[Music]
sustainability is a more and more
inflationary used term so you all should
know by now what sustainably act
sustainable sustainability actually
means so try to think of something you
think is truly sustainable and try to
explain yourself why do you think this
is something sustainable so by a simple
definition sustainability means that
there is an environmental a social and
the economic dimension which is durable
so it means that the future generations
will not be affected negatively by what
you do and why do I talk about that and
why should you care I would like to go
back a few years when I asked myself how
big the world is and sometimes in your
life you can only find out something if
you actually go and see experience me
experiencing it and understand what it
means so I decided to go as far as
possible from Switzerland without using
any flights I ended up hitchhiking from
Switzerland to Papua New Guinea which is
close to Australia and in these two
years of traveling I had amazing
experience experiences so I could talk
hours about the amazing people I met
every day I met up to 20 strangers and
they became friends if humans would be
bad this cannot be possible
or I could talk hours about the
adventures I had maybe about all the
cultures and what we can learn
from them but today I would like to talk
about another subject today I would like
to talk about something I’ve seen during
three months of this trip so during
three months I’ve seen just constantly
one thing these are palm oil trees we
cut down the forest to plant them and
I’m actually quite sure that everyone
listening to this presentation has eaten
a little piece of something containing
palm oil from this area the probability
is quite high
now imagine try to imagine you move you
have smoke in your lungs there it’s
dusty it’s hot and you move during three
months just seeing this
so it’s one thing if you zoom in to
Google Maps into the screen areas of the
planet and you realize that our jungles
are actually trees standing in lines
it’s something else if you hear about it
but it’s completely something different
if you move constantly every day huge
distances during 3 months and this never
changes this never changes so I was
really impressed by this experiences and
after three months it really starts to
sink in and you start to understand this
is us we are far away and we tend in
Switzerland to say and to think this
doesn’t affect us so we are not
responsible for it and sometimes we
cannot be responsible for everything but
this is us we have to understand this
and I understood something else I think
this is a wonder of the world humans did
something in the last 20 years which is
actually impossible to achieve we went
to the most difficult and remote areas
and we cut down this channel we moved
huge volumes of trees and we produce in
this still difficult areas huge
quantities of palm oil we pump it into
big super tankers to bring this palm oil
to us and we eat it or Ebru use it for
energy and there’s something else I
realized I think I’m really convinced
that or in the next 20 and 30 years a
lot about change and only the societies
which are able to solve the issue of
resources and energy in the next year’s
will be able to survive the next 30 to
50 years those which are not able to
bring solutions for these sustainability
problems will fail considering that we
are
global world and every failure of
success will affect us all and when I
was traveling in this area I was
discussing with the locals and one
discussion was really interesting or a
guy said well we plant these green
things and we generate sustainable
income so there was this word
sustainability and maybe you can talk
about it and say well in the economic
part there might be some kind of
sustainable income but it’s very
questionable if it’s environmentally
friendly or if there’s a social
sustainability after this experience I
decided to study energy system
engineering here at HS l u– in lucerne
with the focus on sustainable energy
systems and during my studies i had the
opportunity to go to india and we built
water infrastructures for schools and
orphanages and i think we really did a
good job we had a strong focus on
respect
respecting the sustainability and I
think we had a positive effect I think
we did a good job here but if I’m really
honest in the end I had to say I’m not
quite sure if this keeps on going if our
financial help doesn’t keep on going so
is it really really sustainable another
example is the Solar Decathlon in 2014
so we were a team and the first team
from Switzerland who participated in
this big competition 20 finalists come
together and they compete about
technologies concepts architecture for a
more sustainable world and I think a lot
of these concepts came as close to
sustainability as possible and I think
these concepts are really strong but
there was a little bit of doubt because
I’ve seen quite a lot of technology we
was not at all profitable or never will
be and that’s one of the biggest
misconception of this subject if you
make money with destroying the
environment or the society you’re
harming us all but if you go for clean
technologies we’ll which never will be
profitable it’s not sustainable we can
only change our times in our world if we
have clean technologies which are
profitable and that’s how they will
spread out and actually change something
in this world everything else will be
