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Hans De Keulenaer

International Energy Agency - Energy Publications - 0 views

  • Improvements in energy efficiency over the past three decades have played a key role in limiting global increases in energy use and CO2 emissions. For IEA countries, energy efficiency gains since 1990 have led to annual energy savings of more than 16 EJ in 2005 and 1.3 Gt of avoided CO2 emissions. However, the recent rate of efficiency improvement has been much lower than in the past. The good news is that a large potential remains for further energy and CO2 savings across all sectors. In industry alone, the application of proven technologies and best practices on a global scale could save between 1.9 Gt and 3.2 Gt of CO2 emissions per year. In public power generation, if all countries produced electricity at current best practice levels, CO2 savings would be between 1.8 Gt and 2.5 Gt.
Hans De Keulenaer

The Limits of Energy Efficiency | The Energy Collective - 3 views

  • In fact many commentators and policymakers continue to believe that energy efficiency alone can address much of the CO2 problem – and that it can do so at very low cost (or even negative cost), at least compared to a ‘do nothing case’.  But  any successful policy toward mitigation of CO2 emissions must centre on CO2 pricing. Energy efficiency can only be a contributory factor and, in some circumstances, can even have a negative long-term impact if the centrality of CO2 pricing is not recognised.
Sergio Ferreira

Power Plant CO2 + Sodium Hydroxide = Baking Soda - 0 views

  • The Skyonic SkyMine™ process mineraizes CO2 as sodium carbonate (baking soda) for long-term storage as land or mine fill. It is a post-combustion carbon capture and sequestration technology that works with any large-scale stationary CO2 emitter
Hans De Keulenaer

Sectoral Approaches in Electricity : Building Bridges to a Safe Climate « RFF... - 2 views

  • Electricity accounts for more than 40 % of global energy-related CO2 emissions. This issue is most pressing for developing countries where growth in power demand is particularly high, fueling the risk of irreversible investment in CO2-intensive capacity, the so-called “carbon lock-in”. Sectoral Approaches in Electricity – Building Bridges to a Safe Climate shows how the international climate policy framework could effectively support a transition towards low-CO2 electricity systems in developing countries. Sectoral approaches are intended to address sectors that require urgent actions, without waiting for countries to take nation-wide commitments.
Ako Z°om

les panneaux solaire - Le 20 heures - Les journaux télévisés de France 2 - FO... - 0 views

