Mittwoch, 18. Juni 2008

Finally: The summer is back in Bern

I found this in the newspaper from today and I put it with a tool to into english:

Finally: The summer is back in Bern

After the barely endless rain of recent days, yesterday in the capital for the first time again the summer reported.
The unexpected sunshine and high temperatures attracted to the Berne outside and provided a good mood.
The best thing now is to stay the summer:
"Until the weekend, temperatures rise to 25 degrees," says Philippe Gyarmati of Meteo test.

And I found also this:

Energy consumption around the world is growing

The global energy consumption, despite higher fuel continued to rise. Last year total consumption grew by 2.4 percent, as shown by statistics presented to the oil group BP shows.

This increase was slightly weaker than 2.7 percent in the penultimate year. The growth was, however, for the fifth time in a row over the ten-year average.

In the European Union, the consumption contrary to the global trend by 2.2 percent. Germany even recorded a minus of 5.6 percent to 311 million tonnes of oil equivalent. On the other hand, used the U.S. as the world's largest consumer last year, 1.7 percent more energy, China 7.7 percent even more.

The global oil production is last year since 2002 for the first time dropped - namely by 0.2 percent. The proven oil reserves but were unchanged at 1.24 trillion barrel This rich, the current production level for more than 41 years to maintain, says the study.

Gas consumption rose according to the statistics 3.1 percent. The U.S. used because of a cold winter clearly more gas in the EU, it was because of a mild winter less.

Coal accounted for the fourth consecutive year, the strongest growth rate of all energy sources, with an increase of 4.5 percent. On the other hand, the consumption of nuclear energy by two percent.

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