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

    | Photovoltaics | Battery | Heat exchanger | Fuel cell decarbonization of industry: Hydrogen power plant at Fraunhofer IWU demonstrates climate-neutral factory operation Chemnitz - The Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU in Chemnitz plays a central role in researching efficient hydrogen technologies. The H2 projects there have...

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

    If they are to replace the combustion engine, they must be manufactured in industrial mass production, largely automated and correspondingly inexpensively,” says Erwin Groß from the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Engineering and Automation IPA. This is exactly what the researchers have now achieved in the “H2FastCell” project. They have developed a robot cell that can generate fuel cells in seconds and...

  3. Newsletter VI 2024 - February 4th to 10th - News+ Nuclear power is a dead horse - why isn't Merz getting down?

    Stand away." The problem, however, is that the FDP within the government absolutely wants to stick to the debt brake. According to Hermann, he now wants to work for the Fraunhofer Institute with the department in Freiberg and also seek direct contact. They can there Make good use of support in any case. * Constitutional Court | Party ban | Enemies of democracy...

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

    Two and a half times the entire German inventory. Incidentally, this also grew more strongly last year than ever before, by 13,1 GW to 80,7 GW, as the figures from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems show... January 14th Castor transports from Jülich The Ahaus interim nuclear waste storage facility is not welcome. Demo against nuclear waste transport in Ahaus. It is a...

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

    In any case, the decommissioned German nuclear power plants are of little importance. [...] The electricity that comes from the socket increasingly comes from renewable sources. Bruno Burger from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Freiburg has calculated that in the first half of this year, 57,7 percent of the electricity consumed was generated using sun, wind, water and biomass....

  6. Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?

    Using the sun to produce electricity at the same time? The pilot project is considered to be unique in Germany. The project, which is unique in Germany, is supported by the state, the Sigmaringen district and the Fraunhofer Institute. They monitor whether the shading is good for the trees. According to the Sigmaringen district, it can be assessed after two to three years whether this is the case... November 7th Israel |...

  7. Newsletter XLIII 2023 - October 22nd to 28th - News+ Municipal utilities are leaving the Future Gas lobby association

    covered with renewable energies. [...] In this country, the peak of coal use was at least 20 years ago, and the peak of natural gas use in power plants was only three years ago, as data from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems show. Compared to 2003, German lignite and hard coal power plants delivered almost 40 percent less electricity last year. The decline occurred primarily...

  8. Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism

    The traffic light will change anything about this is questionable. The number is really impressive: the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) estimates that agricultural photovoltaics in Germany could achieve a peak output of up to 1,7 million megawatts. Only around four percent of the domestic agricultural area would be enough to meet the current electricity requirements in Germany with high-mounted "agri-PV"...

  9. Newsletter XL 2023 - October 1st to 7th - Current news + FDP proposal for industrial electricity price relief is spot on

    Germany is a net importer of electricity for the first time in a long time. So far in 2023, 49,5 billion kilowatt hours have been imported and 38,5 billion exported, as data from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems show. The difference of 11 billion kilowatt hours is still small compared to the total consumption of 338,5 billion kilowatt hours in the same period,...

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

    but a larger share in the network, mainly thanks to lower electricity consumption, green electricity reached new record levels in the electricity mix in the first half of the year. This is shown by the half-yearly balance sheets of the Fraunhofer Institute ISE and the Federal Environment Agency. Since the summer heat began in Germany, the price of electricity on the stock exchange has regularly fallen to zero and even below. The main reason is the last...

  11. Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine

    is booming in Germany, as can be seen, among other things, from data from the Federal Network Agency. The expansion of wind energy is also slowly gaining momentum again. This can be seen more clearly at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. According to its presentation, new solar systems with an output of around five gigawatts were connected to the grid in the first half of 2023. According to information from...

  12. Newsletter XXVII 2023 - July 2nd to 8th - News+ Is nuclear power experiencing a renaissance? There are also military interests behind it

    Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the coming years is evident from the UBA's current climate protection instrument scenario (KIS-2030). Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research, the Öko-Institut and the Institute for Resource Efficiency and Energy Strategies contributed to this. For the transport sector, the UBA recommends a system of...

  13. Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard

    usually in poorer living conditions, with poorer insulation, have no air conditioning and have no alternative rooms available during heat waves," says Susanne Bieker from the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) in Karlsruhe. Read more... News+ background knowledge background knowledge ** The Map of the Nuclear World Where did all the money go?...

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

    and associations agree. If households in a house or neighborhood share the electricity they generate themselves, does energy sharing really make a difference? The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) presented an analysis of this in a debate on sharing at the Berlin Energy Days. Because energy sharing is not yet legally possible in this country, the...

  15. Newsletter XVI 2023 - April 16th to 22nd - News+ Poisons for eternity - Uranium and its radioactive relatives

    After leaving the European Parliament, they are not allowed to act as lobbyists for EU representatives for six months. The reform comes into force on May 1st... * Battery Technology | Fraunhofer Institute | Salt and ceramics From salt and ceramics: Salt-based battery from ALTECH and the Fraunhofer Institute Ceramic solid-state battery: Altech Group commercializes together with the Fraunhofer...

  16. Newsletter III 2023 - January 15-21 - News+ Climate Scam - Exxon knew it all

    and, among other things, director of the Tyndall Center for Climate Change Research in Great Britain and is one of the most internationally prominent climate scientists. [...] According to the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, the output of onshore wind turbines had increased by 2,1 gigawatts (GW) at the end of the year. The installed capacity of the solar systems even increased by around six GW...

  17. Newsletter L 2022 - December 15th to 19th - News+ Criminalization of activists of the last generation

    Meanwhile, the expansion of solar energy, which was abruptly stalled ten years ago by the black and yellow government at the time, is at least getting back on track. According to figures from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, systems with a total output of 2022 GW have been installed so far in 2022... *** December 5,5th Biogas | Price brake | Absorption Agriculture Minister welcomes regulation for...

  18. Newsletter LII 2022 - December 26-31 - News+ Putin and Lavrov should have gone before the UN

    We will now focus on the status and prospects of the expansion of renewables. According to figures from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, the share of renewables in net electricity generation for the public grid was around 2022 percent in 49. This is just below the previous record from 2020... * France | Electricity price | Ukraine What is part of the problem is becoming...

  19. Newsletter XXII 2022 - May 27th to 31st - News+ The nuclear lobby is stepping on the gas again

    become (part 1) * solar research | Fraunhofer New record: Fraunhofer ISE develops most efficient solar cell in the world with 47,6 percent efficiency Freiburg - For two years, research has been carried out in the field of tandem solar cells at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE (Fraunhofer ISE) on the ambitious project entitled “50 percent”. . Now there is another important intermediate step...

  20. Newsletter XXXIV - August 02nd to 06.08.2021th, 02 - News+ August XNUMXnd - Collective electricity self-sufficiency still blocked

    Hinkley Point in the UK, the benchmark at which public pricing took place for the first time, solar energy was also cheaper than nuclear energy in 2014. According to calculations by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, solar energy systems increased their energy production by 2014% in the first half of 28 compared to the same period last year... ** YouTube channel "Reaktorbroite"...

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