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Month: April 2005
calorific wood and biofuels
Here are the different calorific values of the most common biofuels: Keywords: PCI, calorific value, biofuel, straw, wood, briquettes, chips, wood-fired boiler, cereals, agricultural waste The characteristics are given for the following fuels and for different rates of humidity: 1) Fresh forest chips 2) Forest chips Stock 13) Fir bark 4) Woodwork chips 5) Sawdust […]
Pig manure transformed into oil
Is oil too expensive? No problem. Professor Yuanhui Zhang, a biologist at UrbanaChampaign University in Illinois, has found the alternative energy: pig manure. The micro-reactor he developed transforms the effluents into crude oil. Under the action of heat and pressure, he found a way to […]
A window to warm up his house
With the University of Strasbourg, an industrialist is launching solar glass with promising qualities. “We all have in our house a wall in the sun that will be for nothing! ". This wall, Jean-Marc Robin proposes to use precisely. By replacing it with insulating glazing, coupled with a solar energy capture system allowing […]
Proposed green development in Britain
In June, the municipality of Silfiac (Morbihan) will lay the first stone of its ecological subdivision, an originality adopted by several Breton municipalities which, to seduce and satisfy newcomers, are seeking to develop a new life project. “Public lighting will be intelligent and will turn on thanks to a presence detector, the lamps will be energy saving […]
Save the planet
A few years ago, the first to sound the alarm on global warming received only sarcasm or, at best, polite indifference. Today, in France, a public body, the Environment and Energy Management Agency (Ademe), broadcasts spots calling on the population to contribute to the fight against […]
Himalayan glaciers, reservoirs of Asia, threatened with drying up
Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay were trying today to climb Everest, they would spare themselves 5 kilometers of ascent on the perilous Khumbu glacier, which has receded as much since their feat of 1953. Nicknamed the "castle of 'water of Asia', the Himalayan massif is seeing its glaciers melt under the effect of warming. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), which has […]
Members of Parliament pay for the air they pollute
Great Britain has just announced a plan which promotes the use of clean energy in developing countries. The originality of this initiative lies in its financing: each time a minister or a member of the government travels by plane, his ministry will have to pay a tax. This new plan will be put into action next month […]
Endangered ecosystems
Experts raise alarm: ecosystem changes continue to worsen and jeopardize achievement of global development goals World Resources Institute press release, 30/03/05 London, March 2005 - landmark study released today hui reveals that around 60% of the services provided by ecosystems and which enable life on […]
CO2 Solidaire
"CO2solidaire" to offset its GHG emissions Transforming the greenhouse gas emissions generated by its transport (plane, car or domestic activity) into donations for development programs in developing countries, this is the idea proposed by the CO2solidaire.org website. An awareness-raising and empowerment project aimed at individuals […]