(AIST Group / Free Seminar) Changing the 'Mega-Eruptions Cannot Be Prevented' Assumption From Infrastructure Practice ~ Creating New Industries With Disaster Prevention x Geothermal x Metals ~A · FULL TRANSLATION
- AIST Solutions holds a free online seminar
- Theme challenges the assumption that mega-eruptions cannot be prevented
- Combines disaster prevention, geothermal energy and metals
- Streaming June 22 and 25, exploring new-industry potential
The title of this AIST Group seminar is itself a jolt: it re-examines the supposedly inevitable fate that mega-eruptions cannot be prevented through the frame of infrastructure practice.
What is clever is the cross-disciplinary mix. Disaster prevention, geothermal energy and metals seem unrelated yet are woven into a turn-threat-into-industry logic: volcanic geothermal can generate power, magma and underground resources hold metals, and disaster-prevention needs spawn new technology and markets. This is the classic turn-disadvantage-into-opportunity thinking of Japanese research institutes; rather than defend passively, turn a volcanic nation's geology into an energy and resource advantage.
When a country tries to convert even its deadliest disaster into an industry, that resilience mindset is itself worth learning.
AIST Solutions (AIST Group) has announced that on June 22 and 25 it will stream a free online seminar titled 'Changing the Assumption That Mega-Eruptions Cannot Be Prevented From Infrastructure Practice ~ Creating New Industries With Disaster Prevention x Geothermal x Metals ~'.
The seminar re-examines the supposedly inevitable fate that mega-eruptions cannot be prevented through the frame of infrastructure practice, weaving three seemingly unrelated fields, disaster prevention, geothermal energy and metals, into a turn-threat-into-industry logic: volcanic geothermal can generate power, underground resources hold metals, and disaster-prevention needs spawn new technology and markets.
This is the classic turn-disadvantage-into-opportunity thinking of Japanese research institutes; rather than defend passively, actively turn a volcanic nation's geology into an energy and resource advantage.