Planned Topics for Rice Straw

We have planned to post step by step rice straw-blogs to following topics:


Rice Straw - an Energy Resource?                                                                                  

RE01      Rice Straw Burning on Field

RE02      Traditional utilization of Rice Straw in Vietnam

RE03      Learning from California

RE04      Learning from Denmark

RE05      Transport Problem – Example: Vietnam

RE06      Cut the Straw – a real Problem

RE07      Choice of Technology – Straw Digesting

RE08      Choice of Technology – Straw Combustion

RE09      Choice of Technology – Straw Gasification

RE10      Energetic Utilization and Economy

RE11      Local Approach: Learning from Bioenergy-Villages in Germany

RE12      Approaches for Local Electricity

RE13      Approaches for Heat & Cold

RE14      Approaches in rural Areas

RE15      Local Energy Production and new Options for Infrastructure

RE16      Chances for Local and Regional Development by energetic 
               Utilization of Rice Straw

RE17      Financing Options for Urban areas

RE18      Financing Options for Rural areas

RE19      Risks – Competition with Food, other possible Applications etc.

RE20      Other Applications for Rice Straw

RN00     Traditional Vietnamese Fermentation of Rice Straw for Feed 
               Production

RN01     Approach of Rice Straw for Mushroom cultivation – Example 
               from Nam Dinh/Vietnam

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Announcement

Again a new blogger. What is the sense of that?

... Sorry we, European and Asian partners in water supply and sanitation sector, are so crazy, we have to do that. Is it possible for us to find new and interesting topics from our practice in the large field "Society - Climate Change - Resource Scarcity"?  Is it possible to generate from the comments new ideas for solutions in Europe and Asia?

Examples for possible topics:

Rice straw                                                                                                         

As example - Vietnam is burning each year more than 20 million tons of rice straw on the field. What does mean that? Is that a total loss of large and unused resources or more a traditional and optimal fertilizing of paddy soil?

Climate Change - Sea Level Rising: What can say us the geological past?     

The Caspian Sea threatened to silt up. But the sea level achieved its old position again before the authorities could start first activities after decades of waiting.

Or: Few scientists have underpressed some data in modeling of climate curve for the last 100,000 years. They would like pronounce the unique development of CO₂ in atmosphere since the industrial revolution - the so-called "Hockeystick"-curve. 

What is the link between both examples? Climate change was in all geological times and it shows a development in cycles. That means, the actually expected large impacts of climate change were to watch few times already in our past. What can we learn from the past for our todays activities?

Like that we plan to write our future blogs with applied and theoretical topics. We are looking forward to your future comments.