  • Je ne sais pas si tu te rends compte mais un lingot permet de faire 4 panneaux solaires de 1m² qui produisent 4x130w et qui ont une durée de vie de 20ans. si tu n'utilises que les chutes de lingots, il faut 6 lingots pour faire 1 panneaux qui produira 130w avec une durée de vie de 20ans (pour faire un panneaux en poly silicium donc avec les chutes des lingots, il faut encore faire fondre les chutes 1400°C pendant quelques heures). Imagine maintenant l'énergie qu'il faut pour faire 4 panneaux solaire (9x24heures à 1200°C), l'énergie qu'il faut est beaucoup plus importante que ce que 4 panneaux de 130w pendant 20ans peuvent produire (et là je parle que de l'énergie). En gros un panneau solaire de 130w ne rembourse pas l'énergie qu'il a eu besoin pour être fabriqué  c'est bien le problème des média qui ne parlent que des bonnes choses de ces panneaux et qui arrive à faire croire à des personnes comme toi que c'est écologique.  
  • la plupart des panneaux solaires en silicium proviennent des déchets de l'industrie microélectronique
  • fabrique les panneaux solaires, les lampes à DEL, les processeurs,.... je vais parler du monde du silicium. La base de ces panneaux solaire est donc le cristal silicium pur, pour obtenir ce silicium on met du sable (SiO2) dans un creusé et on le fait fondre à 1400°C. Une fois le silicium  fondu et les molécules d'oxygène évacué, on plonge un germe de cristal de silicium dans le creusé que l'on tire tout doucement (1mm/15min) afin d'obtenir un cristal du silicium.   Il faut environs 24 heures pour obtenir un lingot de silicium et pendant ce temps le creusé doit resté à 1400°C. S’en suit une purification du lingot, on recuit le lingot 5 à 6 fois à 1000°C pendant à chaque fois 24 heures cela fait beaucoup beaucoup d'énergie et donc beaucoup beaucoup de CO2.   Une fois le lingot pur obtenu, il faut le découper et le polir (là on utilise beaucoup d'eau il ne faut pas que le silicium chauffe). S’en suit alors la réalisation du système, là il s’agit d'une répétition de dépôt de résine toxique, cuisson, attaque chimique (acide fluoridrique), dépôt chimique (silane SiH4 et Tétrafluorosilane SiF4 qui produit des gaz fluoré très toxique avec une duré de vie de 150ans) généralement l'opération est répété 40 fois environ. Après les systèmes obtenu il faut les découpés, mettre dans des boitiers,...  Bien sur, je ne parle pas du transport car la plupart des systèmes sont fabriqué en Asie, il y a aussi des à côté comme les salles blanches,.... les ordinateur qui tourne 24 heures sur 24 7jours /7.  Il faut 1 lingot pour fait 4 panneaux de 1 m²
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  • produire 1m² de panneaux solaire engendre plus de CO2 que se qu’il permet d’évité de rejeter et donc il n’a pas d’intérêt dans la lute contre le changement climatique. Par contre c’est une bonne alternative pour la fin du pétrole (si on n’a pas peur de la pollution)
  • la fabrication d'un panneau produit plus de CO2 que se qu'il évite de rejeter le temps de sa durée de vie
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    in fr ... but perhaps you know that photovoltaïc panels are polluting massively .. just to build them !!! and have not enough power to reimburse their fabrication back !!! and if there is no more oil to build them .. what's up ?
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    une vérité sur les panneaux solaires ... à suivre de près à moins que les panneaux photovoltaïques soient condamnés et obsolètes dès ce jour ...
Hans De Keulenaer

Environmental Capital - WSJ.com : Bank of America Puts a Price on Carbon - 0 views

  • Bank of America says it has decided to start factoring a cost of carbon-dioxide emissions into its decisions about whether to underwrite debt for new coal-fired plants. Specifically, the bank says it anticipates a federal cap that would require a utility to pay between $20 and $40 for every ton of CO2 its power plants emit. Today in Europe, which already has imposed caps, a permit to emit a ton of CO2 is trading at about $29. Bank of America’s announcement comes a week after three other big banks – Citigroup, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley – announced their own “Carbon Principles” – voluntary standards those banks say will make them less likely to underwrite financing on conventional coal-fired power plants.
Sergio Ferreira

Miles per dollar - 0 views

  • I agree with that logic, though from my perspective "mp$" could be even more useful as we enter a world in which the gallons we're using aren't directly comparable, and as electricity enters the transportation mainstream, resisting easy conversion to gallons without heroic assumptions and creating potentially over-optimistic assessments of the overall efficiency of plug-in hybrid cars.
  • Miles per dollar has much to recommend it, particularly for its simplicity and alignment with the priority consumers put on value. However, it also has two key disadvantages. Unlike mpg, it changes every time fuel prices do, so any comparisons based on mp$ are only snapshots at a point in time. Nor does it address the emissions associated with that dollar's worth of energy, though mpg doesn't do that, either.
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    We can always create more money (not by printing though). And energy is abundant. So if climate change is what we're concern about, miles per kg CO2, or kg CO2 per mile should be the measure. Either can work. We have sports where either low or high scores are good, so it should not confuse too many.
Colin Bennett

Toshiba Lighting to Stop Manufacturing Light Bulbs by 2010 -- Tech-On! - 0 views

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    Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corp has decided to terminate the manufacturing of general incandescent light bulbs and stop all the relevant production lines in about 2010. This move is aimed at reducing CO2 emissions, the company said.
Colin Bennett

