Hier, mardi 14 avril, et pendant deux jours, l’ADEME tient deux journées de réflexion sur les énergies renouvelables dans le mix électrique. L’agence gouvernementale y dévoile une étude sur la photographie d’une France où l’électricité proviendra à 100% des énergies renouvelables qui puisse satisfaire la consommation projetée à l’horizon 2050. Une
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A few days apart, two Japanese groups have just announced that they have successfully completed a wireless electricity transmission experiment. The first, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has succeeded in directing a 2 kilowatt power flow at a distance of 50 meters. The second, a few days later, is the Japanese Agency for International Cooperation (JICA).
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L’Alsace se dote aujourd’hui d’un outil de recherche et de développement inédit au service de l’Industrie alimentaire, 2ème secteur d’activité régional : Le FOOD Studio. Une initiative pionnière en Europe, portée par l’Association Régionale de l’Industrie Alimentaire (ARIA) d’Alsace qui souhaite hisser l’Industrie alimentaire alsacienne dans le Top 5 des
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Les génies montrent la voie du talent créatif pour tous… Apprendre à résister aux habitudes routinières, un défi pour le cerveau, une ressource « stratégique » pour les génies créatifs. Savoir imaginer une autre façon de réfléchir, opérer un mouvement vers l’inconnu, accepter de renoncer aux conforts acquis….le cerveau est capable de cet
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Une neurologue spécialiste de la mémoire rejoint le Conseil Scientifique de l’Observatoire B2V des Mémoires. Neurosciences, sciences humaines, numérique, il ne manquait que la médecine au sein de l’Observatoire B2V des Mémoires. C’est chose faite avec l’arrivée du Docteur Catherine Thomas-Antérion, neurologue spécialiste de la mémoire. Elle vient renforcer la
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The French want more and better information on climate issues. An alarming observation: the information currently being disclosed on the climate issue is powerless to raise awareness. The survey conducted by the BVA institute for Place to B reveals that the climate issue is perceived as a priority by only
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What is the link between innovation and conversation? Curious to talk about an art as old as Antiquity in a magazine on innovations... Well, precisely, not to become totally virtual, as Emmanuel Godo, author of "'Histoire de la conversation" and "Conversation" explains very well. The Festival of Conversations starts
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On the fringe of the Biennial Sustainable Housing Exhibition (1), which is being held from 9 to 11 April, a team of Grenoble architects, Jean-Philippe Charon and Thierry Rampillon from the CR&ON agency, are imagining a new generation of collective housing; a novel concept of collective housing: the RUBIXHOME. When you look from
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Microalgae are a very promising source of alternative to oil, without competing with the food industry. For the first time, they have been used to make... bitumen! Are we moving towards the creation of bio-bitumens for green roads based on micro-algae? Researchers from the Chemistry and Interdisciplinary Laboratories
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Do you have an innovative social entrepreneurship project? You wish to be supported and join a rich community of social entrepreneurs? ESSEC's social incubator, Antropia, is recruiting its new class of social entrepreneurs. This new call for projects is aimed at innovative social projects around sight and hearing. Apply before
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"It's time to take time to think about science..." thus began the conference of the 3rd year of the Closing Lesson of the France Culture Forum which took place in February 2015 at the Grand Amphitheatre of the Sorbonne in Paris. This conference "The year as seen by science",
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Today, your fridge can order milk directly from your grocery store; your car warns you that you're about to pass a Thai restaurant that your friends were discussing on Facebook; and your insulin pump sends data directly to your doctor. The Internet of everything (the interconnection between objects,
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Filter membranes with micropores tend to spread to provide drinking water or to desalinate sea water. Nanostructured filter materials are being considered to complement these devices; for example, to filter pesticide and drug residues or to clean up water tables. The expected efficiency gain
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The 4th meeting of the Université populaire de la mairie du 2e arrondissement de Paris was held on 17 March 2015. It brought together Valérie Peugeot, a prospector at Orange Labs, President of Vecam and Vice-President of the National Digital Council; Jean-Michel Cornu, Scientific Director of the FING, Co-founder of the international network of the FING, and the President of Vecam.
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Jean-Michel Cornu is Scientific Director of the FING (1). Everybody knows him! In 2010 he founded with Franck Escoubès a collaborative platform "Innovation for people" whose principle is to federate a network of international community of citizens wishing to get involved in the launch of commercial projects.
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Energy transition in action: for the past 75 days, Costa Rica has been using only renewable energy! Since the beginning of the year, Costa Rica has become a paradise for eco-friendly people and for those who believe that the future of electricity lies in renewable energy sources. This small country in America
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Frugal innovation: a Turkish machine that feeds stray doggies by recycling bottles. Here is a solidarity innovation at the service of man's best friend! The machine imagined by Pugedon, a Turkish company, combines creativity and solidarity: a frugal innovation with a circular economy of means. The first
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Silent death of a major actor of peace and father of Non-Violent Communication. "Violence, whatever its form, is a tragic expression of our unsatisfied needs. "Marshall B. Rosenberg Early January in Paris, then in Copenhagen, Hatra or Tunis, rage and murderous madness
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Defending civilization in the face of globalization, by Emile H. Malet - Paris: Editions du Moment, 2014, 267 p. Looking at the present in the light of a past that spurred great revolutions in Europe and the Americas may seem obsolete as we are predicted to witness the great upheaval of the world and the
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The World Forum for Sustainable Development (WSSD) held on Monday 16 March 2015, in partnership with France-Americas, its 13th annual session centred on the theme "The Fight against Global Warming: a divisive factor or driving force for a new world order". The meeting resulted in
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