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A bright future for solar in India

gama — Fri, 18 May 2012 10:43:41 +0000

The recent launch of a 600 MW solar park in the state of Gujarat – the largest in Asia – was the occasion for The Economist to publish an interesting article on the huge potential of solar energy in India. The British weekly notes : ” solar power would appear to be an obvious winner [...]

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French solar PV capacity hits 3,000 MW

gama — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:44:37 +0000

” According to the French utility EDF, the French solar PV capacity reached in March 3,000 MW, with over 2672 MW in mainland France and 339 MW in Corsica and overseas.” ” According to the data : the total capacity grew by 15 percent this semester in metropolitan France. An additional 1,581 MW are already [...]

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Americans connect the dots, demand action

gama — Fri, 04 May 2012 08:43:11 +0000

Two recent polls are showing that change might soon take place in the United States. Climate Progress recently noted that 75 % of Americans support regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant, and that 60 % support a carbon tax. The same website mentioned shortly afterwards another poll showing that 63% of Americans say their country [...]

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IEA pushes for more renewables, efficiency, faster

gama — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:53:45 +0000

The prestigious International Energy Agency published this week an interesting report on both renewables and efficiency and how they are being deployed. The results are clear : Despite growing very fast, cleantech is not growing fast enough to prevent catastrophic climate change. Under the business as usual scenario, temperatures would warm by 6°C this century. [...]

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Friday video : Petroleo

gama — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 07:37:19 +0000

I thought a short video might be interesting to end this week. It’s called Petroleo and it was done by two animation students at Gobelins, The French Ecole de l’Image. This was done during a Cartooning for Peace workshop. An idea from famous French cartoonist Plantu, Cartooning for Peace offers higher levels of visibility to [...]

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Mexico passes ambitious climate law

gama — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 06:37:35 +0000

Yesterday the Mexican Lower House (Chamber of Deputies) passed a most ambitious law to fight climate change. As the local newspapers report, this was a landslide as there was 280 votes for and only ten against. As Kees van der Leun noted on Twitter, the country would slash by 50 percent its greenhouse gases by [...]

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Six facts on the value of renewables

gama — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 05:41:20 +0000

Last week Climate Progress presented a list of six facts on why renewables are absolutely great. Here it is : 1. Clean energy is competitive with other types of energy ; 2. Clean energy creates three times more jobs than fossil fuels; 3. Clean energy improves grid reliability ; 4. Clean energy investment has surpassed [...]

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Offshore natural gas exploitation isn’t safe either

gama — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:35:54 +0000

We have seen in 2010 with the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico that offshore oil exploitation could lead to dramatic pollutions. Now, we are learning the hard way that offshore natural gas exploitation can be foolhardy. As The Guardian noted : ” Oil giant Total has confirmed that a major gas leak on one [...]

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China could cap energy consumption by 2015

gama — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 04:42:31 +0000

China is so profoundly harmed by pollution that it is more and more aggressively pursuing – or trying to pursuit – a cleaner development. The last example of this was exemplified earlier this month by a Reuters news article : ” China, the world’s top energy consumer, is expected to announce in the first half [...]

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Throwing money out of the window

gama — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 04:38:25 +0000

In this economy, I am sure you are careful about how you spend your money and really think about how you will make ends meet this month or the next as the economy might head toward another recession as oil prices go up. However, each time you are putting 50 euros in your gas tank, [...]

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