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While on the road, he talks to locals and researches sites he&#8217;d like to visit, usually contacting the place only one or two days in advance. This enables him to get the inside scoop on the sites most important to the places he passes through. <\/p>\n<p>Such spontaneity has even led him to meeting Martin Lidegaard, the minister of Climate, Energy and Buildings here in Denmark. Gijs and the minister discussed Denmark&#8217;s future plans for renewable energy. Martin Lidegaard \u00bbmight even be more excited about our renewable energy future (and biking) than me,\u00ab says Gijs&#8217; on his website.<\/p>\n<p>To read more about the visit, you can refer to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kemin.dk\/da-dk\/nyhederogpresse\/pressemeddelelser\/2012\/sider\/paaelcykelfranorgetilsydafrika.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">this ministry article (in Danish) here, which also has Gijs posing with the minister.<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His favorite places so far, however have been in Sweden. Gijs visited a small wind farm of 30-40 turbines in Katrineholm where locals and visitors can come to learn about solar cells and wind energy. G\u00f6teborg was also a favorite. \u00bbIt was really cool to check out a vertical axis wind turbine,\u00ab says Gijs. \u00bbThis is a new kind of turbine that has little noise and maintenance. I even tested it out by sleeping quite soundly under it for an night.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>chloe.deanna.williams@adm.ku.dk<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay in the know about news and events happening in Copenhagen by <a href=\"http:\/\/universitypost.dk\/newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">signing up for the University Post\u2019s weekly newsletter here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"ArticleEnd"},{"acf_fc_layout":"OtherStories","headline":"","hand_picked_posts":false,"references":false,"category":false,"theme":false,"number_of_posts":"4","style":"default"}]},"taxonomyData":{"category":[{"term_id":45,"name":"International","slug":"international","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":45,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":315,"filter":"raw"}],"post_tag":[],"post_format":[],"expression":[{"term_id":15,"name":"News Article","slug":"news_article","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":15,"taxonomy":"expression","description":"","parent":0,"count":11492,"filter":"raw"}],"translation_priority":[]},"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/gijsincph-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35827,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17120\/revisions\/35827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniavisen.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}