My Diaries

Read on digg.com : an excellent article about transforming the european electricity market with wind power and other renewable energies.

“A grandiose plan to switch from AC to DC and link Europe’s electricity grids may recast wind power from its current role as a walk-on extra to being the star of the show.”

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It is really sad to read, but I can only agree after the month of continuous rain and wind we’ve had in Paris (still going on, today is pouring).

“Heavy flooding in Britain, Pakistan, Afghanistan and India in the past week. Temperatures in Greece reached 46C (114.80F) this week, as part of a heatwave in southern Europe. China has also had a heatwave in recent days. Torrential rains have battered parts of Texas, where Austin is set for its wettest year on record.“

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To all US citizens ! I guess France is not that archaic after all, we have been having these meters for years… Read it on digg.com :

“My electricity meter is about fifty years old, and it’s likely that yours is too. Even if it’s new, it probably uses the same ancient technology as mine. Those meters were created for a world with cheap, abundant power. Well, the world has changed…so why hasn’t my electricity meter?“

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(the comments on digg.com are a bit pathetic. Best to read those on ecogeek.com)

Today on digg.com website :

The report said as many as 13 million deaths could be prevented yearly by reducing the environmental risks. All preventable. Tackling air pollution, contaminated drinking water and other environmental problems could save millions of lives annually around the world, the World Health Organization said in a report Wednesday.

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I have found this article on Digg.com :

It takes 30-plus turbines to reach a kill rate of one bird per year. However you look at it, though, birds in the United States seem to die in turbine blades at a rate no higher than 40,000 a year. Deaths by dastardly domestic felines, on the other hand, number in the “hundreds of millions.” One less reason not to consider wind.

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