Traduction de «essai de recherche de modes propres » (Français → Anglais) :

To ensure full adoption and full benefits for consumers (including the possibility for them to monitor their own consumption), energy performance of these technologies and services needs to be customised and optimised for and in their application environments. This requires researching, developing and testing innovative ICT and monitoring and control techniques as well as demonstration projects and pre-commercial deployment activities to ensure interoperability and scalability.

Question No. 419 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to the risk of corrosion and spills and other safety concerns arising from the transport of bitumen in pipelines, and to government action to address these risks: (a) how does diluted bitumen compare with West Texas Intermediate (WTI) in terms of (i) abrasive material content, (ii) acid concentration, (iii) sulphur content, (iv) viscosity; (b) to what extent is diluted bitumen more likely than WTI to cause corrosion or erosion in the pipelines through which they respectively flow; (c) what is the composition of diluted bitumen in Canada; (d) what are all of the volatile chemicals, persi ...[+++]stent organic pollutants or carcinogenic substances present in diluted bitumen in Canada; (e) in the process of diluting bitumen in Canada, what are the (i) natural gas condensates used, (ii) other petroleum products used; (f) what is the process by which diluted bitumen corrodes pipelines, with specific reference to (i) abrasion, (ii) friction, (iii) high pressure, (iv) settling of sediment, (v) velocity, (vi) sulphur-reducing bacteria, (vii) other significant factors; (g) for all proposed or existing National Energy Board (NEB)-regulated pipelines, what is (i) the amount of hard sediment passing through the pipeline annually, (ii) the average pressure, (iii) the average temperature; (h) what, if any, (i) research, (ii) action, (iii) investment has the government undertaken to determine whether diluted bitumen can flow safely through pipelines; (i) what, if any, (i) research, (ii) action, (iii) investment has the government undertaken to determine whether or not conventional crude should be distinguished from diluted bitumen when setting minimum standards for pipelines; (j) what, if any, (i) research, (ii) action, (iii) investment has the government undertaken to design safety and spill responses and spill liability management capabilities that are appropriate specifically to diluted bitumen; (k) how does a diluted bitumen sp ...

In terms of the budget or the action plan, as I said earlier in my comments, a lot of this turns on technology, so a $1 billion fund has been set aside for clean energy research and demonstration projects.

Question No. 266 Ms. Linda Duncan: With regard to the $1 billion over five years for the Clean Energy Fund to support research, development and demonstration of clean energy technologies, included in the Economic Action Plan: (a) for how much of the total Clean Energy Fund have contribution agreements been signed and with whom, (i) for research and development, (ii) for deployment of technology, (iii) for research; (b) which departments or agencies are administering each aspect of the fund; (c) what is the total amount allocated to date for carbon capture and sequestration projects and with whom are contribution agreements signed; (d) ...[+++] if the contribution agreements for the above projects do not include terms for intellectual property for any technologies developed or tested, are any separate agreements signed in that regard and what percentage is allocated to the government for any future sale of such; and (e) are there any other technologies receiving funding for development and deployment from the fund, and how much funding have they received, distributed by technology?

Research will focus on: developing promising candidate interventions (vaccines, therapies and HIV microbicides) against the target diseases by sponsoring research over the full spectrum from basic molecular research, taking advantage of microbial genomics, through to pre-clinical testing and proof-of-principle; establishing a clinical trials programme to unite and support Europe's clinical trial activities specifically targeted at interventions for use in developing countries; establishing an AIDS Therapy Trials Network in Europe to improve the coherence and complementarity of clinical trials of AIDS therapies for European use.

Annex 1: Breakdown of funding Annex 2: Structure and research areas proposed ANNEX 1 BREAKDOWN OF FUNDING FOR THE FOURTH EC RTD FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME (1994-98) MECU (Current prices) First Area of Activity (Research, Technological 10925 Development and Demonstration Programmes) Second Area of Activity (Cooperation with Third 790 Countries and International Organizations) Third Area of Activity (Dissemination and 600 Utilization of Results) Fourth Area of Activity (Stimulation of the 785 Training and Mobility of Researchers) MAXIMUM OVERALL AMOUNT 13100 MECU (Current prices) Indicative breakdown between topics in the first area of activity - ...[+++] Information and Communications Technologies 36% - Industrial Technologies 16,5% - Environment 9% - Life Sciences and Technologies 12% - Energy 23% - Research for a European Transport Policy 2,5% - Targeted Socio-economic Research 1% ANNEX 2 STRUCTURE AND RESEARCH AREAS IN THE FOURTH EC RTD FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME (1994-98) First area of activity Information and communications technologies; developing the information and communications infrastructure - data-communications technologies in support of applications of general interest - technologies for integrated information and communications systems - technologies for advanced communications services - information technologies Industrial technologies - design, engineering and systems technologies and technologies for the human-centred organization of production - materials and materials processing and recycling technologies - advanced propulsion systems - standardization-related research, measurement and testing Environment - natural environment, environmental quality and global change - innovative environmental protection technologies Life sciences and technologies - general biotechnology - biomedicine, health and drugs - application of life sciences and technology in agriculture, forestry, rural development, agro-industry and fisheries Energy - technologies for cleaner and more efficie ...