Résumé du mois de Juillet 2007

Ce mois-ci fut d’un point de vue tant énergétique que climatique riche en évènements. Ce site a en effet rapporté des faits de divers pays. Du modèle californien à la pollution de l’air qui frappe la Chine ; du programme d’enrichissement de l’uranium au Brésil à la mer d’Aral, nous avons ainsi beaucoup voyagé. Des …

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In 2006, solar thermal progressed steadily in the EU

According to EurObserv’ER, an organism from the European Union, solar thermal energy saw its demand grow by no less than 44 percent in 2006 in the European Union. This represents more than three million square meters of panels installed in a year. Huge differences occur between countries. For instance, Germany lead this increase by installing …

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Looking for a clean new car ? Look no further

The UK Department for Transport recently released a ranking of cars by their carbon dioxide emissions per kilometre. This is done in order to enable consumers to choose the cleanest car in the category. The cleanest of all being a Volkswagen Polo with as few as 99 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometre. According to …

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28 nuclear plants may be built in the United States

According to several sources, the International Herald Tribune, Business Wire and CNN, the United States plan to build several nuclear power plants in the coming years. The IHT article states : ” Power companies have tentative plans to put the 28 new reactors at 19 sites around the country. “ So after the Russian Confederation, …

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The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne

This month I re-read The mysterious island, a fantastic book by French XIXth century author, Jules Verne. This is about six Northerns prisoners that flee Richmond during the American Civil War. Their escape is done by balloon and brings them to an inhabited island lost in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The book tells …

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Decreasing the consumption of computer screens

While browsing the Internet, I learned about an initiative due to decrease (a bit) the energy consumption of our computer screens while were are surfing the web. The world famous page of Google is in white and according to the creators of Blackle, putting this page in black would save thousands of watts per hour …

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Russia to build 26 new nuclear reactors

Some weeks ago, the Russian government decided to launch a new construction program of nuclear plants. 26 reactors will hence be built in this country by the year 2020. This is a very large plan as it will build in only 12 years the equivalent of half the amount of reactors on French soil. A …

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Paris’ bike renting program, Velib

On July 15th, the French Capital city launched an interesting public service that enables people to rent bikes to go from on point to another. This program, called Velib (a contraction of vélo, bike and Liberté, freedom) will comprise by the of the year more than 20,500 bikes dispatched in around 1,400 stations. Velib proves …

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WWF encourages people to offset their emissions

The World Wild Fund for Nature is encouraging the 10,000 athletes that will compete at the 2008 Olympic Games of Beijing to offset their carbon dioxide emissions. Each of all these athletes is due to emit an average of four tonnes of CO2 by flying to the host city. To what can be added the …

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Brazil to enrich uranium

Brazil, the leading South American economy, plans to enrich uranium and to build possibly a new nuclear plant in order to answer to the local growing electricity demand. Last year Brazil achieved oil self-sufficiency and is now willing to launch a whole uranium enrichment program, in order to manage totally this part of the nuclear …

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