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In addition, green energies are already so competitive in some areas that they would displace fossil fuels elsewhere in the world... * Uranium and rare earths are the most sought-after raw materials in the south of Greenland Raw materials for transformation: Greenland relies on rare earths Stored on the Arctic island huge deposits of the sought-after metals. Given the current demand...
1980 to 1989 - INES, NAMS and other events
more extremely toxic and highly radioactive waste... 1983 November 11, 1983 (INES 3) Windscale/Sellafield nuclear factory, GBR Accidental transfer of 59 TBq of radioactivity with solvents and raw materials from building B205 to a sea tank in building B242. (Costs approx. 44 million US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Slowly but surely all relevant information about disruptions in the nuclear industry is...
2010 to 2019 - INES, NAMS and other events
Estimated by South Korea to be 6 to 7 kilotons of TNT equivalent, which is about half the yield of the Hiroshima atomic bomb. German experts from the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) estimated the explosive force at 40 kilotons... UN sanctions and consequences As a consequence of this nuclear weapon test, the UN Security Council decided unanimously on March 7, 2013 to...
a further development of already known batteries with zinc anode. Such zinc batteries are significantly less expensive than traditional lithium-ion batteries and use readily available raw materials such as steel, zinc and potassium hydroxide. The scientists in the Zn-H2 consortium have now combined this battery technology with alkaline water electrolysis to create the novel...
Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine
in a letter that focused particularly on the supply of more Western weapons to Ukraine, a fact that was not disclosed to readers. July 11 Commodities | Rare earths | Manganese | Deep sea mining Will raw materials soon be mined on the seabed? In Jamaica, countries are negotiating deep-sea mining in international waters. What risks does this have to...
The extinction of species is a natural process, but today it has accelerated considerably under the influence of humans. We saw on the branch we are sitting on. Food, medicine, raw materials, clean water and air are just some of the important things that nature provides us. It's long past time to act... Back to: Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th...
Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard
* Nuclear waste | Final repository | Castoren Nuclear waste: No security, only calculation models Germany does not yet have a final storage facility for the remains of 60 years of nuclear power use. Latest idea: recycling old fuel rods as raw material for new reactors. About the gaps in this model. With the final storage facility you are playing for time. The search has now been extended until 2068 in the worst case scenario. Then you have to...
Progress made.”... * Storage technology | Batteries | Lithium recycling Lithium from old batteries Amazingly simple process recovers up to 76 percent of the lithium from batteries Raw material from electronic waste: The recovery of lithium from used lithium-ion batteries is becoming easier, cheaper and more environmentally friendly thanks to a new process. Instead of aggressive chemicals...
being held. The previous record for an attempt of this type was 101 seconds and was also set at EAST in 2017... * Battery technology | Conserve resources | Raw material recycling “Innobatt” develops new, high-performance and resource-saving battery storage systems. The “Innobatt” joint project pursues a new, holistic approach for application-specific...
Newsletter XIV 2023 - April 2-8 - News+ Wars and School Massacres: The Cancer of Dehumanization
in England and Wales were affected... * Renovation of buildings "Aerogel" from Osnabrück The new super insulation material A German start-up is developing a material made from the renewable raw material lignin that could revolutionize the energy-efficient renovation of buildings. The effect is twice as good as a conventional insulation material. The team is currently working on reducing the manufacturing price...
The contamination was largely due to the plant located in Monticello itself. The energy supplier did not explain why it was only now informing the public... * Hydrogen | Raw material deposits What an exploding well means for the future of energy Some experts suspect large deposits of hydrogen in the earth's crust, which are cheap, efficient and environmentally friendly...
A difficult job anyway, as the energy-efficient renovation of the old buildings has so far been progressing too slowly. To make matters worse: many new apartments will be needed, which require additional energy and raw materials - if there is not a radial rethink in construction policy... * Collective | Collapse | Sticking and Fighting Collapseology: Doomed? The recently translated »Handbook of...
what moved them back then: "The resistance was not characterized by fear, but simply by the injustice in the way we are treated here."... * Battery | Recycling | Lithium Valuable raw materials Clean recycling for electric car batteries A team from RWTH Aachen has further developed the recycling of lithium-ion batteries. More than 90 percent of the valuable battery metals...
Newsletter VI 2023 - February 5th to 11th - News+ War is peace, peace is war
It's a huge diplomatic game". Actually, every major power is concerned with something different. As Africa's largest investor and largest trading partner, China is primarily interested in importing raw materials. The USA wants to prevent Africa from becoming too closely allied with China. And Moscow? Russia sees Africa as an instrument in the fight against the West, especially since the beginning of the...
Newsletter V 2023 - January 29 to February 4 - News+ Je suis mud monk
Covering global electricity needs So far underestimated An international research group says in an article in the Joule portal (“Solar photovoltaics is ready to power a sustainable future”) that raw materials and the availability of land do not represent a real obstacle to a global energy system based on solar energy. Accordingly, the forecasts for photovoltaic growth should...
and consumers are usually not clear about the circumstances under which everyday products are made from natural rubber. Major importers such as the tire manufacturer Continental refuse to disclose the origin of the raw material. And further research shows that the entire rubber industry has a transparency problem... * Lobbyists | Energy transition | Lützerath Lützerath – just a cog in the system of...
Newsletter III 2023 - January 15-21 - News+ Climate Scam - Exxon knew it all
Website, under the “pretext” of information. The author has thus made himself an “extended arm” and “mouthpiece” of the banned association indymedia linksunten... * Energy transition | raw materials | Recycling Energy transition is not a raw material killer The expansion of solar and wind turbines does not increase the demand for metal more than fossil alternatives, an analysis shows. Despite it...
Emissions | Climate change How much emissions does the energy transition cause? Delayed transition could drastically increase additional CO2 emissions. It depends on the speed: How many raw materials, energy and CO2 emissions the global energy transition requires depends crucially on the speed of its implementation. Because the slower electricity generation from sun, wind, etc. is expanded, the more expensive...
overtake the world. Since the beginning of modern times, the world's population has been growing faster than ever before - with consequences for us and our planet. Because the more people there are, the more space, energy and raw materials we use. Humanity's energy consumption is already exceeding anything ever seen and there are now more man-made materials than biomass on Earth. Also nature...
In 2021, the EU paid around 210 million euros for the import of natural uranium from Russia and another 245 million euros for uranium imports from Kazakhstan, where the mining of the raw material is controlled by Rosatom... * Denmark | Elections Danish Prime Minister resigns with the aim of forming a government She won the parliamentary elections in Denmark. Nevertheless, it was enough...
