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Agrofood
Cereals: whole, refined or… improved?
There is no doubt that cereal grain are the main source of the diet of consumers around the world. In fact, global cereal production in 2016 was 2,6 million tonnes (FAO data) and account for 30 to 70% of daily energy consumption (FAO data). Cereal intake should be 2-3...
Sugar free, please: the ideal sweetener
We start the new year fulfilling the promise of writing a second part of the post "Without sugar, please” of possible alternatives to elaborate food without sucrose or "table sugar", the most commonly used sweetener in the industrialized world. So this year, my letter...
Energy & Environment
From Apollo 13 to the Digital Building Twins
"Houston, we`ve had a problem" This phrase, which is now part of history and sounds familiar to most of us, even if we belong to a different generation, was used by the astronauts on board the Apollo 13 spacecraft after an oxygen tank on board explosion. This happened...
The spanish position at the Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission
As already mentioned in other posts, climate change and the degradation of the environment is an existential threat and one of the main challenges Europe and the rest of the world are facing nowadays. Acting in a pretentiously ambitious way, the European Commission...
Environment
Is our food security at risk?
Food security of two-thirds of the world s’ population depends on the availability and use of fertilizers. In the transition from a fossil reserve-based to a bio-based economy, it has become a critical challenge to close nutrient cycles and move to a more effective...
Your credit is about to expire: the Earth Overshoot Day
August 8, 2016. 07:00h a.m. Radio turned on driving to work. Headlines begin. "Today is Earth Overshoot Day", I hear. Oh. Bad news. The Earth Overshoot day in 2016 has been brought forward again. I'm sure you are wondering about some things right now:1) If I am able...
Industry
Efficiency Wars (Episode V) – The ROI strikes back
Watch out, the game might not be worth the candle. In my previous post, I explained how beneficial could be for a factory to disaggregate (by direct measure and not by estimations based on nominal values) the energy consumptions of the factory between the different...
Efficiency Wars (Episode IV) – A new (efficiency) hope
Disaggregation of consumptions? Why? To avoid the dark side Within the world of management, the aphorism "If you can't measure it, you can't improve it" is often attributed to the twentieth century Austrian philosopher, Peter Drucker, whose writings contributed...
Health & Quality of life
Is accessibility an option?
Human nature relativizes disadvantages and problems in depending on what they affect us, personally or our environment. With respect to Accessibility and Universal Design, today, we can find the idea that these are problems that only persons related with disability...
Gluten-free diet: Is it a new way to lose weight?
Diets are a fashion and they are always changing. Almost without respite, we passed the liquids’ diet, the lingual mesh and many more. And now, it is the gluten’s turn. It seems that the main guilty of all kind of fat problems is the gluten. But, is it true? For...
Construction and Heritage
Five false myths about thermographic camera
Everybody knows what a thermographic camera is. Movies as “Predator”, the formula 1 broadcast, etc. have helped people to know this technology. CARTIF has been using it, during last years, in construction and infrastructure inspection. My intention is not to tell you...
Guiding dancing structures
Despite the title, this blog is not about ballroom dances, but about something related to movement and how to guide your dance partner. Have you ever felt how a footbridge sways when you walk over it or how a stadium stand vibrates under your feet when you are jumping...
Digitalization
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