limited on a small scale on a national
scale on on on on a limited scale so in
the last years of my studies I start to
focus on actually initiating solar
systems and I accompanied a lot of
projects it was really interesting and
there was again and again the same
problem I’ve seen although certain
projects would be highly profitable even
without subsidies they did not get
realized and it was again and again the
same problem I would like to talk about
the solution and the problem solution of
it today if you have a multi-family
house you have all the energy all the
electricity from outside the new
situation is you produce maybe a part of
it on your roof with solar and
photovoltaics so now a part comes from
the roof and the part comes from outside
this is very important because only if
you have the two lines covering each
other you can run this profitable so if
you have the blue line this is the
consumption in the morning you have the
coffee machine in the evening you watch
TV and during the day of the production
of the Sun and only the two colors if
the two colors are on this over each
other it’s actually self consumption
and for this self-consumption you get
five times more money than if you sell
it out into the grid so this is really
important but why isn’t it executed
there are certain legal issues there are
contracts there’s technical know-how you
have to have to make it happen so you
have to organize all this you have to
know at what moment comes how much
electricity from the roof and at what
moment how much electricity comes from
outside if you can’t solve it you cannot
organize it
that’s so-called self consumption
community eval G and that’s how you can
organize this
so during almost three years we
accompany projects and we know how to
solve it and we help these projects to
solve it but again and again we’ve seen
it’s not big enough it’s not fast enough
so we try now to make it scalable to
make it simple and to make as many such
communities possible which makes self
consumption directly to make this clean
technology profitable so we are really
excited to have this team these are the
guys we which had the kick off just a
few months ago for a startup to make
this possible and to make an easy
solution and we tried and focus on this
subject sometimes you have to go out and
see the global scale of something to
understand what you do on a local scale
and that’s what we really try to do what
we focus what we put all our passion in
to cover this sustainability because
don’t forget there are all the three
parts there’s an economic social and an
environmental part to make it really
sustainable thank you very much
[Applause]
[Music]
sustainability is a more and more
inflationary used term so you all should
know by now what sustainably act
sustainable sustainability actually
means so try to think of something you
think is truly sustainable and try to
explain yourself why do you think this
is something sustainable so by a simple
definition sustainability means that
there is an environmental a social and
the economic dimension which is durable
so it means that the future generations
will not be affected negatively by what
you do and why do I talk about that and
why should you care I would like to go
back a few years when I asked myself how
big the world is and sometimes in your
life you can only find out something if
you actually go and see experience me
experiencing it and understand what it
means so I decided to go as far as
possible from Switzerland without using
any flights I ended up hitchhiking from
Switzerland to Papua New Guinea which is
close to Australia and in these two
years of traveling I had amazing
experience experiences so I could talk
hours about the amazing people I met
every day I met up to 20 strangers and
they became friends if humans would be
bad this cannot be possible
or I could talk hours about the
adventures I had maybe about all the
cultures and what we can learn
from them but today I would like to talk
about another subject today I would like
to talk about something I’ve seen during
three months of this trip so during
three months I’ve seen just constantly
one thing these are palm oil trees we
cut down the forest to plant them and
I’m actually quite sure that everyone
listening to this presentation has eaten
a little piece of something containing
palm oil from this area the probability
is quite high
now imagine try to imagine you move you
have smoke in your lungs there it’s
dusty it’s hot and you move during three
months just seeing this
so it’s one thing if you zoom in to
Google Maps into the screen areas of the
planet and you realize that our jungles
are actually trees standing in lines
it’s something else if you hear about it
but it’s completely something different
if you move constantly every day huge
distances during 3 months and this never
changes this never changes so I was
really impressed by this experiences and
after three months it really starts to
sink in and you start to understand this
is us we are far away and we tend in
Switzerland to say and to think this
doesn’t affect us so we are not
responsible for it and sometimes we
cannot be responsible for everything but
this is us we have to understand this
and I understood something else I think
this is a wonder of the world humans did
something in the last 20 years which is
actually impossible to achieve we went
