As I mentioned in a previous article, the US oil billionaire T Boone Pickens believes his country is the Saudi Arabia of wind energy. This may be true. But according to the Daily Green, America also has the potential of saving up to ten million barrels per day by doubling the fuel efficiency of all […]
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If you had a look recently at the sidebar of this blog, you may have noticed that I added a link on what is RSS just next to the subscription button. This sends you to a page featuring a great video by the Common Craft Show. This company didn’t stop right there and did the
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Since the writing of my Master’s Degree thesis I am fully aware of how insulating housing is a vital part of solving both climate change and energy scarcity crises. By reading a New York Times’ article I learned that halving houses’ carbon footprint in only five years is feasible. This is the result of an
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By reading the UNEP feeds, I came across an interesting report on the huge possible energy and money savings in the information and communication sector. According to a new report by the Climate Group and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative, worldwide savings could reach 500 billion Euros (800 billion USD) by 2020. This would lead to
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Yesterday, the eight leading economies met in Japan, alongside with China, India and South Korea. One of the main topics of discussion was the soaring prices of oil and energy. To counter this, they pledged to invest massively in energy efficiency and low carbon technologies such as renewable energies, nuclear and carbon capture and storage
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The International Energy Agency released today an interesting report urging once again its members to work on technologies that might solve the energy-climate equation. Stating that it is now or never, the experts believe that if nothing was done CO2 emissions would soar by 130 percent by mid century when in the opposite, they need
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By reading Ecogeek I get to know aerogel, a material that insulates 37 times more than fiberglass. The latter is largely used to insulate houses nowadays. Aerogel is the lightest solid known, extremely resistant, great for soundproofing, and yes, still very expensive : 1,300 USD (approx 800 €) per pound. But a team of researchers
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While browsing my favorite environmental websites, I discovered a gem : the official blog of the EU Energy Commissioner, Mr. Andris Piebalgs. There I read an impressive article on the multiple benefits an increase of 20 percent of energy efficiency would bring to the EU and its 27 state members. This is perhaps the best
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Some of you perhaps remember my article on Skysails, a towing kite for cargo shipping that enables to cut oil consumption by 10 to 35 percent. Well, the company released a video on Youtube that gives further explanations on this system, and the least I can say is that I find it totally great. I
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I have been writing it for months, and it seems that I am right as no other than the International Energy Agency is now urging to act on energy efficiency of buildings. Indeed, their latest publication is on this topic and their findings corroborate the ones I had in my master’s thesis. They also go
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