Efficiency

IEA urges governments for energy efficiency

The International Energy Agency released this week an interesting paper on energy efficiency and its importance. According to an IEA executive :“Improving energy efficiency is the most cost-effective concrete action governments can take in the short term to address climate change and energy security concerns” I propose in this article the main statements and findings …

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Let there be more light ?

This week-end was held in Slovenia the seventh European Symposium for the protection of the night sky. This is the occasion to have a look at the lightning of our cities at night. As more lights mean more greenhouse gases emissions, we will have to reduce the amount of lightning to fight climate change. The …

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A controversy on low-energy light bulbs

I have been reading and enjoying for some months the Business of green blog from the IHT. The RSS feeds of this blog are displayed on my sidebar. Today I was reading their latest article “Do low energy light bulbs work?” and I felt like giving my humble opinion on that matter and posted a …

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Cutting the energy consumption of collective housing

Last night Arte, a Franco-German TV network, broadcast a documentary on two buildings in Karlsruhe, Germany, which comprise 64 apartments for low income people. The goal of this show was to demonstrate that energy efficiency and renewable energies can be implemented quite easily to collective housings. A very important thing was that the costs couldn’t …

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A Ratatouille advertisement promotes energy efficiency

The US Department of Energy recently released a 30-second TV advertisement featuring Pixar’s latest film, Ratatouille. This video urges people to turn to low consumption light bulbs and to a more energy efficient living in order “to power and secure America’s future”. I really liked this advertisement as the goal it is aiming at is …

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German federal governement to insulate buildings

Germany is willing to tackle the millions local buildings that are lacking insulation. This will lead to savings of nearly half of the energy consumed by this sector by 2030 (compared to 1990 levels). The goal of the Federal Government is to insulate every year five percent of total housings and buildings. This would concern …

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On housing insulation – Part 2/2

Following what I wrote there, I am finishing this topic. I now focus on the various financial helps provided by the French government for households willing to insulate their apartment or house. We will also have a look at the solutions to the problem posed by the lack of thermal insulation and the effects of …

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On housing insulation – Part 1/2

Following to a comment by my friend Etienne in this article, I will take the most interesting findings of my Master’s Thesis to exemplify how insulating a place is definitively worth the money. My thesis for the Audencia Nantes Management School tackled the issues of energy scarcity and climate change in relation with the French …

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