Solar LED luminaire: the even more economical alternative to LED lighting

It is not so much the unique performances that it offers, but 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, […]

Lipo Lithium Battery

Electric transport (Lipo) VS thermal (gasoline): criteria for choosing a battery and comparative calculations

The performance of electric transport depends heavily on the quality of their batteries. It is currently the real Achilles heel which limits the development of electric propulsion, as well in road transport as maritime and… that air of course. We present to you a quick little state of the art of the performance of Lithium-Polymer batteries currently on the […]

Portugal

Energy transition: Portugal powered for 4 days entirely with renewable electricity!

While France continues to bet (almost) everything on nuclear electricity… countries are currently breaking records for renewable electricity production! This month it's Portugal's turn to achieve a real tour de force of renewable energy! A few days after Germany produced so much renewable electricity that producers […]

Urban nuclear power: illusions of Boris Pregel, visionary atomic physicist in 1961 ...

Urban nuclear power: illusions of Boris Pregel, visionary atomist physicist in 1961…… or how some scientists can be seriously wrong in their predictions and in the blind confidence they have in Science and in their discoveries! In a special page of the television news of November 1961, the atomic physicist Boris Pregel recommended to build […]

Chernobyl: a million dead in 20 years?

One million deaths from Chernobyl is the figure put forward by a publication from the New York Academy of Sciences based on a compilation of 5000 articles. Analyzes according to P.Langlois: According to a book published in 2010 by the New York Academy of Science and entitled “Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment”, […]

Chernobyl, human and environmental consequences

Assessment 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 ”Summarized by P.Langlois:“ According to a book published in 2010 by the New York Academy of Science and entitled “Chernobyl: Consequences of the […]

Human and economic toll of the Chernobyl disaster by the IAEA

Assessment of the Chernobyl disaster by the IAEA published in 2005 .pdf of 260 pages. Other sources report a balance sheet and figures very different from those published by the IAEA, see links and extract below. Find out more: - Debate and information on the Chernobyl assessment: overall cost and human and health assessment […]

Fukushima nuclear disaster, the other Chernobyl?

No one can ignore the desperate nuclear situation at the Fukushima 1 Daiichi power plant anymore… We are facing a desperate situation despite the attempts to minimize the industrial players or the government but also, and this is less understandable or acceptable, some players French politicians… On econologie.com, we are not “viscerally” anti-nuclear: we […]

lifetime of nuclear power plants and new types of reactors

Report on the lifespan 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 the production of electricity and includes 3 essential parts: Chap. 1: Management of […]