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Ad van Wijk is sustainable energy entrepreneur and Pro-
fessor Future Energy Systems at TU Delft the Netherlands.
Van Wijk started his career as scientiļ¬c researcher in
sustainable energy at Utrecht University
In 1984, van Wijk founded the company Ecofys, which
eventually grew into Econcern. Econcern developed many
new sustainable energy products, services and projects.
Examples include the 120 MW offshore wind farm Princess
Amalia in the North Sea, several multi-MW solar farms in
Spain and a bio-methanol plant in the Netherlands, which
is the largest second generation biomass plant in the world.
Van Wijk achieved many important prizes for excellent
entrepreneurship. Amongst others he was Dutch entrepre-
neur of the year in 2007 and Dutch top-executive in 2008.
At TU Delft van Wijk will focus on the energy systems of
the future such as the car as power plant. Especially he will
do research and at the same time will realize āāthe Green
Villageāā. www.thegreenvillage.org where these future
energy systems will be implemented, tested and researched
in āFuture labsā
Van Wijk has published a very readable book about the
energy system āHow to boil an eggā ISBN: 978-1-60750-
989-9. And a book about the Green Village āWelcome to
the Green Villageā ISBN: 978-1-61499-283-7 (print) or ISBN
978-1-61499-284-4 (online)
Follow Ad van Wijk at twitter @advanwijk or via his
website www.profadvanwijk.com
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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Our Car as Power Plant
- Title
- Our Car as Power Plant
- Authors
- Ad van Wijk
- Leendert Verhoef
- Publisher
- IOS Press BV
- Date
- 2014
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-1-61499-377-3
- Size
- 14.8 x 21.0 cm
- Pages
- 108
- Keywords
- fuel cell cars, renewable energy, The Green Village, sustainability
- Category
- Technik
Table of contents
- THE VISION 7
- REASONS TO BELIEVE 8
- OUR CARS 13
- 100 YEARS OF CAR DEVELOPMENT 14
- ENERGY EFFICIENCY FROM A TO B BY CAR 18
- FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS IN TRANSPORTATION 22
- NUMBER OF CARS WORLDWIDE 25
- OUR ENERGY SYSTEM 31
- TOWARDS INTEGRATED ENERGY SYSTEMS 32
- ELECTRICITY SYSTEM WORLDWIDE 36
- POWER-SYSTEM EFFICIENCY 40
- FUEL CELL CARS 45
- THE FUEL CELL 46
- THE FUEL CELL CAR 50
- HYDROGEN 52
- HYDROGEN STORAGE 55
- FUEL CELL CAR FOR TRANSPORT 57
- THE FUEL CELL CAR AS POWER PLANT 63
- CAR-PARK POWER PLANT 64
- CAR-PARK POWER PLANT ENERGY SYSTEM 67
- THE FUTURE 71
- CARS CAN TAKE OVER POWER PLANT CAPACITY 72
- FUTURE ENERGY- AND TRANSPORT SYSTEMS 75
- FUTURE CITIES 80
- THE CHALLENGES 87
- TECHNOLOGICAL CHALLENGES 88
- SYSTEM CHALLENGES 92
- WHY IT WILL HAPPEN 97
- FUEL CELL CARS WILL COME 98
- IT IS OUR CAR! 99
- REFERENCES 101
- SUMMARY 105
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS 106