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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
New research finds that falling rain can generate tiny amounts of power. David Boggis reports.
What form of renewable energy functions
by day or night, is found abundantly in
northern Europe, causes widespread (but not
universal) dismay when it happens – and has
only just been recognised by French scientists
as a possible power source? Rainfall,
that’s what.
A team led by Jean-Jacques Chaillout, of
the Atomic Energy Commission
(Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique CEA) in
Grenoble has just run a laboratory study into
whether rainfall can produce usable quantities
of energy. The answer – as published in
‘Smart Materials and Structures’, a physics
journal, and in the UK magazine ‘New
Scientist’ – is: yes, it can.
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Many voices in the French oil industry are
expressing concern that the level of FFV
sales is insufficient to make the distribution of
super-ethanol fuel economically viable. The
Swedish car manufacturer Volvo claims it sold
201 flexi-fuel vehicles (FFV) in France during
2007, not quite enough to go round all the
service stations that sell super ethanol, also
known as E85 blend (85% ethanol, 15%
petroleum).
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
The biotech industry’s claims find a counter-argument among the ecologists. The controversy rages. Lindsay Woodster keeps the score.
Two reports saw the light of day in
February, each with a completely
different perspective on the controversy
of genetically modified crop production.
Proponents claim that GM crops give
higher yields, require fewer pesticides and are
the only route to solving poverty. The lobby
against them disagrees and adds that
pollination over large distances is endangering
other crops, while industry pressure to market
available GM seed threatens bio-diversity.
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
If you can no longer trust the banks how can you keep your money safe?
It’s an uneasy time for savers and investors.
Stockmarkets have been unsettled by the
sub-prime crisis, US recession fears and
their effect on the global economy. Inflation in
the Eurozone has hit a 14-year high. UK
interest rates (where many expatriates keep
their savings) are falling. Euro interest rates
may also be cut. People are questioning how
safe their money really is in the bank.
So what steps can you take to protect your
wealth, today and for the future? There are
various aspects to consider if you wish to
maintain long-term financial security.
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Tuesday, 04 March 2008 |
Dear Madam,
Crédit Lyonnais have recently sent us a letter requiring private and personal information
which they have managed without during the last 17 or so years my wife and I have banked
with them. We have, as they say, nothing to hide but believe that it’s none of their business
whether for example we have changed our antenuptial settlement (we don’t have one).
I should be grateful for advice or comment on how one might respond. Of course the
easiest thing I suppose would be to comply, but I am reluctant to fall in with an insolent and
unnecessary ‘eurocratic’ intrusion into my private affairs.
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