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    Efficiency, because perovskite, as a semiconductor, also has a limited band gap. The true strength of the innovative material is shown in the fact that this band gap - unlike silicon - can be controlled by varying the composition of the perovskite material... * May 7, 2007 (INES 1) Akw Philippsburg, DEU The containment container was designed according to a revision "due to an inexact...

  2. Newsletter XVII 2024 - April 21st to 27th - News+ Reform of the Climate Protection Act: One step forward, two steps back

    Currently, more than 1.700 suspects are being investigated. The cum-ex transactions are said to have cost taxpayers an estimated twelve billion euros. Bankers, consultants and stock traders were reimbursed for taxes that no one had ever paid - a dig into the state treasury. Investigations for twelve years Brorhilker has been investigating cum-ex cases since 2012. With her team she managed to get key witnesses...

  3. Newsletter XVI 2024 - April 14th to 20th - News+ Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    are already there. * Inequality | Income | Wealth tax Billionaires pay more in Switzerland: Germany spares the super-rich The middle class pays more taxes in Germany and Austria than billionaires and multimillionaires. In Switzerland they have to give up more. BERLIN taz | 73 billion euros: This is how much the German state could earn if wealth taxes on Swiss...

  4. Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty

    Newsletter Some of the events were never made public through official channels, so this information is only made available to the public in a roundabout way...

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    Increased by more than half in 2022, as the Karlsruhe-based company announced on Wednesday morning. Accordingly, the adjusted earnings of Germany's third largest utility before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (adjusted Ebitda) are 6,4 billion euros. In the previous year the value was 3,97 billion euros. The reasons for the good figures The strong increases in...

  6. Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany

    Banks and insurers, in turn, would have to be taken into account as a risk factor in credit and interest rate decisions. If we were to consistently pursue this form of “true” accounting, the result would be a real change in direction. We are currently seeing the first insurers in the USA refusing to cover rain and fire damage. If we can manage to apply this logic not only to the consequential damage...

  7. Newsletter VIII 2024 - February 18th to 24th - News+ On the death of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

    Solar industry demands help. Ms. Kemfert, the German economy is weak, the federal government only expects growth of 0,2 percent. In addition to lower taxes and a reduction in bureaucracy, business associations are also urgently calling for lower energy prices. What should happen here? Claudia Kemfert: Energy prices are only high because we have been dependent on fossil natural gas for too long, which...

  8. Newsletter VI 2024 - February 4th to 10th - News+ Nuclear power is a dead horse - why isn't Merz getting down?

    and Spain are showing how it works. The FDP has imposed a strong taboo on the country - so strong that no member of the government is currently thinking about it, let alone talking about it. Higher taxes are considered poison. Although it is completely clear that a climate-friendly restructuring of the energy system can only be achieved with higher government spending, the federal government can only think of two ways to...

  9. Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?

    escalated We are 90 seconds before midnight, according to the doomsday clock. The Ukraine war is the central nuclear hotspot. And what about the Middle East? "Threatening developments continue to steer the world toward a global catastrophe," warn the scientists in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on Tuesday. Like last year, they presented the so-called...

  10. Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support

    – but private consumption reached 140 billion euros. So 60 billion euros were not taxed, meaning the state lost 18 billion euros, around 30 percent of the taxes paid. Stournaras therefore wants to ensure that payments can only be made digitally in Greece so that every transaction is recorded... * Guatemala | land rights | Indigenous mining in Guatemala Indigenous...

  11. Newsletter LI 2023 - December 17th to 23rd - Current news + steps towards climate change, unsettled OPEC and loving politics

    Newsletter LI 2023 December 17th to 23rd *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas of the nuclear industry. Some of the incidents were never released through official channels, so this information is only available to the public on...

  12. Newsletter L 2023 - December 10th to 16th - News+ The tail wags the dog and those on the right lead us by the nose ring “Back to the Future”

    Attempts to shape political opinions or public perspectives, manipulate knowledge, and steer behavior in a direction desired by the propagandist or ruler. Failing to present the different sides of an issue and mixing information and opinions characterize propaganda techniques. This is in contrast to pluralistic and...

  13. Newsletter XLVII 2023 - November 19th to 25th - News+ Spectacular setback for the development of small nuclear reactors in the USA - The dead horse

    Too many “red lines” have been crossed. We will be curious to see whether this will be debated at the Karlsruhe party conference. November 23rd Fossils | Profits | Polluters tax fossil multinationals Profits above all else The oil and gas companies could have paid for the climate damage they caused and still made high profits, a new study shows. On their...

  14. Newsletter XLIII 2023 - October 22nd to 28th - News+ Municipal utilities are leaving the Future Gas lobby association

    Newsletter XLIII 2023 October 22nd to 28th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas of the nuclear industry. Some of the incidents were never released through official channels, so this information is only available to the public on...

  15. Newsletter XL 2023 - October 1st to 7th - Current news + FDP proposal for industrial electricity price relief is spot on

    is therefore necessary. Now the FDP parliamentary group has made a remarkably good proposal: the private supply (“Power Purchase Agreements” = PPA) of green electricity should be exempt from all taxes and duties so that companies can receive cheap electricity. Industrial electricity prices are competitive in international comparison. The warnings from the economy are nothing...

  16. Newsletter XXXIX 2023 - September 24th to 30th - News+ “Populist, verbally radical, ethnic” – and no end in sight

    that extreme wealth is ruining our shared future." Millionaires, politicians and economists have called on G20 countries to combat rampant inequality by working together to raise taxes on the world's rich. Around 300 millionaires, including heiress Abigail Disney, politicians like Bernie Sanders, former heads of state and government, political representatives and...

  17. Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread

    Nature Conservation Germany (BUND), which mistakes are being made in the current plans to expand motorways and federal roads and shows how sustainable mobility could succeed. A change of direction is necessary in order to finally actively shape the future of mobility in Germany. As part of the ongoing needs plan review of the current Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan (BVWP),...

  18. Newsletter XXXVII 2023 - September 10th to 16th - News+ How Germany is ruining the climate with billions in gifts to industry

    June 22, 2022 - 1:10 billion for the destruction of our earth: Let's become independent of coal, oil and gas! * extra 3, NDR - April 1, 2021 - 8:01 Climate policy in Germany: Low environmental taxes and harmful subsidies Playlist - Radioactivity worldwide... This playlist contains over 150 videos on the topic The search engine Ecosia plants trees! Electricity price subsidies...

  19. Newsletter XXXV 2023 - August 27 to September 2 - News+ Historic victory: Ecuador becomes the first country to say no to oil

    Gas power plants have largely been forced out of the market. But experience shows that once introduced, withdrawing subsidies is difficult. [...] But there is an even simpler solution: reduce taxes on electricity for everyone. Private customers would also benefit from this. Although high electricity prices provide an incentive to save more energy, they also encourage the shift away from fossil fuels...

  20. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    Newsletter XXXIII 2023 August 13th to 19th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 News+ Background knowledge Nuclear Power Accidents This PDF file contains a list of known incidents from the various areas of civil and military nuclear power industry . Some of this information only reached the public in a roundabout way...

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