Information on electricity and nuclear power, how do you produce electrical energy? What are the electrical powers at stake? What are the pollution and eco-balance sheets of electricity production compared to the different methods (nuclear, gas, coal, solar, wind, hydro, etc.)? What are the innovations in the field of electricity? What are the nuclear accidents and disasters in history?
It is not so much the unique performance it offers, but rather the need to reduce its ecological footprint and its energy bill, which motivates the switch to LED lighting. And for good reason ! Between its foolproof durability, its excellent light output, and its electrical expenditure 20 times lower than that of traditional lamps, […]
Fukushima disaster. Documentary Crisis unit: from Paris to Fukushima, the secrets of a disaster (full documentary). The magazine "Crisis Cell" returns on Sunday, February 12, 2017 to the Fukushima disaster and shows the amateurism and improvisation of the Japanese and that of France (which for example sends outdated moderator Boron and […]
The performance of electric transport depends strongly on the quality of their batteries. It is currently the real Achilles heel that limits the development of electric propulsion, both in road transport, maritime and ... that air obviously. We present a quick state of the art Lithium-Polymer battery performance currently on the [...]
While France continues (almost) everything to rely on nuclear electricity ... countries are now, and regularly, beating records of production in renewable electricity! This month it is the turn of Portugal to realize a real tour de force of the renewable! A few days after Germany produced so much renewable electricity that producers [...]
What are the world's reserves of Uranium? World map of the distribution of Uranium resources and graph of production / demand / price up to 2100. Sources: IAE / OECD 2006 More information: debate on uranium and nuclear fuel resources Map of world reserves of Uranium Graph and evolution of production […]
“It's not rocket science” on nuclear waste Learn more and debate: understand the operation of a nuclear power plant or visit our forum nuclear energy
“It's not rocket science” on nuclear electricity and on the operation of an EDF nuclear power plant Find out more and debate on this issue: understand the operation of a nuclear power plant or visit our forum " nuclear energy "
“It's not rocket science” on nuclear electricity and on the functioning of a nuclear power station Find out more and debate on this issue: understand how a nuclear power station works or visit our forum nuclear energy
Synthetic article by Laurent Minguet, author of the Nowfuture blog, including many interesting figures, showing that a gradual exit from nuclear power is possible thanks to Steam gas turbines. Encrypted application in Wallonia. Find out more: debate on leaving nuclear power or visit our forum on nuclear electricity The end of nuclear power for […]
Urban nuclear: illusions of Boris Pregel, atomic physicist visionary in 1961…… or how some scientists can be seriously mistaken in their predictions and in the blind confidence they have in Science and in their discoveries! In a special page of the November 1961 television news, the atomic physicist Boris Pregel recommended building […]
Method for calculating the required lighting power and the number of bulbs / light points. Examples of economical lighting Find out more: - The topic of this article: calculating the lighting power and the number of bulbs required - Choosing lighting in the kitchen and bathroom - Megaman bulb range in natural light of the day (color of […]
Links and collusion between the WHO (World Health Organization) and the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) Source for more information: debate on victims of civilian nuclear energy
One million death following Chernobyl is the figure advanced by a publication of the Academy of Sciences of New York based on a compilation of 5000 articles. According to a book published in 2010 by the New York Academy of Science, entitled "Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment", [...]
Review of the Chernobyl disaster by the New York Academy of Sciences, full text in English. 349 pages .pdf. 2010 Original title: "Chernobyl. Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment »Summary by P.Langlois:« According to a book published in 2010 by the New York Academy of Science and entitled «Chernobyl: Consequences of the [...]
Review of the Chernobyl disaster by the IAEA published in 2005 .pdf of 260 pages. Other sources report a balance sheet and figures quite different from those published by the IAEA, see links and extracts below. More: - Debate and information on the Chernobyl balance: global cost and human and health balance [...]
Nuclear: serious accidents in water reactors producing electricity. IRSN publication, 12/2008. .pdf 53 pages Download the document here: serious accidents on PWR and nuclear safety of the EPR Contents 1 / Introduction2 / Definition of a serious accident3 / Physics of core meltdown and associated phenomena4 / Methods of enclosure failure of containment5 / The approach […]
No one can ignore the desperate nuclear situation at the Fukushima 1 Daiichi power plant ... We are well ahead of a desperate situation despite attempts to minimize industrial actors or government but also, and this is less understandable or acceptable, some actors French politics ... On econologie.com, we are not "viscerally" anti-nuclear: we [...]
Report on the lifetime of nuclear power plants and new types of nuclear reactors Parliamentary report of the National Assembly, 2003. This report of 363 pages in .pdf makes a technical and economic inventory of civilian nuclear technology for power generation and includes 3 essential parts: Chap. 1: Management of the [...]
Nuclear SAR documentary, nothing to report, EDF and nuclear subcontracting! Documentary broadcast on Arte in May 2009 Nuclear workers come out of the shadows to paint a disturbing picture of their working conditions and security. An exemplary survey. They are called "jumpers", they are responsible for entering the steam generator [...]
The Pico +, a 300W hydraulic pico turbine The Pico + Family features 12 parts. Easy to implement and maintain, it corresponds to the energy needs of one or more family units. Completely submerged in water, with a drop height of 1,5 meters and a flow rate of about 35 liters per second, it delivers [...]
Pico Hydroelectricity: presentation of a pico hydropower plant in private homes in France Summary: Mrs. and Mr X live from 1985 an isolated house located below a mountainside in the Alpes de Haute Provence (04). When they moved into 1985, Mrs and Mr X made a connection request to the electricity grid [...]
