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idw - Informationsdienst
Wissenschaft
04/05/2011 - 04/05/2011 | Vienna
What Geosciences have to do with a mobile phone?
GEOTECHNOLOGIEN Keynote Lecture by Prof. Dr. Jens Gutzmer, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, on resource security at the EGU Annual Meeting 5th April in Vienna, 7 pm, Room 12, admission free
Commodity and resource security has been one of the dominant themes of environmental and economic politics in recent months. Can an increasingly technology dependent society afford the often inefficient use of mineral and metallic raw materials? And will we continue to meet the ever-increasing demand for mineral deposits? Just how important raw materials are for our society, is apparent on the subject of "rare earth metals", which are needed, for example, in the production such as mobile phones. Imagine if one of the largest suppliers of these commodities were to artificially make the supply on the world market scarce. This monopoly position would allow him to influence world politics. A threat to free, global trade? Or a wake-up call to deal with the efficient use and effective search for new deposits?
The development of technologies for the efficient exploration, extraction and exploitation of mineral and metallic raw materials is therefore the task of an institution to be founded this year in Freiberg (Saxony) as a close cooperation between the TU Bergakademie Freiberg and the Helmholtz Centre Dresden-Rossendorf.
The research and development program GEOTECHNOLOGIEN invites you to a discussion on this subject. As part of the annual meeting of the European Geoscience Union (EGU) in Vienna Prof. Jens Gutzmer will talk on the subject in the context of GEOTECHNOLOGIEN Keynote Lecture, Tuesday the 5th April at 5:30pm. During the subsequent reception, you have the opportunity to continue the discussion on resource policy and the sustainable use of raw materials over a glass of wine and more.
Information on participating / attending:
Date:
04/05/2011 17:30 - 04/05/2011 18:30
Event venue:
Austria Center Vienna
Room 12
Bruno-Kreisky-Platz 1
1220 Vienna
Vienna
Austria
Target group:
Journalists, Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
local
Subject areas:
Environment / ecology, Geosciences, Materials sciences, Politics, Social studies
Types of events:
Seminar / workshop / discussion
Entry:
04/01/2011
Sender/author:
Diplom Geophysiker Simon Schneider
Department:
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event34766
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