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Colin Bennett

France mulls extending fuel-efficiency incentives | Environment | Reuters - 0 views

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    PARIS (Reuters) - France may extend a system aimed at encouraging people to buy more fuel-efficient cars to products such as electronics, Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo told business daily Les Echos.
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 ...
Sergio Ferreira

France and Spain seek compromise on power grid linkage | EU - European Information on E... - 0 views

  • Financing and planning concerns also plague the project, with the level of state subsidies to the two main contracting firms - RTE (Réseau de transport électricité) and REE (Red Electrica de Espana) - still to be determined, and with questions remaining about the exact location of the future power cables.
  • Concerns include the potentially destructive impact of constructing electricity infrastructure in local communities and sensitive environments, and local civic organisations have mounted highly organised campaigns to contest the project, arguing that they have been given insufficient justification for the construction of the necessary power lines. 
  • if the interconnection is not completed, the Iberian Peninsula risks becoming an "island", cut off from the electricity potential and supply of the rest of the European continent.
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    The connector between France and Spain is supposed to be the easy part.
Hans De Keulenaer

La ligne 400 kV souterraine France-Espagne en service dans 4 ans - Transport et infrast... - 0 views

  • Les travaux de la future ligne à très haute tension souterraine qui doit relier la France à l'Espagne au sud de Perpignan devraient débuter en 2011 pour une mise en service fin 2013 ou début 2014, a estimé mercredi le directeur de Réseau de Transport d'Electricité Sud-Ouest.
Hans De Keulenaer

Smart metering gains ground in France and UK | Energy Efficiency News - 0 views

  • A consortium of four electricity distributors is rolling out Echelon’s smart meter to 90,000 homes in France.Echelon’s Networked Energy Services (NES) meters allow the amount of electricity produced as well as that consumed to be measured. This allows the meters to be used with renewable microgeneration technologies as well.
Colin Bennett

Consumers are getting smart about energy use | Energy Efficiency News - 0 views

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    The survey of over 5000 energy consumers in twelve countries including the UK, Germany, France, Japan, New Zealand and the US found that many consumers are now actively seeking more information about their energy supply and usage. Over 90% of respondents said that they would like a smart meter to manage their energy usage and improve efficiency.
Gary Edwards

Next Generation Nuclear Power: Scientific American - 0 views

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    Six page article from 2003 provides an in depth discussion on existing and Future Nuclear Systems:  "In Response to the difficulties in achieving sustainability, a sufficiently high degree of safety and a competitive economic basis for nuclear power, the U.S. Department of Energy initiated the Generation IV program in 1999. Generation IV refers to the broad division of nuclear designs into four categories: early prototype reactors (Generation I), the large central station nuclear power plants of today (Generation II), the advanced lightwater reactors and other systems with inherent safety features that have been designed in recent years (Generation III), and the next-generation systems to be designed and built two decades from now (Generation IV) [see box on opposite page]. By 2000 international interest in the Generation IV project had resulted in a nine-country coalition that includes Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Japan, South Africa, South Korea, the U.K. and the U.S. Participating states are mapping out and collaborating on the research and development of future nuclear energy systems."
Hans De Keulenaer

Petit mémento des énergies renouvelables - 0 views

  • Éléments pour un débat sur les énergies renouvelables en France
Hans De Keulenaer

France Sets Ambitious Renewable Energy Targets - 0 views

  • Wind and solar power are at the heart of a big new push by the French government to increase the renewable share of the country's total energy consumption from 6.7 percent in 2004 to 20 percent by 2020.
Sergio Ferreira

Only 7 EU countries join International Carbon Action Partnership « 3E Intelli... - 0 views

  • the new international forum links up the EU Commission and seven member states (France, Germany, the UK, Italy, the Netherlands, Ireland and Portugal) with eleven US and Canadian regional states (the likes of New York, Maine, California and British Columbia) to exchange information and best practices about their efforts to create carbon markets through a cap-and-trade system. The bad news: where are the other 20 EU member states? And what about other federal governments such as the US, Russia, China or India?
Sergio Ferreira

