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or biogas produced. According to the Ministry of the Environment, 50,5 terawatt hours were consumed. Accordingly, Lower Saxony is above the national average: throughout Germany, only half of energy consumption was covered by green electricity last year. In addition, Lower Saxony produced an additional surplus of electricity from other sources, it was said. This one is together...
Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?
Companies as well as agriculture and forestry. [...] The relief from the environmental organization Greenpeace has met with little enthusiasm. The measures “undermine incentives to reduce energy consumption and emissions,” said Greenpeace energy expert Bastian Neuwirth: “In doing so, the federal government is slowing down the necessary climate-friendly transformation of the economy and risking the climate goals.”...
to be able to supply and thus to be able to recover uncontaminated recyclable materials. This now requires another interim storage facility - which is quite controversial in the community... * Energy consumption | Industrial production | Record low Shrinking industrial production: Energy consumption at record low High prices are causing shrinking industrial production and falling demand. Through the...
introduced, but existing tax laws were redesigned in such a way that they have a steering effect in the interests of environmental protection, on the one hand by increasing quantity taxes on energy consumption or on environmentally harmful behavior, and on the other hand through discounts for the use of more efficient or emission-reducing technologies. The aim was, among other things, to...
The number of people has exploded since the industrial revolution with the use of fossil energy, which also includes fertilizers and pesticides. The richest countries consume the most energy, consume the most resources and destroy the environment the most. Just other techniques for a problem like CO2 emissions wouldn't make much difference to the overall overshoot. And...
In addition, fossil fuels in electricity production would be subsidized by 3,8 billion per year, plus direct energy tax relief of 2,2 billion. Due to the high energy consumption, industrial sectors such as iron and steel, chemicals and paper would be particularly favored... * Cesium | Fallout | Atomic bomb test mystery of radioactive wild boars solved Why wild boars in...
In the case of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, judges ruled that an “obligation for residents and local communities to participate in wind farms is in principle permissible.” * Energy prices | Energy consumption | Economy: Energy consumption fell by 7,1 percent in the first half of the year. High prices and the weak economy caused electricity and gas consumption to fall in the first six months....
Coal remains a problem, but China could achieve its climate goals five years earlier than planned. As the world's second largest economy, China is the world's largest energy consumer and the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. But China is also the largest and fastest-growing producer of renewable energy in the world. Sustainability discussions often focus on...
Erfurt said when asked... * Renewable versus fossil energies Although renewables are booming: 82 percent of the energy is fossil. The CO₂ emissions from global energy consumption continue to rise. A report shows that renewables are only slowly replacing oil, gas and coal. BERLIN taz | Despite the renewables boom, fossil fuels continued to provide around 2022...
Should the industry actually be rewarded for being hesitant to use the enormous savings potential it has in energy consumption for many years because of its focus on quick profits? * Renewable | Expansion Record expansion: IEA expects 440 GW of renewable energies worldwide in 2023 - China at the top Brussels - The International Energy Agency (IEA) expects...
Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard
come to terms with themselves and make less use of their privileges. Nobody made a connection with climate change. The respondents are well aware that their energy consumption is particularly high. But they talk about it as if such a lifestyle were completely normal and reject any questioning... News+ Background knowledge News+ ** Heat | poverty |...
Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?
is the main investor in Helion and sits on the supervisory board. As experts assume, Altman's “baby” ChatGPT and all other artificial intelligences will lead to enormously high energy consumption... * AfD | Right-wing extremist | Racist right-wing extremism in Brandenburg: Look at the Nazis in the East The attacks on a Berlin school class show: Racist violence belongs in...
The steel industry is one of the largest CO2 emitters in the world - it is responsible for around seven percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to the high energy consumption, the main reason for this is the reducing agents used in blast furnaces: Fossil fuels such as coke, coal or methane are required to reduce the oxidized iron ore to metallic iron - and...
Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant, USA * We are looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de *** March 18th EU Parliament | Building efficiency | Energy consumption Reform of the Building Efficiency Directive EU Parliament confirms renovation obligation The houses with the worst efficiency classes in the EU should be renovated by 2030. This was supported...
how to replace natural gas with renewable ones, says Michael Müller, SPD thought leader and member of the editorial board of Klimareporter°. The climate crisis also requires an absolute reduction in energy consumption. He sees ministries as the main target of lobbyists. Klimareporter°: Mr. Müller, the transparency initiative Lobbycontrol has analyzed the influence of the natural gas lobby...
support fair working conditions. The purchase decision is also crucial in other ways, especially considering the operating and follow-up costs of a product. This applies to subsequent energy consumption as well as to the ease of repair and longevity of the products. The term ethical consumption is sometimes used synonymously with sustainable consumption. More general is...
Newsletter I 2023 - January 1st to 7th - News+ Where Are the Peacemakers?
presented to the Federal Republic. Director Simon Müller spoke of it as an “alarm signal” that CO2 emissions were stagnating “at a high level” – “despite significantly lower energy consumption in households and industry”. So what's the problem? Among other things, in the transport sector, which is “significantly” falling short of its climate targets. On the one hand, this is due to the increased...
energies not reached, according to a new study from a think tank presented on Thursday (December 8). France's share of renewable energy accounts for 19 percent of the country's energy consumption, well below the 23 percent target that Paris wanted to achieve by 2020 under the EU's Renewable Energy Directive, according to the study by the Institute for Sustainable...
Loading the reactors with new fuel rods would also produce more nuclear waste. The initially pacified debate about the storage of radioactive waste is likely to reignite... * Energy consumption | primary energy | Renewable energy consumption in Germany is falling far too slowly Energy and climate – compact: More fossil fuels are being used in the transport sector, in industry and in power plants...
Modern times are stronger than ever before - with consequences for us and our planet. Because the more people there are, the more space, energy and raw materials we use. Humanity's energy consumption is already exceeding anything ever seen and there are now more man-made materials than biomass on Earth. Nature, sustainability and climate protection also suffer from the...
