature can teach us. Beyond this there is a debate on how to use technology wisely to enable smart operations that can be helpful in human and environmental ways.

Biography

Professor Emeritus Derek Clements-Croome at Reading University has worked in the building design and contracting industry before entering university life. He has founded and directed courses including a BSc in building environmental engineering at Loughborough University in 1970 and an inter¬disciplinary Government funded MSc in Intelligent Buildings at Reading University in 1996.He has also worked in architecture and building engineering at the University of Bath (1978-1988) with Professor Sir Ted Happold. He founded the CIBSE Intelligent Buildings Group in 2006 and co-founded the CIBSE Natural Ventilation Group in 1992 and was commended by the CIB for linking the CIBSE IBG with his work as Coordinator for the W098 Commission on Intelligent and Responsive Buildings. He was Vice President for CIBSE in 2007—9 and holds their Bronze and Silver Medal Derek has been a commissioner on air quality and also biodiversity for some Boroughs in London. He was a member of the UK Green Building Council team who wrote the Report Health and Wellbeing in Homes ---July 2016 and the World Green Council Report on Health and Wellbeing in Offices 2014. He contributed to the BCO Report 2018 on Wellness Matters: the Guide to Specification 2019 and reports on Ventilation for COVID 19 in 2021 and also The Use of Wearables in the Office in 2021. He is a research project reviewer for Government Ministries in New Zealand and Denmark. He is an adviser for the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. He edits the INBI Journal and has edited and written chapters in the 3rd Edition of Creating the Productive Workplace Routledge 2018. His book Designing Buildings for People: Sustainable Liveable Architecture was published by Crowood Press in late 2020 and includes his work on assessing the impact on the environment on people’s health and wellbeing including the economic and sustainability implications. He has edited the 3rd edition of the book Intelligent Buildings and Infrastructure with Sustainable and Social Values being published by the ICE- Emerald in late 2024.