Gray energy and the “gray CO2” of construction: the hidden face of the building and construction sector. The orientations of European policy on embodied energy in construction. The new data on climate change necessarily lead us to significantly reduce our consumption of fossil energy, in particular […]
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INRA: economic study of permaculture
INRA published a four-year study on the economic viability of organic permaculture. This study entitled “Permacultural organic market gardening and economic performance” shows that permaculture can be quite competitive economically compared to conventional intensive agriculture. The study was carried out on a fairly small area of 1000m², ie […]
Sizing of an Archimedean screw for hydropower - INSA Strasbourg
Sizing of an Archimedes screw for hydroelectricity - INSA Strasbourg. Optimization of an Archimedean screw for energy production in micro-hydroelectric power stations. by Guilhem DELLINGER, Abdelali TERFOUS, Abdellah GHENAIM, Pierre-André Garambois KEYWORDS: Fluid mechanics, Renewable energy, Micro hydroelectric power station, Archimedean screw, Experimentation Summary The use of Archimedes screw in micro hydroelectric power stations is a way […]
Download wheat biofuel boiler on TF1
Report presenting the development of biofuels, for example combustible wheat, intended for residential or industrial heating. Find out more: forum heating, biomass and biofuels Download file (a Newsletter subscription may be required): Biofuel Wheat Boiler on TF1
Download: What proportion of vegetable oil in an industrial engine, heavy truck, tractor?
Summary table to determine the percentage of vegetable oil possible in industrial engines: trucks and heavy goods vehicles, tractors, generators, etc. To run at 100% vegetable oil, there are two types of adaptation: - equipped indirect injections Bosh or Japanese: supercharge the injectors to 185 bars, and in winter pre-wash pump and heater […]
Download: How much vegetable oil is in my car engine?
Summary table to determine the percentage of vegetable oil possible in engines without risk All Diesel vehicles accept 30% vegetable oil mixed with conventional diesel, without engine modifications Indirect injection type vehicles equipped with a pump Bosh or Japanese injection (Diesel Kiki, Zexel…) can go up to […]
Download: Water Vapor Pump Technology for Heating by CSTC
The water vapor pump technologies back in France Authors: Victoria Bogdanova, Joël Moreau and Rémi Guillet (Paper written in 2014, June) 7 June 2014, the first water vapor pump cycle of the new CIEC generation was publicly inaugurated in Goussainville, France. Its heating power of 2 MW answers the needs of heating and hot […]
Download: urban garden Guide
The guide to the urban vegetable garden. 242 pages, 24.2 Mb in .pdf Preface Les Jardins, like many other good ideas elsewhere, have the gift of growing in the most unexpected places. My first experience as an urban gardener was in Brussels, Belgium, on a rooftop without security barriers. Although […]
Download: Ademe: wind energy guide, June 2013
ADEME Guide to Wind Energy, June 2013 version. For centuries, man has used the energy of the wind to move boats, grind grain or pump water. This source of energy is now used to generate electricity. In recent years, wind power generation has been in full industrial development. It has indeed […]
Download: The Solar for Dummies, T1
Photovoltaic solar energy in France for dummies, volume 1 Explanatory brochure on how solar photovoltaic energy works in France. For those who did not understand that the French solar was not SUBSIDIZED (well in the sense or we want you to believe it) “When you want to kill your dog, you say he has the […]
Download: Scenario Négawatt 2006, archive
Archive: Négawatt 2006 scenario, summary Since the end of 2002 the association has embarked on the development of a prospective energy transition scenario by 2050. Taking advantage of new data and greater experience, the members of negaWatt updated this prospective scenario in 2005 and 2006. It was then supported by a number of proposals from […]
Download: Electric heating and peak power
Electric heating and peak current on the network, presentation by the Négawatt association Conference support presenting the problem of peak power: figures, history and applicable solutions… Find out more: - Download the Négawatt 2011 scenario - Debate on the scenario Negawatt 2011 Download the file (Newsletter subscription may be required): Heating […]
Download: Scenario Négawatt 2011: Video conference