Calculation of estimate of the hydraulic power given by a waterfall, a stream or a water flow Find out more: our forum renewable energies Calculator developed by Volta-Electricité allows you to estimate the recoverable hydraulic power of a river or a watercourse. The result will give you an estimate of the electrical power which can be […]
Return on investment calculator and CO2 comparator for the use of so-called economic or LED bulbs. by C. Martz Econologie.com and PP Volta-Electricite.info. This calculator was cited in an article in Le Figaro, click for more information. How it works? Flash calculator, it is therefore necessary to have the functional flash plugin in your browser. [...]
Map of nuclear power plants in the world according to Wikipedia In 2006, 442 power reactors operated in 31 different countries around the world, for a total of 370 GW producing around 17% of the world's electricity. Here is the world map of nuclear power plants (click to enlarge) Find out more: - The map of France of nuclear power plants […]
The UFC Que Choisir has just published a study on the hidden consumption of high-tech household appliances (Internet, telephony, flat screen ...). Coincidence? A few weeks ago, we had a video test on a fake printer and were about to contact the UFC to denounce this masquerade:
HP 1215 Printer in False Sleep by Econology
Measurement of power consumption of an HP all in one printer in "OFF" mode (all LEDs off) and in "Stand by" (LED on) Results: in the video. Learn more: power consumption of a standby printer HP 1215 printer in standby by econology
technical sales presentation Stirling co-generator using wood pellets (pellets) of Sunmachine society Read more: stirling wooden motor for home Download the file (a newsletter subscription may be required): Cogeneration Stirling with pellets wood
The Battle of Chernobyl Documentary on the management of the Chernobyl disaster in the series "Passé sous silence" broadcast on France Télévision in 2006. 6 APRIL 1986, 01H23 in the morning. A rainbow-colored flame of 1000 meters high rises in the sky of Ukraine. The fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power station [...]
europe-emissions-from-co2-by-country-and-by-kwh-electric What are the emissions of carbon dioxide, CO2, per kWh of electricity respectively in France and our main European neighbors? Find out more: visit forum CO2 and global warming These figures are taken from the following work: Engineering thermodynamics: energy - environment by Francis Meunier and published by Dunod Click to discover this […]
How much does a nuclear power plant or reactor cost? What is the cost price of a nuclear kWH? Answers… Nuclear power plants in the 1000 megawatt range (1 million kilowatts, producing around 7 billion kWh per year) were built in France, during the nuclear program, for a unit cost that would be […]
Technical presentation and development potential of thermodynamic solar plants with solar concentration. To find out more: - presentation and operation of solar power plants - synthesis links on solar power plants - Operation and interest of a concentrated solar power station - Vortex solar towers Download the file (an inscription to the Newsletter can [...]
How many reactors and nuclear power plants are there in France? For what total power? And in the world? In 2005, there were 58 nuclear reactors in operation in France for 19 power plants. This represents a total power of 63 GW. The average electrical power per reactor is therefore 1086 MW and 3316 MW […]
What is the cost price of electricity? The cost prices (in euro cents HT for the producer) are of the order of: - French nuclear: 3 to 4 cents - The average of the European Union: 5 to 5,5 cents Gold, kwh éolien is bought at around 8 cents by EdF… who resells it 6 […]
What are the load factors of a wind power plant and a nuclear power plant? How many wind turbines does it take to produce energy for a nuclear reactor? Definition: the load factor is the effective annual average load compared to the nominal load of the installation. This quantity is very important in calculating the profitability of an energy installation, whether it is […]
QUESTION: What is the electrical power of a nuclear reactor in France and how much does it produce? Answer: The electrical power of a nuclear reactor installed in France is 0,850 GW or 1,350 GW. The future EPR reactors will be 1,6 GW. Explanations and comparisons with wind turbines A GigaWatt corresponds to a Billion Watts is […]
QUESTION: How efficient is a nuclear power plant? ANSWER: the efficiency of a nuclear power plant is around 30%. EXPLANATION: This means that 70% of the “atomic” energy resulting from the fission of uranium 235 is “wasted” as heat in the cooling towers. For a power plant with 2 1,3 GW reactors […]
Good habits at home every day to easily lower your energy bills Exchange your advice to reduce your energy bills and visit the eco-friendly store Turn off lights and appliances when you no longer need them Easily leave a light on saying that we will come back to it quickly. This […]
In Somalia, tsunamis brought up toxic waste The tsunamis that struck Asia last December made it possible to rediscover radioactive waste illegally dumped by western countries along the coasts of the African horn. This is revealed in a report by the United Nations Environment Program, entitled “[…]
This article concerns French nuclear policy and nuclear energy more generally. Keywords: nuclear, energy, electricity, politics, power, waste, Eric Souffleux »Here are the data you need to have in mind to discuss nuclear. As you will see, I have changed a bit, clarified my position: - First […]
Nuclear: the radioactive waste puzzle Keywords: nuclear, waste, treatment, radioactive, ultimate. Achilles heel of nuclear or controversial argument of environmentalists: the question of radioactive waste remains a puzzle, long minimized, today in the public square but without a definitive solution having yet been found. This waste comes mainly from […]
The different types of nuclear reactors: operating principle. Keywords: reactor, nuclear, operation, explanation, REP, EPR, ITER, hot fusion. Introduction The first generation of reactors includes reactors developed in the 50s and 70s, in particular those in the natural Uranium graphite gas (UNGG) sector in France and the “Magnox” sector in […]
Coal returns to the United States ... Source: Financial Times, Dan Roberts Faced with the disappointment of gas and rising oil prices, the US government is encouraging coal production. To the great despair of environmentalists. In Wyoming, 500 kilometers east of […]
A documentary study written by INSA Lyon students on life, inventions and the remarkable and unknown scientific work of Nikolas Tesla. Format pdf, 23 pages Download the file (a subscription to the Newsletter may be required): Meeting of an unknown genius: Nikolas Tesla
