Walter Schmid, the Glossary
Walter Schmid (born 8 November 1944) is a Swiss entrepreneur.[1]
Table of Contents
21 relations: Aargau, Autocross, Biodegradable waste, Biodiversity, Biogas, Bioreactor, Brütten, Digestate, Electric vehicle, Energy, Geothermal energy, Hitachi Zosen Inova, Oberhelfenschwil, Opfikon, Organic farming, Photovoltaic system, Qatar, Rümlang, Schweizer Fernsehen, Spreitenbach, Zurich Insurance Group.
- 20th-century Swiss inventors
- 21st-century Swiss businesspeople
- Businesspeople in construction
- Composting
- Spreitenbach
- Swiss industrialists
Aargau
Aargau, more formally the Canton of Aargau (Kanton Aargau; Chantun Argovia; Canton d'Argovie; Canton Argovia), is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation.
Autocross
Autocross is a form of motorsport in which competitors are timed to complete a short course using automobiles on a dirt or grass surface, excepting where sealed surfaces are used in United States.
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Biodegradable waste
Biodegradable waste includes any organic matter in waste which can be broken down into carbon dioxide, water, methane, compost, humus, and simple organic molecules by micro-organisms and other living things by composting, aerobic digestion, anaerobic digestion or similar processes.
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity (or biological diversity) is the variety and variability of life on Earth.
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Biogas
Biogas is a gaseous renewable energy source produced from raw materials such as agricultural waste, manure, municipal waste, plant material, sewage, green waste, wastewater, and food waste.
Bioreactor
A bioreactor is any manufactured device or system that supports a biologically active environment.
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Brütten
Brütten is a municipality in the district of Winterthur, in the Canton of Zürich, Switzerland.
Digestate
Digestate is the material remaining after the anaerobic digestion (decomposition under low oxygen conditions) of a biodegradable feedstock.
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Electric vehicle
An electric vehicle (EV) is a vehicle that uses one or more electric motors for propulsion.
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Energy
Energy is the quantitative property that is transferred to a body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of work and in the form of heat and light.
Geothermal energy
Geothermal energy is thermal energy extracted from the Earth's crust.
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Hitachi Zosen Inova
Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) is a Swiss company specialising in energy from waste (EfW).
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Oberhelfenschwil
Oberhelfenschwil is a former municipality in the Wahlkreis (constituency) of Toggenburg in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
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Opfikon
Opfikon (in the local Swiss German dialect)Andres Kristol/Gabrielle Schmid, Opfikon ZH (Bülach) in: Dictionnaire toponymique des communes suisses – Lexikon der schweizerischen Gemeindenamen – Dizionario toponomastico dei comuni svizzeri (DTS|LSG), Centre de dialectologie, Université de Neuchâtel, Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld/Stuttgart/Wien 2005, and Éditions Payot, Lausanne 2005,, p.
Organic farming
Organic farming, also known as ecological farming or biological farming,Labelling, article 30 of is an agricultural system that uses fertilizers of organic origin such as compost manure, green manure, and bone meal and places emphasis on techniques such as crop rotation and companion planting.
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Photovoltaic system
A photovoltaic system, also called a PV system or solar power system, is an electric power system designed to supply usable solar power by means of photovoltaics.
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Qatar
Qatar (قطر) officially the State of Qatar, is a country in West Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it shares its sole land border with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its territory surrounded by the Persian Gulf.
Rümlang
Rümlang is a municipality in the district of Dielsdorf in the canton of Zürich in Switzerland, and belongs to the Glatt Valley (German: Glattal).
Schweizer Fernsehen
Schweizer Fernsehen (SF; "Swiss Television") was the German-language division of SRG SSR, in charge of production and distribution of television programmes in Switzerland for German-speaking Switzerland.
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Spreitenbach
Spreitenbach (High Alemannic: Spräitebach) is a municipality in the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland, located in the Limmat Valley (German: Limmattal).
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Zurich Insurance Group
Zurich Insurance Group Ltd is a Swiss insurance company, headquartered in Zürich, and the country's largest insurer.
