Newsletter V - 27.01. - 01.02.2021/27/XNUMX - News+ January XNUMXth - Crediting in the EU budget: Fusion costs nice climate balance

The Iter fusion reactor will not contribute to the EU climate target. Nevertheless, the EU Commission wants to book it under climate protection expenditure.

The EU's commitment is clear: it wants to become climate-neutral by 2050. And in order for this to succeed, at least 30 percent of all EU spending should serve to achieve this climate goal in the future. This is what the European Council decided last summer.

But when it comes to the question of what will contribute to climate neutrality by 2050, the EU Commission is not so specific with the facts. According to taz information, she also wants to count all expenses with which the EU contributes to the costs of the Iter fusion reactor to the required quota. For the period from 2021 to 2027, that is around 5,6 billion euros.

Opinions differ as to whether this money is well invested - many environmental organizations and Greens consider the high expenditure to be a waste of money in view of the many unresolved problems and unclear prospects. Other political actors have high hopes that fusion will one day solve all of humanity's energy problems.

But one thing is completely undisputed: Even ardent supporters of the project do not claim that Iter could make a contribution to achieving climate neutrality in 2050 ...

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reaktorpleite.de

Map of the nuclear world:

The miraculous transformation or creative bookkeeping - financing of ITER fusion research by the EU budget for climate protection ...

The German version of this world map:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1fCmKdqlqSCNPo3We1TWZexPjgNDQOaLD

The search in the reaktorpleite.de with the search term


	Fusion

brought the following results, among others:

01 Mar 2019 - EU Commission declares fusion reactor a climate protection project

Jun. 28, 2014 - Energy from nuclear fusion - Laser generates nuclear fusion in a mini-fusion reactor

IMHO

Another grandchildren's trick

All the costs that the taxpayer has to raise for the legacy of the nuclear industry are declared as 'militarily necessary security measures' and nobody can say that we have spent too little on our national defense!

But that would come too close to the truth, was just a suggestion for further creative rebooking ...

YouTube channel "Reaktorpleite"

Radioactivity worldwide ...

Will open in a new window! - Terra X Lesch & Co - Nuclear Fusion: Climate Saver or Billion Grave? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVTcirxdRWM&list=PLJI6AtdHGth3FZbWsyyMMoIw-mT1Psuc5&index=67
Terra X Lesch & Co - Nuclear Fusion: Climate Saver or Billion Grave?

AtomkraftwerkePlag

Nuclear fusion and fusion devices

Experimental stage for 60 years

Nuclear fusion, in which hydrogen nuclei are fused to form helium nuclei and energy is to be generated in a similar way to nuclear fusion processes in stars, has been in the experimental stage since the 1950s. So far, the dream of inexhaustible energy generation has not come true: In order for the process to get going, much more energy always had to be invested than was generated.

The Wendelstein 7-X stellarator (Germany) as well as the JT-60SA (Japan) and Joint European Torus (Great Britain) tokamaks are currently considered to be the largest research facilities. The ITER nuclear fusion facility currently under construction is expected to generate energy for the first time from 2035. With the successor DEMO this should be possible on a commercial scale ...

Wikipedia

Nuclear fusion

Nuclear fusion is a nuclear reaction in which two atomic nuclei fuse to form a new nucleus. Nuclear fusion is the reason why the sun and all shining stars radiate energy.

The cross-section, the measure of the probability that colliding nuclei react with one another, is of decisive importance for the creation of a fusion. The cross-section is usually only sufficiently large if the two cores collide with one another with high energy. This is necessary to overcome the Coulomb barrier, the electrical repulsion between the positively charged nuclei, or to tunnel through its narrow maximum. Beyond the barrier, at a distance of only about 10−15 m, the attraction predominates through the strong interaction and the nuclei merge with one another ...

Lobbying

Situation in the Federal Republic of Germany

According to rough estimates there are 5000 lobbyists in Berlin, statistically eight for each MP. Norbert Lammert already lamented their considerable and increasingly well-organized influence.

A special form of lobbyism “in the orbit of corruption” (Hans Herbert von Arnim) became public knowledge in 2006: people from the private sector, associations and interest groups who continue to be employees of their actual employer and are paid by them temporarily work as external employees in German federal ministries. According to the Federal Government, however, political influence on the decisions of the ministries is excluded.

The teaching materials provided by business associations in the subject of economics are criticized for being “scientifically and politically biased”.

In the Federal Republic of Germany, the pharmaceutical industry and the energy industry are regarded as sectors with particularly great lobbying power.

The energy industry, in particular the four large energy groups in Germany (RWE, EON, EnBW and Vattenfall), had to first phase out nuclear energy under the red-green in 2000 with the "Agreement between the Federal Government and the Energy Supply Companies" (atomic consensus) Accept the government of Gerhard Schröder. After that she worked with the help of her lobby organizations, such as B. the German Atomic Forum (DAtF) and the Kerntechnischen Gesellschaft (KTG), and supported by nuclear power proponents from politics for a revision of the "atomic consensus". The nuclear lobby tried to achieve a change of opinion in the run-up to the 2009 federal election; In autumn 2010, after extensive media campaigns, it was able to push through the extension of the service life of German nuclear power plants. Since March 2011, the nuclear lobby has been trying to delay or reverse the second nuclear phase-out under Angela Merkel.

One of the most powerful networks is "Das Collegium", which as of 2015 brings together lobbyists from a total of 46 international companies and associations in Berlin.

In 2017, among other things, the Dieselgate and Cum-ex scandals with losses in the billions for the state were largely attributed to the influence of lobbyists. LobbyControl activists concluded from the developments that efforts to achieve binding regulations for lobbyists in Germany had come to a standstill under the Merkel III cabinet ...

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