Make your own solar panels How to erect an organic potato tower? These are the last two testimonials published this week on www.eco-bio.info, a site devoted to organic agriculture and consumption, practical ecology on a daily basis. You will find practical information there: - plans for mounting your dry toilets or […]
Month: March 2005
Environment: is your municipality at risk?
Discover Prim.net, the website of the Ministry of Ecology dedicated to the prevention of natural and industrial risks. In particular, it offers Internet users to learn about the environmental risks run in their municipality. Prim.net returns to the forefront of the news with the publication of a decree on Thursday 17 February allowing buyers and tenants of a house […]
Renewable energy, a tax credit of 40 percent for purchases in 2005
Taxpayers will be able to benefit from a 40% tax credit for any purchase made from January 1, 2005 for their main residence of equipment using renewable energy (solar water heater, insert, wood stove, heat pump geothermal ...). This measure will take effect from the taxation of income for 2005, it is […]
Tiny photovoltaic elements achieve high levels of efficiency
The use of photovoltaics - the transformation of sunlight into electric current - is well underway in Germany. The branch is booming, with growth rates of over 30%. Almost 90% of current solar cells use silicon as a semiconductor, however a record set with another material has […]
Government launches investigation into human contamination with dioxins from incinerators
Afssa and INVS are launching a national survey on the impregnation of the population with dioxins. Objective of these two public bodies: to quantify a possible over-impregnation by dioxins of populations living near household waste incineration plants (UIOM). About a thousand people will answer a questionnaire on their eating habits and their environment and […]
A 4.000 kilometer pipeline to transport gas from west to east China
The construction of a 4.000 km long pipeline to transport natural gas from western China (Tarim oil field in Xinjiang) to the east (Shanghai) is one of the ten most important technological advances in China in 2004. The autonomous region of Xinjiang constitutes the most important reserve in natural gas […]
Chemical engineers develop ecological gasoline additives
Researchers from the Chair of the Development of Chemical Processes at the University of Dortmund (North Rhine-Westphalia) are currently developing an alternative gasoline additive that they believe has a bright future: GTBE (Glycerine-ter-butyl-ether) . This additive is formed from glycerin and is more advantageous compared to other additives of a […]
Scientists develop strategies for using carbon dioxide
During the Kyoto conference, the associated countries decided to reduce the production of carbon dioxide. As such, Prof. Dr. Arno Behr of the Faculty of Chemical and Biological Engineering in Dortmund has developed two methods. As an expert, for 25 years he has carried out research on the use and transformation […]
The water law: 3 articles
Water law: the important thing is to believe in it… “Water is life. The objective of this bill is that within ten years we will have water of total quality (sic) in nature. ” The Minister of Ecology yesterday presented his water law to the Council of Ministers. And he is so satisfied with it […]
The ozone layer victim of the solar storms of 2003
The concentrations of nitrogen oxides (NOx) in the upper atmosphere reached, during the spring of 2004, their highest level since 1985, causing a decrease in the stratospheric ozone layer of more than 60% in some cases. Cora Randall, from the University of Colorado-Boulder, and her colleagues from JPL, NOAA, Harvard-Smithsonian […]