Thierry Caminel
Thierry Caminel is an engineer; he is a technological and numerical consultant and is interested in peak oil and the relationship between energy, economic activity and technological progress. As an activist he gives some of his time to associations and has worked on the Bristol adaptation report on transition towns.
Of the Acceleration of Algorithms
Autonomous cars without human drivers, “Go” (a strategy board game), robots taking over jobs previously held by workers: these innovations are all evidence of the acceleration of technological change, which progresses at a much faster rate than genetic evolution. The speed at which algorithms can make comparisons has increased for the benefit of Uber, Google […]
The Impossible Decoupling Between Energy Consumption and Economic Growth
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Agenda
Les séminaires de l’Institut Momentum ont lieu une fois par mois. Ils sont ouverts au public dans la limite des places disponibles. Ils portent sur les voies de la réparation d’un monde dégradé et sur la préparation aux risques systémiques d’effondrements.
Lettre d'information
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Garden of Virtues
In the summer of 2021, activist groups occupied the ‘jardins ouvriers’ – or working people’s allotments – in the poor suburb of Aubervilliers, in an attempt to defend them from rampant urban planning and privatisation.
Local Dollars, Local Sense
In response to the magnitude of the energy, environmental and economical crisis that strike the United States, the Post Carbon Institute has recently undertaken the production of a series of community resilience guides.
Post-Fukushima Food Resilience
Only 39% of calories consumed by the Japanese come from local production, the remaining 61% are imported, often from far away.Japan has one of the world’s lowest levels of food self-sufficiency.
Dennis Meadows Forty years after “The Limits to Growth”
To mark the 40th anniversary of the Club of Rome’s report , Dennis Meadows discussed the challenges of forging ahead into a sustainable future at “Perspectives on Limits to Growth: Challenges to Building a Sustainable Planet”.
Europe facing Peak Oil
Benoît Thévard, an energy engineer member of the Momentum Institute, published a study entitled ” Europe facing Peak Oil”. Peak Oil is the period of time when global oil production starts to decline due to the depletion of the exploitable resources.