EurActiv.com - EU unveils plan to dismantle big energy firms | EU - European Informatio... - 0 views

  • A new battle has begun over the next round of energy liberalisation. Commission proposals to complete the EU's internal market for gas and electricity are leaving France and Germany in a quandary, with EDF and E.ON facing either the dismantling of their transmission assets or tight regulatory restrictions.
Bertrand Colombo

Toul-Rosières : centrale solaire nouvelle génération - 0 views

  • Après la mise en service des centrales photovoltaïques de Crucey (Centre) en septembre et de Massangis (Bourgogne) en octobre, EDF Energies Nouvelles vient d’annoncer celle de Toul-Rosières, en Lorraine. Avec une puissance  installée de 115 MWc, elle devient la première centrale solaire de France. Lumière sur cette réalisation d’envergure, couplée à un projet de reconversion ambitieux.
Colin Bennett

Heat pump market growing fast - 0 views

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    In 2007, the global heat pump market reached nearly 477,000 unit sales, with China accounting for 24.8% of the market volume, France, Sweden and Germany. Collectively, these five countries held an impressive 82% of the total global heat pump market by volume.
Colin Bennett

» Smarter homes with an Amigo | Emerging Technology Trends | ZDNet.com - 0 views

  • I’m sure that some of you remember Jini, an initiative launched in 1998 by Bill Joy of Sun Microsystems. This software was supposed to turn all the devices we use into ‘network citizens,’ as Joy said. It never really worked. And even if the electronic devices we own are increasingly network compatible, they still are unable to work together intelligently. This is why the European Union has funded a project to allow your fridge or your TV to communicate with your phone or your PC. This project, named Amigo, will end in February 2008 and was granted €13 millions by the EU. This project enrolled powerful partners such as France Telecom, Microsoft or Philips which pay the rest of the bill, expected to reach €23 millions. The researchers think their approach will be successful because it’s an entirely open source project and everyone can participate. But read more…
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    effciency connectivity
Sergio Ferreira

France's First Hybrid Train Hits the Rails | EcoGeek | Hybrid, Train, Electric, Diesel,... - 0 views

  • A hybrid electric train built by Bombardier just took its inaugural trip in France. Diesel locomotives have always been a kind of hybrid -- their diesel engines charge batteries which power a gigantic electric motor. But this new train can run on electric power from any source available (not just the engine.) The trains will be charged with grid power, and will produce roughly 20% less CO2 than non-hybrid versions.
Sergio Ferreira

French Power Provider Plans 12 MW Solar PV Farm in France - 0 views

  • French power provider, Sechilienne-Sidec signed an agreement with the municipality of Saint Laurent du Maroni that will make land available for the construction of a 12-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) farm.
Colin Bennett

1st World Ranking of Clean Energy Technology (CET) Sales - 3 views

  • The current rankings put the US 18th according to GDP (2nd in absolute terms) and the UK is 19th. Australia “squandered an early technical lead in solar energy” and is 28th. Spain is 4th relative to GDP, Finland is 5th and China 6th. In absolute terms, the top ten countries are: 1. Germany, 2. the US, 3. Japan, 4. China, 5. Denmark, 6. Brazil, 7. Spain, 8. France, 9. the UK, 10. Korea.
Hans De Keulenaer

First Conventional Light Aircraft Powered by Electricity Flies over France : TreeHugger - 0 views

  • You think a Tesla Roadster is news? Try flying in the Electra, a single-seater airplane with a 25 horsepower motor and 47 (105 lbs) kilograms of lithium-polymer batteries. Anne Lavrand, the president of the APAME group, said. "This will be a real aeroplane that will have an airworthiness certificate. It's a machine built for anyone with a pilot's license."
Hans De Keulenaer

Marketing & Strategy Innovation Blog - 0 views

  • This chart shows an Aging Vulnerability Index that attempts to measure how vulnerable countries are to an aging population. The index looks at things like pensions, healthcare, numbers of younger people, education etc...
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