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

    | Strompreise | Alter der Atomreaktoren Warum wir Kernenergie wirklich nicht brauchen Die immer wieder aufbrandende Diskussion um die Kernkraft ist nur ein Ablenkungsmanöver. Die Realität der Energieerzeugung schafft Fakten zugunsten regenerativer Energien. Am 15. April 2023 wurden die letzten Kernkraftwerke in Deutschland abgeschaltet. Zuvor wurden Horrorszenarien verbreitet: Explosion der...

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

    London und Paris dazu bereit wären und welchen Beitrag Deutschland dafür leisten wolle. [...] Natürlich geht das Greenwashing in Paris weiter und die Atomkraft wird verstärkt als nachhaltige Energieerzeugung verkauft. Mit Atomstrom soll angeblich dem Klimawandel begegnen werden. Dabei können Reaktoren, die vielleicht in 15 Jahren ans Netz gehen, wahrlich kaum noch etwas dazu beitragen, den...

  3. Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?

    von Atomstrom hat sich inzwischen auf neun Prozent halbiert. Obwohl sogar die ehemaligen Betreiber der Atomkraftwerke in Deutschland abwinken, wollen auch CDU und FDP an der teuren Form der Energieerzeugung als „Option“ festhalten. Es brauche einen Kurswechsel, heißt es in der „Heidelberger Erklärung“. Die Abschaltung der letzten Atomkraftwerke hatte der CDU-Chef Friedrich Merz damals einen...

  4. 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”

    They are not available in the last week of the Bundestag session in 2023 and, as is now known, will no longer appear there: the "Law to Increase the Expansion of Photovoltaic Energy Generation", the so-called Solar Package One, and the "Second Law Amending the Federal Climate Protection Act" , i.e. the new climate protection law. The solar package was already available in mid-August...

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

    How “Agri-PV” connects agriculture and solar parks. Fields in Brandenburg are in great demand as areas for new solar systems. But farmers then have to decide: agriculture or energy production? So-called “Agri-PV” is intended to combine both by keeping the floors under the modules usable. In the Sunfarming test facility in Rathenow (Havelland), farmers are experimenting...

  6. Newsletter XLI 2023 - October 8th to 14th - News+ India - Flood and destruction - the last generation is right

    Newsletter XLI 2023 October 8th to 14th... *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas of the nuclear industry . Some of the incidents were never released through official channels, so this information is only available to the public on...

  7. Newsletter XXXIX 2023 - September 24th to 30th - News+ “Populist, verbally radical, ethnic” – and no end in sight

    the bank, from which bloody (and oily) 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 should...

  8. Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson

    The question that concerns them is what they themselves would gain from it. There is a similar discussion around 12.000 kilometers further north. Here, too, the questions arise as to what residents get out of energy production in their region and how they can participate in it. Lüderitz is a district of the unified municipality of Tangerhütte in Saxony-Anhalt. The municipality in the Altmark is next to...

  9. Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed

    Why quick solutions are needed and exist. Around 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in Germany are caused by industry. This makes the industrial sector the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases after fossil energy production (with around 38 percent), followed by transport with around 18 percent and households with ten percent. [...] The four sectors of industry with the highest emissions are...

  10. Newsletter XVIII 2023 - April 30 to May 6 - News+ Everything green? Energy Colonialism through Hydrogen Cooperation

    In disastrous cooperation with pests and drought, the forest has been severely affected in recent years, the wind should be used beneficially in the future - to generate clean energy. The largest wind farm in North Rhine-Westphalia is planned in the Arnsberg Forest, also in the area of ​​the municipality of Möhnesee - and one of the largest in Germany. [...] At least some of the systems “in the first...

  11. Newsletter XIV 2023 - April 2-8 - News+ Wars and School Massacres: The Cancer of Dehumanization

    The large demonstrations were also referred to as battles. The protesters never just waged a purely preventative struggle, but rather showed early on alternatives in energy production and in community coexistence. The first wind turbine, community energy, the first photovoltaic systems and efforts to use energy more economically all go back to this movement....

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

    Should provide security from the radiant legacy of nuclear power plants for at least a million years. Enclosed in granite, salt or clay rock, the waste from 66 years of energy production will rest forever under German soil. [...] The radioactive waste is currently lying above ground in interim storage facilities throughout Germany - monitored by the Federal Society for...

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

    Russia Ukraine buys diesel fuel from Russia instead of relying on renewable energies In Russia's terrible war of aggression against Ukraine, Russia is deliberately destroying energy production in Ukraine. Targeting the civilian population mercilessly, Putin's army is causing immeasurable suffering through deaths and injuries - on the one hand directly from the air strikes but also...

  14. Newsletter LI 2022 - December 20th to 25th - News+ One UN for all

    There are numerous myths and legends circulating in the discussion about wind and solar energy. But what is really behind it? We checked the facts. The energy transition from fossil energy production to renewable energies is being hotly debated. Claims, half-truths and urban legends about renewable energy sources are constantly floating around the internet. Our background article...

  15. Newsletter XLI 2022 - October 16th to 22nd - News+ The "Friends of MIK" in AFD, CDU/CSU and FDP are ready to fight for the nuclear industry until democracy is over

    Newsletter XLI 2022 October 16th to 22nd *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge *** Nuclear Power Accidents This PDF file contains a list of known incidents from the various areas of civil and military nuclear industry. Some of this information only reached the public in a roundabout way...

  16. Newsletter XXXIX 2022 - October 01st to 08th - News+ Belgium shows problems with extending the runtimes of nuclear power plants

    Final storage further endangers workers. We demand that the dose limits for employees and the population be lowered. We must not close our eyes either to these victims of nuclear energy production or to the victims of fossil energy production.”... * Renewable | Storage | Compressed air Compressed air as energy storage: Largest and most efficient CAES power plant in operation...

  17. Newsletter XXXII 2022 - August 07th to 13th - News+ Real existing politicians who do not do what is necessary

    do not have the necessary skills to fulfill their position. A finance minister, for example, should be able to calculate. This means promoting the cheapest and most advanced forms of energy production using all available means and cutting off the money from the more expensive and dangerous ones. A prime minister should lead his country with foresight and honesty. The...

  18. Newsletter XXIII 2022 - June 01st to 09th - News+ Noam Chomsky: From Class Struggle to Green Revolution

    Russia will also find it difficult to dismantle decommissioned nuclear power plants * Biogas | Sustainable Industry calls for biogas funding The small way out Biowaste The biogas industry wants to use more biowaste to generate energy. This is sustainable, but only offers a very limited way out of the tank-or-plate debate that has flared up again. Meanwhile, Environment Minister Lemke calls...

  19. Newsletter XV 2022 - April 08th to 14th - News+ Russian gas and the German energy transition: perspective yellow vests

    Research platform for nuclear energy The energy transition The realignment of energy policy and economy in Germany, with which for the first time a large industrial country is switching its fossil-nuclear energy production to renewable energy, is being closely monitored internationally. As a “laboratory of the future” and innovative pioneering achievement, it has also been compared to the US moon mission. Goal of...

  20. Newsletter IX 2022 - February 28th to March 06th - News+ Farewell to Russian gas – who wins, who loses

    repeating it now would be a catastrophic mistake. Climate protection and the energy transition are also necessary for peace and security policy reasons. Only through domestic energy production from decentralized renewable energies can we achieve energy sovereignty. 100 billion euros for the armament of the Bundeswehr is damaging the climate and peace in Europe - this money...

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