Kedves Kornyeszek!

Futo pillantasom megakadt a kerdesen: hogyan lehet forditani a recycling-et?
Nehany javaslat: ujrafelhasznalas, ujrahasznositas, ujrafeldolgozas, 
esetleg (nyersanyag) visszaforgatas. Az 'ujra' mar elfogadott az 
'ujrapapir' kifejezesben (=recycled paper).

Most pedig jo tett helyebe jot varok: 
tudtok-e egy bibliografiai referenciat (szerzo/szerkeszto, cim/alcim, 
kiado, kiadas eve, helye) adni arra vonatkozolag, hogy barmifele felmeres 
vagy publikacio igazolja azt, miszerint Magyarorszagon a biodiverzitas 
(fajokban es elohelyekben) (meg mindig vagy meg egyelore) felulmulja a 
nyugat-europait? A szakdolimhoz kellene, es nagyon surget az ido, minden 
segitseget elore is koszonok.

Gal Aniko  

Kalifornia sokaig elen jart a vilagon a megujulo energiaforrasok 
hasznositasaban, azok tamogatasaban.  Sajnos ezeknek az idoknek 
befellegeztek; kulonosen az uj kongresszus ota, Kalifornia egesz masban 
tori az utat a vilag elott energia-teren (az aramszolgaltatas 
deregulalasa, akarcsak a nagy telefonvallalatoke es a repulotarsasagoke).

Azert bizonyos szempontbol meg elol jar:  az alternativ energiaforrasok 
es az energia6ekonysag kutatasanak talan legdinamiqsabb szellemi 
kozpontja.  Es azert a torvenykezesbe is neha 'belecsuszik' nehany okos 
strategiat kepviselo dolog. A biomassza-felhasznalasrol szolo 
osszefoglalo mar egyszer volt a Kornyeszben; most nezzunk egy peldat a 
napenergiara. (a kovetkezo idezet egy evfolyamtarsamtol van, aki 
kidolgozta a torvenytervezetet).

Diana
> -----------------------------------------------------
 ..information about a bill that I 
drafted for the California Solar Energy Industries Association, which has 
been working its way through the California legislature. The bill passed 
the legislature last month, and was just signed into law by Pete Wilson.

For those who don't know, the law encourages individual homeowners to 
invest in "rooftop" photovoltaic systems by facilitating interconnection 
and increasing the effective price paid for electricity sold back to the 
utility.  It does this by requiring utilities to provide "net metering" 
to residential customers who install rooftop PV systems of up to 10 kW.  
"Net metering" means using a single meter, running forwards and 
backwards, to measure the electricity sold to the customer (by the 
utility) as well as the electricity sold back to the utility (from the 
customer's PV system) over the monthly billing period.  In effect, the 
customer is allowed to use excess PV generation to "offset" retail kWh 
purchases from the utility, and only be charged for the net purchased 
power over the month.  If in any month the customer is a net seller, the 
net excess is purchased by the utility at the lower avoided cost rate.

Without "net metering," utilities charge large sums for interconnection 
(as much as $1300 for installing a second meter), pay a much lower price 
for electricity sold back to the utility (about 2-3 cents/kWh), and 
impose onerous administrative and regulatory requirements on individual 
homeowners.  Thus, net metering provides a low-cost, easy-to-administer 
way to encourage individuals to invest in PV.  Net metering does not make 
grid-connected PV cost-effective at current prices, but it helps by 
increasing the effective return and by easing regulatory obstacles.

Anyone wanting more details can ask Tom Starrs:

New Zealand taking legal action to stop French nuclear tests

New Zealand has announced plans to take France before the
International Court of Justice in an attempt to stop France's plans
for nuclear testing in the South Pacific. The French government said
it would challenge the decision to go to court. As France withdrew
its recognition of the ICJ in 1974, New Zealand government and
opposition leaders unanimously agreed on Tuesday to try to reopen a
1973 legal challenge. Australia, which along with New Zealand has
led vociferous opposition to the tests in the Pacific region,
declined to reopen its 1973 ICJ case against France, but has said it
will back New Zealand's efforts. Australia has also backed away from
its threat of economic warfare, as Foreign Minister Gareth Evans
warned that "such actions may well cause more damage to Australian
interests than those of France." Also supporting New Zealand's
plans, the environmental group Greenpeace has argued strongly in
favor of a world court action on ecological grounds. French President
Jacques Chirac has said the eight nuclear tests will begin in French
Polynesia next month. 
Source: Reuters.