1. Newsletter XVII 2024 - April 21st to 27th - News+ Reform of the Climate Protection Act: One step forward, two steps back

    und Online-Lernunterstützung zu erhalten. Im Jahr 2023 erreichte Unicef 1,3 Millionen Kinder mit formellem und informellem Lernen. * Lobby | Propaganda | Verkehrspolitik | Autoindustrie "Eine Förderung von Autos ist generell fragwürdig" Mit der immer noch massiven Verbrenner-Förderung steuert Deutschland ökonomisch ins Aus, warnt Helmut Holzapfel. Der Verkehrsforscher über kleine und große...

  2. Newsletter XVI 2024 - April 14th to 20th - News+ Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    Mal lag der Anteil an Strom aus erneuerbaren Energien bei über 50 Prozent. [...] Volker Quaschning, Energieexperte an der Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft in Berlin, lobt zwar die Solarförderung, bezweifelt aber, dass damit die geschaffenen Probleme gelöst werden. So sei es immer schwieriger, größere Solaranlagen in die Netze zu intergrieren. „Darauf zu hoffen, dass der Solarboom die...

  3. Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty

    Fragen, ob und wie sinnvoll in den Zeiten des Kampfdrohnenkriegs gerade diese Rüstungsanschaffung ist, wurden nicht gestellt. Die angestrebte Kriegstüchtigkeit besteht offenbar vor allem in der Förderung der Profite von US-Rüstungsunternehmen durch Aufträge europäischer Verbündeter. Der Militärhistoriker Sönke Neitzel prophezeite der Bundeswehr mit ihrer Stationierung an der russischen Grenze...

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

    Solar manufacturers. It is based on a new regulation on subsidies from third countries, which only came into force in July 2023. The suspicion: Thanks to generous government funding from China, the two companies were able to make a significantly cheaper offer than the competition - and thus distort the market. [...] The Commission's actions indicate a change in its...

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    The largest battery storage facility in the north is being built in Bollingstedt. In the village, batteries will store the daily consumption of 30.000 households. Around 5 hectares are available. The plant is scheduled to go into operation without funding in 2026. Energy storage is cheaper than ever. Since the summer of 2023, prices have halved again, as the Chinese market leader CATL reports. This means that project developers think in...

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

    under French leadership. Countries such as Germany, Austria and Denmark currently reject nuclear power. However, they were outvoted several times in the Council of EU Member States when it came to funding for power plants or new nuclear technologies... IMHO Nothing new from Brussels. The usual suspects are screaming for more money... * Energy transition | network operator | Infrastructure is...

  7. Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD

    Cows burp it, it rises up in landfills and it is still found in many heating systems: methane, the main component of natural gas, is an underestimated climate killer. Methane is released when gas and crude oil are extracted. And apparently in far larger quantities than previously assumed. This is proven by a new study that has just been published in the journal Nature. When analyzing...

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

    Bright future for Zeeland Endless nuclear power Dutch Parliament decides to build four new nuclear power plants. 50-year-old reactor could continue to operate until 2050 Gas production in Groningen, Netherlands is expected to end this year. After all, the residents have suffered long enough from the constant tremors that accompanied the extraction. The...

  9. Newsletter IX 2024 - February 25th to March 2nd - News+ Deceptively real AI videos: What if we can no longer believe anything?

    Gas power plants. [...] The good news: There is a chance that power plant operators are not that interested in CCS. After all, they too know the costs. And there should be no government funding for such cases. Nevertheless, the regulation at least enables the gas industry to adorn itself with a supposedly climate-friendly future - and thus the climate-damaging...

  10. Newsletter VIII 2024 - February 18th to 24th - News+ On the death of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

    Newsletter VIII 2024 February 18th to 24th *** 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...

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

    and decision-makers of the world could listen to the majority of the population and have more courage to implement strict policies and regulations to phase out fossil fuels and promote renewable energy." February 16 PutIn | Navalny "Tortured to death": Navalny supporters complain Putin's perfidious murder plot Isolation and hardly any medication: Putin opponent Alexei...

  12. Newsletter V 2024 - January 28th to February 3rd - Current news + US foreign policy: Profit over peace?

    West Bank, Israel and the Middle East... * Aluminum | Steel production Green steel from toxic red mud Hydrogen plasma reduction extracts iron from the residual sludge from aluminum production Double benefit: A new method makes the toxic red mud from aluminum extraction harmless - and produces plenty of pure iron for steel production. This is made possible by...

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

    For example, he doesn't tell us “the positive effect of CO2 on plant growth and thus on world nutrition... * Electricity prices | EEG | Electricity exchange | Federal budget "Stopping EEG funding would be a huge loss" Hans-Josef Fell fears that the dwindling EEG account could lead to a collapse in funding for renewable energy expansion if there is a lack of tax funds. The...

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

    and yet a clear sign of democracy. He suggested, among other things, to put the Thuringian AfD state leader Höcke in his place legally using the means of Article 18... * Funding | CO2 price | Climate money Despite demands from economists Lindner: Climate money is no longer available in this election period. In their coalition agreement, the traffic light parties announced climate money. But first...

  15. Newsletter II 2024 - January 7th to 13th - News+ SMR: US developers of mini-nuclear power plants under pressure - class action lawsuit by shareholders against NuScale Power

    have withdrawn most of their planned deletions: agricultural and forestry vehicles will continue to be exempt from vehicle tax. In addition, agricultural diesel subsidies should only be abolished gradually by 2026 and not all at once... * Remigration | Globalists | Anti-democratic terms sound harmless at first. What right-wing extremists mean by "remigration" and...

  16. Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support

    Newsletter I 2024 January 1st to 6th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current information + 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 made public through official channels, so this information is only made available to the public in a roundabout way...

  17. Newsletter LI 2023 - December 17th to 23rd - Current news + steps towards climate change, unsettled OPEC and loving politics

    if they give you an opportunity to pause and question whether expenditure makes sense. In this respect, the end of the purchase bonus for electric cars offers the opportunity to readjust the political incentives to promote a transport transition. Because the concept of the so-called environmental bonus was anything but successful. In doing so, the federal government promoted a development similar to that of the former...

  18. 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”

    and communities that are particularly affected by climate impacts. [...] Will Hares, analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence, attributes the opposite development to the promotion of so-called "environmental and social governance" (ESG) in investments. Oil companies are finding it increasingly difficult to raise finance amid rising ESG and sustainability concerns...

  19. Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy

    around 180 million tons of ammonia annually, which requires more than one percent of the total energy generated worldwide. In addition, the production of ammonia has so far been inextricably linked to the extraction of fossil raw materials, because the required hydrogen is produced from coal or natural gas using steam reforming. The Haber-Bosch process releases 450 million tons of carbon dioxide...

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

    There was criticism of allowing the climate protection negotiations to take place in Dubai of all places. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) derives a large part of its wealth from the production and sale of oil and gas - and thus fossil energy sources. It was also criticized that the official president of COP28, Sultan Al Jaber, is CEO of the national oil company Adnoc - and...