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See also
20th-century Swiss inventors
- Albert Einstein
- Andreas Strehler
- Felix Maurice Locher
- Friedrich Wilhelm Schindler
- Fritz Fischer (physicist)
- Fritz Gegauf
- George de Mestral
- Gustav Guanella
- Hans Camenzind
- Heinrich Wild
- Henry Mohaupt
- Hermann Steiner
- Jacques E. Brandenberger
- Jacques Piccard
- Karl Müller (inventor)
- Martin Schadt
- Paul Degen
- Peter J. Wild
- Pierre-Joseph Ravel
- Rainer Küschall
- René Sommer
- Roger Steinmann
- Thomas Tommasina
- Walter Schmid
21st-century Swiss businesspeople
- Alain Zimmermann
- Barbara Berlusconi
- Barbara Polla
- Beatrice Weder di Mauro
- Bettina Schaller
- Carole Hübscher
- Cornelia Meyer
- Dean Schneider
- Dominique Lévy
- Duarte Moreira
- Eberhard W. Kornfeld
- Eliana Benador
- Etienne Jornod
- Evan Zimmermann
- Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo
- Franck Muller
- Franz Grüter
- Gardi Hutter
- Iwan Wirth
- Justin Picard
- Karl-Friedrich Scheufele
- Marcel Ospel
- Margarita Louis-Dreyfus
- Mario Corti (manager)
- Martine Clozel
- Min Li Marti
- Mirjam Indermaur
- Nadja Sieger
- Nathalie Henseler
- Nayla Hayek
- Peter Baumgartner (businessman)
- Prakash Hinduja
- Princess Nina of Greece and Denmark
- Renat Heuberger
- Robert Heuberger
- Rudolf Stämpfli
- Ruth Guler
- Stefanie Heimgartner
- Thomas Minder
- Thomas de Courten
- Uwe Krüger
- Vera Michalski
- Victoria Brynner
- Violaine Blétry-de Montmollin
- Walter Schmid
- Willy Michel
- Yomi Denzel
Businesspeople in construction
- Aditya Khanna
- Adolf Sommerfeld
- Ajit Gulabchand
- Aristide Blank
- Atul Punj
- Banharn Silpa-archa
- Behgjet Pacolli
- Cooper Rawson
- Edward Henry Clark
- Enrique Ferrarese
- Esther Koplowitz, 7th Marchioness of Casa Peñalver
- Felix Sater
- Heinrich Mendelssohn
- Jagmal Raja Chauhan
- Jamal Itani
- John Fletcher (New Zealand politician)
- Khalid Abdul Rahim
- Kim Suk-won (entrepreneur)
- Lázaro Báez
- Leopold Bachmann
- Martin Báez
- Nikolai Paus
- Oleksandr Popov
- Pavel Fuks
- Percy Nilsson
- Rafic Hariri
- Rajendra Nath Mookerjee
- Reichmann family
- Robert Cousins (builder)
- Roderick McKenzie
- Rory Gallagher (Gaelic footballer)
- T. Subbarami Reddy
- Tom Snooks
- Trond Reinertsen
- Vinod Khanna (businessman)
- Vipin Khanna
- Walchand Hirachand
- Walter Schmid
- Wei Wenhua
Composting
- Aerated static pile composting
- An Agricultural Testament
- Bioeffector
- Biological wood oxidation
- Biotic material
- Bokashi (horticulture)
- Brown waste
- Carbon-to-nitrogen ratio
- Clivus Multrum
- Compost
- Compost Everything
- Compost heater
- Composting Association
- Composting toilet
- Decomposition
- Dillo Dirt
- Ecuador composting method
- Edmonton EcoPark
- Eisenia fetida
- Fairfield Materials Management Ltd
- Grasscycling
- Hügelkultur
- Hermetia illucens
- Home composting
- Hotbed
- Humic substance
- Humus
- Industrial composting
- John Innes compost
- Landsupport
- Leaf Bank
- Leaf mold
- List of composting systems
- Mulch
- Multrum
- Nematode
- Night soil
- Oligochaeta
- Olive mill pomace
- Organopónicos
- Sebakh
- Soil organic matter
- Spent mushroom compost
- Stubble-mulching
- Used coffee grounds
- Vermicompost
- Walter Schmid
- Windrow composting
Spreitenbach
Swiss industrialists
- Adolf Bühler Jr.
- Arthur Bally
- Bertrand Vogt
- Charles Kiefer-Hablitzel
- Charles-Amédée Kohler
- Dieter Bührle
- Ernst Homberger
- François-Louis Cailler
- Franz Saurer
- Georg Wander
- Hans A. Sulzer
- Heinrich Alfred Gautschi
- Isolde Liebherr
- Jakob Heusser-Staub
- Oscar Kambly
- Rudolf Stehli-Hausheer
- Ruggero Dollfus
- Samuel Frey
- Theodor Tobler
- Walter Schmid
- Walter von Moos
- Werner L. Oswald
- Willi Liebherr