The climate issue has become central to Europe. It is no longer debated about its reality but about political strategies. Faced with real uncertainties about the scale of the consequences, we must act. But how ? The Kyoto protocol? Not all have signed it. Does the example have a virtue? How France and […]
Month: january 2005
95 barrel in dollars!
This is not science fiction, it is not a nightmare for the GoldenBoys of Wall Street. 95 dollars is indeed the oil price that the barrel reached in 1980 (in 2004 dollars), any correction of parity and inflation made of course and the barrel was confined to more than […]
Renewable energy: European objectives are far
The fourth European barometer of renewable energies has just been published by Eurobserv'ER. In 2003, renewable energies represented 5,48% of the primary energy consumption of the Fifteen. A stable rate for three years. Conclusion: the European target of 12% in 2010 will not be reached. The policies put in place or announced should not allow […]
Renewable Electricity: 15 projects selected by the Ministry of Industry
The Ministry of Industry announced that it had selected fifteen projects to produce electricity from renewable resources following a call for tenders. These are 14 biomass projects (216 MW) and one landfill biogas project (16 MW). The call for tenders, which had been launched on December 17 and was open for 200 MW […]
The extinction of the Permian
250 million years ago, a climate change responsible for the great extinction The Permian extinction The Permian extinction is the largest mass extinction to have affected the biosphere. It occurred 250 million years ago and marks the limit between the Permian and the Triassic, therefore the limit between the primary era (Paleozoic) […]
The floating TIPP
Keywords: tax, products, petroleum, petroleum, fuel, gasoline, diesel, fuel oil, gas oil, gas oil. What is that ? The floating TIPP is a mechanism that makes it possible to make the internal tax on petroleum products (TIPP) flexible by the government to compensate for fluctuations in the price of the barrel with a flexible and variable tax (the […]
Switzerland wants to develop its production of electricity from wind power
Through the SuisseEnergie program, Switzerland has set itself the goal of producing 50 to 100 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity using wind by 2010. The share of wind energy in electricity production would then increase from 0,01% currently to 0,1% in six years. Then, the Confederation wants, by 2025, to cover 0,5% of electricity consumption […]
China, leader in wind energy production
China will soon be the leading producer of wind power. A new wind power station has just been built in Guangting, in Hebei province. Commissioned in 2007, this plant, which can generate up to 400 MW of capacity, will supply 8% of the electricity needs of the Pekin-Tianjin-Tangshan zone and will thus double […]
Marine breathing plays on the climate
A research group of IFM-GEOMAR, institute for the Sciences of the Sea of the community Leibniz, publishes in the last edition of Science the conclusions of work according to which the ocean "would breathe". Scientists in Kiel have used exclusively, in the Labrador Sea, a measuring robot equipped with oxygen sensors. The research carried out […]
Light commercial vehicles
The development of light commercial vehicles poses traffic and pollution problems, Le Monde, 17/01/05 By Dominique Buffier Light commercial vehicles (LCVs) are experiencing strong growth in large urban areas. In France, in four years, the fleet of LCVs has grown by 1,1% per year, like passenger cars. In the […]