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Wednesday 18 April 2007 – e-News number 10

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ACTUALITY AND ODOURS :  BEES WITH HOMING DEVICE 

After ending, the modern conflicts still continue to make damage with the anti-personnel mines, generously sowed in the ground. With several hundreds of victims each month all over the world, the mine clearance became an international priority and, for this mission, the soldiers use portable metal detectors. And as their reliability is not always efficient, the experts of the Pentagon had idea to use the bees. Since 1981, the American army carries out two projects, one for detection and the localization of the anti-personnel mines, the other for the detection of bio terrorists attacks: because the bees are perfect to become bomb disposal experts. In the bee, the antennas act as nose, but also as fingers. This body is so strongly developed that it does not fulfil an only olfactive but also tactile role. In fact, the genius of the bees it their exceptional sense of smell, largely finer and more significant than dogs smell. But also their astonishing capacity to memorize a great number of different odours. However the bees can be rather easily drawn up to move towards an odorous source, in laboratory, on the model of the conditioning of Pavlov. The American researchers undertook to draw up the bees with the recognition of the odour of trinitrotoluene, more known under the name of TNT and principal constituting detonating load of the anti-personnel mines.

       Breves and flash info   

    TECHNOLOGY AND TREATMENT

Live Earth: A CO2 breath for a concert of collective energy: Polemic around the Live Earth concert  planned for next July 7 in London, Sydney, Shanghai, but also in Brazil, in South Africa, in Japan and in the New Jersey in the United States

 

New obligations of the pollutants: At the time of the Council of Ministers of last Wednesday, the Minister for the Environment Nelly Olin presented his bill on the new obligations for the persons in charge for water pollution.

 

A new technology of capture of the pollutants gains Brian Mercer Award: The department of research in chemical engineering work of the University of Bath allowed the emergence of a new technology  of the gaseous pollutants trapping. It is about a nano-porous fibre network containing of materials able to fix hydrocarbons and gas substances to eliminate from a gas flow.

BIOGAS: A new process makes it possible to improve the effectiveness of the production of biogas: The Agricultural GENIUS  Leibniz institute of Potsdam-Bornim (ATB) developed a new process of magnetic separation of the bacteria making it possible to double the productivity of the generating stations of biogas. Using a simple physical process, the scientists managed to retain the bacteria in the engine and to enrich them. Magnetic particles are introduced in very small quantity into the tank and reserves into the substrate by the flakes of bacteria. It becomes possible then, using a permanent magnet to separate the bacteria and to reintroduce them at the appropriate time in the engine. For the magnetizing of the flakes of bacteria, one can have recourse to usual products such as ferrite. The tests showed that thanks to such a process, one could double the output of the bacteria and thus increase the productivity of the installation. This process is well adapted to the fermentation of substrates rich in water, such as the juices of distilling, but it is also usable for the solid renewable matter fermentation

Website of the week :A catalog of Nasa, images and animations of our home planet

BD, BOOK

Another World

The 1999 scandals threw the finance and the capitalism of American style with bottom of the pedestal where they were. One realizes that there are various forms of market economy which created companies completely different from those of the United States, with better health and education systems and less inequality. One of the principal choices with which all the companies are confronted relates to the role of the State. Which services the State does it have to provide? Which regulations does it have to find to protect the workers ?                   

 

 the consumers, the environment? In this book,  youll be shown that universalization, such as imposed, prevented from obtaining necessary balance. A chosen universalization, well managed, as it was in the successful development of most of Eastern Asia, can bring much to the developing countries as to the developed countries

 EURODEUR-ECCGP'6 PROGRAM EXTRACT :

MONITORING OF THE QUALITY OF THE AIR AND THE ODORS

 

  • Monitoring of the Odors of the installation of treatment of waste water of Montreal, Thierry PAGE, Canada, Odotech Inc. Quebec.
  • Implementation of a forecast and monitoring system per modeling of the quality of the air on the agglomeration of Strasbourg, Frederic PRADELLE, France, NUMTECH .
  • Twinning of the biological indicators to inspection and the quality control networks of the air in the area of Annaba Algeria A.ALIOUA, Algeria, Faculty of Science, Dpt de Biologie, Universit d' Annaba .

To attend  the conferences   

Movie of the week

SUNSHINE

 

In 2057, the sun dies, involving in its decline the extinction of the mankind. Spaceship ICARUS II with on his board a crew of 7 men and women directed by the Kaneda Captain is the last hope of humanity. Their mission: to explode a nuclear weapon on the surface of the sun to start again the solar activity. But with the approach of the sun, private of any radio operator contact with the Earth, the astronauts perceive a hazard warning signal before coming from ICARUS I, missing seven years. A terrible accident constrained one to modify their trajectory.                                  

                 

Movie : d e Danny Boyle avec Chris Evans (II), Cillian Murphy

Science fiction (1h 40min)

Picture of the movie

They must from now on fight to remain in life, not to sink in the madness, but before very concluding their essential mission for the future of humanity.      

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Seduc-Environment Plan       

    ENVIRONMENT MEETING

Washing Nut: Economic, ecological biodegradable, renewable.

Washing nuts release the saponin entering in emulsion with water. It is a natural and ecological washing agent which makes it possible to carry out effective daily washings, while preserving the environment. Moreover, the linen remains agreably soft, and the colours are preserved. Being able to be re-used at least once, 1 kg of washing nuts permit to realize from 6 to 8 months of detergents for a family of 4 people! Their interest is thus as much ecological than economic, because they have also multiple uses: in decoction they make it possible to prepare shampoo, soap, cleaning to spare

 

Without any toxicity! After use, the nuts can be even perforated. It is not necessary to precise that the cleaning of the linen and the maintenance of the house are a very important source of chemical pollution. The washing nuts are an ecological response for all those which feel the need for adapting their daily practices to the safeguarding of our environment.

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