Tsunami: call for your solidarity!

Exceptional news following the Asian disaster! Several French humanitarian organizations are increasing the appeals for donations after the tsunami in Asia: - The French Secours populaire has announced that it has released emergency aid of 100.000 euros. Financial donations, states the humanitarian organization, can be addressed to the Secours populaire français BP 3303, 75123 Paris cedex 3 or […]

Warming and environmental balance 2004

The year 2004 confirms global warming Keywords: global warming, global warming, greenhouse effect, pollution, CO2. The world meteorological organization has just published a first state of the world climate for the year 2004, which will be completed in March 2005 when the data for December are known. According to the international body, global warming is […]

Tsunami in Asia!

As you all must know, a few days ago in South East Asia, a violent earthquake triggered a Tsunami of a rare extent affecting many coastal countries of the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean. Three days after the disaster, the facts are alarming: more than 25 “official” victims and […]

Transport pollution underestimated

The European Environment Agency (www.eea.eu.int), in its latest report “Ten key transport and environment issues for policy makers”, asserts that the use of inadequate testing standards leads to underestimating emissions of air pollutants from new vehicles. The test cycles do not reflect actual conditions of use, which explains why atmospheric pollution […]

How to properly measure the performance of a heat engine

How to properly measure the performance of a heat engine? From interview / article I made for Passerelleco magazine. Is the “Pantone” engine a solution for driving while reducing pollution and consumption? For pollution, it seems to bring a clear improvement. For consumption, the most contradictory claims circulate, and sometimes, the pantone is adorned […]