According to the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL), the United States is ranked fourth in the ranking of countries with untapped hydroelectric resources. As part of a project funded by the Department of Energy, INEEL scientists have mapped all these resources in the United States. The aim is to promote, […]
Month: October 2004
A new process for generating electricity using biogas
Scientists from the Bornim ATB Institute of Agronomy (Institut furAgratechnik Bornim eV) have successfully developed and tested a biogas fuel cell process which is a big step forward for the generation of electricity by biogas. It is the first PEM technology using biogas that is available and affordable. Under the leadership […]
Oil and Sarkozy
M. Sarkozy, the anti-liberal of oil There are principles and feelings. In the name of the former, Mr. Sarkozy defends pure and hard liberalism. In the name of the latter, he flouts it. Take oil. As soon as the surge in world prices begins to be painful, the Minister feels sorry for himself: sometimes on the fishermen, […]
Le Monde: Mr. Sarkozy, the oil anti-liberal.
“The surge in classes is perhaps a chance. She recalls that hydrocarbons are not inexhaustible, that the world will have to learn to do without oil not so long ago, around the middle of the century, and that, by then, it will have to get used to to expensive oil. In this perspective, clientelism […]
The properties of water, curiosities and generalities
The physical and chemical properties of water: generalities and curiosities Water is vital for life! It covers 70% of the planet, it is a simple molecule with complex properties. One of the few substances to exist in nature in all three forms: gas, liquid and solid. What are its properties and […]
The Arctic Ocean is in agony
Louis Fortier is professor of oceanography at Laval University and director of Quebec-Ocean. Head of mission for the scientific expedition CASES (Canadian Arctic Shelf Exchange Study), he spent a year in the Arctic, aboard the icebreaker Amundsen. Just back, he sounded the alarm by announcing the disappearance of the arctic world in a much shorter period of time […]
Geneva-based company manufactures diesel with recovered vegetable oil
Biocarb, a company with four employees located in the Geneva countryside, produces diesel fuel from used cooking oils, mainly from restaurant fryers. The first phase of the manufacturing process is to clean and filter the recovered oils. Then the composition of the final fuel must be standardized, despite the very different oils used. Biocarb not only recovers oils […]
New process for reducing dioxins in the combustion process by adding sulfur-containing waste
Researchers at the Research Institute for Ecological Chemistry at the GSFpres center in Munich have developed a new process that significantly reduces dioxins in the exhaust gases of incinerators. By junction of non-toxic sulfur bonds, they have achieved a reduction of dioxins up to 99%. Like ordinary household waste […]
The Life Cycle Assessment (CVA) method in Japan
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a methodology for objectively calculating the impact of a product on the environment throughout its existence, from the extraction of raw materials to its disposal. Since its appearance in Japan in the early 1990s, ACV has been widely studied and applied by research organizations, universities, industry and the […]
The automotive industry in Canada
The auto industry is a vital sector in Canada. The country is indeed the eighth largest producer of automobiles in the world. The annual capital investment in the automotive sector amounts to $ 2,8 billion and it is growing by 6,4% per year. Canada offers real advantages in terms of R&D in this […]