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#47 - Wei-Shan Chen: Valuing food waste and greening - the experience in delivering technology and tools to close the carbon and water cycles
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Wei Shan Chen, also known as "Momo", Assistant Professor at Wageningen University shares his journey from Materials Engineering into the environment, from Taiwan to The Netherlands and from the Carbon Cycle to the Water Cycle. We discuss the issue of food waste and its broader implications among other approaches he has taken to recover carbon and close the loop. We also hear about Momo's foray into Blue-Green Infrastructure planning and how stakeholder engagement has changed his perspective on doing impactful research and implementing the knowledge in the form of usable tools.
Podcast Intro/Outro Song: Starsky by Alex Keren (Check out more of his tunes over on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5vZ3lENfDLjkln8scBJ8mW)
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:59 Guest Intro and the mystery behind the name Momo
5:21 Tracing Momo's steps from materials in Taiwan to Wageningen
11:29 Closing the carbon cycle with microbial fuel cells
15:28 Momo's work in reducing fossil fuel use - it gets technical
17:21 Retrieving carbon from waste
21:20 Valuing and closing the loop on food waste
32:04 How to deal with the composition of food waste?
35:21 The Bin2Bean Project in Amsterdam
38:38 Going into the Water cycle for Carbon and Food
42:28 Momo's venture into BGI Tools
49:04 Modelling the planning for biodiversity
56:09 Carbon and Water, what next?
58:23 Q&A Start
58:37 What does innovation mean to you?
1:01:16 Key event, book, person
1:03:11 Time Management
1:05:27 Favourite childhood memory
1:08:58 Biggest challenge to date
1:10:57 Advice for young researchers
1:12:38 What would you most like to be remembered for?
1:14:11 Where can people find you?
1:15:06 Final Message
1:15:46 Outro
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Chapters
1. Intro (00:00:00)
2. Guest Intro and the mystery behind the name Momo (00:01:59)
3. Tracing Momo's steps from materials in Taiwan to Wageningen (00:05:21)
4. Closing the carbon cycle with microbial fuel cells (00:11:29)
5. Momo's work in reducing fossil fuel use - it gets technical (00:15:28)
6. Retrieving carbon from waste (00:17:21)
7. Valuing and closing the loop on food waste (00:21:20)
8. How to deal with the composition of food waste? (00:32:04)
9. The Bin2Bean Project in Amsterdam (00:35:21)
10. Going into the Water cycle for Carbon and Food (00:38:38)
11. Momo's venture into BGI Tools (00:42:28)
12. Modelling the planning for biodiversity (00:49:04)
13. Carbon and Water, what next? (00:56:09)
14. Q&A Start (00:58:23)
15. What does innovation mean to you? (00:58:37)
16. Key event, book, person (01:01:16)
17. Time Management (01:03:11)
18. Favourite childhood memory (01:05:27)
19. Biggest challenge to date (01:08:58)
20. Advice for young researchers (01:10:57)
21. What would you most like to be remembered for? (01:12:38)
22. Where can people find you? (01:14:11)
23. Final Message (01:15:06)
24. Outro (01:15:46)
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