Electricity and heat produced from biomass with a new gas production technology On August 3, 2009, Federal Minister of the Environment Sigmar Gabriel made around 3,5 million euros available to the platform - technological form for bioenergy and methane (TBM, [1]), within the framework of the […] program
A biogas plant for the Alsace vineyard? With its 30 to 000 tonnes of marc and wine effluents, the vineyard could consider the construction of a biogas power station. But has viticulture taken the measure of energy issues and challenges? In June 40, we could learn in Viti-Alsace […]
We talk about it almost every day in the media, but what exactly is the Greenhouse Effect? - What precisely are the phenomena involved? - Who are the actors of this effect? - How to quantify and classify Greenhouse Gases (in other words: which are the most responsible […]
Keywords: warming, climate, human activities, consequences, temperatures, ecosystem, global. Read part 1: definition of the greenhouse effect Role of human activity in the greenhouse effect Most greenhouse gases (GHGs) are of natural origin. But some of them are solely due to human activity or else see their […]
According to the vast majority of experts, the increase in greenhouse gases makes global warming inevitable. After a presentation of the greenhouse effect, this document addresses the responsibility linked to road transport and the need for a profound change in this sector. PDF document, 20 pages, 1,1 Mb. Visit the EducAuto.org website and […]
by Hervé Le Treut, Jean-Marc Jancovici Flammarion, 2004 Summary: Since the appearance of life, man is the first species able to upset the climatic conditions reigning on Earth. In less than a century, the increase in the greenhouse effect, a consequence of the increasing use of energy, is likely to cause unprecedented warming of […]
by René Ducroux, Philippe Jean-Baptiste, Patrice Drevet (Preface), Jean Jouzel (Preface) CNRS, 2004 Summary: The greenhouse effect poses one of the major problems of our twentieth century. The climatic consequences are starting to be felt (droughts, floods, climatic extremes such as the heat wave of summer 2003 in Europe) and are not only worrying climate experts […]
A team from the Earth and Space Sciences Department at the University of Washington (Seattle) proposes to re-evaluate the organic carbon content of soils at very high latitudes up sharply. Sudha Brown While stocks were previously estimated at 1 billion tonnes in the peripheral area of the arctic desert and at 17 million […]
Loss of forests generates two billion tons of carbon each year December 9, 2005, Rome - Noting that deforestation accounts for 25 percent of all emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas caused by human activities , FAO today offered to provide data […]
A report commissioned by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation on the economic impact of reducing greenhouse gas emissions denies the commonly held view that strict regulatory measures are detrimental to growth. The study, which involved a team of economists from Stanford and the Department of […]