In a debate arguments pass from one pole to the other and counter arguments are sent back in the other direction. The debate does not exist if the receiver of the arguments remains impervious to them, if the transmitter has an inaudible voice, or if the space within which it takes place does not allow for any exchange. This is exactly what happens in an electric battery. Read more

Stratégie énergétique 2050 du Conseil fédéral vient d' être mise en consultation. Il est rare qu'un sujet si important soit traité de manière si idéologique. C'est comme si les Vérités nous avaient été dictées tel le Coran à Mahomet. La politique du Conseil fédérale se veut incréée, les prémisses ne se remettent plus en question. Read more

What don’t we read about this! So far belt tightening was of the order; but after the French presidential election and the Greek legislative vote, unleashing growth is becoming the new mantra. But as always, the debates remains limited to what should or should not be said or done. As for actual solutions this remains clear as mud. Read more

Apparently we must reduce CO2 emissions. This requirement has become a higher true and immutable dogma. Also, following the fears felt after Chernobyl and Fukushima, countries are now committed to phasing out nuclear power. This has also become an almost moral imperative . Yet I'm taking on the immeasurable task to put these issues on the table, what heresy! Read more

Over the last twenty years, since the Rio Summit in 1992, the opinion that the climate is warming, that this is due primarily to human activities, and that this will have catastrophic consequences for humanity during the 21st Century was erected in an almost absolute dogma. The on-going activism seems now unstoppable. Is it still possible to reverse this trend? Read more

Imagine for a moment that the World is suddenly drained of all human beings who inhabit it. Everything else remains as it stands; the mechanism of this extermination has no importance, mass suicide for example. So our planet would be freed of the anthropogenic stress placed on it for about 50,000 years, since the advent of human civilization. How would it evolve? Here is a possible scenario. Read more

L'initiative Weber sur les résidences secondaires ne va pas assez loin. Read more

Transparency is becoming a fundamental right. Society demands it. Must it be so? Read more