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for farmers suggested elsewhere. “We must no longer encourage things in the wrong direction,” said UBA President Dirk Messner to the editorial network Germany (RND). “It is therefore right to abolish the agricultural diesel subsidy.” Fossil energy use should not be favored, warned the head of the authority. Messner recommended financial...
would mean, can be visited in Lower Saxony. The CDU wants to get back into nuclear power. In its draft for a new basic program, the party comes to the conclusion that Germany “cannot currently do without the nuclear power option”. The “total energy supply of tomorrow” also includes nuclear power plants. As a reminder: After the reactor accident in Fukushima in 2011, it was...
Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy
Thursday (December 7) corrected and added nuclear power to the list of "strategic" technologies as part of its "general approach" to the NZIA - despite opposition from Germany, Austria and Luxembourg. As a result, nuclear power will benefit from streamlined licensing procedures. A single point of contact in every EU country and the complete digitalization of...
emphasized Scholz. But there are already all the necessary means to meet this challenge. "The technologies are there: wind power, photovoltaics, electric drives, green hydrogen." Germany is pressing ahead with these developments. "As a successful industrial country, we want to live and work climate-neutrally by 2045." Scholz appeals to the almost 200 countries that will...
THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023
murdered and previously had to work on railway lines to secure the colonial and military infrastructure. In the 1920s and 30s, over 30 streets in Germany were named after Lüderitz, thereby transfiguring and glorifying German colonial rule. Only in the last few years have there been initiatives to rename these streets. Even in Münster there are still...
Munich I, on the other hand, cannot convince. * Climate change | 1,5 degrees | COP28 "We should talk less about climate protection, more about future viability" Climate protection can be a benefit for Germany and its industry, says climate researcher Mojib Latif. But he also explains what the climate conference in Dubai will not solve. Professor Latif, we are experiencing an extreme drought this year and...
in green energies. For example, buying a US solar park operator, a British solar park developer or own wind and solar systems in Europe and the United States. [...] In Germany, RWE will shut down its climate-damaging lignite-fired power plants by 2030 - although Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) has just sown doubts about the coal phase-out this year. Until then...
Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?
to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de November 11th Renewables | Electricity price | CO2 price Less dependent on gas Renewable energies should reduce electricity prices The expansion of renewable energy in Germany is not making as much progress as hoped. In doing so, it would ensure that the price of electricity generally falls, explains electricity market expert Huneke from Agora Energiewende. This can be seen on electricity exchanges...
and fair exit from coal, oil and natural gas. Renewable energies should be expanded as quickly as possible. Three health organizations from Germany have also signed. The reason: Fossil energies massively threaten the health of people worldwide - in the future, but also now. And this despite the fact that the right to health is...
from South Korea, when it comes to sales of components it is around ten percent. Exports increased by almost 2022 percent in 40 compared to the previous year. But this is all set to become even more so. While Germany, once a technology leader in the solar business, has reduced its support for domestic companies over the past decade, investments continued in South Korea. [...] The youngest...
Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism
are... * United States | Ukraine | Europe Perfect Storm: Do we want to sacrifice the health of Western Europe for the sake of Ukraine? The USA is risking the stability of its allies in Europe. Germany is at the center. What that would mean for everyone. Guest post. The current direction of US policy risks sacrificing Western Europe for the sake of Ukraine, and...
protest against it tomorrow. Out of sight, out of mind - that can sometimes work in everyday life. But when it comes to radioactive nuclear waste, it's not that easy. Germany said goodbye to the use of nuclear energy in April and for many people the nuclear chapter is over. But the remnants of this technology are not going away so easily. The question of what to do with...
enough affordable housing. However, there are ways that lead to the goal and are social and sustainable at the same time. The building sector causes 40 percent of CO2 emissions worldwide. In Germany, like transport, it will not achieve its sector target for 2030. How things are built today is crucial for the climate goals and therefore for the future of future generations. As a reminder: This...
Bills are handed out, and the fossil fuel industry, embodied by a man with an oil can on his head... * Denmark | Offshore | Energy generation from offshore wind farms: How Denmark became Germany's energy supplier After the end of cheap gas from Russia, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is relying on energy generation at sea. The Baltic Sea is to become a gigantic wind power plant...
Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread
demands bail from migrants Italy continues to tighten its refugee policy. In the future, rejected migrants will have to pay a deposit of 5.000 euros in order to avoid detention pending deportation. Germany's help for refugees is also causing anger in Rome. Italy has decided that rejected asylum seekers should pay a kind of deposit of 4.938 euros in the future. This way they could prevent...
leicht wiederholen könnte, wenn ein solcher Vorfall kaum Konsequenzen hat – wie in diesem Fall. Büchner ist seit Jahren aktiv als Berichterstatter über Rechtsextremisten vor allem im Südwesten Deutschlands. Seit Längerem veröffentlicht er auch im Störungsmelder. Der Job ist nicht ungefährlich: Kollegen haben erlebt, dass Morddrohungen an ihre Haustür geschmiert werden, dass Autos angezündet...
refer, among other things, to the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA. France is the leader with 56 reactors in operation, followed far behind by Spain with 7 reactors. Germany shut down the last reactor in April. According to the IAEA, Great Britain still has 11 nuclear power plants on the grid. With a total of around 110 reactors, a quarter of all the reactors in operation worldwide...
the underground injection of CO2. New protests against CCS projects are planned - then probably also against the government Greens. It's been a good ten years. At that time, protests in northern Germany led to a virtual ban by the black-yellow federal government on CCS technology - the large-scale technology in which the greenhouse gas CO2 is pressed into deep layers of the earth in order to remove it from the atmosphere...
Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years
spreads misinformation. A new study shows that one of their main strategies is the character assassination of scientists and decision-makers. This can also be observed in Germany. Failed climate policy is often explained by social inertia or other, almost fatalistic arguments. But climate misinformation doesn't spread on its own, it...
Markus Söder (CSU) recently told the Süddeutsche Zeitung: “Different electricity price zones would be a big mistake. Anyone who talks about such zones is putting an ax on Germany as an industrial location and endangering southern Germany as the industrial heart of the republic.” Söder’s statement is grossly exaggerated. But what is actually true: If the German electricity wholesale trade were divided into two or more...
