Integrated Agriculture and Biodiversity: Policy Impacts and Measures Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy High-level Pan-European Conference on Agriculture and Biodiversity to Integrate Biological and Landscape Diversity for Sustainable Agriculture. Download the file (a subscription to the Newsletter may be required): Integrated Agriculture and Biodiversity, [...]
Month: January 2008
Download: Biofuels, reportage: the end of dark energy? 3 3 on
Report "The end of dark energy" Yves Entenich broadcasted on France3 27 January 2007 and touring alternatives to oil and fossil fuels: gas, biofuels (algae, pure oils, waste ...). Part 3 / 3 We will appreciate the engaged tone of the report ... This is one of the most committed report that has been broadcast on a channel [...]
Download: Biofuels, reportage: the end of dark energy? 2 3 on
Report "The end of dark energy" Yves Entenich broadcasted on France3 27 January 2007 and touring alternatives to oil and fossil fuels: gas, biofuels (algae, pure oils, waste ...). Part 2 / 3 We will appreciate the engaged tone of the report ... This is one of the most committed report that has been broadcast on a channel [...]
Download: Impact of climate change on soil and land
Key words: global warming, consequence, soils, environment, runaway The report evokes the disturbing release of CO2 by the peat bogs. Indeed; a study showed that the soil currently released twice as much CO2 as 25 years ago. In other words: the soil absorbs two times less. This is a consequence [...]
Download: Biofuels in envoy
"Oil is in the meadow" Full report on biofuels released 6 Avril 2006 in France2's Special Envoy. More: Oil is in the meadow (Special Envoy) Download the file (a Newsletter subscription may be required): Biofuels in Special Envoy
Download: Cheap Rolling in Capital, Pure Vegetable Oil
This video is from the show Capital "Rouler pas cher, incredible tricks", broadcast on M6 fin 2005. Download the file (a subscription to the Newsletter may be required): Cheap Rolling in Capital, pure vegetable oil
Download: Green Certificates: diet and method of calculating the redemption price of green electricity
The green certificates scheme as part of the opening of the Electricity Market in Wallonia. June document 2003 but still relevant in 2008 Summary and field of green electricity production concerned: • The objectives pursued • The principles of the system of green certificates • The essential notions relating to the Decree- The principle of calculation of the [...]
Download: Energy from Water? Video of Stanley Meyer works
Small issue about the dangers of their dependence on oil on the American chain CBS It is briefly seen Steve Meyer, the brother of the famous Stanley Meyer. This video is in English, learn more. Download the file (a subscription to the Newsletter may be required): Energy from Water? Video of Stanley's work [...]
estimation calculating consumption of pellets
What will be my future consumption of pellets and especially its cost compared to fuel oil? Heating with wood pellets (or pellets): the questions to ask yourself before choosing this heating mode? Your consumption of pellets will obviously depend on your energy needs. If you know them, then it will be easy to estimate your […]
Crisis Société Générale and Jérome Kerviel, analysis of the crisis, Kerviel a scapegoat?
Some analyzes on the stock-market crisis of Societe Generale in January 2008 and the indictment of Jerome Kerviel. Download the file (a subscription to the Newsletter may be required): Crisis of Societe Generale and Jérome Kerviel, analysis of the crisis, Kerviel a scapegoat?
Advantages and disadvantages of pellets compared to wood
What are the advantages and disadvantages of pellets compared to heating with wood logs? Archimedes screw for the automatic feeding of a pellet boiler Advantages of pellets on wood - automation of feeding for boilers, - semi automation for stoves (loading every 24 hours), - little or no work of preparation […]
Central heating with wood, wood pellets what does it know?
You've probably heard about wood pellets, also called pellets. This "new" energy can be an interesting econo- mic compromise for your new home or if you change a boiler. Obviously the investment is quite heavy and it should not be wrong to see the sums involved! However, […]
Properties of wood pellets
Main physical properties of sawdust pellets This article is an appendix to our pellet dossier. A) General Properties - Raw material: sawdust untreated wood. - Lower Calorific Power, PCI: between 4,5 and 5 kWh / kg. - Density of the pellet alone: 1100 to 1300 kg / m3 (the pellet flows in the water!) - Bulk density: from […]
Biofuel: pellets standards and properties and pellets and agropellets
The quality of solid biofuels. This document relates to pellets: pellets and pellets: granules of agricultural origin (cereals, cakes ...) Conference support by Michaël Temmerman, CRA-W and Olivier Hecq, CRA-W (Walloon Agricultural Research Center: http / /cra.wallonie.be). Conference held during the 4th Biomass Meeting "What resources for biofuels of the [...]
hot water ECS and wood boiler or pellet
Wood pellet heating: the questions to ask yourself before choosing this heating mode? Problem of domestic hot water with pellet or wood-fired boilers The preparation of Domestic Hot Water (which we will call DHW later) is a problem completely (or almost) independent of the problem of dimensioning […]
