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

    laut Bundeswirtschaftsministerium viermal so hoch wie 2021. Auch die Zahl der in Bau gegangenen Trassenkilometer hatte sich demnach 2023 gegenüber 2021 verdoppelt. Für 2024 werde ein Zubau von rund 1.500 Kilometer erwartet - fünfmal so viele Kilometer wie 2021, hatte das Ministerium vergangene Woche mitgeteilt. * 4. - 5. Mai 1986 (INES 0 Klass.?) Akw THTR 300, DEU Freisetzung von Radioaktivität...

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

    Kilowattstunde im deutschen Strommix. Das hatten Kritiker anders prophezeit. Die Gründe für die Bilanz sind vielfältig. Rein summarisch wurden die weggefallenen Kilowattstunden komplett durch den Zubau an Erneuerbaren kompensiert. Aber auch ein leicht reduzierter Stromverbrauch aufgrund der wirtschaftlichen Lage in der Industrie und ein extrem milder Winter drückten den Bedarf an Kohle. Die...

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

    are secured in the long term. 2. Renewable energies will cover over 2023 percent of electricity consumption for the first time in 50, and coal-fired power generation will fall to a historic low of 132 TWh. With an expansion of 14,4 GW, photovoltaics exceeds the previous record from 2012 by 6,2 GW. The expansion of onshore wind power remains clearly too weak at 2,9 GW, but 7,7 GW and thus 74...

  4. Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support

    of wind power exceed the 3.000 megawatt threshold. Today's systems have significantly larger hub heights and rotor diameters in relation to the nominal output of a turbine. This expansion alone produces about the same amount of electricity as a nuclear power plant. Nevertheless, relying on nuclear energy, as some are currently calling for - see the draft for the new...

  5. Newsletter XXXIX 2023 - September 24th to 30th - News+ “Populist, verbally radical, ethnic” – and no end in sight

    The federal government will then increase solar output to 215 GW (215.000 MW). For 2023, the International Economic Forum for Renewable Energies (IWR) in Münster alone expects an increase of around 13.000 MW (13 GW) of solar capacity. This is well above planning. Additional solar capacity of 9.200 MW from January to August 2023 – all-time high from 2012 already exceeded In Germany...

  6. Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed

    Wind power and photovoltaic systems in the Gobi and other desert regions are an important measure to implement a green and low-carbon energy transition and to build a new energy system... * Power supply | Disinformation | Bild-Zeitung No, Germany doesn't need nuclear power from France - Bild is lying again That the tabloid magazine Bild has a very tense relationship with...

  7. Newsletter XXII 2023 - May 28th to June 3rd - News+ Political style in Germany Please, strengthen the AfD

    that because of its focus on quick profits for many years it has been hesitant to use the huge savings potential it has in terms of energy consumption? * Renewable | Expansion of record expansion: IEA expects 440 GW of renewable energies worldwide in 2023 - China at the top Brussels - The International Energy Agency (IEA) expects renewable energies for the current year 2023...

  8. Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard

    must become. According to Burger's forecast, the remaining 20 terawatt hours will be completely replaced by renewable energies in the course of this year: half each through the addition of photovoltaics and wind energy... May 14th Constitutional State Protection | Right-wing extremist neo-Nazi dropout: “The whole story about the NSU trio is not true.” Mike R. comes from Jena and was a neo-Nazi in...

  9. Newsletter XVI 2023 - April 16th to 22nd - News+ Poisons for eternity - Uranium and its radioactive relatives

    was 1.950 megawatts. “Never before have so many bids been submitted in such a Federal Network Agency tender. Now it is important to maintain this high bid level in order to push ahead with the necessary expansion in the long term,” says Klaus Müller, President of the Federal Network Agency. Maximum price raised This means that the measures taken by the Federal Government and the Federal Network Agency are having an effect...

  10. Newsletter XV 2023 - April 9th ​​to 15th - News+ Traffic light climate, Switzerland as a role model and the better alternative to e-fuels

    the numbers could be better. However, the situation is particularly bad in the south. The federal association criticized a “de facto failure” by Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. The southern region accounted for only 7,8 percent of new construction and only 4,5 percent of approvals. In Baden-Württemberg only one new plant was approved in the first quarter, in Bavaria only two... * Media |...

