1. Newsletter V 2024 - January 28th to February 3rd - Current news + US foreign policy: Profit over peace?

    a government official in Washington said. These actions pose a serious threat to peace and security stability in the West Bank, Israel and the Middle East... * Aluminum | Steel production Green steel from toxic red mud Hydrogen plasma reduction extracts iron from the residual sludge from aluminum production Double benefit: A new method makes...

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

    Net inflow from Denmark... * Photovoltaics | Storage | Battery NRW's largest photovoltaic roof system is being built in Ennepetal. Siegfried Jacob Metallwerke recycles metals such as copper, bronze, aluminum, zinc and brass. The energy-intensive company is currently building the largest roof system for photovoltaics in North Rhine-Westphalia with almost 22.000 solar modules. For the project manager Andreas Fedderwitz...

  3. Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?

    of combustion cars. The BUND cites a future scenario from the organization PowerShift, according to which Volkswagen would need almost 2030 tons of aluminum and 800.000 tons of nickel in 250.000 for the batteries of its vehicles alone. That's ten times as much nickel and aluminum as the entire planned expansion of wind power in Germany (by 2030) - with just one company... * Ahaus |...

  4. Newsletter XVI 2023 - April 16th to 22nd - News+ Poisons for eternity - Uranium and its radioactive relatives

    Lithium-ion batteries are becoming simpler, cheaper and more environmentally friendly thanks to a new process. Instead of aggressive chemicals, this mechanochemical recycling only uses grinding, water, aluminum and heat. In tests, up to 76 percent of the lithium was recovered. Also advantageous: The process does not require sorting or dismantling the batteries and is suitable...

  5. Newsletter XIII 2023 - March 26 to April 1 - News+ What uranium ammunition would do to Ukraine

    this without the need for corrosive chemicals, high temperatures or prior sorting of materials. Today, mainly nickel, cobalt, copper and aluminum as well as steel are recovered and recycled from battery waste. The recovery of lithium is currently still expensive and not very profitable. The available, mostly metallurgical processes consume a lot...

  6. Newsletter IV 2023 - January 22nd to 28th - News+ How the FDP politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann plays down her proximity to the armaments lobby

    Hydrogen. Andrew Forrest, co-owner of the mining company Fortescue Metals Group and one of the richest Australians, appears as one of the largest producers. Instead of coal and aluminum, Forrest will rely on green electricity in the future. “We don’t have to dig anything out of the ground for this,” he says to Germany, “and you don’t have to pay the Kremlin for it”... * Fossil Industry |...

  7. Newsletter XXXV 2022 - September 01st to 08th - News+ No nuclear power plant runtime extensions!

    – without any loss in photovoltaic performance, as researchers report. They have also found a way to replace the polymer previously required for coating with aluminum, which is more recyclable. Photovoltaics could become cheaper and more sustainable in the future... * Subsidies | fossil energy | Energy price study by OECD and IEA: Subsidies for fossil fuels doubled Despite...

  8. Newsletter XXVII 2022 - July 02nd to 10th - News+ Global security is only possible together!

    Can convert heat directly into electrical voltage. In contrast to common approaches, short, intense heating changes the atomic structure of a metal compound made of iron, vanadium and aluminum so that electrons become mobile. Once this threshold is exceeded, even small temperature differences in the material are enough to generate tension. **July 06th France | EDF...

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