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Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant construction site, as reported by the Bloomberg news agency. The French partner, the highly loss-making state-owned company EDF, could be stuck with the construction costs currently estimated at 32,7 billion pounds (37,9 billion euros). The Financial Times writes that costs are likely to continue to rise. The government in London has signaled to EDF that...
To achieve this in Ukraine, the 27 EU states must reach a consensus decision. But Hungary is standing in the way. Although the path to accession negotiations with the EU is clear for Ukraine, further billions in aid from the 27 member states have failed for the time being due to Hungary's resistance. Now Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has given his country's consent to the release of all...
Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy
cannot use them” In the middle of the budget debate, the Federal Audit Office is severely criticizing the procurement of new rifles for the Bundeswehr. At a time when the federal government has to save billions of euros in its budget, this criticism really hurts. The Federal Audit Office criticizes “wrong priorities” when purchasing new weapons by the Federal Ministry of Defense....
Style African forests As chairman of Blue Carbon, Ahmed Dalmook al-Maktoum from the United Arab Emirates does carbon deals with African countries. It's about billions of euros and a huge area of valuable land. Numerous world leaders are currently meeting in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to discuss...
THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023
The country has a power connection. First of all, power lines would have to be built. The planned 500 wind turbines and an additional 40 square kilometers of solar systems comprise an investment volume of around 9,4 billion dollars, i.e. the same amount as Namibia's gross domestic product. The amount of electricity produced would be equivalent to around ten large conventional power plants. Since the Namibian...
* Climate policy | Fridays for Future | 1,5 degrees Is the traffic light climate policy now broken? The traffic light used Corona money for climate protection. That should be unconstitutional. Now 60 billion are missing for the climate. Is the traffic light climate policy now at an end? In addition, Fridays for Future is divided because of the Middle East conflict. There is now too little pressure coming from below for...
discovered in his tires... * Energy transition | Climate impacts | Debt brake According to the Constitutional Court ruling, traffic lights in a climate emergency. Better not to spend anything than to spend correctly? No, the 60 billion hole in energy transition investments can definitely be filled. Nobody has yet fully recovered from “Black Wednesday for the climate”. The traffic light federal government is facing a...
Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?
Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been talking about the “turning point” ever since the Ukraine war. Now he is getting specific and is talking about significantly higher defense spending in the double-digit billion range. Is this the “turning point” that everyone always talks about? Significantly higher defense spending in the double-digit billion range into the next decade. At least that's what it promises...
can be made when the rock is ground into a fine dust. Scientists estimate that this improved rock weathering could remove up to 75 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere over the next 215 years if the fine dust is spread across global agricultural fields... * Fuel element factory in Lingen | Rosatom | Framatome...
Scholz says: Our unwavering solidarity goes to both countries - Israel and Ukraine. Olaf Scholz, Chancellor Germany's aid since the start of the war now amounts to 24 billion euros. Permanent financing for Ukraine should be achieved by the end of the year... The writer and vehement opponent of the war, Karl Kraus, addressed...
Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism
over 30 percent back In Germany, wind energy is by far the most important energy source in the electricity sector in the current year 2023. Today (October 19.10.2023, 100) the 83 billion kWh wind power mark has already been exceeded this year. Of this, around 17 billion kWh comes from onshore wind energy and XNUMX billion kWh from offshore wind energy... * Parties | Left | Greens like Boris...
It would be harmful to health if one were to rely on coal instead of importing fracked gas from the USA, which is one of the largest LNG exporters in the world. Nevertheless, the EU wants to buy an additional 2030 billion cubic meters of LNG per year from the USA by 50. This corresponds to a third of the amount of natural gas that Europe received from Russia in 2020... * Renewables | Solar cells | Monument protection...
Reality is different. Since the last three German nuclear power plants went offline at the end of April, Germany has been 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 shows. The difference of 11 billion kilowatt hours is measured...
geht die Boomergeneration in Rente, und die Medizin sorgt für steigende Lebenserwartung. Um das Verhältnis der arbeitenden zu den Rentnerkohorten stabil zu halten, bräuchte Europa 2050 1,2 Milliarden Einwohner. Das ist völlig unmöglich, doch jede Regierung bräuchte heute eine vernünftige Migrationsstrategie. Die wird aber durch eine xenophobe Stimmung verunmöglicht... * Solaranlagen |...
Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread
Taiwan. There is still no global authority to ensure order between the numerous states and governments. The United Nations has so far only rarely managed to unite the eight billion people as a global community or as a global family. A welcome exception is the Paris Climate Agreement, which all 196 governments have agreed to. Only the USA under Trump was...
Also commonly called 'Mile Swindle', Lüderitz earned the nickname "Lieutenfritz" early on... * Fossil fuels receive subsidies for even more CO2 emissions Scandal: 70 billion euros in tax money for fossil instead of renewable energies German state subsidies are higher per ton of CO2 than the emissions trading price, while renewables usually go empty-handed. Also...
The guaranteed price is 92,50 pounds per megawatt hour... WirtschaftsWoche from June 3, 2023 EDF also had to correct the costs of the project several times: While initially there was talk of 18 billion pounds, the construction of the power plant is currently expected to cost more than 32 billion pounds - a cost increase of 80 percent. [...] Over 35 years, EDF will provide a guaranteed electricity price in...
If they reduce electricity taxes and raise CO₂ prices, the federal government could in return save on many funding programs. * fossil | Subsidies | Industrial electricity price Greenpeace criticizes "gifts worth billions" to the fossil energy industry In the fight against climate change, Greenpeace is convinced that the federal government is standing in its own way. The biggest hurdle is subsidies...
Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years
according to the direction of the airport of the port city of Alexandroupoli... News+ Background knowledge Top of page News+ ** Renewables | Sun and wind | Energy transition The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years. The sun is our largest and most reliable source of energy. Every second we are here, it sends us 15.000 times more energy than all of humanity uses today. The...
Destroy vegetation and forest land... August 13 Subsidies | Globalization | Looting The new economic nationalism also has great advantages. World trade is being perverted by billions in socialized costs and subsidies at the expense of the general public. Just a few years ago, critics of globalization were ostracized. Above all, advocates of a deregulated...