Video conference presentation of the Négawatt 2011 Scenario This new scenario meets several objectives: - to show that a so-called “developed” society can meet its needs by considerably reducing the use of fossil and nuclear energies. - propose concrete measures allowing a real energy transition - make a technical contribution to the debate on […]
Download: Scenario Négawatt 2011, analysis synthesis
Négawatt 2011 scenario. This new scenario meets several objectives: - show that a so-called "developed" society can meet its needs by considerably reducing the use of fossil and nuclear energies. - propose concrete measures allowing a real energy transition - make a technical contribution to the debate on the energy policy of the […]
Download: Négawatt, thousands of jobs for energy savings
Download the summary of the socio-economic study of the negaWatt scenario. Summary: Publication of the socio-economic study of the negaWatt 2011 scenario Eighteen months after the publication of its “energy scenario 2011-2050” and a little over a year after the publication of its Manifesto, the negaWatt association wishes bring a new contribution to the National Debate on the Transition […]
Download: Energy balance of a transport vehicle: energies and improvements
Quality criteria for means of transport: overall energy balance, energies involved, ways of improvement (mass, aerodynamics)… Find out more: technical discussions on the car of the future Download the file (a newsletter subscription may be required) : Energy balance of a transport vehicle: energies and improvements
Download: Nuclear risk and financial risk
Analogy between nuclear risk (radiation) and financial risk (crash) in public opinion document in English. Parallels of Radiation- and Financial-Risk Management on Public Acceptance Mark Hogue * Abstract - The financial collapse of 2007 provides an opportunity for a cross-discipline comparison of risk assessments. Flaws in financial risk assessments bear part of the blame […]
Download: Sonoluminesence: Discovery of Nuclear Reactions, Cold Fusion, by Purdue University
Confirmatory experiments for nuclear emissions during acoustic cavitation Sonoluminesence: confirmation of nuclear phenomena (cold fusion type) by Purdue University Confirmatory experiments were conducted to assess the potential for nuclear fusion related emissions of neutrons and tritium during neutron-seeded acoustic cavitation of deuterated acetone. Corresponding control experiments were conducted with normal acetone. Statistically significant (5-11 […]
Download: Wet Combustion, Air Humidification Patent 1923
Patent of 1923 on the improvement of combustion by humidification of the combustion air More information: forum on water injection in engines Download the file (newsletter subscription may be required): Wet combustion, 1923 patent on air humidification
Download: oil burner MHG blue flame: and manual operation
Blue flame oil burner MHG RE 1H / RE 1HK: Installation, operation and maintenance Blue flame burner according to DIN 51.603 More information: - The Logatop blue flame burner from Buderus - Manufacture of a blue flame burner from a yellow flame burner Download the file (a subscription to the Newsletter […]
Study the phenomenon sonoluminescence
Presentation, study and implementation of the phenomenon of Sonoluminescence 12 pages by F. Moulin. Introduction Sonoluminescence is the conversion of "sound into light". It occurs when one or more bubbles, trapped inside a liquid by a sinusoidal acoustic field, are forced to oscillate during the phases of compression and depression of the acoustic wave. […]
Download: Jet boiler oil or oil: problems and solutions by Danfoss
What should I know about oil nozzles? 44-page Danfoss document on the operation, problems and maintenance of oil-fired boiler nozzles Contents: The oil nozzle and the complete oil-fired heating system What should I know about oil-fired nozzles? What is a Danfoss oil nozzle? About what […]
Download: The culture of micro-algae and depollution of pig manure
Intensive cultures of microalgae on pig slurry: performance, constraints, use of biomass. 125-page thesis by Lionel DABBADIE This thesis concerns the depollution of pig manure not microalgae but contains information on the culture of microalgae for other applications, in particular 3rd generation biofuel. See the example of BFS Summary The […]
Thesis on the wet combustion and performance by Rémi Guillet
