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

    Berufskrankheit für das deutsche Sozialrecht abzuleiten. In Frankreich ist Parkinson ja schon seit 2012 als Berufskrankheit anerkannt. Auch Italien war schneller. Haben die mehr in Forschung investiert, oder warum ging das dort schneller? Kraus: Da sind Berufskrankheiten zum Teil anders definiert, und das geht dann einfacher. Wir haben in Deutschland hohe sozialrechtliche Hürden. Und im...

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

    free, the rest is lost in the conversion... * United States | Investments | Subsidies Third US semiconductor factory: TSMC doesn't make a mess, it makes a big difference The world market leader TSMC is investing more abroad than ever before. Samsung also reportedly wants to build more in the USA. The USA has secured another wave of investment from Asian chip contract manufacturers. The...

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

    Hopefully this doesn't happen, Putin would need a lot of soldiers to permanently occupy the neighboring country. At the same time, Russia would have to continue to arm itself because NATO is now also investing in its defense. The Russian war economy will never end - but the country is too poor for that. * Weapons shipments | Killing Israel-Gaza War Nancy Pelosi calls for a stop to US arms sales to Israel She...

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    separated from each other in a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then be used again. That's the theory... March 24th Transport Minister invests tax money Transport Minister wants to invest 150 million euros in German air taxi startup According to media reports, Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing wants to invest 150 million euros in the German...

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

    The MPs emphasized that there are enormous differences in how much military aid individual EU states provide to Ukraine. More money must be invested in European arms production. All EU member states and all NATO allies should support Ukraine militarily with at least 0,25 percent of their gross domestic product (GDP) annually, it said...

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

    Researchers are looking for innovative and new methods to bind CO₂. Storage of carbon dioxide is particularly difficult at room temperature because it is then a gas. America is therefore investing a lot in research into storing greenhouse gases underground in deep caves or rock layers. A team from the Sanford Underground Research Facility in the USA discovered...

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

    chronically high budget deficits and can only afford this at the expense of other government spending. France, which devotes an eighth of its annual military budget to its nuclear weapons, is investing 37 billion euros in the period 2020-25. Great Britain has budgeted the equivalent of 2022 billion euros for the period 32-70 and wants to increase the number of its nuclear warheads again - from...

  8. 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

    social classes in view? “Fridays for Future” in particular now focuses on those who are the decision-makers in the climate crisis. Those who invest billions in oil, gas and coal do not want to fulfill customer wishes, but rather make as much money as possible. Last year, a Guardian investigative team found that oil companies Exxon, Total, Shell and BP...

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

    of what wind and solar cost. We can see the result of this: in 2022, almost 500 billion euros flowed into renewable energies worldwide, around 14 times what was invested in nuclear power plants. This even applies to China, the country that has really invested in nuclear power over the past 20 years: China brought around two gigawatts of nuclear power online in 2022, but also...

  10. 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”

    East, venture capital is betting on armaments. In fact, U.S. venture capital investment in defense startups has doubled in four years. While venture capital companies (VCs) based in the USA invested around $2019 billion in 16, in the first five months of the year alone they...

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

    supported by several states. “Net zero requires nuclear power,” summarizes the IAEA. Studies have shown that in order to achieve the goal of becoming CO₂-neutral worldwide by 2050, investments must be made in nuclear power. The IAEA does not say which ones exactly in its communication. It's about "building a low-carbon bridge to the future." This also requires investments in...

  12. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    Accompany them with protests.” According to the anti-nuclear power initiatives, all the effort and costs would be much better invested in a new, safest possible interim storage facility in Jülich. Info: https://sofa-ms.de/ Interest in mini nuclear power plants only mini! NuScale and the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems consortium said they will develop and build small...

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

    RWE extremely lucrative. “Our strong investment activity is paying off,” said Michael Müller, the DAX company’s CFO, on Tuesday when presenting the quarterly figures. The company has invested in green electricity - more than ten billion euros have flowed into green energy since the beginning of the year. For example, in the purchase of a US solar park operator, a British solar park developer or...

  14. Newsletter XLIII 2023 - October 22nd to 28th - News+ Municipal utilities are leaving the Future Gas lobby association

    increase. While Germany, once a technology leader in the solar business, has reduced its support for domestic companies over the past decade, investments continued in South Korea. [...] The recent export orientation of the South Korean solar industry also has to do with the fact that a few difficulties have recently arisen at home. The...

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

    In purely mathematical terms, we could be at 10% renewable energy within 100 years, and with a little good will even sooner. Nevertheless, huge sums of money are still being invested in nuclear power. The power of MiK and the nuclear lobby is unlimited, not only in nuclear bomb countries such as America, China, France, Great Britain, India, Israel, North Korea, Pakistan and Russia, but also in...

  16. Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread

    In recent years, Germany has invested significantly more money in roads than in rail infrastructure. Over the past 30 years, Germany has invested around twice as much in roads as in its rail infrastructure. This is the result of a study by the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy and the T3 Transportation Think Tank on behalf of...

  17. Newsletter XXXVI 2023 - September 3rd to 9th - News+ Scientist predicts brutal “population correction” later this century

    the energy transition? High subsidies flow into the fossil fuel industry. A climate-friendly reform could save ten billion euros, shows a new Greenpeace study. BERLIN taz | Germany invests almost six times as much tax money in climate-damaging subsidies for industry as in climate-friendly conversion. This is shown by a new study by the Ecological-Social Market Economy Forum...

  18. Newsletter XXXV 2023 - August 27 to September 2 - News+ Historic victory: Ecuador becomes the first country to say no to oil

    always a certain arbitrariness. Where exactly do you draw the line? What about companies that fall just below this limit - possibly because they invested in energy-saving technology in a timely manner? And how long should the subsidies last? They are actually only intended as a "bridge" until renewables have largely driven expensive gas-fired power plants out of the market. But the...

  19. Newsletter XXXII 2023 - August 6th to 12th - News+ Hiroshima - The asphalt will burn. Chaos will reign

    of the CHP, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, in parliament to the representatives of the government factions, who, as expected, were stubborn... * Hydrogen | Subsidies | Gas power plants Is the federal government investing billions in new fossil gas power plants? Energy and climate – compact: Ministry of Economics wants to build power plants for dark periods. Green hydrogen in focus, also...

  20. Newsletter XXXI 2023 - July 30th to August 05th - News+ Brussels buys more fire-fighting aircraft to fight forest fires

    Factory of the arms company Rheinmetall. The company wants to produce F-35 fighter jet parts there. Criticism has hardly been heard so far. Almost a year and a half after the start of the war in Ukraine, a German arms company is investing in a new factory for the first time in order to process an order from the Bundeswehr's 100 billion euro special fund. The plan is - according to...

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