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Protei by Cesar Harada on BBC Horizon 2013. Protéger les océans pour un autre anthropocène: César Harada at TEDxParis 2012. César Harada – Corriger l’influence de l’Homme sur l’environnement grâce à l’innovation. Cesar Harada est un inventeur, environementaliste et Entrepreneur Franco-Japonais. Actuellement en train de développer Protei – Un robot multiforme – en collaboration avec Open-H2O community,TED Senior Fellow, Unreasonable at sea Entrepreneur, Figure of progress (by GOOD and IBM). Auteur pour “Open Hardware for the Environment” avec un intérêt pour les technologies appliquées aux océans. Cesar enseigne en Masters of “Design and Environment” à la Goldsmiths University. « Oil / Plastic / Radioactivity. » : 3 formes de pollutions environnementales, 3 incidents d’origines humaines. César Harada nous présente les principaux projets en cours de développement qui permettront de rattraper les erreurs humaines en matière de pollution environnementale. 2010 : La marée noire BP : les bateaux nettoient seulement des lignes dans une très grande nappe de pétrole = pas très efficace. 2012 / Protei : projet de bateau qui remonte au vent pour nettoyer toute la nappe grâce à une longue traîne.

Open Source Sailing Drones - Protei. No water no life: Cesar Harada at TEDxVilaMada. Cesar Harada » Inventor, Environmentalist, Entrepreneur. Protei Development plan | 2011 11 24 London. Think beyond plastic_protei. Protei INC and Open H2O. Do you want to transform your idea into an Open Hardware Technology for the Environment? And why not into a business or a non-profit organisation?

This is how we are doing it. I am not saying it is the best, but it is our preferred way. In the last months, “Open_Sailing” changed name to become “Open-H2O” to cover a larger scope of interest, and “Protei” -that I started alone as a lab of Open-Sailing lab 2 years ago- is going from a purely research project to become a small industrial robotics startup as “Protei INC”.

I want to step back and consider the history of the work over the last years, explain the deep transformations we are going through and what motivates our decisions today. On one side, we have Open-H2O a large non-profit focused on developing Open Technologies to explore and protect the oceans. This text goals are : Pros Non-Profit Resilience & Risky Business Research autonomy and Integrity So : Protei annual summit 2012 | October 1,2,3. Sunshine Factory, Oslo, Norway. François de la Taste (fdelataste) sur Twitter. Q&A: Cesar Harada on the Promise of an Open-Source Oil Skimming Robot | Ted on GOOD. Cesar Harada is a Renaissance Man of the old school. But with some very new school skills. He's probably best described now as an open-source environmental engineer, but even a convoluted label like that doesn't do his work justice. Harada was a construction manager in Kenya for Ushahidi, the open-source crisis mapping organization (which we've covered), building their offices, but also building their network and some of their websites.

Construction and engineering are in his half-Japanese, half-French blood. Harada got his first masters in animation film, and then another in design interaction. GOOD: Protei is described as an oil spill cleaning robot drone. Cesar Harada: Originally, I wanted to develop a technology to collect the garbage in the North Pacific, the plastic. Then the oil spill happened. GOOD: From what I've seen of Protei, it doesn't seem to be very nano. Harada: Correct, Protei does not use any nanotechnology and is very different from what is being done at MIT. Savannah Ocean Exchange Announces Winners -- SAVANNAH, Ga., Sept. 24. SAVANNAH, Ga., Sept. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Savannah Ocean Exchange (SOE) Global Review Panel has selected the winners of the 2012 Solutions Exchange awards.

Each award includes a $100,000 prize from Worldwide Sponsors Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. and Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics (WWL). This year's $100,000 Gulfstream Navigator Award was given to Protei: Ocean Cleaning Sailing Robots presented by Gabriella Levine. Protei is a seafaring surface vessel, constructed to carry research instruments and environmental clean-up equipment autonomously over long distances on the ocean via wind power. The project was conceived in response to inefficiencies in oil spill relief efforts, and frustration with the unsustainable research and design costs of current robotic oceanic drones. Protei's mission is to provide a locally accessible, economically efficient platform for the development of ocean-cleaning data collecting robotic drones. About the Savannah Ocean Exchange.

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