  11. Newsletter XII 2023 - March 19th to 25th - News+ The poison of doubt is the sugar for the bastard

    New record: more than 60.000 new solar systems installed in Germany in January More than 60.000 new solar systems were installed in January alone. Experts are expecting new records for new construction this year. But what seems so impressive is still far from enough to achieve the climate goals. There is still good news. For example from the solar industry. More than...

  12. Newsletter IX 2023 - February 26 to March 4 - News+ 48 days until the last nuclear power plants in Germany are switched off

    The Senate announced on Thursday that the ski jump had been acquired. Both sides agreed not to disclose the purchase price. The aim is to build a hydrogen infrastructure at the Moorburg location and to use parts of the ex-power plant to supply the city based on renewable energies. According to the environmental agency, the first hydrogen should be produced in 2026... * Combustion dispute |...

  13. Newsletter VI 2023 - February 5th to 11th - News+ War is peace, peace is war

    Photovoltaics | Bavaria's power grid | Bureaucracy Too much photovoltaics: Bavarian power grid at the limit The regional power grid in Bavaria is at its capacity limit in many places. The reason: the large expansion of photovoltaic systems. In the Nördlinger Ries, even medium-sized photovoltaic systems can no longer be connected to the grid. "I think it's going to blow my mind!" That was his first reaction...

  14. Newsletter L 2022 - December 15th to 19th - News+ Criminalization of activists of the last generation

    It's time to land... * Energy transition | Politics blocked | Farmers Politics blocks energy transition Interest in photovoltaic open spaces in the southwest is greater than permitted. The targeted expansion volume of 200 megawatts annually for PV open spaces in RLP has already been completely exhausted in 2022. And in BW the borders are so narrow that new solar parks are hardly possible. The need for...

  15. Newsletter LII 2022 - December 26-31 - News+ Putin and Lavrov should have gone before the UN

    Despite this, renewable energy sources, especially wind and solar energy, continue to gain ground. Both internationally and domestically, but here much slower. Of course, the expansion would have to go much faster in order to get the climate crisis under control. In the third and final part of our small, extremely incomplete review of the year, we now turn our attention to...

  16. Newsletter XLVII 2022 - November 24th to 30th - News+ More garbage to Grafenrheinfeld: The Schweinfurt action alliance against nuclear power is concerned

    mentioned and the fatal accident on January 4, 03, which was also rated INES 1961, was only briefly touched upon. Two INES 4 incidents should actually be enough to create a separate category for incidents. Apparently, however, all important information about accidents in the nuclear industry is slowly but surely being removed from Wikipedia! - List of accidents in nuclear facilities 29...

  17. Newsletter XXXIX 2022 - October 01st to 08th - News+ Belgium shows problems with extending the runtimes of nuclear power plants

    at. At 2.653 billion kilowatt hours (terawatt hours, TWh), absolute generation in 2021 was still just below the historic high of 2006. The expansion of reactors in China is roughly compensating for the decline in nuclear power generation in the rest of the world. Nuclear power is still dominated by five countries, which generate 71 percent of all nuclear power. They are - in...

  18. Newsletter XXIX 2022 - July 17th to 24th - News+ Government in the climate crisis

    said on Monday in Berlin that the question of nuclear power plants was not an ideological but a purely technical question for the federal government from the start... * Renewables | Extension | Photovoltaics Not just because of wind and sun Renewable energies are growing rapidly. Almost half of Germany's gross electricity consumption is covered by renewable energies. This increases the share in...

  19. Newsletter XX - 28.04. to 03.05.2021/28/XNUMX - News+ April XNUMX - Solar power drives Germany

    Solar energy in Germany currently accounts for more than half of the midday consumption peaks on sunny summer days, and even two-thirds in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. If the expansion continues to reach high single-digit and possibly even double-digit gigawatt figures every year in the next few years, solar power could be able to be used on very sunny days in just a few years...

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