"Cutting useful subsidies while showing blind confidence in immature technologies are two sides of the same inertia," warns Jean-Yves Pidoux, the former director of the SIL.
Published for the first time by the AES, this tool dedicated to the security of the electricity supply paints a potentially critical picture of the country's situation within a quarter of a century.
Drilling deeper and hotter: that is, according to Quaise Energy and its CEO Carlos Araque, the key to the future of deep geothermal energy. From the United States to Europe via Switzerland, geothermal initiatives are multiplying, driven by new technological advances.
"In the field of transport and energy, what opportunities do data really offer and what are their limits?" asks Matthias Finger, co-founder of Swiss Economics and professor emeritus at EPFL.
In response to Jean-Baptiste Fressoz's recent interview, sustainable development expert René Longet offers another reading of the French historian's theses, defending the idea of a "voluntarist discrimination" between the different forms of energy.
"In practice, the idea of transition has helped legitimize collective procrastination in the face of the climate crisis," says Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, historian of science, technology and the environment.
"The fragmentation of the global landscape makes collective action on sustainability issues more difficult and widens a political divide in the field of science," explains Jon Duncan, Chief Impact Officer, REYL Intesa Sanpaolo.
A 28-year-old French-American, the EPFZ researcher has been rewarded for her method that allows europium — a critical metal used in fluorescent lamps and screens — to be recovered in a cleaner, simpler and more sustainable way. Profile.
Analysis of surface areas, planning and supervision of works, monitoring, maintenance, billing of energy to tenants... the company Local Energy takes care of everything. "We like to define ourselves as a sort of energy utility," explains its director, Richard Mesple.
Two opposing models are facing off. On the one hand, high-power reactors such as EPRs, which rely on the centralization of production with high-power units; on the other hand, modern, small reactors with an electrical capacity ranging between 10 MW and 300 MW.
A recent study by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich has raised doubts about the feasibility of CO₂ storage in Switzerland. If in situ mineralization proves impossible, the solution lies in deeper reservoirs, within saline aquifers.
"Electricity, everywhere." The Valais-based start-up lives up to its name very, very well, given the ambitions it harbors with its technology, designed to meet the challenges of the transition to renewable energies.
After reading Kim Stanley Robinson's speculative novel, Adèle Thorens Goumaz is convinced: "We don't just need technological solutions, but also new narratives, new imaginaries that motivate us to make responsible decisions."
After his inauguration, Donald Trump issued a series of executive orders concerning immigration, climate policy, energy, etc. "Already announced, these actions contained few surprises," explains Thomas Höhne-Sparborth, Head of Sustainability Research for Lombard Odier IM.
