Assuming that "traffic turnaround“ is needed, became 17 results found.
The industry association VDA only makes a vague statement; it must finally make a clear commitment to phasing out combustion engines. [...] Shouldn't politics particularly promote smaller, more economical electric cars? For a transport transition, especially in e-mobility, such vehicles are needed rather than large SUV fleets because of the heavy batteries. Funding for cars is generally questionable, even if they are electric...
want to achieve without having to save energy. However, no one knows whether and when hydrogen will be available, affordable and transportable. It's as if we were paving highways today to change traffic and promising that they would one day become cycle paths... * Warming | Ocean | Sea temperatures Extreme climate in the oceans: That's why...
and Storage", the efficiency of which is far removed from the scale that can help the world in the current, urgent emergency. Both sides are right... * Funding program | Transport transition | electric car | Purchase bonus End of the environmental bonus for electric cars Bizarre funding program In the spirit of the ecological transport transition, it was always nonsense to promote electric cars. The end of the environmental bonus is...
Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy
The environmental organization Greenpeace sums up the responsibility. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) speaks of a “frontal attack on climate protection”. And the think tank Agora Verkehrswende speaks of a missed opportunity for climate protection in transport. Because once again the elephant in the room is not being addressed. It's about reducing climate-damaging subsidies, which is essential for the success...
Efforts will be possible to keep warming below the 2 degree limit. “We are currently on the way to a 3-degree world by the end of the century.”... * Greenhouse gas emissions | Transport transition | EU transport policy in car fever: 15.000 km of rails gone, but 30.000 km of new motorways. The road network continues to proliferate, railway tracks are disappearing, and have been doing so for 30 years. A study...
Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread
French Energy Transition Ministry claims... September 19 Transport Policy | Infrastructure Greenpeace analysis Germany is the leader in Europe when it comes to shutting down train routes. The transport transition is unlikely to succeed without a strong railway. But according to a Greenpeace analysis, Germany has put significantly more money into roads in recent years than into...
| Wind power | Bankruptcy Why wind power manufacturers are running out of steam It sounds paradoxical: Wind power is supposed to be expanded, but one manufacturer after another is closing. Insolvencies and closures are also increasing in the area of transport transition. Producing gears for wind turbines: This was a job with prospects for 160 employees of the Eickhoff company in Klipphausen, Saxony - especially in...
contain. In the paper “Sustainable paths in urban development, construction and transport policy” (PDF), the council proposes a number of concrete measures for an ecological-social transition in construction and transport. “The building and transport sectors are the problem children in climate protection and have so far regularly failed to meet their climate targets. The space and resource consumption in both areas is also far too...
Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?
by AfD member of the Bundestag Steffen Kotré, who downplayed the incident and, in a clumsy reversal of perpetrator and victim, talked about a “media hunt against Germans”... * Movement | Transport transition | sticks | Volkswagen Digital Mobility: The anti-lock braking system Left behind on both sides: VW and the campaign camper ICEs drive past Wolfsburg, but it also happens on both sides of the tracks...
it from the ranks of the liberals. The spirit that always denies In the traffic light coalition, the FDP reliably acts as a “spirit that always denies”: the heat transition is happening too quickly for it, the transport transition is blocking it as much as it can. It does not offer alternatives for climate protection measures - that is anything but constructive... * Earth Overload Day
Habeck miscommunicated heat transition. The Federal Government's Council of Experts criticizes the government for doing too little to protect the climate. The FDP transport minister is torpedoing the transport transition and the Federal Chancellor is anything but the climate chancellor announced in the election campaign... * Solar power plant | Deutsche Bahn DB feeds solar power directly into the traction power network. For the first time...
Newsletter XIV 2023 - April 2-8 - News+ Wars and School Massacres: The Cancer of Dehumanization
Germany, on the other hand, has for weeks and months been using verve and journalistic commitment to raise the mood against any steps to do something more for climate protection. In this way, the heat transition, the transport transition and the Berlin climate decision were successfully stopped in their tracks or put on the back burner... * April 03, 1960 (INES 4) WTR-2 reactor Waltz Mill, USA Accident with core meltdown in the WTR-2...
facility in which it had previously been stored. This is not under state control... * Climate balance | FDP Wissing | Transport policy Climate balance of 2022: Slowed down transport transition The pace must be increased in housing construction and transport policy. But the FDP and its minister Volker Wissing are on the brakes. At first glance it looks like a good...
Protest actions were registered and the organizers counted 220.000 demonstrators, but all over the world, from Bangladesh to Kenya. In Germany, the main focus of the strike was on the transport transition. However, Nikolaus Piper in the Süddeutsche Zeitung considers the alliance of climate strikers with Verdi warning strikers to be absurd. The demand for more wages for train and...
previous obstacles, a first prototype delivers promising results Lithium-ion batteries have enabled the rise of mobile electronics and are also an important driver for the transport transition towards electric drives. But they also have limits. Since common electrode material such as graphite takes up a lot of space, the energy density is limited. This also means that batteries with...
Newsletter XLIX - October 27th to 31.10.2021st, 27 - News+ October XNUMXth - Garching reactor
necessary for a turnaround in climate policy! We are therefore calling for crystal-clear agreements to phase out coal, nuclear power (Gronau, Lingen, Garching, Jülich...) and gas, as well as a noticeable turnaround in transport. 1.) No green label for nuclear and gas But a rollback is also currently underway at the EU level: The EU Commission and several EU countries want to have nuclear and gas designated as "sustainable" and...
2021 - Plans for the locations of disused reactors: amusement park instead of coal-fired power plant * January 25, 2021 - Underground Sun Conversion: Summer energy harvest for the winter * January 25, 2021 - Transport transition: Politics must use all technology options * January 24, 2021 - Philosopher Chomsky: “Turn back the doomsday clock is possible” * January 24, 2021 - Armaments industry: VW is committed to...
