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The International Energy Agency released this week an interesting paper on energy efficiency and its importance. According to an IEA executive :“Improving energy efficiency is the most cost-effective concrete action governments can take in the short term to address climate change and energy security concerns” I propose in this article the main statements and findings …
Oil prices have been increasing for weeks and a new record was just set in London and New York as oil prices reached $85 and even $86 per barrel today. This is due to some tensions occurring between Turkey and Iraq. This is an occasion to get back to an article on oil that was …
This week-end was held in Slovenia the seventh European Symposium for the protection of the night sky. This is the occasion to have a look at the lightning of our cities at night. As more lights mean more greenhouse gases emissions, we will have to reduce the amount of lightning to fight climate change. The …
I have been reading and enjoying for some months the Business of green blog from the IHT. The RSS feeds of this blog are displayed on my sidebar. Today I was reading their latest article “Do low energy light bulbs work?” and I felt like giving my humble opinion on that matter and posted a …
Last night Arte, a Franco-German TV network, broadcast a documentary on two buildings in Karlsruhe, Germany, which comprise 64 apartments for low income people. The goal of this show was to demonstrate that energy efficiency and renewable energies can be implemented quite easily to collective housings. A very important thing was that the costs couldn’t …
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Comme je l’annonçais précédemment, je voulais faire depuis le début de ce blog un article sur les émissions de gaz à effet de serre selon les différentes sources d’énergie. Afin d’être le plus impartial que possible, j’ai décidé d’utiliser trois différentes sources d’information. (MAJ le 18/09/07) Alors, quelle est la solution qui émet le plus …
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Last week, the countries of the Asia Pacific region (APEC) committed themselves to curb their greenhouse gases emissions by working on energy efficiency, renewables and the management of forests. A good news as this group of countries holds 41 percent of the population and comprises the United States and China, the world top greenhouse gases …
The US Department of Energy recently released a 30-second TV advertisement featuring Pixar’s latest film, Ratatouille. This video urges people to turn to low consumption light bulbs and to a more energy efficient living in order “to power and secure America’s future”. I really liked this advertisement as the goal it is aiming at is …
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The Mexican government plans to invest up to three billion US Dollars (2.18 billion €) in the next three years in wind power. This will be done in order to generate up to 2,000 megawatts (MW). The Ministry of Energy will team up with local companies to implement wind turbines throughout the country. Seven companies …
This was the question David Straham asked himself on his blog. I already talked about him when I reviewed his oil depletion atlas. (cf. Peak oil is near… around 2015 ! ) Unlike what one might think, the depletion of oil resources aren’t due to solve global warming, but is more likely to increase it. …
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