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shared by Jeff Johnson on 25 Jun 08 - Cached

STAYING in a treehouse in Africa, an igloo in Switzerland or a hut in the Amazon may not sound like the perfect honeymoon to everyone, yet these days many newlywed couples are choosing a bed draped with mosquito netting over one dotted with rose petals, shunning the more traditional romantic resorts for retreats that are environmentally friendly.
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shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 19 Oct 07 - Cached

The implementation of new high-speed transport technologies re-shapes the demand balance between transport modes and rebound effects may occur. In this paper first a definition of environmental rebound effects of high-speed transport is presented and various cases are discussed. Second, a method is developed to determine and quantify the environmental rebound effects employing life cycle assessment. The method is illustrated in a case study by investigating the greenhouse gas emissions of a frequently discussed future underground maglev train system for Switzerland.
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shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 18 Feb 12 - No Cached

The five-year MoU aims to reduce energy consumption in new buildings in India through building capacities and knowledge of builders, architects, engineers, laboratories, institutions and others, in the area of building energy efficiency using Swiss experience and expertise.
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shared by Colin Bennett on 06 Mar 08 - Cached

MAGINE having to call an IT help desk to fix your central heating when it breaks down. That's not such a bizarre notion if a plan by engineers at IBM in Switzerland goes ahead. A cooling system they have developed allows the waste heat from computer chips to be put to use for domestic heating.
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shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 05 Sep 07 - Cached

Now Hayek -- widely credited with re-making the Swiss watch industry into the world's leader after a deep crisis in the 1980s -- is back with a new (and so far secret) plan, which my colleague Alain Jeannet and myself have revealed and detailed in recent issues of the Swiss magazine L'Hebdo (the most recent article, 5-pages, 1.3 MB PDF in French, can be downloaded here):
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shared by Phil Slade on 03 Dec 10 - No Cached

shared by Hans De Keulenaer on 10 Jan 11 - No Cached

In the latest Electric Power Research Institute Journal, an article titled "Hydropower Reservoirs: A Question of Emissions" notes that reservoirs used for hydropower and for pumped-hydro energy storage are not necessarily as green as you might imagine. Or rather, they might be too green: carbon-rich organic material that accumulates on the reservoir floor can be the source of carbon emissions. A recent study of the 90-year-old Lake Wohlen, in Switzerland, for example, found high emissions of methane, as recently reported in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, in an article titled: "Extreme Methane Emissions from a Swiss Hydropower Reservoir: Contribution from Bubbling Sediments."
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