1. Newsletter XXX 2023 - July 23-29 - News+ Chomsky: What happens when orders from Washington are not followed?

    | Distance rule | Repowering 15.000 transport applications for wind turbines are piling up at Autobahn GmbH. The FDP's economic policy spokesman in the Bundestag, Reinhard Houben, claims that the expansion of wind power is not happening faster "because we do not have enough permits for the transport of these corresponding wind turbines." In fact, applications are piling up at Autobahn GmbH. A...

  2. Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson

    Le Tréport are up in arms about a wind farm project off their coast - but they are less bothered by the expansion of the nearby Penly nuclear power plant. [...] Unlike before, offshore wind power in France is now receiving support from the very top. Emmanuel Macron sees it as a pillar of France's strategy to achieve energy neutrality by 2050. Last fall...

  3. Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine

    in the world, everyone has the same problem: With every processing step, more and more extremely toxic and highly radioactive waste is created... July 13th Fossil industry invests in offshore wind power Oil companies BP and Total Energies are pushing into the electricity business: auction of German offshore areas brings billions to Bonn - The Federal Network Agency (BNetzA) has published the results of...

  4. Newsletter XXVII 2023 - July 2nd to 8th - News+ Is nuclear power experiencing a renaissance? There are also military interests behind it

    give a CO₂ price surcharge, it is also necessary to expand the truck energy infrastructure and public transport... July 3rd Electricity price | Wind energy | Network fees Quaschning explains: Electricity price zones The wind power blockade in southern Germany makes our electricity expensive. Others pay the bill. That's why we should divide Germany into two electricity price zones: cheap electricity for the north, expensive electricity for the...

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

    in the province of Zeeland a demonstration against the construction of new Dutch nuclear power plants. June 21st China realizes solar and wind expansion in the Gobi Desert China is planning a gigantic 455 GW of solar and wind power output in deserts by 2030 Beijing - China will continue to focus on the rapid expansion of renewable energies in its own country in the coming years. China plans to build 455 gigawatts...

  6. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    go, which means that the construction time would have taken almost twice as long as estimated. But the documents that have recently become known show that nothing will come of this either... * Wind power | Renewable energies Important record wind power delivers more than one terawatt Environmentally friendly energy production is on the rise worldwide. In June, wind turbines reached...

  7. Newsletter XXIII 2023 - June 4th to 10th - News+ Politics with poison, hate speech and propaganda

    for renewable energies, but more species protection elsewhere, that was the compromise. By changing the Federal Nature Conservation Act, the Green Alliance Environment Minister removed numerous hurdles to the expansion of wind power. [...] Inflated military budget consumes billions While climate and nature conservationists fight over a few million, billions flow into military projects:...

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

    Consumers will therefore face additional costs of up to 35 billion pounds. The power plant will only deliver an additional net output of 3,2 gigawatts. For comparison: British wind turbines already had a capacity of over 28 gigawatts last year, and the trend is rising rapidly. [...] One reason why Great Britain still has access to the expensive and difficult...

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

    The excess energy could also be used for heat – regionally. So exactly what the traffic light government wants. But of all things, the Renewable Energy Act prevents older wind turbines from being used for this purpose. Warm water flows from the tap. That sounds unspectacular. However, the water in Nechlin is heated primarily by wind. In the place near...

  10. Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?

    would require almost 800.000 tons of aluminum and 250.000 tons of nickel for the batteries of its vehicles. That's ten times as much nickel and aluminum as the entire planned expansion of wind power in Germany (until 2030) - with just one company... * Ahaus | Intermediate storage of high-level radioactive waste in Ahaus for longer? The interim fuel storage facility in Ahaus will probably last for many more years...

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

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

    explains... * 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 at sea can now be approved much more quickly. If the federal states follow suit, there is now a real chance of achieving the expansion goals for 2030. After a half year...

  14. Newsletter VII 2023 - February 12th to 18th - News+ Buzzword climate neutrality, saviors of the fossil lobby and the talk of alarmism

    of the former Grafenrheinfeld NPP, PreussenElektra. There had previously been criticism from nuclear power opponents and local politicians against the transport of nuclear waste... * Lobby Network | Wind power opponents | Disinformation The dubious lobby network behind anti-wind turbine citizens' initiatives The largest onshore wind farm in Germany is to be built in the Altötting district. The votes of...

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

    would be much further ahead if influential interest groups from business, society and politics didn't step on the brakes. The powerful rotors of the wind turbine generate electricity with every revolution. Wind turbines now cover almost a quarter of Germany's electricity needs. The proportion could be significantly higher - if renewable energies continue to be promoted as they were at the beginning...

  16. 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...

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

    lead. “We are aggressively committed to phasing out nuclear power,” he told Die Welt. The future belongs to renewable energies, especially in Lower Saxony. “We not only want to become the number one wind power country, but also the number one hydrogen country.” Lechner also rejects the exploitation of Lower Saxony’s shale gas deposits. “Unconventional fracking is in the densely populated...

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

    Breakthrough, a Russian breakthrough and a stalemate that roughly corresponds to the current military frontlines... *** January 11th Sweden | New nuclear power plant | SMR Nuclear instead of wind power: New nuclear power plants planned in Sweden Sweden's right-wing coalition is setting the course for new nuclear power plants. This is intended to prevent electricity bottlenecks and high prices. STOCKHOLM taz | Sweden's government wants...

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

    Electricity price is always the most expensive form of its generation... * Citizen energy | Expansion of renewable traffic lights Improved renewable energy funding A bonus for community energy Wind power projects have become too expensive for civil society in recent years. The Federal Ministry of Economics wants to change that with a funding program that has now been launched. The...

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

    discussed. Claims, half-truths and urban legends about renewable energy sources are constantly floating around the internet. Our background article examines such claims about wind power and photovoltaics for their plausibility. We examine a total of nine myths that come up again and again in discussions to see if they are true and compare them with facts. This is how you get...

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