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

    that he must hand in his passport and report to the court every 15 days. The drug lord was the first to comply with these requirements. But since April 1st there has been no trace of him... IMHO Does anyone believe the story about the oversight? Are the judge, the prosecutor, the police officers present who didn't arrest this mafia billionaire right in front of the courthouse...

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

    Let the ghetto spin. Baerbock is said to have then asked Netanyahu whether he wanted to say that doctors in the Gaza Strip and international media were not reporting the truth... IMHO “You should recognize them not by their words, but by their actions” * United States | Palestine | Veto The two-state solution is officially dead USA vetoes the...

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

    instead of blocking each other. The upcoming negotiations on the 2025 budget are “perhaps the last chance to reverse the trend in the middle in time.” IMHO Anyone who runs after the military-industrial complex belongs to the establishment. * Finland | Storage | District heating World's largest long-term hot water storage From 2028, 90 GWh will be underground for months...

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

    The plant in Freiberg, Saxony, was terminated. The company wants to invest in the USA. There it can count on generous funding from US President Joe Biden's subsidy program. IMHO If such action against China really makes sense, then the EU Commission should extend the procedure to the United States, because Joe Biden's "generous support from the...

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

    Reactor types under the microscope The study examined seven different reactor types, including lead- and gas-cooled reactors, molten salt reactors and accelerator-driven systems... IMHO The first "mini-reactors" were built in the mid-1950s at the National Reactor Testing Station (NRTS). tested. In addition to ship and submarine reactors, the military would also like to have aircraft...

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

    but they suffer from their instability. Against the background of the increasing demand for clean energy, advanced nuclear energy offers a complementary and emission-free solution"... IMHO In my last WiP article "More courage would be good..." I asked the question: Who actually really benefits from AI? So here we have the answer: The nuclear industry and its lobby! On...

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

    and weapons in the ground. If potential areas of contamination are not identified and recorded in a timely manner, the pollutants can enter the food chain and become carcinogenic... IMHO Is uranium ammunition not used in Ukraine, or is it simply not talked about anymore? March 1 Rosatom | Framatomes | Brennelementefabrik Lingen Brennelementefabrik: Signatures against...

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

    But there is no doubt that Navalny's death was a result of Putin's actions and those of his criminals, Biden said on Friday at the White House. “Putin is responsible.”... IMHO I wish Joe Biden would take an equally clear stance on the Julian Assange case. * Resistance to the horror clown in the Kremlin Alexei Navalny was brave enough to challenge Putin's absurd tyranny...

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

    increase what emerges from further animal experiments. Concentrations "that are so high that a health risk cannot be ruled out" have been discovered in individual people... IMHO The chemical industry produces countless toxic substances in huge quantities every day, and the shareholders are making money from this. The costs of the often futile attempts to...

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

    Jury's punitive damages award sends a clear message that this multinational corporation needs fundamental change," the plaintiff's lawyers wrote in a statement... IMHO The use of the term "crop protection product" in connection with weed killers like glyphosate is cynical and an example of how Greenwashing works. Sooner or later it kills...

  11. 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 been out of operation since the Fukushima disaster in March 2011. The disaster once again demonstrated the vulnerability of nuclear power plants in Japan to earthquakes and raised new doubts about their recommissioning... IMHO Nuclear Engineering International (NEI) writes about the earthquake and the effects on the Shika nuclear power plant: Oil leak reported at Japan's Shika NPP following earthquake [...] The company divided into...

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

    not possible anymore. Among others, the CDU chairman Merz, CSU boss Söder and the FDP parliamentary group leader Dürr have repeatedly spoken out in favor of building new nuclear power plants. IMHO the nuclear lobbyists Dürr, Merzthutjanix and also the flag in the wind Kini Jödler cannot claim ignorance. They know exactly what they are doing... * India is building...

  13. Newsletter LII 2023 - December 24th to 31st - News+ Nuclear power fantasy fails due to desolate industry

    to prevent further damage to taxpayers. At the same time, it emphasized: "Regardless of this, the undisputed political responsibility of former Federal Minister Scheuer remains."... IMHO "One crow doesn't unhook another's eye" or "Dog don't eat dog" etc. * Climate change | dryness | Drought Increasing demand for water The air in Europe has not been as dry as it is today for 400 years...

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

    had to be released from custody. Since the prominent investigating judge Michel Claise had to give up the case in the spring due to bias, the Belgian justice system has been treading water... IMHO The opponents of the EU are sitting back and relaxing and once again don't need to do anything because the European Union is dismantling itself. .* France | EDF | Electricity price France increases prices...

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

    needed to make nuclear power plants easier to build and more flexible to operate. IAEA Director General Raphael Grossi called for a fair environment for this, which is currently not the case... IMHO Mr. Grossi is really an excellent entertainer, I am always moved to tears. And he is absolutely right, there is no such thing as a fair environment. The IAEA as a lobby and fig leaf for...

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

    Municipal Power Systems, withdrew from the project. According to the power wholesaler, it "seems unlikely that the project will find enough takers to continue the rollout."... IMHO Sh... Reality, they wanted to build 6 SM reactors in Idaho, and now there may not even be a single one . But we shouldn't rejoice too soon, because no one can accept defeat like that...

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

    or something like that." You have a large tracked vehicle with which you can simply speed over anything. "The seriousness of the story only begins when you actually enter the battle." IMHO A completely normal company in the defense industry, with all the other members MiKs does business worldwide. They talk openly about everything, the only thing they lose is the victims of their arms deals...

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

    From disarmament to the search for a final storage facility With the reunification of Germany, a turning point seems possible. Will the need for nuclear weapons collapse with the bipolar world order? IMHO In all three parts of the series the military benefits of nuclear power are discussed, but they don't really get to the point. It's about money and power. It's about several trillion state...

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

    Water Management (BDEW). The expansion of renewable energies plays a central role for the federal government in order to create climate goals and become more independent of fossil raw materials... IMHO In purely mathematical terms, we could be at 10% renewable energies within 100 years, and with a little good will even sooner. Nevertheless, huge sums of money are still invested in nuclear power...

  20. Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread

    Diehl's fine was reduced by 50 percent because the company cooperated with the commission. A further reduction was made because Diehl admitted the allegations... IMHO a fine of 1,2 million euros! I wonder how much the investigation and trial cost the taxpayer? The poor Nuremberg gunsmiths actually have to use one of their...

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