Christophe wrote:jean63 wrote:I have to look if it's Russian gas that powers my boiler !!
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Without oil and gas the world would be much less rotten ... (not in the pollution sense) ... and it's all of us ... so quickly replace this boiler with a wood boiler!
Wood is not just about ecology and savings is also not to endorse THE world system ... and especially its excesses ...
Come to think of it ... but I just replaced my boiler and for many other reasons it is much more practical than wood even in pellets:
- no replenishment
- no reloading of the fireplace
- no installation for auto feed of pellets
- small location for the wall-mounted boiler (max: 1m X 1m X 0,40 m)
- wall outlet diam 15 cms; air inlet + "smoke" evacuation, nothing can be seen coming out, it looks like water vapor (no chimney to sweep)
- "clean" combustion except CO2 (that's the problem)
- no noise (the boiler is in the utility room next to the kitchen, we hear almost nothing).
Too bad the planet is warming and the gas will not be eternal because it is very practical. We must forget the risk of explosion but very rare on a modern installation.
What would be eco-friendly is to supply biogas produced from plants (branches of crushed felled trees, when they usually rot in the forest) as they do in an Austrian village; the village is completely autonomous and it's green. I put a post on it but I do not know where.
Have something new on the gas =>
Algeria: five billion dollars in contracts expected during Sarkozy's visit
Laurence Parisot November 23, 2007 in Grenoble
© AFP / Jean-Pierre Clatot Archives
French companies must sign contracts for $ 3 billion during French President Nicolas Sarkozy's visit to Algeria from December 5 to XNUMX, French sources in Algiers said.
Mr. Sarkozy will be accompanied by the president of Medef Laurence Parisot and a hundred business leaders, who will hold with Algerian employers a forum on possible industrial partnerships between the two countries. The two employers' organizations, MEDEF (France) and Forum business leaders (FCE - Algeria), meet regularly.
According to French sources, while the stock of French investments in Algeria is 2,1 billion dollars, an additional 5 billion in the short and medium term are in the pipeline, half of which are in the energy sector.
Total, in association with Sonatrach, must invest $ 1,5 billion for the construction of a steam cracker, the total cost of which is estimated at $ 3 billion. This oil group consolidates its place in Algeria, after several years of lean cows. Total has other exploration and production projects, as does Gaz de France (GDF), to the tune of $ XNUMX billion. On this occasion, GDF must renew its Algerian gas supply contracts.
In addition, $ 2,5 billion must be spent on the Algerian privatization program and other investments planned by major groups such as Lafarge, Air Liquide and Saint-Gobain. The latter were authorized to buy respectively the public companies Alver, Sovest and Sidal.
About twenty French companies are candidates for the takeover of Algerian public companies. Crédit populaire d'Algérie, the 5th largest national bank, is coveted by four competing French banks (BNP, Société Générale, Crédit Agricole, Banques Populaires). The sale was suspended due to the "subprime" crisis in the United States.
Excluding hydrocarbons, French direct investments have grown faster than the average, reaching $ 294 million in 2006. France is behind the United States, but ahead of the other partners of Algeria, stress French sources, in response to Algerian critics on the weakness of French investments.
The 250 subsidiaries of French companies located in Algeria represent 22.0 direct jobs and 0 indirect jobs.
Algeria is France's third largest gas supplier behind Norway and the Netherlands, but ahead of Russia. Hydrocarbons represent 95% of French imports, or more than 4 billion euros in 2006. Soaring prices have increased this bill by 1 billion euros in two years (2005 and 2006).
France is Algeria's first supplier, which is its first outlet in Africa ahead of Morocco, Tunisia and South Africa. However, the Algerian market is becoming increasingly competitive with the entry of new competitors, notably China and the United States.
Franco-Algerian trade represented 8,1 billion euros in 2006. They are in balance. During the first 9 months of 2007, France became surplus by € 698 million thanks to a sharp contraction in its imports and despite the appreciation of the euro.
The French share of the Algerian market, however, fell, falling for the first time, below the 20% mark, to 18,7% in June 2007.
Algiers and Paris finally want to facilitate travel between the two countries for executives, businessmen and journalists. The "visa issue" will be on the agenda of the discussions, one indicates in Algiers.
Norway, Netherlands, Algeria, Russia is the decreasing order of France's gas supply.
A priori, with us in Auvergne, due to the geographical position, we must be supplied by Algeria.
Good there I leave the subject, but we see that in France we are not dependent on the Russians ........ phew, good news for me !!
Only when he has brought down the last tree, the last river contaminated, the last fish caught that man will realize that money is not edible (Indian MOHAWK).