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Counter-intuitively, the 2008 financial crisis led to more investment in renewables and a big increase in the renewables employment sector. | Counter-intuitively, the 2008 financial crisis led to more investment in renewables and a big increase in the renewables employment sector. | ||
Overall, renewable energy production is not the main problem, rather it is storage of electricity that poses the greatest challenge. | Overall, renewable energy production is not the main problem, rather it is storage of electricity that poses the greatest challenge. | ||
The second morning session was devoted to a tour of the Leuphana sustainable campus by the university environment manager, Irmhild Bruggen, who guided the students around the university premises, including explanations of student initiative such as the book exchange, the plastic coffee mug purchase scheme to cut down on the use of disposable paper cups, the energy consumption monitor for the entire campus, the student-operated bicycle repair shop where students can fix their bikes for free, and the garden where any student can plant what they like. | |||
In the afternoon the students were driven to the former landfill site in Neu Wulmstorf where the manager Tilmann Wolfsteller made a presentation on the history of the site from its closure in 1987, the subsequent capping of the fill to prevent the accumulation of leachate water and the installation of percolator pipes | |||