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Climate-friendly heating will be installed as early as next year. Owners of existing apartments and houses still have time to make a final decision until the relevant heat plans are available in the municipalities. These must be established in larger cities by 2026 at the latest and in smaller communities by 2028, as SPIEGEL learned from negotiating circles. Goes until...
Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed
Eucalyptus trees... * Tempo 30 | Federal Minister of Transport | Wissing Wissing's obscure choice of words: Nobody asked for a "comprehensive" speed limit of 30. The expansion of the Road Traffic Act is intended to give municipalities more leeway in traffic planning. But at 30 km/h the fun is over. Two years ago, Aachen, Augsburg, Freiburg, Hanover, Leipzig, Münster and Ulm launched the initiative...
Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South
Now the regulation should only take effect where there are municipal heating plans. While the federal government wants to set a deadline of 2028 for their development, many municipalities in Baden-Württemberg have already almost or even completely completed their heat plans. Three years ago, the 104 largest cities - all those with more than 20.000 inhabitants - were obliged by state law to...
Does the idea of a heat register cause so much fear? Just because the current attempt at useful energy comes from Berlin does it have to be bad? Both individual federal states and several municipalities have already made further progress and no one has been bothered by it. [...] Without much excitement, Baden-Württemberg has already taken action on heat planning and has its large district towns and urban districts...
Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard
heated by wind. The world's first wind heat storage facility is located in the town in the Uckermark. Actually a model for heating without fossil fuels – and cheap. But the law is making it extremely difficult for municipalities to imitate. [...] Was forbidden according to the EEG: feeding in and own electricity. City councilor Thorsten Breitschuh spoke to the operator of three new systems. The food according to EEG...
Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?
May 8th Thuringia | Climate change | Climate adaptation funding Only a little money was drawn from the climate program The Free State provided several million euros in funding in 2022 and 2021 so that local communities can do something to protect the climate or adapt to the consequences of climate change. Only a small portion of these funds were used. From a municipal...
Around 280 euros per year will be shared in the wind farm's income and the Herdringer Forst Cultural Foundation will also hold out the prospect of further opportunities for financial participation by the affected communities... * Nuclear phase-out | Nuclear waste | Intermediate storage | Asse-II No solution in the dispute over the Asse interim storage facility Where should thousands of barrels of nuclear waste go as long as there is no final storage facility? This...
Due to the shutdown of several nuclear reactors, the lack of cooling water for the nuclear power plants is now becoming more and more of a problem... * Energy transition | Renewables | Heat Wind and solar power become heat Municipalities are increasingly asking themselves how they can make their citizens independent of fossil energy imports as quickly as possible. With Power-to-Heat, electricity can be generated at...
the protests escalate. A new strategy is intended to calm people down. The residents of four southern French municipalities found out via text message a few days ago that France is in a state of climatic emergency. This contained a warning against drinking the tap water - it could be dangerous to your health. The groundwater has sunk so low during the winter drought that...
Newsletter XIII 2023 - March 26 to April 1 - News+ What uranium ammunition would do to Ukraine
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Cover part of your electricity needs and save a lot of water. Photovoltaic systems on existing water reservoirs could cover a large part of the world's energy needs; thousands of municipalities and more than 150 metropolises could even cover their entire electricity needs. This is what a research team led by Yubin Jin from the Southern University of Science and Technology in China...
Newsletter VI 2023 - February 5th to 11th - News+ War is peace, peace is war
to the red-green state government. According to the initiative, this is intended to influence the federal government and help prevent the Konrad shaft from becoming a nuclear waste repository. The representatives of the municipalities are convinced that the Konrad shaft would no longer be approved as a final storage site according to today's standards... * Global warming | Climate conference | CO2 concentration An oil sheikh will...
Newsletter LI 2022 - December 20th to 25th - News+ One UN for all
Wind turbines can also be installed on coniferous forest areas and damaged forest areas - caused by drought, storms and bark beetles. In addition, it should be ensured that municipalities receive the best possible support in expanding wind energy, that the respective potential is used and that the expansion of wind energy also makes strong progress on state-owned land. At the same time...
Government spokesman Olivier Véran, "we want to be able to act. It's about avoiding a total blackout. And that's why the government is currently preparing all scenarios together with the regions, municipalities and network operators."... * France | Uranium delivery | Russia Delivery from Russia Greenpeace uncovered secret nuclear transport Shipped regardless of the Ukraine war...
voted against bypasses. Parts of the population are further along in transport policy than the Free State. For years, traffic researchers have been preaching that new bypass roads will only relieve the respective communities of traffic to a very small extent, if at all. Instead, they generally attract more cars into the region, promote land consumption and destroy the landscape....
Newsletter XLIII 2022 - October 28th to 31st - News+ Climate protection: It's not enough
Newsletter XLIII 2022 October 28th to 31st *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current + background knowledge *** Nuclear Power Accidents This PDF file contains a list of known incidents from the various areas of civil and military nuclear industry. Some of this information only reached the public in a roundabout way...
Newsletter XXXI 2022 - August 01st to 06th - News+ Withdraw the nuclear weapons from Europe!
based on renewable energies and waste heat. Operators of heating networks and those who want to become one are eligible to apply. In addition to energy supply companies, municipalities and municipal utilities, these also include registered associations and cooperatives. Investment aid of up to 40 percent is possible. Germany had the funding program to convert the heating networks...
wanted while the sun continues to shine and the wind continues to blow, without their energy driving our economy and making us more independent and thus Switzerland safer. * Municipalities | participate | renewable energies Expansion of wind energy Cities bring participation in the yield from wind turbines into play Berlin The German Association of Cities supports plans for faster expansion...
Newsletter XIX 2022 - May 05th to 12th - News+ The economic consequences of the Ukraine war
- but how? 77 years of peace – what a gift! * Power outage | Emergency power supply | Blackout Comprehensive power outage and municipal emergency power supply Blackout prevention: Municipal concepts are coming into focus again. Private consumers must take precautions themselves * Wind | renewable wind energy: More speed required If the energy and climate goals are to be achieved, construction must...
Newsletter VIII 2022 - February 20-27 - News+ America's disastrous 60-year war
Megawatts in planning An evaluation of the Baden-Württemberg Renewable Energy Platform shows that the output per installed wind turbine has doubled within ten years. Municipalities benefit from higher revenues. * Fuel element factory in Lingen Fuel element factory in Lingen: Rosatom withdraws application for participation TVEL, subsidiary of the Russian group Rosatom, wanted...
