#énergies_renouvelables

"#Nice : bienvenue à « Eco-Vallée », la plaine du #Var qu’#Estrosi bétonne"
http://www.rue89.com/rue89-planete/2013/04/29/nice-bienvenue-a-eco-vallee-plaine-var-questrosi-betonne-241843

“#Eco-Valley”, c’est un peu comme la #Silicon_Valley, un espace identifié de 10 000 hectares, où nous allons développer à la fois de l’#industrie tournée vers de la #croissance_verte, des #énergies_renouvelables, les matériaux du futur, les grands partenariat avec les laboratoires de #recherche tournés vers le #développement_durable...

http://www.ecovallee-plaineduvar.fr

#no_comment #urbanisme #capitalisme_vert

Life After Oil and Gas - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/sunday-review/life-after-oil-and-gas.html

WE will need fossil fuels like oil and gas for the foreseeable future. So there’s really little choice (sigh). We have to press ahead with fracking for natural gas. We must approve the Keystone XL pipeline to get Canadian oil.

This mantra, repeated on TV ads and in political debates, is punctuated with a tinge of inevitability and regret. But, increasingly, scientific research and the experience of other countries should prompt us to ask: To what extent will we really “need” fossil fuel in the years to come? To what extent is it a choice?

...

“It’s absolutely not true that we need natural gas, coal or oil — we think it’s a myth,” said Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and the main author of the study, published in the journal Energy Policy. “You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstacles are social and political — what you need is the will to do it.”

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People convinced that America “needs” the oil that would flow south from Canada through the Keystone XL pipeline might be surprised to learn that Canada produced 63.4 percent of its electricity from renewable sources in 2011, largely from hydropower and a bit of wind.

How Much Electricity Comes From Renewable Sources- http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/03/24/sunday-review/how-much-electricity-comes-from-renewable-sources.html?ref=sunday-review

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/newsgraphics/2013/0324-fossil/0324-fossil.png

Sting operations reveal #Mafia involvement in renewable energy - The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/sting-operations-reveal-mafia-involvement-in-renewable-energy/2013/01/22/67388504-5f39-11e2-9dc9-bca76dd777b8_story.html?hpid=z2

Because it receives more sun and wind than any other part of Italy, Sicily became one of Europe’s most obvious hotbeds for renewable energies over the past decade. As the Italian government began offering billions of euros annually in subsidies for wind and solar development, the potential profitability of such projects also soared — a fact that did not go unnoticed by Sicily’s infamous crime families.

Roughly a third of the island’s 30 wind farms — along with several solar power plants — have been seized by authorities. Officials have frozen more than $2 billion in assets and arrested a dozen alleged crime bosses, corrupt local councilors and mafia-linked entrepreneurs. Italian prosecutors are now investigating suspected mafia involvement in renewable-energy projects from Sardinia to Apulia.

#énergies_renouvelables #blanchiment #corruption #Sicile #Italie

Energies renouvelables : L’Irlande passe au vert | Presseurop (français)
http://www.presseurop.eu/fr/content/article/3238641-l-irlande-passe-au-vert

une stratégie qui est bonne pour l’environnement mais qui met à genoux les classes sociales les plus pauvres, soulignent les experts. Voilà pourquoi le gouvernement a décidé de taxer aussi la consommation de tabac, qualifié de luxe pour les nantis.

fort instructif, et plutôt intéressant mais les pauvres n’ont plus qu’à se serrer la ceinture... et à arrêter de fumer. Tout cela jusqu’à la prochaine découverte de pétrole ou de gaz de schiste... (il faut lire l’encadré associé à l’article)
#énergies_renouvelables
#tabac
#fiscalité

GreenQloud : un #hébergeur basé en #Islande, compatible avec les #API d’#amazon (#S3, #EC2), et fonctionnant avec des #énergies_renouvelables
http://greenqloud.com

A Power Grid of Their Own: German Village Becomes Model for Renewable Energy - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,820369,00.html

The tiny village of Feldheim, some 60 kilometers southwest of Berlin, was catapulted by chance to the forefront of the renewable energy movement. Now visitors from around the world are flocking to this otherwise unremarkable rural community to see if they can replicate its success.

#énergies_renouvelables