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

    sich in Reaktor 4 von Tschernobyl der katastrophale Unfall der INES-Stufe 7, bei dem nach einer Kernschmelze und Wasserstoffexplosionen große Mengen radioaktiver Stoffe in die Umgebung und die Atmosphäre gelangten... Bundesamt für die Sicherheit der nuklearen Entsorgung (BASE) Nukleare Unfälle In der Geschichte der zivilen Nutzung der Atomenergie kam es zu schweren Unfällen in kerntechnischen...

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

    der Mist von 450 Bullen und altes Stroh aus dem Stall. Gülle und Mist setzen das besonders klimaschädliche Methan frei, aber auch Kohlenstoffdioxid. Ohne die Biogasanlage würden die Gase in die Atmosphäre gelangen und dort ihre Wirkung entfalten. So wird aus ihnen in einem anliegenden Blockheizkraftwerk Strom. Bei der Verbrennung des gewonnenen Gases gelangt zwar auch CO₂ in die Umwelt; dieses...

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

    · Das Treibhausgas Methan wirkt rund 80 Mal so stark auf die Erderwärmung wie CO2. Mit Hilfe von Satellitenbildern entdecken Umweltexperten, welche Mengen des klimaschädlichen Gases in die Atmosphäre entweichen. Der Ausstoß klimaschädlichen Methans aus dem Braunkohletagebau ist in Deutschland einer Untersuchung zufolge deutlich höher als angenommen. Wie aus der Studie der Deutschen Umwelthilfe...

  4. Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out

    Seversk, Tomsk-7, former Soviet Union 1993 On April 6, 1993, overpressure occurred in a tank containing a solution of 8.773 kg of uranium and 310 g of plutonium, which then exploded. "Radioactive particles thrown into the atmosphere contaminated an area of ​​over 120 square kilometers. Numerous villages had to be evacuated and are permanently uninhabitable. The people are still suffering today...

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    des Reaktorkerns und der berüchtigten Kernschmelze. Der Schutzmantel des Reaktors hielt dem enormen Druck stand, aber einige Tage lang entwichen große Mengen radioaktiver Partikel in die Atmosphäre und kontaminierten die Umgebung in Form von radioaktivem Niederschlag... Wikipedia Reaktorunfall_im_Kernkraftwerk_Three_Mile_Island Reaktorunfall im Kernkraftwerk Three Mile Island Der Reaktorunfall...

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

    teilt und stattdessen auf Freiheit, Fortschritt und Wissenschaft setzt? Hallo? Hat dort schon mal irgendeiner mit jemand Seriösem aus der Wissenschaft geredet? Je mehr Kohlendioxid wir in die Atmosphäre pusten, desto weniger Infrarotstrahlung gelangt von der Erde ins Weltall. Das ist ganz banale Physik und keine Hysterie. Die Folge: Die Sonne heizt die Erde immer weiter auf. Und ihr werdet es...

  7. Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD

    Öko-Instituts im Auftrag der Umweltorganisation WWF. Angeführt wird die Liste von der BASF in Ludwigshafen. Das Werk bläst mit 5,9 Millionen Tonnen im Jahr 2022 mit Abstand am meisten CO2 in die Atmosphäre. Insgesamt haben die zwölf größten Anlagen 23 Millionen Tonnen Kohlenstoffdioxid in die Luft gepustet. [...] Mit 40 Prozent den größten Anteil an der Luftverschmutzung haben die Kraftwerke,...

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

    at Level 3. In addition, there were known intentional releases of plutonium and irradiated uranium oxide particles into the atmosphere over long periods of time in the 1950s and 1960s... Translated with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Nuclear power plantsPlag Sellafield (formerly_Windscale), Great Britain There are comparable nuclear plants all over the world:...

  9. Newsletter IX 2024 - February 25th to March 2nd - News+ Deceptively real AI videos: What if we can no longer believe anything?

    | CO2 | Gestein Treibhausgase im Acker speichern? Ja, das funktioniert Ein Langzeit-Experiment zeigt: Wenn man Basaltstaub auf Feldern verstreut, lassen sich erhebliche Mengen CO₂ aus der Atmosphäre entfernen. Auch die Landwirte sollen von der Idee profitieren. Die Erde hat eine natürliche Müllabfuhr für Kohlendioxid. Um das klimaschädliche Treibhausgas aus der Atmosphäre zu entfernen, spielen...

