Comments on: France Launches €1.35 Billion Clean Energy Program

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:34:42 +0000

@Mike: thank you for the constructive criticism. i will try to be sure to do so

By: Mike Siani-Rose

Mike Siani-Rose — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:04:27 +0000

Dear Mr. Shahan,

How about more detail in your articles? I’m a Chemical Engineer in the Biotechnology industry and find your articles to be short on explanation. For example, your graph on “inland energy consumption” does not explain what this is. You compare two different pie charts, saying “Another thing I found interesting was how much more the % of gross inland oil consumption (below) diverted from gross inland oil production (in graph at the top).” To the technical lay person (me), your point is not clear. Please define the terms and spell things out for your readers. Also, please take this as a constructive criticism – I’d like more information!!!

Thank you,

Mike

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:41:01 +0000

yes, of course Thank you for catching it, Hephaestus — that would be a killer transfer rate, wouldn’t it!

By: Rif

Rif — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:20:42 +0000

France actually progress very well in renewable energy but we do not hear much about it here. We see lots of news about wind energy in Britain and that is great, but actually in each year 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 France installed more wind energy capacity than Britain.

Another field where there are lots of activity in France is in electrical car development. Renault and PSA (Citroën/Peugeot) are close to introducing electrical car models. This is of course not going to be an instant success but it is good to get starting now, so ca. 2015 improved, long running and (somewhat) affordable EV will be available for the main market.

By: Hephaestus

Hephaestus — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:15:32 +0000

I think ($173 billion). should be ($1.73 billion).

By: Hippy Hop

Hippy Hop — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 03:36:12 +0000

That is good news for the environment. I hope that money will be put into good projects and not one of those run on the mill one. I do also hope other industrialized countries follow suit.