French economist and degrowth specialist Timothée Parrique recently gave a most interesting presentation at a recent TEDx show. This is well worth 15 minutes of your time.
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Retour personnel sur les troisièmes rencontres solaires de l’Est qui se sont tenues cette année à Mutzig, en Alsace. On y a parlé autoconsommation collective, stockage et nouveaux modèles économiques.
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For season 20 of this blog – started in January 2007, time flies – I would like to wish you and yours a healthy and happy 2026. One can say that if 2025 was rocky to say the least it looks like 2026 will be on par or maybe even worse. A quote is making
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As the UNFCC gathers again for COP30 in Brazil, two new studies show how acting on climate change would save millions of lives and trillions of dollars.
L’ADEME s’inquiète du trop fort engouement pour le bois-énergie pour nos réseaux de chaleur et chaudières bois alors que le changement climatique bouleverse le cycle hydrique de nos forêts et que nos arbres meurent.
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For decades, access to electricity was either impossible or very expensive for billions of people. The current glut of solar PV panels produced in China is changing all this, bringing home and light to millions.
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This is it ! Renewables have beaten coal as the first electricity source globally in the first half of 2025. Solar, wind, hydro and other renewables accounted for 34.3% of global electricity consumed during the first semester of 2025.
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For this week’s post I am writing about transportation and a very interesting study on the Life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions from passenger cars in the European Union published by International Council on Clean Transportation.
Electric vehicles emits 4 times less CO2 than internal combustion engines ones Read More »
Solar and wind are great, cheap, clean energy sources and they just don’t provide grid stability and inertia like hydro, nuclear or fossil fuels. That’s why grid forming inverters are needed. More on this in today’s article.
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Solar photovotaïc (PV) is growing exponentially and will one day replace King Coal. A look at the numbers.
King Coal will disappear… And King Solar will replace it Read More »
