In June, the oil group BP publishes energy production and consumption statistics for the previous year by sources and by countries. That allows to having a precise and definitive idea of the world situation, of CO2 emissions, of the evolution of the repartition between different fossil fuels, renewable and nuclear power and especially of the mid-term trends which are appearing. They allow to dismiss many wrong ideas regarding energy transition and to carry a judgment on the different proposals which are circulating in this domain.

The first observation is about energy consumption which, as a whole, is not failing, even ...

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The economic consequences of the corona virus outbreak have an exceptional extent. In France, the first results of the Banque de France inquiries provide an estimation of the GDP fall during the 1^st quarter of 6%. The government is forecasting for the full year a recession with the same magnitude. Support measures in favor of enterprises and the increasing of health and unemployment compensation expenditures could generate a public deficit above 7% and public debt could overpass at the end of the year 120% of GDP under the cumulative effect of the contraction of the denominator and the increase ...

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When we are facing such a crisis, we need to find a responsible and even a guilty. Globalization looks like the favorite and it is not going to be without effects on “the days after”. The outbreak, as we can know it, was born in China, in one of the country industrial capitals, Wuhan, frequently nicknamed as the “Chinese Detroit”, so developed is its car industry. The outbreak, as also without being sure of it, expanded in Northern Italy and in Alsace because people, coming from the contaminated area, passed on the virus. Always through the mtrips of infected persons ...

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