Our Partners by Nature: Regenerative Technology in Circular Economy

We work with pearls of Dutch Design regenerative technology. And we write about system dynamics. We make ESG reports and in this article, we want you to meet some of our partners. Brilliant regenerative biomimicry and lean energy-efficiency. The examples boost a clear, passionate business case within the waste-is-food chains. Solutions that were once complex suddenly become simple. SIMPLE SIMPLE SIMPLE... complexity...

Picture from the AskNature.org team. Inventors get inspired by the use of our planet's sound barrier.

In a recent Dutch article for the Dutch press, we started with the huge pollution problems of Tata Steel. The court cases by citizens. My mum and dad met at Hoogovens and even then, in the 1950s, you could not dry your washing outdoors. We highlighted the fact that the Netherlands want to pump 2 billion euro in electrification by hydrogen.

We made the case for how that is NOT a solution. The same toxins go into steel slag instead of in the air. Nature - physics - all-is-one - has only 4 phases. gas, water, solid, plasma. After turning the steel process from gas to hydrogen electricity, the factory will produce 10-40% more steel slag. A very toxic waste stream. Our government wants to go circular, so they allow the steel slag to be used for roads. Which is just keeping toxins in a loop and risking our water quality.

We have to JUMP to another sector, another process, another circular.

Regenerative Alternative Technology

This is *biomimicry as a decentralized alternative. The pistol shrimp uses a bubble of vacuum (physics) and pushes biobased fiber materials with one focus blow through the sound barrier. Compare how karate people slam through stone. Nature is martial arts. Focus & Flow. This circular economy machine engineered by our partner Venturial mimics this process and thus ensures that the sonic boom technology is 20x more energy-efficient than normal sonic waves. One fierce push through the sound barrier. Powder!

In *biomimicry, we let nature (physics) do the energy-work for us. Biomimicry is the #1 regenerative innovation technology right now in the world just because of that. Energy grid congestion, huge energy efficiency! One cycle. One blow. One push through the sound barrier.

The Dutch industrial sector has a circular agenda: 2050 Circular. Now that toxic chemistry is increasingly being replaced by biochemistry as a welcome development, new challenges arise, such as fire safety. But these can be solved with system thinking and physics—design, architectural bridges, and material combinations. Our partners lead with Dutch Design, engineering, and material science.

Regenerative Technology

Venturial mobile machines have been around for several years now. They dry, separate, and pulverize waste streams for creative reuse as powders. What does a Venturial do? Briefly explained? Supersonic. And sonic boom. *by sound.

The circular economy always keeps value longer - if possible, even forever - inside the system. No capital destruction. Venturial converts all kinds of organic and inorganic waste into dry powder, giving designers in the waste-is-food economy their complete design freedom back.

The circular economy machines are drying-separating-pulverizing machine with physics - push through the sound barrier – sonic boom technology. Based on the vacuum bubble and shockwave of a pistol shrimp. The machine uses 20x less energy than standard sonic wave technology. That's what biomimicry always does: hyper energy-efficient.

Regarding system dynamics: all materials in a lifecycle analysis (LCA) can be calculated with one value: energy. In a circular economy, supply chains are shortened. Regions gain an abundance of healthy businesses. Laws are simplified and adapted to a biomimetic, design-savvy, energy-efficient and energy-abundant 21st century. Just think energy = data = process and you understand. Energy is everything. Nature is spatial relations math, biology, and physics.

Regenerative in Circular Economy

Drying: the pulverizing is combined with biodigesters, the energy suppliers of the Netherlands. For example, Dutch farmers ferment their own organic waste locally for energy. They can now dry and recycle slurry for innovative, clean manufacturing. Decentralized thinking and all megalomaniac, polluting energy factories can close their doors. Waste becomes energy.

Separation: If the circular economy wants profitable business models, material passports are needed. Materials with, for example, toxic paint are classified differently from clean materials, so choices can quickly be made regarding what can be reused according to NEN standards. Air pollution accumulates more in an indoor environment than on the exterior of a building exposed to wind. Material passports ensure that the value of materials is retained, for example, throughout a building's long lifespan. Maintenance cheaper and rest value bigger can make a building faster profitable. With material passports, waste value, becomes a source of income in a circular growth economy. Healthy materials and growth of a local macro-economy.

Pulverization: With pulverization, designers get their creative freedom back. That's a huge WIN in the system. Powder is much easier to process into new materials than, for example, entire wooden walls.

Award-winning healthy buildings in the Netherlands & Germany. The all have a link to projects by our Abundance ThinkTank in healthy action.

For instance, a visionary German architectural team from Stuttgart and Berlin called LAVA is pursuing a path of biomimetic metamorphosis with two flexible membranes. And light, sound, and ventilation are regulated healthily *by design. Not by machines that need filter maintenance. Transforming a sick-building syndrome building into a renovated, beautiful, and healthy structure with two new snakeskins. Cylindrical math *by nature.

The EU has a subsidy agenda for adding more biobased fibers to materials. Reused farm waste or fiber cultivation. Bamboo. Elephant grasses. Miscanthus. It reflects and does not blind pilots at Schiphol Airport than solar panels and keeps geese at a natural distance.

Healthy Regenerative Fibers or Polluting Steel?

Fiber polymers can be stronger than steel and non-corrosive. Has this closed the loop on Tata Steel and the steel slag problem? Time for a clean materials campus near Amsterdam, inspired by Limburg? Time to save 2 billion euro in subsidy for a process that will never be healthy, whereas *by design is doing the same work elegantly and give vehicle builders a lightweight alternative to steel?

*by planet only a few abundant substances are used and designed in open structures for functionality. Bones are almost the same material as skin. Open in structure. Tensile strength, hardness, or flexibility are merely different organizations of structures. That's all. We can mimic this easily with biobased powders.

Young Designer Dreams

Young designer dreams are becoming simpler and fully circular! Nature is always evolving in young, modern futures. And with today's 4D design computers, rethinking like nature has become easier. Natural principles such as metamorphosis, physics, vacuum bubbles, splitting and deposition, biochemistry, composting of residual materials, and everything "timed degradable" are the future for a healthy humanity. Because pollution is just accumulation, a buildup of (too) harsh substances.

Timely transformation into powder and new design freedom is a MUST! We do, of course, live in the Anthropocene. Systems thinking and *by design are indispensable human 21st-century skills.

Meet the people inspired by our fascinating planet, and natural processes!

This is the model of a Dutch independent beer brewery and a bakery in the bioeconomy. They make organic beer and create harvest parties for local neighbors. Using each other's organic waste streams for food security and waste management. The drying machine can be used in these supply chains for reuse.

Dear creative designers, dare to explore more with system dynamics...

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