START Webinar #03

<p>Video recording of the third START webinar (hybrid event), held at IGME-CSIC (Madrid, Spain) on 31st May 2023.</p> <p>The webinar was titled &ldquo;Sustainable Solutions to Unlock the Potential of Thermoelectrics and Secondary Materials&ldquo; and included&nbsp;three main presentations:</p> <ul> <li>Presentation#1 by&nbsp;<strong>Doug Crane (DTP Thermoelectrics)</strong>, member of the START Scientific Advisory Board,&nbsp;about &ldquo;<strong>Thermoelectric energy harvesting: principles, challenges and opportunities</strong>&ldquo;. Doug&#39;s presentation&nbsp;covered&nbsp;the topic that is the&nbsp;main focus of START project, thermoelectricity and how to use it to harvest wasted heat into electricity.</li> <li>Presentation#2 by&nbsp;<strong>Julie Hollis (EuroGeoSurveys)</strong>, member of START Scientific Advisory Board,&nbsp;about &ldquo;<strong>The role of EuroGeoSurveys in supporting the EU&rsquo;s ambition to boost domestic critical raw materials supply from secondary resources including mine waste</strong>&ldquo;. Julie&#39;s presentation&nbsp;covered one of the objectives of START project, namely introducing tetrahedrites from mine waste instead of Te-based thermoelectric materials.</li> <li>Presentation#3 given by some of the START geology partners. The speeches gave a nice overview of the situation, indicating the potential for recovery of sulphides (tetrahedrites, and others) for START project, to transform them into thermoelectric devices: <ul> <li>Piotr Lipiarski (GeoSphere Austria) and Thomas Unterweissacher (GEO Unterweissacher GmbH) &ndash; &ldquo;<strong>Tennantite and tetrahedrite from two Austrian mine waste sites</strong>&ldquo;.</li> <li>Concepci&oacute;n Fern&aacute;ndez Leyva (IGME-CSIC) &ndash; &ldquo;<strong>Tetrahedrite Deposits in Spain</strong>&ldquo;.</li> <li>Stanistav &Scaron;olt&eacute;s (&Scaron;t&aacute;tny geologick&yacute; &uacute;stav Dion&yacute;za &Scaron;t&uacute;ra) &ndash; &ldquo;<strong>Tetrahedrites from M&aacute;ria Mine, Rožňava, Slovakia</strong>&ldquo;.</li> </ul> </li> </ul>