The company Colocation IX GmbH is building a new data center in Bremen, and has decided upon the use of a new innovative cooling technology: Instead of traditional air conditioning to remove the waste heat from the servers, integral wells and geothermal probes are to provide energy-effi cient cooling in summer and heating energy for use in winter. The company is working together with the University of Bremen and the company Geo-En GmbH, which has expertise in integral wells. These alternatives to electrically driven compressor cooling will protect the environment through energy savings, help relieve the power grids, and at the same time ensure a decentralized and fail-safe cooling supply. The project has been funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research to the tune of €280,000. The co-payment share for ColocationIX GmbH amounts to €315,000.
A farmer and turkey raiser in Varrel (Oldenburg, Germany) has set up an absorption cooling plant on his farm which provides the necessary air-conditioning for his stall on hot summer days with the help of the waste heat from a biogas plant. The biogas plant itself is fueled partially by turkey manure, and the waste heat from the cogeneration plant linked to the biogas facility is used to operate an absorption cooling plant. The absorption cooling experts from the companies SolarNext AG and Meyer Kühlanlagen, together with the University of Bremen are working on implementation. The project has been subsidized to the tune of €185,000 by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research. The farmer’s self-payment share amounted to €45,000.
One of the important parts of the final conference of ‘nordwest2050’ has been the scientific exchange sessions in the House of Science and the Industryclub Bremen. Contributions were based upon a call for papers from October 2013. The scientific committee received almost 100 abstracts where 36 were chosen for oral presentations and 15 for poster presentations (see overview tables below).
Four main topics were discussed in parallel workshops:
• Analysing Impacts and Assessing Vulnerabilities
• Designing and Testing Solutions for Regional Climate Adaptation and Resilience
• Implementing Climate Adaptation and Paths to a Resilient Future
• Resilience for Business: Climate Adaptation Challenge and Strategies of Sectors and Companies
Der nordwest2050-Werkstattbericht Nr. 30 fasst die Ergebnisse der Teilprojekts „Reflexive Wertschöpfungskette der Milchwirtschaft“ zusammen. Ziel dieses Aktionsforschungsprojekts war es, die Klimaanpassungsfähigkeiten und die Resilienz der Wertschöpfungskette Milchwirtschaft in der Metropolregion Bremen-Oldenburg im Nordwesten durch eine verbesserte Reflexivität zu erhöhen. Eine Wertschöpfungskette wird dabei als reflexiv bezeichnet, wenn sie in der Lage ist, sich selbst zu thematisieren und daraus Maßnahmen zur Veränderung bzw. Anpassung an neue Herausforderungen abzuleiten. Der bericht beantwortet folgende Fragen: Welche Eigenschaften sollte eine resiliente Wertschöpfungskette besitzen? Welche Herausforderungen entstehen durch den Klimawandel für die Milchwirtschaft? Welche Maßnahmen sind für die regionale Wertschöpfungskette der Milchwirtschaft erforderlich, um die Resilienz der Wertschöpfungskette vor dem Hintergrund der klimawandelbedingten Herausforderungen und der strukturellen Gegebenheiten zu stärken? Welche Rolle spielen Aspekte der Kommunikation (d.h. Reflexivität: verbesserter Informationsaustausch, Selbstverpflichtung und Institution, Mediation und Diskus) für die Resilienz in Wertschöpfungsketten? Welchen Beitrag können Instrumente einer reflexiven Kommunikation zur Umsetzung der Klimaanpassungsmaßnahmen leisten?