At a time where oil is more and more expensive, companies are seeing their transport bills increase and are looking for alternatives to send their executives traveling to the other side of the world. Videoconferencing is according to the WWF one as it enable people to talk to each other when being thousands of miles …
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95 percent of road transportation still depends on oil, and this is major problem as oil prices keep on increasing and as peak oil nears inexorably. This is major drive to find a solution. The WWF, the renowned environmental organization, released earlier this month an interesting report on what they believe should be the future …
Some of you perhaps remember my article on Skysails, a towing kite for cargo shipping that enables to cut oil consumption by 10 to 35 percent. Well, the company released a video on Youtube that gives further explanations on this system, and the least I can say is that I find it totally great. I …
I have been willing to write an article on biofuels for now more than a year, and the so-called panacea they represent to some people. Today the famous company Nestlé provided me a great occasion to do so as according to its CEO, biofuels are planting the seeds of famine. This is quite shocking as …
By reading this month’s issue of the French magazine Science & Vie, I came across a valuable article on a technology called Controlled Auto Ignition, or CAI. This enables oil engines to cut the consumption of regular vehicles by 15 percent, which would bring them to the levels of Diesel engines, without their hindrances. Engineers …
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As I noted in the previous post, I have been lately quite a lot in trains to go to Paris and Besançon for my job research and leisure. Using the train enabled me to avoid the emissions of nearly 240 kilograms of carbon dioxide as if I had been going by car. I have to …
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Alstom unveiled yesterday its AGV, which is the successor of the TGV (train à grande vitesse, fast speed train) a huge success for the company. The AGV brings several improvements compared to the previous model as it goes faster – 360 kilometers per hour compared to 320 – and consumes less energy. This will make …
This is the great – and yet very simple – idea developed by a German company, SkySails. The container ship pictured on the left uses one of the oldest inventions: a simple kite. According to SkySails, this enables to decrease by 10 to 35 percent the energy consumption of these boats, which are largely used …
The Indian conglomerate Tata is launching today the world cheapest car, the Nano. For the equivalent of 1,700 € (or 2,500 USD), Tata proposes a very energy efficient car. With a mileage of 70 miles per gallon (4 litres for 100 km), this car have a huge market potential as only seven million Indians own …
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Albeit the fact I consider myself as an ecologist and took various actions to decrease my greenhouse gases emissions, I never really did any calculations of my impact. But the New year’s day brought me an opportunity to have a look at my CO2 emissions as I went to Nancy by train and I avoided …