EU faces fiercely contested cars CO2 decision | Environment | Reuters - 0 views

  • BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission will take a fiercely contested decision on Wednesday on how to share out the burden of cutting carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions among Europe's carmakers, with big industrial interests at stake.
Hans De Keulenaer

Trees Are Not The Answer To Climate Change : Environmental Graffiti - 0 views

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    What was once seen as the solution to all our CO2 problems, the ability of trees to soak up anthropogenic carbon dioxide, trees has itself been hindered by global warming.
Sergio Ferreira

GreenTech: Researchers hope to recycle CO2 to make gas - Green Daily - 0 views

  • a small group of scientists are working on a method that will let you keep using gas: make gas into a renewable resource by recycling the carbon dioxide to help create more gas
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    nice (american) way to solve (postpone) a problem
Colin Bennett

Italy to send revised CO2 plan to EU by year's end | Environment | Reuters - 0 views

  • MILAN (Reuters) - Italy aims to send a revised plan for its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to Brussels by the end of this year, an environment ministry official said on Wednesday.
Sergio Ferreira

3E Intelligence : 23% of Chinese CO2 emissions are our responsibility - 0 views

  • 23% of China’s CO2 emissions in 2004 were due to demand from the West for manufacturing products made in the new economic giant. This 23% is as much as the combined emissions from Germany and Australia and more than twice the national emissions of the UK.
Colin Bennett

The Energy Blog: Powerspan Ammonia Based CO2 Capture to be Tested at Burger Plant - 0 views

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    The ECO2 process is a post-combustion CO2 capture process for conventional power plants. The technology is suitable for retrofit to the existing coal- fired, electric generating fleet as well as for new coal-fired plants.
Hans De Keulenaer

Le Japon s'engage à réduire nettement plus ses émissions de CO2 | GreenUnivers - 0 views

  • Jusqu’ici, le Japon ne visait qu’une modeste réduction de 8% de ses émissions de gaz à effet de serre. Mais après la victoire de la gauche aux élections, le futur Premier ministre Yukio Hatoyama vient d’annoncer que le Japon relèverait cet objectif à -25% d'ici 2020 par rapport à 1990, comme il l’avait promis pendant la campagne. C’est plus ambitieux notamment que les 20% de réduction visés par l’Union européenne.
Glycon Garcia

Electricity | Pew Center on Global Climate Change - 3 views

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    The electricity sector accounts for almost 35 percent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the United States, and 40 percent of the carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Over 80 percent of GHG emissions associated with electricity generation are from the combustion of coal, with nearly all the rest due to natural gas and petroleum combustion. U.S. electricity sales are split among the residential (37 percent), commercial (36 percent), and industrial (27 percent) sectors, where primary uses vary by sector. Over the past 30 years the U.S. electricity sector has become less carbon intensive, and the U.S. economy has grown less electricity-intensive.
Colin Bennett

Using CO2 to Extract Geothermal Energy - 2 views

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    Is the geothermal market about to boom? It is one of the more difficult renewables to harvest. It requires exploration to find good resources. It needs deep drilling which is complex. There is a risk for imcreased seismic activity which is unknown. But if all can be addressed, it offers baseload electricity. The only other renewable that does this is hydropower.
davidchapman

The Energy Blog: BASF, RWE Power and the Linde Group to Develop New CO2 Capture Process - 0 views

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    BASF, RWE Power and the Linde Group agreed recently to develop a new processes for CO2 capture from combustion gases in coal-fired power plants. The collaboration will comprises the construction and operation of a pilot facility at the lignite-fired power plant of RWE Power AG in Niederaussem/Germany
davidchapman

EurActiv.com - EU plans inclusion of CO2 storage in carbon trading scheme | EU - Europe... - 0 views

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    Industrial greenhouse gases prevented from entering the atmosphere through the use of so-called carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology are to be credited as not emitted under the EU emissions trading scheme, according to Commission plans to be put forward next year.
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