blue revolution global potential of productive floating city expansions

Presentatie projecten CoE DeltatechnologieBlueRevolution Global Potential

Dr. ir. Rutger de Graaf-van Dinther

9 januari 2014

Population density

Earthzine, 2010

Manila, Philippines

Source: DeltaSync, 2013

Source: DeltaSync, 2013

Conventional city Conventional + Floating city

‘Linear metabolism’ ‘Cyclical metabolism’

Source: Deltasync, 2012

Concept | Closing CO2 and nutrients cycles

Source: Deltasync, 2012

Source: DeltaSync, 2013

WATERBASED URBAN DEVELOPMENT

CLIMATECHANGE

Rotterdam challenges | CLIMATE CHANGE

WATER SQUARE source: fastcoexist.com GREEN ROOFS source: Erasmus MC FLOATING EXPANSION

FLOODRISK

WATERBASED URBAN DEVELOPMENT

CO2

EMISSIONS

NUTRIENTEMISSIONS

Rotterdam challenges | EMISSIONS

WATERBASED URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Rotterdam challenges | SUMMARIZED

TOO MUCH

WATERTOO MANY

NUTRIENTSTOO MUCH

CO₂

WATERBASED URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Rotterdam challenges | SUMMARIZED

TOO MUCH

WATERTOO MANY

NUTRIENTSTOO MUCH

CO₂

BASICALLY THE REQUIREMENTS OF A PLANT

WATERBASED URBAN DEVELOPMENT

BlueRevolution

Methodology(Rotterdam)

WATERBASED URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Potential for Rotterdam

* preliminary data, under review

WATERBASED URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Space requirements

land

598 km²

water

210 km²

BlueRevolution

125 km²

326 km²

808 km²

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75 km²

Rotterdam

WATERBASED URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Blue Revolution benefits

Mitigationof Emissions

ReducingFish Depletion

ImprovingResilience

60%reused

7.5%reduction(rotterdam+port)

replace 40%of wild caught

fish(Dutch annual

quota)

WATERBASED URBAN DEVELOPMENT

20

Projects| Affordable floating housing

Pilot project to demonstrate BlueRevolution at building scale Rotterdam Floating expo/office space Floating algea production Aqua culture

2015: Design and business case

Study potential in other cities and pilot intnl delta city

Next steps

For more information:

DeltaSync

Dr. ir. Rutger de Graaf-van Dinther

T: +31 152561872

E: rutger@deltasync.nl

www.deltasync.nl

www.blue21.org

http://kenniscentrumrdm.hr.nl/nl/kenniscentrum/lectoren/Rutger-de-Graaf/