According to an article in La Tribune, a French economic newspaper, Electricité de France ( EDF, the French electricity operator ) is discussing with British Energy to build a nuclear power plant in the United Kingdom. Electricité de France is indeed discussing with British Energy in order to build nuclear plants together on UK soil. …
This is perhaps a question you asked yourself at least once. Here I will give some of the most interesting actions that can be done. I use for this the most seen recommendations.
Perhaps you noted the appearance since last Sunday of a new tab in the navigation bar above. The part, between About and Data enables me to be a little bit more personal on this website, that is my homepage and blog.
Following what I wrote there, I am finishing this topic. I now focus on the various financial helps provided by the French government for households willing to insulate their apartment or house. We will also have a look at the solutions to the problem posed by the lack of thermal insulation and the effects of …
Following to a comment by my friend Etienne in this article, I will take the most interesting findings of my Master’s Thesis to exemplify how insulating a place is definitively worth the money. My thesis for the Audencia Nantes Management School tackled the issues of energy scarcity and climate change in relation with the French …
I wanted to write an article on a topic that has been in my mind for some time. Sometimes, when one talks about climate change, he or she hears an answer similar to this one : “I am not doing anything before those ones act, because they are polluting the most“. We will see in …
As I said before my vacation, I write this week an article on the second part of AR4, the fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC. The final version of this reporst was hard to finish as many parts raised discussions with polluting nations like the United States, China or Russia. I will give below a …
Yep, this is my fiftieth post. I am quite happy of this new version of elrst.com as it enables me to blog on sustainable development related topics. Energy and climate change represent the majority of published articles as I think that sustainable development is strongly related to the choices we do concerning our energy consumption.
This is the speed achieved today by the French Train à Grande Vitesse (high speed train) hence breaking the previous world record of 515 kph dated from 1990. This world record is interesting as train is releasing much less greenhouse gases than planes.
For the first article of April, and for the three months of existence of this blog, I will handle a very serious subject. The International Herald Tribune published on its website an article on the threat that climate change may become for developing countries. The conclusions are indeed food for thought.
