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    einer Straftat... * Klimawandel | Copernicus | Temperaturrekord April bricht als elfter Monat in Folge globalen Temperaturrekord Der vergangene April war laut dem EU-Klimawandeldienst Copernicus wärmer als je zuvor. Zum ersten Mal betrug die globale Durchschnittstemperatur mehr als 15 Grad. Der vergangene April war global betrachtet der wärmste seit Beginn der Wetteraufzeichnungen. Wie der...

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

    in Ukraine. An example of a mini-nuclear power plant is the floating nuclear power plant “Akademik Lomonosov”, which has been supplying the Siberian port city of Pevek and neighboring mines with electricity and heat since May 2020. Furthermore, in this agreement, Energoatom and Holtec agreed to build a Ukrainian production facility for components of the dry storage facility for spent nuclear fuel. [...]...

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

    prevent the economy from shrinking - after all, warming has been going on for a long time. Germany has also heated up significantly. The decade from 2014 to 2023 was on average 2,3 degrees warmer than normal levels at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. According to the Robert Koch Institute, thousands of people now die in this country every year as a result of heat... * Emirates | Storm | Oman...

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

    last chance to reverse the trend in the middle in time." IMHO Anyone who runs after the military-industrial complex belongs to the establishment. * Finland | Storage | District heating World's largest long-term hot water storage From 2028, 90 GWh can be stored underground for months. Work begins on the world's largest long-term heat storage facility in Finland's fourth largest city...

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    exceeds all expectations. It is now becoming apparent that two important influencing factors of the Earth system are involved. On the one hand, less heat has been flowing from the sea surface into the depths of the ocean for several years. And on the other hand, the Earth has been absorbing an unexpected amount of solar energy since 2023. These two effects worked together and explain a significant part of the extraordinary...

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

    Meteorologists and climate researchers agree: droughts and heavy rain events are likely to become more severe in the future because average temperatures are rising worldwide. And the warmer the air is, the more water it can absorb and the more “charged” the rain front is. According to the DWD, the water absorption capacity doubles for every ten degrees Celsius increase in temperature...

  7. Newsletter X 2024 - March 3rd to 9th - News+ More courage would be good

    Prerequisite for fuel cell systems to become cheaper. Hydrogen is considered one of the energy sources of the future. It could not only be used for stationary generation of electricity and heat, but also power aircraft and vehicles in the form of fuel cells. Fuel cells have advantages over battery-powered electromobility, especially in freight transport....

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

    Overturning circulation (Amoc) – could tip over and come to a standstill in the next few decades. The dramatic consequence would be a strong cooling of Europe, while it would become even warmer in the southern hemisphere. [...] The huge island has risen at an impressive rate over the past ten years - in some regions by up to 23 centimeters, according to researchers based on data from...

  9. Newsletter VII 2024 - February 11th to 17th - Current+ super election year in the crucial climate decade

    Nuclear power plants as the cause of total diesel failure. If the external power grid and the reserve grid failed (emergency power situation), the power supply for dissipating the decay heat in the reactor core would not have been secured at Tricastin 3/4; in the worst case, it could have led to a core meltdown in both blocks... Nuclear power plantsPlag Tricastin_(France) old reactors on the Rhône from...

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

    and therefore may be underestimated, for example in the event of a hurricane warning. “The open-ended scale can lead to an underestimation of risk – and this is particularly problematic in a warming world,” explain Michael Wehner of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and James Kossin of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Because as a result of global warming...

  11. Newsletter III 2024 - January 14th to 20th - Current news + Psychological explanations for doing nothing

    However, income is used to promote heating, building renovation, green steel production, charging stations for electric cars and so on." The FDP leader added: "In short, because one household receives funding for a heat pump, a few hundred others cannot that year Get climate money paid out." "You can't spend the money twice," emphasized the finance minister. "The climate money would...

  12. Newsletter II 2024 - January 7th to 13th - News+ SMR: US developers of mini-nuclear power plants under pressure - class action lawsuit by shareholders against NuScale Power

    (ESK), the Federal Government's advisory body on nuclear waste, adopted "Guidelines for the dry interim storage of irradiated fuel elements and heat-generating radioactive waste in containers" at its 109th meeting as a recommendation. There is no mention of terror and war and the dangers associated with them. There is also a need for action because the Federal Republic is...

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

    Particularly low-power reactor intended to supply electrical energy and heat to remote United States Army stations such as radar stations in the Arctic. In an accident on January 3, 1961, three people, the reactor's operating personnel, were killed. Radioactive iodine leaked from the reactor building and contaminated the surrounding area with...

  14. Newsletter LII 2023 - December 24th to 31st - News+ Nuclear power fantasy fails due to desolate industry

    The perception of large parts of the population links necessary climate protection measures with the increase in social injustice. I just mention the term "heating hammer"... * Sustainability | Heat pump | Waste water Dutch city planners throw themselves down the drain in search of heat Sustainability While there is a debate in Germany about Robert Habeck's heating law, the...

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

    caused by the use of fossil energy resources and unsustainable forestry and agriculture. Greenhouse gas emissions increase the retention capacity for infrared thermal radiation in the troposphere, thereby increasing the natural greenhouse effect. The most important greenhouse gas in current global warming is carbon dioxide (CO2), and there are others such as: B....

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

    are far apart. Globally, we are miles away from achieving the Paris 1,5 degree climate target. From January to September 2023, the global average was warmer than 86 degrees on pre-industrial times on 1,5 days. The UN Environmental Program (UNEP) has calculated that the air on the planet's surface has already warmed by 1.2 degrees. This warming...

  17. Newsletter XLVI 2023 - November 12th to 18th - News+ Violence as a consequence of climate change: No cool heads

    The container contains a radioactive inventory that is comparable to what was released in the Chernobyl reactor disaster in 1986. It is unclear what radioactivity, neutron radiation and waste heat have done inside the castors over the years; so far none of the loaded containers have been opened again... November 16th AfD | Party conference | Monitor | Freedom of the press Interim injunction...

  18. Newsletter XLIV 2023 - October 29th to November 4th - News+ Uranium exports from Lingen to Russia violate EU law - study by the Greens justifies the possibility of a ban

    to keep. The current funding gap is estimated to have grown to between $194 billion and $366 billion per year. The reason for this is the increasing need for financing for adaptation due to the warmer climate as well as the slowing inflow of funds from industrialized countries... November 2nd Gundremmingen | Intermediate storage | Dismantling RWE is allowed to build a new building for waste at the Gundremmingen nuclear power plant...

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

    are ice sheets floating in the ocean that cling to the glaciers of the southern continent and hold them together like a belt. If these ice sheets thaw, the glaciers are unprotected against warmer ocean water and “pour out” into the ocean, leading to further sea level rise. The glaciers of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet alone leave the world's oceans...

  20. Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism

    Incentivize green electricity generation. Switchable loads such as power-to-heat systems or electrolyzers could then produce hydrogen or heat with these regeneratively generated amounts of electricity. In this way, other sectors could also benefit from the principle of “benefiting instead of restricting”... * Asylum | Migration | Immigration Arguing about migrants doesn't solve a single problem...

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