Energy

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Mesures urgentes à prendre au niveau énergie et climat

Comme je l’annonçais précédemment ici, les articles d’aujourd’hui et de mercredi porteront sur les mesures qui me semblent nécessaire de prendre au niveau climat et énergie et ce, de façon urgente.

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Computers with enhanced energy efficiency

I have been for now ten years in daily contact with computers. So when 40 companies of this industry plan to work on producing more efficient hardware, I have to mention the initiative.

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Australia may be interested by nuclear energy

Yesterday on Le Figaro was a very interesting article pertaining to the Australian government’s interest for the cleanest energy source regarding greenhouse gases.

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My choice of stabilization wedges

Pr. Socolow and Pacala, in their stabilization wedges theory and their website ( the Climate Mitigation Initiative ) invite people to pick up their own wedges to create their own solution. I chose mine and explain my choices.

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On Stabilization Wedges Theory – Details & comments

As I wrote on this post, I will give today the details on the 15 wedges as well as some general comments on the Stabilization Wedges Theory.

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A global response to cut the energy use of buildings

Read last week on IHT.com and in Le Figaro. Some of the world’s largest cities, with a few companies and banks are willing to decrease the energy consumption of large cities worldwide. This is indeed very good news.

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Article en Français. De l’isolation des logements

Pour mon premier article en Français pour ce blog, je vais parler d’un sujet qui me tient à coeur depuis la rédaction de mon mémoire de Master. L’isolation des logements est ainsi selon moi une priorité dans la lutte contre le changement climatique. Nous verrons ici pourquoi.

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Peak oil is near… around 2015 !

I came across a very interesting website today via an article from Les Echos. This page is about peak oil, the point where half of oil reserves will be used up and according to this source, it should occur around 2015, ie. in less than ten years. David Strahan, the author of The last oil

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A look at the electricity consumption of LCD screens

The LCD technology is everywhere now, in our offices, homes etc. At the beginning they replaced our computer screens but they are now replacing our old television sets. We will see today if it is good news for the electricity consumption.

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A brief look at global carbon dioxide emissions

To fully understand why geopolitics are so important when it comes to climate change and to better understand how it can be fought, I will give in today’s article an overview of carbon dioxide emissions in the world.

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