Information on electricity and nuclear power, how is electrical energy produced? What are the electrical powers involved? What are the pollution and eco-balances 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 catastrophes in history?
Environmental commitment and sustainable development are subjects of increasing concern to households. These values very quickly became essential criteria of choice. However, energy consumption has a major impact on our planet. This is why more and more consumers have let themselves be seduced by green electricity, to […]
Replace its old neon tubes with LED neon lights. Why and how to install them? Founded at the start of the XNUMXth century, the traditional fluorescent neon tube revolutionized the lighting of factories and offices. In the form of a glass tube, it is quickly found everywhere, whether on […]
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, […]
Fukushima disaster. Documentary Crisis cell: from Paris to Fukushima, the secrets of a catastrophe (full documentary). The magazine "Crisis cell" returns on Sunday February 12, 2017 on the Fukushima disaster and shows the amateurism and improvisation of the Japanese and that of France (which for example sends out-of-date moderator Boron and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 Further information: debate on uranium and nuclear fuel resources Map of world uranium reserves Graph and evolution of production […]
“It's not rocket science” on nuclear waste Find out more and debate: understand how a nuclear power plant works or visit our forum nuclear energy
"It's not rocket science" on nuclear electricity and the operation of an EDF nuclear power plant Find out more and debate on this issue: understand how a nuclear power plant works or visit our forum " nuclear energy "
"It's not rocket science" on nuclear electricity and the operation of a 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
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 gas-vapor turbines. Encrypted application in Wallonia. Find out more: debate on phasing out nuclear power or visit our forum on nuclear electricity The exit from nuclear power for […]
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 […]
Method of calculating the required lighting power and the number of bulbs / light points. Examples in energy saving lighting Find out more: - The topic of this article: calculation of the lighting power and the number of bulbs required? - Choosing the lighting in the kitchen and bathroom - Range of Megaman bulbs 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 further information: debate on victims of civilian nuclear energy
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”, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Nuclear: serious accidents involving water reactors for producing electricity. IRSN publication, 12/2008. .pdf 53 pages Download the document here: severe accidents on PWRs and EPR nuclear safety Contents 1 / Introduction2 / Definition of a severe accident3 / Physics of core meltdown and associated phenomena4 / Containment failure modes containment5 / The […] approach
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 […]
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 […]
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 worrying picture of their working and safety conditions. 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 has 12 parts. Easy to set up 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 around 35 liters per second, it delivers […]
Pico Hydroelectricity: presentation of a pico hydroelectric power station in private homes in France Summary: Since 1985 Mme and Mr X have lived in an isolated house located below a mountain side in the Alpes de Haute Provence (04). When they moved in in 1985, Mrs and Mr X made a request for connection to the electricity network […]
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 that can be […]
Return on investment calculator and CO2 comparator for the use of so-called energy-saving 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? Calculator in flash, 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 in the world, that is to say a total of 370 GW producing approximately 17% of the world electricity. Here is the world map of nuclear power plants (click to enlarge) Find out more: - The France map 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 screens, etc.). Coincidence? A few weeks ago, we had made a disturbing video test on an HP printer in false sleep and were about to contact the UFC to denounce this masquerade: […]
HP 1215 Printer in False Sleep by Econology
Power consumption measurements of an HP all in one printer in “OFF” mode (all LEDs off) and in “Stand by” (LEDs on) Results: in the video. Find out more: power consumption of a printer in standby HP 1215 printer in false 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 Television in 2006. April 6, 1986, 01:23 am. A rainbow-colored flame 1000 meters high rises in the Ukrainian sky. The fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant […]
What are the emissions of carbon dioxide, CO2, per respective electric kWh in France and among our main European neighbors? Find out more: visit the 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 work Page […]
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 power plants with solar concentration. Find out more: - presentation and operation of solar power plants - summary links on solar power plants - Operation and interest of a concentrated solar power plant - Solar towers at Vortex Download the file (a newsletter subscription 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 excluding tax for the producer) are of the order of: - French nuclear power: 3 to 4 cents - The average for the European Union: 5 to 5,5 cents Gold, per kwh Wind turbines are bought for around 8 cents by EdF… which sells it for 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 […]
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 at 1,6 GW. Explanations and comparisons with wind turbines A GigaWatt corresponds to a Billion Watts, ie […]
QUESTION: What is the efficiency of a nuclear power plant? ANSWER: The efficiency of a nuclear power plant is around 30%. EXPLANATIONS: This means that 70% of the "atomic" energy from the fission of uranium 235 is "wasted" as heat in the cooling towers. For a power plant with 2 reactors of 1,3 GW […]
Good daily habits at home to easily lower your energy bills Share your tips for reducing your energy bills and visit the eco-friendly boutique Turn off lights and appliances as soon as you no longer need them You can easily leave a light on by telling ourselves that we will come back to it quickly. This […]
In Somalia, tsunamis brought up toxic waste The tsunamis which hit Asia last December have 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 keep in mind to discuss nuclear. As you will see, I have further evolved, clarified my position: - First […]
Nuclear: the radioactive waste puzzle Keywords: nuclear, waste, treatment, radioactive, ultimate. Achilles heel of nuclear power or controversial argument of environmentalists: the question of radioactive waste remains a puzzle, long minimized, today in the public square but without any definitive solution having yet been found. Most of this waste comes from […]
The different types of nuclear reactors: principle of operation. Keywords: reactor, nuclear, operation, explanation, PWR, EPR, ITER, hot fusion. Introduction The first generation of reactors includes reactors developed in the 50s and 70s, in particular those of the natural uranium graphite gas (UNGG) sector in France and the “Magnox” sector in […]
Coal is making a comeback in the United States… Source: Financial Times, Dan Roberts Faced with the disappointment caused by gas and the rise in oil prices, the American government is encouraging the production of coal. Much to the despair of environmentalists. In Wyoming, 500 kilometers east of the […] National Park
Documentary study written by students from INSA Lyon on the life, inventions and remarkable and little-known scientific work of Nikolas Tesla. PDF format, 23 pages Download the file (Newsletter subscription may be required): Meeting of an unknown genius: Nikolas Tesla
