1. Newsletter XXI 2023 - 21 to 27 May - News+ World Biodiversity Day: Will the plan to restore Europe's biodiversity fail?

    1998 (6 Pakistani atomic bomb tests) Ras Koh, PAK * We are looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de May 27th Energy Transition | Expansion of wind and solar | Electricity production Habeck, discounters and climate activism: Last generation Aldi The discounter has the solution for quickly saving energy for every household: A balcony power plant in...

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

    The substance, PFOS (perfluorooctane sulfonic acid), is in an area relevant to the health of humans as well as fish-eating birds and mammals, according to a press release... * Heating with wind | Renewable Energy Act EEG | Community energy Wind turbines could – could – heat villages! If too much wind energy comes into the power grid, systems are curtailed. The...

  3. Newsletter XVIII 2023 - April 30 to May 6 - News+ Everything green? Energy Colonialism through Hydrogen Cooperation

    And “unfortunately things aren’t looking much better for the next harvest at the moment due to the drought,” says a company spokesman... * Greenwashing | Fracking | Certificates Project Canary: Windy certificates for fracked gas A company that certifies US natural gas as clean is failing to detect leaks, two environmental groups have found. Can there be clean fracking gas?...

  4. Newsletter XVII 2023 - April 23rd to 29th - News+ Faulty SPD, self-deception at 1,5 degrees and war as a climate destroyer

    Discussions have been enforced by politicians: Since 1957, driving in built-up areas has not been allowed to exceed 50 km/h. In 1972, a speed limit of 100 kilometers per hour was introduced on country roads. Previously, anyone could drive as fast as their car and driving skills allowed. The speed limit was also imposed because...

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

    the Isar 2, Emsland and Neckarwestheim 2 nuclear power plants. After 63 years, the share of nuclear power in the German energy network fell to zero. The other energy sources - including coal, wind power, oil, natural gas, solar and biomass - must step in to fully cover Germany's electricity needs. How the electricity mix in Germany is changing as a result of the historic nuclear phase-out can be seen...

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

    Consequences for Turkey will be... Renewable energies in Turkey only cost a fraction of what nuclear power costs, as the Turkish Uranium Atlas shows. Electricity from wind power can currently be generated for 2 dollar cents per kilowatt hour, solar power between 1 and 1,7 dollar cents. These figures come from the most recent tenders for renewable energies in the...

  7. Newsletter XIV 2023 - April 2-8 - News+ Wars and School Massacres: The Cancer of Dehumanization

    the tropics to the north. This huge atmospheric river is a band of soaking wet air about 500 kilometers wide and 2000 kilometers long, driven by winds. At an altitude of 1000 to 2500 meters, this conveyor belt transports gigantic amounts of water vapor and returns hundreds or thousands of kilometers further than snow or rain...

  8. Newsletter XIII 2023 - March 26 to April 1 - News+ What uranium ammunition would do to Ukraine

    suggest that reused underground mines could store enough energy to power "the entire Earth" for a day. When weather conditions are good, wind and solar often generate more electricity than the grid can use. So where can we store this excess energy? According to scientists at the International Institute for Applied...

  9. Newsletter XI 2023 - March 12th to 18th - News+ 12 years after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima – What have we learned from it?

    The more we know about him, the clearer this threat becomes. The synthesis report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which will be published on Monday, shows this once again. [...] electricity from wind and sun instead of nuclear/fusion: renewable energies are the backbone of the climate change. A discussion about nuclear energy or even nuclear fusion as a long-term solution is no longer necessary, as the expansion is far too...

  10. Newsletter X 2023 - March 5th to 11th - News+ Dangerous toxins: Which products contain PFAS

    of radioactivity. It was one of those typical serious nuclear accidents, a catastrophe that the operators had not expected in advance. The blessing in disguise was a merciful wind that in the early days carried the extreme radioactivity out to sea and not to the nearby Tokyo metropolitan area with its 37 million people. A few months after the meltdowns in the nuclear facilities...

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

    in the nuclear zone of production block No. 1,” it said. After arriving, the fire department quickly got the fire under control and declared it extinguished... * Wind energy | Expansion target | Repowering A new tailwind for wind energy Within two months, the traffic light government implemented the EU emergency regulation into German law. Wind power on land and on...

  12. Newsletter VIII 2023 - February 19th to 25th - News+ Mönch von Lützerath: Sympathetic figures of the climate movement

    FDP had a different opinion. “It is an industry in the process of being wound down,” said Energy Minister Tobias Goldschmidt (Greens). Such a debate only creates uncertainty. Because the contribution from the reactors is negligible, there is no call from the energy industry for an extension. “Because the systems are old, they are geared towards dismantling.”... * Stadtwerke | Gas lobby | CORRECTIV natural gas:...

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

    If you can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de *** February 11th CO2 | Warming | Geoengineering Scientist on geoengineering: “We give nature a tailwind” Geologist Maria-Elena Lieferh is developing techniques with which CO2 can be removed from the atmosphere. She says: It doesn't work without geoengineering. taz: Ms. Lieferh, you say it's your...

  14. Newsletter V 2023 - January 29 to February 4 - News+ Je suis mud monk

    to enlarge the facility... * Denmark | Renewables | Power-to-X energy park of superlatives in Denmark A hybrid power plant with a total of 4 gigawatts of generation output from photovoltaics and wind power is being built in West Jutland. The electricity will be used to power a continuous electrolysis process on site with an output of two gigawatts. Megaton is the name of the huge energy park that...

  15. Newsletter IV 2023 - January 22nd to 28th - News+ How the FDP politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann plays down her proximity to the armaments lobby

    wants to transform the economy with green hydrogen. One of the most important producers is Australia. Instead of coal, the fifth continent will rely on sun and wind in the future. [...] Australia is fed up with wind and sun. There is hardly any other country in which the conditions for mass production are as good as on the fifth continent: in large parts of the huge territory...

  16. Newsletter III 2023 - January 15-21 - News+ Climate Scam - Exxon knew it all

    At times, half of the reactors failed and produced less electricity than in 30 years... * CO2 certificates | Fuel elements | Stretch operation Compensation projects The big scam with CO₂ certificates Many companies buy off their emissions with voluntary CO2 certificates. But the majority of these certificates are worthless, as extensive research...

  17. Newsletter II 2023 - January 8th to 14th - News+ We have already won

    without getting the activists out of the tunnel. The police also want to evacuate one last occupied house on Friday. During the night, the climate activists endured heavy rain, strong winds and temperatures below ten degrees. The police initially did not clear anything further... *** January 12th Lützerath | Eviction | Brown coal police begin clearing the tree houses...

  18. Newsletter I 2023 - January 1st to 7th - News+ Where Are the Peacemakers?

    French electricity giant EDF is threatening to shut down two nuclear power plants in Great Britain early if the British government sticks to taxing windfall profits on "low-carbon" electricity generation. The “windfall tax” is intended to tax excess profits that “fall from the sky” and arise from the absurd tariff system (merit order)....

  19. Newsletter LI 2022 - December 20th to 25th - News+ One UN for all

    the one with the lowest emissions per kilowatt hour produced... *** December 23 European Commission | Expansion of renewable energies European Commission approves amendments to the EEG and WindSeeG Berlin - Shortly before Christmas, the European Commission has now given the green light for the changes to the EEG 2023 and...

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

    and as a climate-friendly energy source. To obtain it, water molecules are broken down into oxygen and hydrogen in electrolysis systems. The energy required for this can be provided by solar and wind power or even direct sunlight. In order to increase the efficiency of these electrolyzers, their electrodes are usually made of expensive platinum metals, and a strongly acidic or alkaline...

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