ACADEMY
PUBLICATIONS
18 January 2023
Hydrogen: fundamentals and strategies in China and France/Europe for decarbonizing the economy
In this report, the National Academy of Technology of France and the Chinese Academy of Engineering jointly studied the potential role and uses of low-carbon hydrogen to reach the net-zero emission target of our economies. This report also analyses the whole value chain from production to end-use taking into account innovation, technological and economical aspects […]
19 July 2021
Covid-19 crisis : Using the Sustainable Development Goals to restart while ensuring sustainability and resiliency
In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the French Academy of Technology has been piloting an inter-academic Working Group “Using the SDGs to restart while ensuring sustainability and resiliency”, mobilizing participants from the Academy of Technology, the Academy of Agriculture and the Academy of Sciences, since April 2020. This collection of notes is intended to […]
11 May 2021
Innovation in the food industries: impacts of the digital revolution
The food industries represent a link in the food system that extends from agricultural production to the consumption stages. These industries, which convert raw materials into foodstuffs, implement transformation and assembly processes to obtain foodstuffs with constant properties. They occupy the first industrial place in France in terms of employment and turnover. They are made […]
10 March 2021
French electricity demand – outlook to 2050
In recent years, annual electricity consumption in France amounted to around 470 TWh, 90% being decarbonised; at the same time, oil and natural gas consumption has been around 900 TWh and 450 TWh respectively. At present, electricity accounts for only a quarter of energy consumption. Energy savings alone will not be enough to move away […]
28 October 2020
Industry of the Future: The Ramp-up in Technological Competencies of SMEs. The Case of Industrial Companies
The report of the National Academy of Technologies of France on the industry of the future, as well as a number of economic studies, show that large French industrial companies are progressing well, and that on the whole the major industrial customers and their first-level suppliers have had positive operating results. ISEs, of which there […]
15 October 2020
Archiving Big Data beyond 2040: DNA as a candidate
Datacenters, including the “cloud”, store humanity’s digital big data on hard disks and magnetic tapes whose limited lifespan requires expensive copies to be made every five to seven years; they devour resources such as land, electricity, water and scarce materials. In comparison, storage at a molecular scale in a polymer such as DNA could have […]
30 July 2020
The role of hydrogen in a decarbonised economy
The National Academy of Technologies of France unveils its report presenting the major challenges for hydrogen to play a major role in the ecological transition and industrial development. It makes fourteen recommendations grouped into four themes and defines priorities for the uses of decarbonated hydrogen, taking into account the often-neglected economic aspects. It recommends the […]
15 June 2020
COVID-19 Crisis – Accelerating the digital transformation: for a more agile and less dependent France
NATF Position paper The situation of confinement into which our country and a large part of the planet has been plunged has led to an acceleration in the use of digital techniques to compensate for the limitation of travelling. This acceleration has been accompanied by a remarkable appropriation of the available digital resources by citizens […]
12 May 2020
For selective confinement assisted by digital tracing
Open Letter For selective confinement assisted by digital tracing In the absence of a vaccine against Covid19 and treatments to cure this disease, we had to temporarily accept the systematic confinement of the population with the aim of slowing the spread of the epidemic and avoid the saturation of our healthcare system. This could only […]
24 April 2020
Advisory note from the National Academy of Technologies of France on the presence and activity of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater
Considering: – the COVID-19 pandemic linked to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, – the very low number of published data on its presence in wastewater; information published by a research centre in the Netherlands (www.kwrwater.nl) [1], and based on data described as “preliminary”, mentions the presence of the virus genome in untreated wastewater, information taken up by […]