Wet combustion and its performances 232 pages in .pdf Thesis presented in view of obtaining the title of Doctor of the University Henri Poincaré, Nancy 1 in Mechanical Science and Energy. By Rémi GUILLET. Keywords: wet combustion / combustion / humidity / hygrometry / environment / efficiency / energy / thermal process / nitrogen oxides […]
Download: Policy and strategy of defeat for handling peoples
1 hour and a half video conference document on the defeat of France in 1940, interesting for understanding the manipulations that a people can undergo by their own political leaders. Here particularly on the choice of voluntary defeat by the ruling classes under pressure (obviously) of economic interests… We can find there (or not; […]
Download: Nuclear safety: studies and tests on Corium, melted heart, by the CEA
IRSN video about the research carried out in France at CEA Cadarache on the melting of a nuclear reactor core on the Phebus experimental reactor. A nuclear reactor core melts when it is no longer properly cooled. The nuclear fuel that composes it melts and turns into a mixture […]
Documentary "Journey to the origins of the Earth" (formation, geology, climate, evolutions, extinctions…)
Journey to the origins of the Earth. Very interesting documentary on the formation of the Earth and on the origins of life on Earth: initial formation, geological and climatic evolutions, biological evolutions, mass extinctions… Find out more: - Debate on the origins of the Earth - The evolution of species due to chance? […]
Download: The false good ideas of green transport according to the FNAUT
An anthology of false good ideas in the transport sector The FNAUT (National Federation of Transport User Associations) fights false ideas - for example, parking in the city center, the mega-truck, the floating TIPP - but also the false good ideas. It is obviously favorable to innovation. But many technical innovations or […]
Download: Ecobilan solar photovoltaic by Hespul
Complete eco assessment of solar photovoltaic by the Hespul association Find out more: - Debate on the environmental assessment of solar photovoltaic electricity - Visit our forum solar photovoltaic Download the file (a subscription to the Newsletter may be required): Solar Photovoltaic EcoBilan by Hespul
Documentary: diseases for sale (Arte Thema, full video)
Diseases for sale, Arte Thema. November 2011 Arte Thema on the excesses of the pharmaceutical industry… Find out more: - Diseases for sale: manufacturers of patients (Arte Thema) - The Mediator affair - Forum health, pollution and prevention
Download: Viktor Schauberger: Living Energies (water and vortex)
Book of over 300 pages on the work of Viktor Schauberger on understanding water and vortices Read more: - Video the masters of water - Schauberger and Vortex - Schauberger's work Download the file (a Newsletter subscription may be required): Viktor Schauberger: Living Energies (water and vortex)
Download: Pyrolysis and gasification of wood for the production of electricity
Pyrolysis and gasification for the production of electricity: process and actors .pdf of 155 very complete pages on the pyrolysis and gasification of wood and biomass and the means of converting wood into electric current. Document ADEME, Cirad-Forêt and Observ'ER Find out more: - Biomass recovery - Waste thermolysis Download the file […]
Download: Lycoming 0-360 76 Series User Manual
Operators Manual Avco Lycoming 0 360 76 Series Aircraft Engines Learn more: forum Transportation and Diesel Engines in Light Aviation Download File (Newsletter subscription may be required): Lycoming 0-360 76 Series User Manual
Download: Survey Complement. Nuclear, the disaster that changes everything
Complementary Investigation of April 18, 2011: “Nuclear, the disaster that changes everything” following the Fukushima disaster Since March 12, the whole world has lived to the rhythm of explosions and radioactive leaks from the Fukushima plant. Day after day, everyone discovers the fearful lies and approximations of the operator Tepco. So […]
Civil nuclear energy: collusion between IAEA and WHO
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
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 […]
Download: Ytong Multipor, installation and advice in interior insulation
YtongMultipor in interior wall insulation Xella's Mini Guide on the use of Multipor in interior insulation, a lightweight cellular concrete type mineral insulation. YTONGMultipor: effective insulation of facades from the inside Belgium has some four million dwellings, many of which date back several decades and would require renovation in order to meet […]
Download: Ytong Multipor poses in external thermal insulation