to the most difficult and remote areas
and we cut down this channel we moved
huge volumes of trees and we produce in
this still difficult areas huge
quantities of palm oil we pump it into
big super tankers to bring this palm oil
to us and we eat it or Ebru use it for
energy and there’s something else I
realized I think I’m really convinced
that or in the next 20 and 30 years a
lot about change and only the societies
which are able to solve the issue of
resources and energy in the next year’s
will be able to survive the next 30 to
50 years those which are not able to
bring solutions for these sustainability
problems will fail considering that we
are
global world and every failure of
success will affect us all and when I
was traveling in this area I was
discussing with the locals and one
discussion was really interesting or a
guy said well we plant these green
things and we generate sustainable
income so there was this word
sustainability and maybe you can talk
about it and say well in the economic
part there might be some kind of
sustainable income but it’s very
questionable if it’s environmentally
friendly or if there’s a social
sustainability after this experience I
decided to study energy system
engineering here at HS l u– in lucerne
with the focus on sustainable energy
systems and during my studies i had the
opportunity to go to india and we built
water infrastructures for schools and
orphanages and i think we really did a
good job we had a strong focus on
respect
respecting the sustainability and I
think we had a positive effect I think
we did a good job here but if I’m really
honest in the end I had to say I’m not
quite sure if this keeps on going if our
financial help doesn’t keep on going so
is it really really sustainable another
example is the Solar Decathlon in 2014
so we were a team and the first team
from Switzerland who participated in
this big competition 20 finalists come
together and they compete about
technologies concepts architecture for a
more sustainable world and I think a lot
of these concepts came as close to
sustainability as possible and I think
these concepts are really strong but
there was a little bit of doubt because
I’ve seen quite a lot of technology we
was not at all profitable or never will
be and that’s one of the biggest
misconception of this subject if you
make money with destroying the
environment or the society you’re
harming us all but if you go for clean
technologies we’ll which never will be
profitable it’s not sustainable we can
only change our times in our world if we
have clean technologies which are
profitable and that’s how they will
spread out and actually change something
in this world everything else will be
limited on a small scale on a national
scale on on on on a limited scale so in
the last years of my studies I start to
focus on actually initiating solar
systems and I accompanied a lot of
projects it was really interesting and
there was again and again the same
problem I’ve seen although certain
projects would be highly profitable even
without subsidies they did not get
realized and it was again and again the
same problem I would like to talk about
the solution and the problem solution of
it today if you have a multi-family
house you have all the energy all the
electricity from outside the new
situation is you produce maybe a part of
it on your roof with solar and
photovoltaics so now a part comes from
the roof and the part comes from outside
this is very important because only if
you have the two lines covering each
other you can run this profitable so if
you have the blue line this is the
consumption in the morning you have the
coffee machine in the evening you watch
TV and during the day of the production
of the Sun and only the two colors if
the two colors are on this over each
other it’s actually self consumption
and for this self-consumption you get
five times more money than if you sell
it out into the grid so this is really
important but why isn’t it executed
there are certain legal issues there are
contracts there’s technical know-how you
have to have to make it happen so you
have to organize all this you have to
know at what moment comes how much
electricity from the roof and at what
moment how much electricity comes from
outside if you can’t solve it you cannot
organize it
that’s so-called self consumption
community eval G and that’s how you can
organize this
so during almost three years we
accompany projects and we know how to
solve it and we help these projects to
solve it but again and again we’ve seen
it’s not big enough it’s not fast enough
so we try now to make it scalable to
make it simple and to make as many such
communities possible which makes self
consumption directly to make this clean
technology profitable so we are really
excited to have this team these are the
guys we which had the kick off just a
few months ago for a startup to make
this possible and to make an easy
solution and we tried and focus on this
subject sometimes you have to go out and
see the global scale of something to
understand what you do on a local scale
and that’s what we really try to do what
we focus what we put all our passion in
to cover this sustainability because
don’t forget there are all the three
parts there’s an economic social and an
environmental part to make it really
sustainable thank you very much
[Applause]
[Music]
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