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

    Seiten grenzen kleine Seen an die Industriefläche. Hier wird flüssiges Erdgas aufbereitet und auf Tanker geladen. Immer wieder wird dabei unsauber gearbeitet. Gefährliche Gase entweichen in die Atmosphäre: Benzol, krebserregend. Pentan, leicht entzündlich. Methan, um ein Vielfaches klimaschädlicher als CO₂. Von dem Terminal in den Südstaaten der USA wird Flüssiggas in die ganze Welt gesendet....

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

    bezieht sich auf einen langfristigen Zeitraum und nicht auf ein einzelnes Jahr. Das bedeutet: Langfristig müssen die Treibhausgase stark reduziert (Klimaneutralität) und noch langfristiger der Atmosphäre wieder entzogen werden (Klimapositivität). Technisch ist beides möglich. Wir müssen es nur tun. [...] Der deutschen Solarindustrie geht es schlecht. Die wichtigsten Player wie Meyer-Burger,...

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

    Routine and Accidental Releases of Tritium During its fifty-three years of operation, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Livermore site released an estimated 29.300 TBq of tritium into the atmosphere; about 75% of it was accidentally released as gaseous tritium in 1965 and 1970. Routine emissions contributed just over 3.700 TBq of gaseous...

  13. 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

    The sum is the same, but they fall less evenly - the summers are becoming drier, the winters are becoming wetter. The current flood crisis is an example of this. In addition, it is generally true that a warmer atmosphere can absorb more moisture, and of course it has to release it again. It has long been advisable to prepare better for floods. But a lot is happening so far...

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

    individual floods cannot be explained by climate change. This is also emphasized by the “Monitoring Report 2023” on the German climate adaptation strategy published in November. Atmospheric conditions and general weather conditions that favor floods show too much variability for this. However, the report presented by the Federal Environment Agency also states: Global warming can...

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

    become drier. Man-made climate change is once again responsible for this, as an international research team reports in the journal “Nature Geoscience”. The drier atmosphere has clear consequences for European nature and agriculture; it leads to more frequent droughts and increases the risk of forest fires. The trend continues With a new approach...

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

    Negative emissions Blue Carbon: Carbon in paradise Seagrass beds off the Bahamas store significant amounts of CO2, a new study finds. Without removing CO2 from the atmosphere, the 1,5 degree target can no longer be achieved. Both natural and technical approaches have advantages and disadvantages. Behind the promising name Blue Carbon - blue carbon -...

  17. 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”

    developed protective circuits - the reactor is switched off... Wikipedia Biblis nuclear power plant When the reactor was started up, a valve that has to shut off a connecting line to the reactor circuit, which is under 150 times atmospheric pressure, got stuck and remained open. It was only after 15 hours that the operating staff took the lighting warning lamp seriously; they thought the control logic of the lamp was...

  18. Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy

    at Level 3. In addition, there were known intentional releases of plutonium and irradiated uranium oxide particles into the atmosphere over long periods of time in the 1950s and 1960s... Translated with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Nuclear power plantsPlag Sellafield (formerly_Windscale), Great Britain There are comparable nuclear plants all over the world:...

  19. Newsletter XLVIII 2023 - November 26th to December 2nd - Current News+ Greenwashing at COP28: How corporations lobby against climate goals

    LoK integrated as part of the selection process shows once again that the BGZ was not interested in finding the safest and most economical solution to the problem of nuclear waste disposal..." * Atmosphere | Elon Musk | SpaceX SpaceX: Scientists worried - rockets are tearing "atmospheric holes “ in sky It is a visually impressive form of an aurora created by falling...

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

    to identify. You have to look carefully because a lot of things can go wrong with carbon credit projects. For example, if I plant a forest that later burns down, the CO₂ will still be in the atmosphere. Therefore: The project must be additional; The reductions must be robustly quantified and not, as often happens, massively overestimated. There have to be a lot...

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