“LOOKING FOR ANSWERS”
BLOG CARTIF
know us:
Recent posts
Content categories
Agrofood
Dear food system
Today, October 16, is commemorated, as every year since 1979, World Food Day, promoted by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). This year, the FAO makes a special call to achieve healthy food for all corners of the planet and, especially, for the...
Heterotrophic microalgae, night efficiency in wastewater treatment
Microalgae here, microalgae there. It is so rare not to have come across any news about the exploitation and the thousand uses of these microorganisms that a few years ago we simply knew as those that dye salty and sweet waters green. Microalgae are a very beneficial...
Energy & Environment
The demographic challenge, a challenge of contrasts. The case of Spain
You have probably heard or read in the news that many villages in the so-called “Empty Spain” are offering housing and work for those seeking new opportunities away from the big cities. Perhaps it may seem a desperate measure by these areas to cope with the the...
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,...
Environment
Land use planning key in the ecological transition
land use planning
Long life to batteries!
From the smartphone we carry every day, the tablet or the computer, till any other portable electric tool we use in our everyday have implicit the use of an electric energy accumulation system, or what is commonly known as batteries, in this case rechargable...
Industry
Cybersecurity in industrial environments. Are we ready? The attacks that are still to come…
Identity and user data theft, ransomware, phishing, pharming or denial-of-service attacks are terms that appear more and more in the media1,2,3,4. The hyper-connected world in which we live also affects companies that, as productive entities, are increasingly exposed...
The century of the photon
Most likely, the word photonics is not part of yourusual vocabulary, but the technologies developed in this field are increasignly used in the daily course of our lives. If we pay attention to the definition of photonics given by dictionaries such as Merriam-Webster´...
Health & Quality of life
Smart, something more than your mobile phone
The SMART term has become part of our life. Thus, if we introduce it in Google about 1.8 million entries appear, which gives us an idea of how widespread it is. Now, not only phones are smart, we also find this term applied to watches, televisions, homes, cars or...
Augmented Reality and Health (II)
In a first approach to the world of Augmented Reality, we established the differences between technologies of mixed, augmented and virtual reality. In this second installment, we are going to review the applications that are already being made of these realities in...
Construction and Heritage
The BIM approach: fitting to Heritage?
The BIM approach (Building Information Modelling) is all around Architecture, Engineering and Construction professionals, but when it comes down, very few companies are founding their daily work on this paradigm and applications are really far from being homogeneous....
When the historic buildings talk (III)
In two previous posts [When the Historic Buildings Talk (I) and (II) apart from making clear the importance of the conservation of the built heritage as long as describing the environmental factors that influence such conservation, we have already faced the...
Digitalization
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
Innovating R&D
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.