YtongMultipor in insulation of exterior facades Xella's Mini Guide on the installation in exterior facades of Multipor, mineral insulation of lightweight cellular concrete type. YTONGMultipor: the insulation and plaster system for the exterior of facades The facades of homes are often subjected to severe testing by being exposed to the vagaries of the climate. A good part […]
Download: Ytong Multipor, application advice and installation in cellars and ceilings
Xella YTONGMultipor: The system to insulate cellars and underground car parks. Multipor application presentation guide in basements, parking lots and ceilings. YtongMultipor, the high-performance mineral insulating panel. YtongMultipor combines: - high thermal insulation - optimum fire safety - good soundproofing - easy installation - a finishing function […]
Download: Building and renovating for the future with Xella, 6 examples of insulation
Guide for presenting solutions for economical constructions by Xella The document presents 6 insulation solutions using Xella products: Ytong, YtongMultiPor, Silka and Hebel. .pdf of 3 MB. 24 pages. Find out more: Download another guide Xella: guide to sustainable construction with Xella Insulation with Xella Multipor: products and monitoring […]
Download: Building Sustainable with Xella Ytong, Multipor and Silka
Building sustainably with Ytong, Silka and Multipor from Xella: low-energy, low-energy and passive houses Very well-produced guide on energy-efficient housing edited by Xella, manufacturer of cellular concrete (Ytong), silico-limestone blocks (Silka) and cellular insulation blocks (Multipor). .pdf of 44 pages. Introduction: building sustainably: for what, what and […]
Download: Serious nuclear accidents and EPR safety, IRSN doc
Nuclear: serious accidents involving water reactors for producing electricity. IRSN publication, 12/2008. .pdf 53 pages To find out more: - Debate on the lifespan of a nuclear power plant - Forum nuclear– The Fukushima disaster– March 15 report on the Fukushima nuclear accident Contents 1 / Introduction2 / Definition of a serious accident3 / Physics of […]
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 […]
Who Killed the Electric Car? Who killed the electric car? In French
Who killed the electric car? Who killed the electric car? French version Full documentary on the disappearance, in 2005, of General Motor's EV1. Related video: the electric car, a car of the future or of the past? Find out more: - Debate on the documentary Who Killed the electric car? - Press article on the case […]
Download: Guide to energy-saving lighting
Guide to economical lighting by ADEME .pdf of 12 pages. Better for the environment, less expensive for you and efficient everywhere… efficient lighting! Understand economical lighting and how to replace a classic bulb with an economical bulb (compact fluorescent or led)? The document also presents the technologies and gives comparative tables and orders of magnitude. In […]
Video: food additives, health effects, behavior and mind of children
Food additives and effects on the physical and mental health of children in just 2 weeks of “healthy” food. Children are now "test tubes on legs" because of dozens of food additives and dyes that cause physical and mental disorders. The striking improvement (in particular on the capacities of concentration and hyperactivity) of […]
Tesla Motors Roadster, the electric sports car
Video presentation of the Tesla Roadster, the electric sports car. Find out more: - List of electric cars on the market in 2011-2012 - Feedback from a member of forums on the Tesla Roadster - The motorcycle equivalent of the Tesla Roadster: the Brammo Empulse Roadster electric motorcycle Presentation by Tesla Motors Presentation […]
Download: Summary on the electric bicycle: technology, energy, economy ...
Econological synthesis and technological watch on the electric bicycle (assistance). The electric bicycle, state of the art. .pdf of 24 pages. by CETE Mediterranean Document content: definition of an electric bicycle, regulations, energy aspects, the electric bicycle market, state of the art, econological arguments, comparison of Smart Scooter Moped and electric bicycle… Find out more: […]
Download: Desulfate, recover and regenerate a used lead battery
Electronic assembly making it possible to improve the performance of lead-acid batteries which have been sulphated over time and / or misuse Assembly published in Elektor in 2001. Absolutely unthinkable not long ago, this regenerator allows to breathe new life into old accumulators lead, totally or partially sulphated. In addition, the project is equally concerned with […]