Excursion and drinks at Clean2Antarctica
Description
On Tuesday 20 February 2018, the Department of Technology, Society & Economy is organising a visit and drinks at Clean2Antarctica.
Following the previous presentation by Black Bear CEO Martijn Lopes Cardozo on "Circular Economy in Practice", we are now looking to the 'extreme': engineering with waste for -40° degrees.
The Solar Voyager
This is how C2A is going to take a vehicle, the Solar Voyager, made from waste plastic and powered by the sun to the geographic South Pole. It's not about the expedition but the journey.
Designing and building the Solar Voyager was just the beginning of this adventure. We turned plastic waste into a puzzle of ± 5,000 3D printed HexCores and successfully built the Solar Voyager to reach the southernmost tip of Earth in December 2018.
Why? Because C2A likes to seek adventure, to show how much is possible with sustainable, clean technologies. Because an important aspect is how we apply these techniques and change our habits.
Manufacturing process
C2A likes to take KIVI engineers through the manufacturing process and the challenges we have encountered and are still facing. C2A would like to challenge you on some of the issues we have not yet solved for our journey to the geographic South Pole under the motto: "Rediscover Your World".
Join in!
To organise this get-together, we ask you to make a contribution according to your own needs and abilities. With this contribution, we will adopt one or more HexCores used to make the Solar Voyager and thus make this voyage of discovery possible.
Each HexCore will be virtually linked to a sustainability message from a young person who has participated in the stadsjut programme, where they discover all the things you can make with discarded plastic. These messages will be presented to the international community from the Geographic South Pole
Location
Mission Control Center & Zero Waste Center
Computerweg 21, 1033 RH Amsterdam-Noord
Organiser
Technology, Society & Economy
Name and contact details for information
Allard Friedrich