1. Newsletter XVIII 2024 - April 28th to May 4th - News+ Hubris of the West: Three decades of chaos and decline

    der Europäischen Union stattfinden (Net-Zero Industry Act, NZIA). Um die Abhängigkeit unter anderem von China zu verringern und zukunftsträchtige Arbeitsplätze aufzubauen, sollen wichtige grüne Technologien bis 2030 zu 40 Prozent auf dem Kontinent hergestellt werden. Das gilt auch für Solarmodule... * Atomausstieg | Habeck | Akten Habeck will Akten zum Atomausstieg herausgeben...

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

    dass sie nicht wie die Solarfirmen von chinesischen ersetzt werden. Es gibt aber eine europäische Antwort, den sogenannten Net Zero Industry Act, der besagt: 40 Prozent sämtlicher grüner Technologien müssen in Europa hergestellt werden. Gerade wird diskutiert, wie die Verordnung ausgestaltet sein muss, damit die Windindustrie faire Rahmenbedingungen erhält. Zeichnet sich bei bestimmten Bauteilen...

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

    Jahrhunderts schlicht aus. Russland gibt nicht 13 Prozent seines Bruttoinlandsprodukts für Waffen und Rüstung aus, wie es damals die Sowjetunion tat. Der Versuch, Russland vom Import von Hochtechnologie abzuschneiden, ist wenig erfolgversprechend – China und Indien stehen bereit. Dennoch beschleunigt die NATO die Fahrt zu immer neuen Rüstungsrekorden. Sie gibt im Vergleich zu China das Fünffache...

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

    IWU demonstriert klimaneutralen Fabrikbetrieb Chemnitz - Das Fraunhofer-Institut für Werkzeugmaschinen und Umformtechnik IWU in Chemnitz nimmt bei der Erforschung effizienter Wasserstoff-Technologien eine zentrale Rolle ein. Die dortigen H2-Projekte haben den Aufbau einer erfolgreichen H2-Wirtschaft in Deutschland zu Ziel. Mit dem neuen H2-Kraftwerk soll wichtiges Know-how für kleine und...

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    Schließlich soll Wasserstoff die Zukunft sein, oder wie Bundeswirtschaftsminister Robert Habeck sagt: „Alle warten auf den Wasserstoffmarkt“. Der Grüne bezeichnet das Gas als Schlüsseltechnologie für die Energiewende und reist um die Welt, um H2, also Wasserstoff, für deutsche Kraftwerke beispielsweise in Algerien zu organisieren. Einen kleinen Haken gibt es allerdings: In Leipzig wurde noch gar...

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

    to win. Greek sailors in ancient times boiled sea water for it, and in ancient Rome it was filtered through clay tubes to make it drinkable. Modern forms of these ancient technologies are now the "present and future of addressing water scarcity," according to Manzoor Qadir, deputy director at the Institute for Water, Environment and Health at the United...

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

    "Build a fusion power plant," said the minister. Her ministry is already supporting institutions that research fusion: the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the Research Center Jülich. This funding for research into energy production should now be a second pillar to get a "fusion ecosystem" together with the economy... *...

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

    made. (Costs approximately US$115 million) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia Nuclear_Fuel_Services Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS) is an American nuclear company. Along with BWX Technologies, the company is the main supplier of nuclear fuel for the American Navy. The company is also involved in converting plutonium and uranium from nuclear weapons into fuel rods for nuclear power plants. The...

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

    capable than ever before. And they could target individual people. [...] As TechCrunch reports, Bill Gates' company Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Shield Capital, which specializes in defense technology, have invested. According to the report, the investors also include Booz Allen Ventures, which belongs to the military group, the investment company Cubit Capital and...

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

    to inform the basic order if there are sufficiently important factual indications for this. This is also permissible in the suspicion phase... * Energy | Power storage | Battery technology Understanding the energy transition: The indispensable role of storage technologies Without electricity storage, the energy transition will not succeed. But what has been technically possible for a long time is still waiting for decisions...

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

    is expected to generate 1.700 GWh per year. Gansu (China). The Aksa Huidong New Energy Solar Park recently went into operation in the Chinese province of Gansu. Thanks to a combination of several technologies to generate energy, the largest solar park of its kind can provide electricity around the clock. According to the China Global Television Network (CGTN), the facility consists of 11.960 heliostats, i.e....

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

    BMW is researching the use of humanoid robots on its assembly lines and could thus transform automobile production. BMW announced that it is working with robotics company Figure Technologies to examine how Figure's humanoid robot, called Figure 01, can be integrated into BMW's production facility in Spartanburg, South Carolina. If the tests are successful,...

  13. 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

    Maersk and Goldwind sign green methanol contract for 12 ships Copenhagen, Denmark – Logistics major AP Moller-Maersk has set a goal of achieving net-zero emissions across the company by 2040 with new technologies, new ships and environmentally friendly fuels to reach. On the way there, the AP: Moeller-Maersk recently...

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

    to limit global warming to 1,5°C. Several studies have confirmed that, contrary to the claims of renewable-only zealots, no single set of technologies can deliver a timely and cost-effective energy transition, and that a diversified energy mix from low-carbon sources that includes both intermittent renewables...

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

    The wording of the final document contains too many loopholes and fig leaves. From a reference to “low carbon” fuels to the explicit mention of technologies such as “carbon capture and storage,” whose efficiency is a far cry from scales that can help the world in its current, urgent emergency. Both sides are right... *...

  16. 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”

    While all over Europe and the world people are again or still relying on nuclear power, “we” reject this environmentally friendly and climate-neutral technology for ideological reasons. Apart from the fact that nuclear power is anything but ecological and - if you look at the entire nuclear "cycle" from uranium mining to nuclear waste disposal - it is also far from climate neutral,...

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

    which would affect the continued production and sales of oil, gas and coal... December 8 EU states | Nuclear power | Climate-neutral EU states declare nuclear power to be a climate-neutral technology After the European Parliament last month, the EU member states have also included nuclear power alongside renewable energies in the list of supported technologies in the Net-Zero Industry...

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

    Ukraine. Climate change remains “the great, global challenge of our time,” emphasized Scholz. But there are already all the necessary means to meet this challenge. "The technologies are there: wind power, photovoltaics, electric drives, green hydrogen." Germany is pressing ahead with these developments. "As a successful industrial country, we want to...

  19. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    and construction of Small Modular Reactors (SMR) in Idaho (USA). The reason was the growing costs and the dwindling interest of energy companies in committing to the technology in the long term. The reactor design was the only one approved by the US nuclear regulator. The termination of development is now all the more spectacular...

  20. Newsletter XLVII 2023 - November 19th to 25th - News+ Spectacular setback for the development of small nuclear reactors in the USA - The dead horse

    New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming are supplied with energy. It was a showcase project for small nuclear reactors, known as Small Modular Reactors (SMR). This new technology is not only strongly supported by the US government, it has enthusiastic supporters in politics and the media around the world. However, these are usually the same circles that...

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