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The situation couldn't be simpler: we must abolish nuclear weapons before they abolish us. Hopefully Oppenheimer will help prepare the ground for progress in this all-important endeavor, starting with an open discussion about what is now at stake. * Climate protection | Energy transition | CO2 | Emissions trading...
To prevent history and to eliminate niches of a more than just formal and limited democracy. In the most powerful state in human history, with a long, mixed, sometimes progressive democratic tradition, these are no trivialities... continue reading *** Top of page Current information + background knowledge *** Background knowledge ** The map of the nuclear world The...
Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson
But young people must also be allowed to be irrational! Psychologists emphasize that stoking apocalyptic sentiment and fear is counterproductive. Do you need a more positive mood to show progress and motivate people to participate? The question is how justified the fears are. Simply repressing fear would be completely wrong. I have to deal with potentially catastrophic...
Neubauer argues that her criticism of a “fossil” lifestyle is “nothing other than a frontal attack on the Western model of prosperity.” He points out that human progress in crucial areas of life would not have been possible without the use of "easily and cheaply available fossil energy sources". Neubauer is pursuing the wrong approach to climate policy and...
and will come into force in 2025. The second of a total of five rounds of negotiations will start in Paris this Monday. And the chances are good that significant progress will be made there. However, non-governmental organizations criticize that the goals of the planned agreement are too weak and the negotiation process is too non-transparent. The negative consequences of the...
Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard
Better production processes have fallen by over 2010 percent since 90. But today's lithium battery has a problem: its negative pole. “Almost all technical and electrochemical advances took place at the cathode, the positive pole,” says Dirk-Uwe-Sauer, professor of electrochemistry at RWTH in Aachen. “The negative pole, the anode, on the other hand, still looks almost the same as it did 30 years ago...
Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?
The fusion research company Helion is expected to supply Microsoft with clean energy from a fusion generator from 2028. However, a few groundbreaking advances are still necessary to achieve the goal. As The Verge reports, Microsoft signed a contract with Helion Energy on Wednesday morning, according to which the tech company will be able to generate electricity from a grid in Washington from 2028...
| highway | Speed limit Federal Environment Minister Lemke is campaigning for a speed limit Federal Environment Minister Lemke has been campaigning for a speed limit on German motorways. Despite progress in electromobility, this is an important step for climate protection. Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke calls for more efforts for climate protection measures in transport - and...
| Civil disobedience Civil obedience, not disobedience, is our problem The “Last Generation” is pilloried, wrongly. Breaking the rules and resistance are the flywheel of historical progress. Why the media and politics only celebrate disobedience in the past tense. The peaceful sit-ins by the climate protest group “Last Generation” are repeatedly covered in the media, sometimes heavily...
Gessler. “Anyone who buys a current heat pump now can be confident that they are getting a good device. Technical development has made incredible progress in recent years.”... * Storage technology | Batteries | Lithium Recycling Lithium from old batteries Surprisingly simple process recovers up to 76 percent of the lithium from batteries Raw material from...
Newsletter XIII 2023 - March 26 to April 1 - News+ What uranium ammunition would do to Ukraine
vorgelegt worden. Der Kremlkritiker Michail Chodorkowski kommentierte, dass der Machtapparat den Vater nutze, um das vom Gesetz nicht zu belangende Kind doch zu bestrafen... * Koalition Fortschritt | Autobahn Solar | Koalitionsausschuss Schlappe für die Grünen Die Ampel-Bundesregierung wrackt den Klimaschutz ab, da helfen auch keine Solar-Autobahnen. Für die Grünen war der Koalitionsausschuss...
the majority of which is in Latin America. If the report is accurate, Iran has about XNUMX percent of the world's currently known supplies. [...] China has the world's most advanced electric battery and electric vehicle sector, but there is always the risk that poor relations with the US could make it difficult for Beijing to obtain lithium from the US and its...
Newsletter X 2023 - March 5th to 11th - News+ Dangerous toxins: Which products contain PFAS
Eines dieser Ziele, die Ausweisung von Schutzgebieten auf 30 Prozent der Meeresfläche, wird nun durch das neue Abkommen ermöglicht... * Japan | Fukushima | TEPCO | Bergung Brennelemente Kaum Fortschritte bei der Bergung der Brennelemente des havarierten Atomkraftwerks in Fukushima 12 Jahre seit der Atomkatastrophe in Fukushima hat der Betreiber TEPCO kaum Fortschritte bei der Bergung der...
of the United States came before Congress to testify that they were winning the Iraq War. They told Congress that the war in Afghanistan was being won. They spoke of "progress," of turning points, of successfully trained Iraqi and Afghan forces that are ready to take over their tasks when US troops withdraw. As the...
Newsletter VI 2023 - February 5th to 11th - News+ War is peace, peace is war
Coal-fired power plants run for as long as possible or have prevented renewable energies from being expanded. This is the very influential group that has prevented a lot of progressive things in recent years."... * Nord Stream 2 | Sabotage Seymour Hersh: USA is behind Nord Stream sabotage act The renowned US journalist Hersh accuses the Biden- Administration, the...
Newsletter I 2023 - January 1st to 7th - News+ Where Are the Peacemakers?
find. Noam, as we begin the new year, what do you consider to be the biggest challenges facing our world today? Would you agree with the assertion that human progress, although real and in some ways significant, is neither uniform nor inevitable? Noam Chomsky: The easiest way to answer is with the Doomsday Clock...
Newsletter LI 2022 - December 20th to 25th - News+ One UN for all
erzielt. Ihre Kombination aus einer Silizium-Unterzelle und einer Perowskit-Topzelle wandelt 32,5 Prozent der einfallenden Sonnenenergie in elektrischen Strom um. Erreicht wurde dieser Fortschritt durch spezielle Nanotexturen und Anpassungen der Grenzflächen. Der Rekord unterstreiche das große Potenzial solcher Tandem-Solarzellen, so das Team. Die Photovoltaik gilt als wichtiges Standbein der...
Send 20 billion dollars annually. [...] Nature Conservation Association views the agreement critically. The Nature Conservation Association NABU, however, reacted to the agreement with disillusionment. Despite progress in content, the agreement is not enough to stop or reverse the loss of biodiversity and ecosystems. “The world is racing towards an abyss in the nature and climate crisis,” warned...
Newsletter LII 2022 - December 26-31 - News+ Putin and Lavrov should have gone before the UN
become a “renewable energy superpower” Australian environmental policy in 2023: The unholy coalition of corporations, conservatives and powerful private media has been able to stymie any progress on environmental policy for decades. On March 21, 2022, the Labor Party (roughly comparable to the SPD) in Australia defeated the Conservatives (roughly: CDU/CSU/FDP) with 52% (77 seats)...
vollflächigen Hartgesteinstunnelbohrmaschine mit kleiner Kurve und großem Gefälle gebaut wird. Damit wird die Technologie für den qualitativ hochwertigen Bau eines international fortschrittlichen und erstklassigen unterirdischen Labors bereitgestellt", so CNNC. Das unterirdische Forschungslabor von Beishan, das bis zu 560 Meter unter der Erde in Granit liegen wird, soll dazu dienen, die Eignung...
