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Archive for May, 2009
First zero-emission jet-ski
I’m not sure how practical this is, but as a cool toy for silent zero-CO2 emitting watersports on Lac Leman I would say this has got to be fun. Though as a Prius driver, I can say that generally people try to throw themselves in front of totally silent electric vehicles.
Published by Paul on May 29th, 2009 tagged Environment | Comment now »
Solar power, windmills and heatpumps to reduce CO2
I have just come back from the Bio Market in Ferney-Voltaire, where I met with the nice people from Acfer. Acfer, or Ambarrois Chaud Froid Énergies Renouvelables is a family run company specialising in CO2 reduction technologies, based in Amberieu en Bugey. They also have an interesting looking water treatment device, which doesn’t need electricity [...]
Published by Paul on May 10th, 2009 tagged Practical | Comment now »
Poweo – green electricity for France
I’ve signed up to change my electricity supplier to Poweo, who’s Poweo Planete offer will supply me with 100% renewable-sourced electricity. The theory says that by the first of July, all my electricity will come from 100% renewable sources. I’ll let you know how it goes…
Published by Paul on May 8th, 2009 tagged Experiences, Practical | Comment now »
We’re Halfway to Causing Dangerous Climate Change
According to this article on Wired Magazine, and many other places, we have now burned our way through half of the fossilised carbon that would take global average temperature levels above the danger point. We are predicted to burn the next half within 40 years. You’ve seen my view. The human race is like a [...]
Published by Paul on May 1st, 2009 tagged Evidence | Comment now »
Translations
As the region around my home is very international, with people from the UN, CERN, and many NGO’s living around here, I decided to make my web site as accessible as possible to many languages. Please forgive me if the translation is not as great as you would like it. I only speak English and [...]