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Agrofood
Acrylamide has a special ‘COLOR’
From the creators of “What doesn´t kill you makes you fatter or is a sin” and "You don´t know what to eat" appears "Take care if you like overcooking!" and "Nightmare in the kitchen, there is acrylamide in your food". For years it was known that acrylamide was a toxic...
Would you eat insects?
Entomophagy, or insect consumption by humans, is not a novelty to anyone. Diets based on insects and arthropods are fully accepted in many countries and cultures, especially in South America, Asia or Africa. Even they are a real delicacy for some gourmets experts, for...
Energy & Environment
PLADEMI: access to energy services for development in Ibero-America
Universal acces to sustainable energy is an indisputable objective for the human development and the fight against poverty. Electrical energy services are vital "satisfiers" of human needs such as cooking and refrigeration, lighting, heating, trasnport, communication,...
BIM for renovation?
New European directives on energy efficiency, targeting a 55% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to be achieved by 2023, are triggering deep renovation building projects, which are largely responsible for these emissions. This high demand for the...
Environment
A journey back in time through the woods
Forest fire in Bitterroot
Closing the water loop in industry: management and savings
Water is essential for human survival and well-being and plays an important role for many economic sectors. However, water resources are unevenly distributed in space and time, and are under pressure from human activity and economic development. In addition to water...
Industry
IoT technology to improve the efficiency of industrial companies
With the promise of 75 billion devices connected to the Internet around the world in 2025, the 'Internet of Things' (IoT) opens the door to a future of opportunities for companies to optimize their processes, whether in the form of manufacturing their products,...
Augmented reality (AR) will transform the way you work
The Augmented Reality (AR) after some fairly lukewarm beginnings is being seen as a technology with a promising future. Much of this change of image comes from the Pokémon Go phenomenon that about two years ago showed the augmented reality to the general public in a...
Health & Quality of life
Did Nikola Tesla open a door to accessibility? (II)
In my last post, published last week, I made a collection with the most interesting definitions of "Internet of things" or this "connected world" accesible for everyone without discrimination because of economic, social or functional diversity reasons. At the sprint...
Did Nikola Tesla open a door to accessibility? (I)
Nikola Tesla was a visionary engineer and physical of the 19th century. He devoted much of his life to wireless energy transmission, as have done with radio. He was the first that imagined a connected world which he described with these words: "Anyone, at sea or...
Construction and Heritage
When the historic buildings talk (IV)
In two previous blogs of 'When the Historic Buildings Talk' (2) and (3), we have described how does affect and what is the importance of monitoring temperature and humidity as well as lighting (natural and artificial) in historic buildings. To complete this saga of...
When the historic buildings talk (II)
In a previous post the social and economic importance of heritage conservation were already described. Also we promised that on successive posts we will go into more detail describing the three main aspects that need to be monitored to ensure such conservation....
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