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    gegen die Marktmacht Chinas wieder aufgebaut werden. [...] Historischer Rückblick: Die Entdeckung der Seltenen-Erden-Magnete Die ersten Seltene-Erden-Magnete wurden in den 1960er-Jahren von Wissenschaftlern in einem Labor der US-Luftwaffe entdeckt. In den 1980er-Jahren führten Investitionen des Militärs zu leistungsfähigeren Versionen, die ihre Anziehungskraft bei extrem hohen und extrem...

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

    auf "unverminderte Kohleverstromung". Das bedeutet: Kohlekraftwerke, die durch eine CO2-Abscheidungs- und Speichertechnologie (CCS) ergänzt werden, sind davon nicht betroffen. Obwohl aus der Wissenschaft immer wieder kritisiert wird, dass derartige Formulierungen viel zu unkonkret seien, verzichtet die G7 darauf, konkreter zu werden. Offen bleibt etwa: Welcher Anteil der CO2-Emissionen muss...

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

    Warum so lange? Thomas Kraus: Wir wussten schon sehr lange, dass es Zusammenhänge zwischen einer Pestizid-Belastung im Beruf und der Parkinson-Krankheit gibt. Aber es war extrem schwierig, die wissenschaftliche Literatur aus der ganzen Welt zu bewerten, aufzuarbeiten und dann Kriterien einer Berufskrankheit für das deutsche Sozialrecht abzuleiten. In Frankreich ist Parkinson ja schon seit 2012...

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

    einen weitgehend konstanten Wechselstrom. Das Forschungsteam hat nun untersucht, ob ein schneller Wechsel von Stromzufluss und Pausen die Lebensdauer der Akkus erhöhen kann. Dafür setzten die Wissenschaftler verschiedene Lithium-Ionen-Akkus des Typs 18650 entweder gängigen konstanten Ladezyklen aus oder aber einem hochfrequent gepulsten Aufladen. Bei letzteren wechselte die Spannung mit der...

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    can be counteracted by wonderfully progressive-sounding terms like “climate justice” or “transformation”. People from social movements, trade unions, science and other areas of society have brought together knowledge and experiences in a joint effort. The result is a book about climate justice and the path to achieving it - the...

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

    Considers the letter of responsibility to be genuine Terror expert Peter Neumann from King's College in London considers the terrorist militia's letter of responsibility for the attack near Moscow to be genuine... * Climate protection | Science | Refugees Quaschning's video column Quaschning explains: AfD and climate protection The AfD wants to abolish all climate protection laws. The climate crisis is already a main cause of flight...

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

    from the University of Tübingen. She suspects that the glyphosate trail leads to our washing machines. More specifically: the detergent we use. The Tübingen scientist's research is still being examined, but doubts are already beginning to arise. Pay attention to the ingredients of the detergents If you want to know whether your detergent contains phosphonates, you should take a look...

  8. Newsletter VIII 2024 - February 18th to 24th - News+ On the death of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

    in World War II said... * Renewables | Fossils | Electricity prices | Nuclear power expert Kemfert in an interview: Operators of nuclear power plants no longer want the energy either. Economist Claudia Kemfert speaks in an FR interview about the delayed departure from fossil fuels and electricity prices that are too high. She is calling for help for the German solar industry. Ms. Kemfert, the...

  9. Newsletter VII 2024 - February 11th to 17th - Current+ super election year in the crucial climate decade

    find signs that the climate system as a whole could be in transition. The mean ocean temperature, for example, has recently made a huge jump. We scientists hope that this is just a short-term blip and that the system will “calm down” again. But there is also the possibility that the giant is not yet fully understood...

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

    Truche and his team monitored hydrogen leaks in the mine for years. The result: “At least 200 tons of hydrogen are released in the mine every year,” report the scientists. “However, these outgassing rates are minimum values ​​that are based solely on what is measured at specific points - not an extrapolation to the entire volume. We only have a fraction of the total...

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

    how the industry is developing and how it can be strengthened beyond subsidies in areas such as digitalization and de-bureaucratization... * Plastic | Waiver | CO2 emissions Science calls for a radical departure from conventional plastic production 50 percent less plastic by 2050, from nine to 95 percent Recycling rate: In order to solve the global plastic problem, the system must...

  12. Newsletter III 2024 - January 14th to 20th - Current news + Psychological explanations for doing nothing

    Decay processes per second, in Becquerels 37 GBq. After the 1965 accident, not much data is available on wind patterns, precipitation, etc., but after the 1970 accident, Livermore Lab scientists found elevated tritium levels that they linked to the 1970 accident, as far away as Fresno, in southeast about 200 miles away. Translation with...

  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

    Radvan told the German Press Agency on Saturday. The strategy of linguistic concealment has a long tradition in the extreme right. The well-known linguist and literary scholar Victor Klemperer - Holocaust survivor - analyzed this approach during the Nazi regime... * Peasant protests | bureaucracy | Vehicle tax before the final rally at...

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

    Application submitted in May 2021. They called on the state to revoke the planning approval decision from 2002. Their reasoning: Schacht Konrad does not correspond to the current state of science and technology. Important aspects such as the long-term safety of the shaft and retrieval were not taken into account in the planning approval decision... * Compensation | Monsanto | PCB...

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

    widely attached... * Climate Change | Oil companies | Record profits Naomi Oreskes: "They won't go down without a fight" The oil companies foresaw climate change five decades ago. Science historian Naomi Oreskes has researched what the industry knew and how it publicly denied it. What does she think of the climate summit in the oil emirate of Dubai? DIE ZEIT: Ms. Oreskes, 2023 is...

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

    While the peace movement has become somewhat quiet, security policy remains a central issue of public interest. Security policy issues are no longer the exclusive preserve of scientists, politicians or military experts... * Emissions trading | land rights | Blue Carbon area larger than the United Kingdom Sheikh buys African...

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

    Powerlessness joins environmental powerlessness. There is this strange feeling in Austria that somehow everything will be okay. This is a bold bet, to say the least. There is no scientific evidence for this. According to the UN, the world is heading towards a warming of 3 degrees Celsius. Then things will probably get uncomfortable in Austria too. * Climate policy | Fridays for Future |...

  18. Newsletter XLVI 2023 - November 12th to 18th - News+ Violence as a consequence of climate change: No cool heads

    Intermediate storage for decades. The search is for the “best possible” location, a place for the highly radioactive legacies of the atomic age. The search has been going on for five years, using a “science-based and transparent process” that the federal and state governments had agreed on. The law states that the suitable location must be found by 2031. The final storage facility would then have to be built...

  19. Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?

    to October 31 this year were the hottest consecutive months on record. This is according to an analysis by Climate Central, an independent group of scientists and communicators that researches and reports on the facts about climate change and its impact on people's lives. The temperatures were therefore...

  20. Newsletter XLIV 2023 - October 29th to November 4th - News+ Uranium exports from Lingen to Russia violate EU law - study by the Greens justifies the possibility of a ban

    don't balance. However, studies have already shown that rock weathering can be significantly accelerated if 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 as the fine dust spreads to global...

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