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Page 4 to 6: Didier Pillet – Energy and Societies: findings, limits and perspectives. Introduction | Page 7 to 18: Michel Lepetit – Global oil peak and shale oil miracle | Page 19 to 23: François Roddier and Mireille Roddier – Energy flows and the self-organization of societies as dissipative structures | Page 24 to 28: Emma Stokking – France will only be able to achieve its climate objectives with ambitious and concerted planning | Page 29 to 33: Philippe Charlez – Role of energy in the growth society considered as a complex system | Page 34 to 39: Gérard Bonhomme and Jacques Treiner – EROI and its importance in evaluating the performance of energy systems | Page 40 to 43: Félix Lallemand – The agro-industrial model facing the decline of fossil fuels | Page 44 to 49: Louis Delannoy, Emmanuel Aramendia, Pierre-Yves Longaretti and Emmanuel Prados – Historical and trend evolution of the EROI of oil and gas | Page 50 to 58: Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen and Didier Pillet – Uranium as an energy source: medium to long term prospects | Page 59 to 66: Didier Pillet – Reflections around the notion of EROI. Illustration with photovoltaics and hydrogen | Page 67 to 68: Victoire de Margerie – Electric vehicle batteries: what alternatives to lithium ion technology? | Page 69 to 73: Emmanuel Hache, Vincent D’Herbemont and Louis-Marie Malbec – Criticality and geopolitics of raw materials required by low-carbon technologies | Page 74 to 79: Victor Court and Florian Fizaine – Minimum EROI and economic growth | Page 80 to 88: Alain Liger – Lithium mining projects in France and Germany… possible convergences or frantic competition?.
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Monthly Archives
November 2023
Mother and Child Hit by Empty Car in Wilsele – Latest News and Updates
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2023-11-08 17:22:00
A five-year-old child and his mother were hit on Wednesday morning in Wilsele, in the commune of Louvain, by an empty car whose handbrake appeared to have failed, local police said on Wednesday, confirming information from Het Laatste Nieuws .
The incident occurred around 8:30 a.m. while the mother was taking her child to school. They were hit on the sidewalk.
Passers-by managed to push away the empty vehicle and call emergency services, who took the two victims to hospital. They are conscious and their lives are not in danger.
The owner of the car claimed to have parked his vehicle and engaged the handbrake. The failure of this has not yet been explained.
A sixty-year-old dies in an accident on the R4 in Ghent
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Dismantling of Cannabis Fields in The Gambia: Kounkané Anti-Drug Unit Takes Action
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2023-11-09 00:09:29
A cannabis field has just been dismantled in the village of Sadaga located near the Gambia by the Kounkané anti-drug unit. Thus, this operation is part of the fight once morest drugs and organized crime.
Indeed, this sleuthing raid was facilitated by the arrest of a notorious dealer in the village who held 7 kilograms of Indian hemp in his possession. And it was as a result of this and thanks to the insight of the anti-drug unit that this field was dismantled, according to our source.
In the same dynamic, it should be remembered that the regional narcotics brigade of Kolda was also able to dismantle last month a vast field of Indian hemp in Saré Daouda in the commune of Bourouko in the department of Yoro Foula. Moreover, during this operation three individuals were arrested, including two for cultivation of Indian hemp and one for possession and trafficking of Indian hemp, according to our source.
Madou Diallo
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Presence of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus in Ticks in Eastern Pyrenees: A Potential Threat to Europe
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
2023-11-08 21:31:00
French researchers have for the first time demonstrated the presence of the Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever virus in ticks analyzed in the Eastern Pyrenees. At the moment, no human cases have been detected.
Present on the WHO list of priority diseases, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (or CCHF) is a pathology caused by a virus (Nairovirus) transmitted by ticks. While the disease is present in Africa, the Balkans, the Middle East and Asia, it might move closer to Europe, depending on climate change.
Since 2015, the Center for International Cooperation in Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD) has been monitoring the Hyalomma marginatum tick, one of the vectors of the disease. Thus, every year, in spring, tick collections are carried out in equestrian structures and cattle farms. And for the first time “around a hundred ticks out of more than 2,000, collected in 2022 and especially 2023 in the spring, tested positive for the presence of the FHCC virus”, explains CIRAD.
“Our collections showed that the tick was distributed throughout the Mediterranean, in rather dry open natural habitats such as scrubland or maquis,” indicates Laurence Vial, veterinary acarologist at CIRAD and specialist in ticks. “According to future climate models, the Mediterranean climate is likely to expand, particularly in the Rhône valley, and on the Atlantic coast to the west, it is likely that the range of this species will expand. extend.”
Be careful between April and July
Since the ticks in question do not have any particular appetite for humans, the frequency of their bites to humans is assumed to be low. Furthermore, they are generally more visible than other species of ticks because they are larger. This makes it easier to spot them and remove them before they set and become engorged.
Scientists still call for caution in scrubland, maquis and grazing areas between April and July.
A potentially fatal disease
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the virus can cause “outbreaks of severe viral hemorrhagic fever” like Ebola. The case fatality rate varies from 10 to 40%. After an incubation of a few days, the onset of symptoms is sudden, with fever, myalgia (muscle pain), dizziness, stiffness and pain in the neck, back pain, headache, eye sensitivity. and photophobia (feeling of discomfort caused by light).
If for the moment the pathology is endemic on the African continent or even in the Middle East, its arrival in France might therefore become a reality.
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