Calif. OKs World’s Toughest Smog Rules
September 24, 2004
California Air Regulators Approve World’s Most Stringent Rules to Reduce Auto Emissions
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES Sept. 24, 2004 — California air regulators Friday unanimously approved the world’s most stringent rules to reduce auto emissions that contribute to global warming a move that could affect car and truck buyers from coast to coast.
Under the regulations, the auto industry must cut exhaust from cars and light trucks by 25 percent and from larger trucks and sport utility vehicles by 18 percent. The industry will have until 2009 to begin introducing cleaner technology, and will have until 2016 to meet the new exhaust standards.
The move by the California Air Resources Board came despite vigorous opposition from auto industry officials, who argued that the board did not have the authority to adopt such sweeping regulations and that they could not be met by current technology.
The industry has threatened to challenge the regulations in court. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has expressed support for the proposals and has pledged to fight any such lawsuits.
Schwarzenegger’s environmental protection secretary, Terry Tamminen, said that California should do its part to reduce pollution.
“We can make it clear that yes, we understand that our contribution, no matter how large or small, makes a difference,” Tamminen said. “Every single action that we take or inaction makes a difference.”
Heat-trapping greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide are believed by many scientists to contribute to global warming.
Well done Schwarzy!!!! california dream……….
wine list- harvest 2004
September 24, 2004
thanks loic for this great blog idea
no ” canicule wine” this year but some good deal for those primeurs
in montreal with the SAQ (exclusive Federal distribution) the wine is more expensive than in London!!!
kofi annan speech at UN
September 21, 2004
a great man and a good speach but where is the roadmap….
thanks franks to allow me to take this funny pic from your blog
o sole mio
September 17, 2004
the solar is everywhere in california
miasolé develops greener solar cell…
and of course using a roll to roll process..
a google bomb with Steven Berlin Johnson
September 17, 2004
Steve Berlin Johnson is a fantastic man
not only he got a great success with his successful books like mind wide open
but he was a great speaker at the ETVC conference in Montreal with great “zooming out” examples such as the water pump in London and the ants from MIT… a great techno cultural demonstration
he showed us another blogging way to build a global brain in this nano bubble world…
By the way i like the way he closed his speech with a amazing bomb alert evacuation at the Ritz carlton stopping in 2 minutes the conference …well done Steve!
don’ t worry , steve you deserve the first place at the “googling yourself game”
thanks for your speech Steve
solar cell in sherbrooke!
September 14, 2004
I like sixtron in Quebec
i hope it won’t be a nano bubble…
SiXtron’s nanocrystalline silicon carbide is a very promising semiconductor in high power electronics where the semiconductor is submitted to high voltages or high temperatures such as space applications, power supplies, aircraft and automotive circuits. The material is also an excellent energy converter in photovoltaics and a potential candidate to replace silicon in solar cells. Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that SiXtron’s η-SiC emits light in the visible spectrum, also making possible light emitting diodes or active matrix flat panel displays.
In short, many devices can be fabricated using SiXtron’s η-SiC. Some of the applications envisaged are: solar cells, light-emitting diodes, high voltage zener diodes, high temperature thermistors, photocells, thyristors, transistors as well as integrated monolithic devices on a single chip.
Compared to other commercially available nanocrystalline silicon carbide, SiXtron’s η-SiC has several competitive advantages. In addition to its properties, the main advantage is the cost of the material because:
The deposition of SiXtron’s η-SiC takes place in a revolutionary reactor requiring a lower thermal budget than other deposition processes
The cost of the polymeric solid sources is highly competitive
Polymeric sources are non hazardous and do not require high cost handling equipment
Low pressure process
cool…it seems very promising
le CO2 transformé en bicarbonate de soude
September 6, 2004
CO2 Solution a mis au point un procédé biologique qui permet de transformer le gaz carbonique (CO2) en bicarbonate, un produit inoffensif pour l’environnement.
Ce procédé s’effectue à l’intérieur d’un bioréacteur et à l’aide d’une enzyme qui accélère, en milieu aqueux, la transformation du CO2 en bicarbonate.
La réaction biochimique qui illustre ce procédé est la suivante :
CO2 + H2O «-» H+ + HCO3-
Cette réaction est tout à fait naturelle. Elle est d’ailleurs à la base du phénomène de transport et d’élimination du CO2 dans le corps humain. Elle se produit également dans la nature où le CO2 présent dans l’atmosphère se dissout au contact de l’eau des océans pour ensuite être précipité sous forme de carbonates, qui finissent par devenir des sédiments. Le procédé de CO2 Solution est donc totalement sécuritaire pour l’être humain en plus de respecter l’environnement.
Les travaux de recherche effectués jusqu’à présent par CO2 Solution ont permis de démontrer que ce procédé fonctionne bien à l’échelle du laboratoire. Notre équipe de recherche travaille maintenant à l’optimiser et à l’adapter en vue des différentes applications commerciales possibles.
qui a dit que le Quebec ne se battait pas contre les gaz à effet de serre?
voila une start up à suivre
CO2 Solutions est soutenu par la dynamique PDG Andrée-Lise Methot du FIDD
bravo
no comment
September 6, 2004
la barbarie des veuves noires
ces femmes techtchenes kamikaze vont elles faire basculer la russie?
decouverte du MIT:popeye fait du solaire
September 2, 2004
Marc Baldo and a collaborator at MIT have taken spinach chloroplast proteins and worked them into a photovoltaic solar cell that generates electricity.
Baldo’s team isolated a variety of photosynthetic proteins from spinach and sandwiched them between two layers of conducting material. When light was shone on to the tiny cell, an electrical current was generated. Their discovery is reported in Nano Letters1.
Plant chloroplasts normally capture photons to excite electrons to drive photosynthesis. The machinery is there in chloroplasts to cause electron flow in the presence of light. If that machinery could be massaged into a form that would create lasting photovoltaic cells then it holds the potential of providing a way to make cheap photovoltaics. This idea has been around for a while and back in the late 1970s there was a short burst of funding for plant biochemists to work on chloroplast electrochemistry. The advocates of one proposed approach claim chlorophyll-photovoltaic cell may be able to convert 72% of sunlight to electricity.
anyone knows about CVC chrolovoltaic cell in canada?