1. Newsletter X 2024 - March 3rd to 9th - News+ More courage would be good

    what electricity from wind power, solar energy or other production sources costs, said Scholz. In addition, uranium reserves are finite. "If you look backwards in twenty years and see who made the cheaper and more efficient decision to produce electricity, then it will be our country," predicted the Chancellor... * Migrants | Defense contractors Who benefits from the militarized "fortress...

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

    Cell phones, laptops or in electric cars: lithium-ion batteries have become an integral part of the world. They form the basis for numerous battery-powered applications that not only make everyday life more efficient, but also more enjoyable. But widespread energy storage is not perfect. For example, the low energy density of batteries makes their use in...

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

    more important than hydrogen? Which technologies enable the energy transition in Europe Energy mix: Researchers have investigated how the scarce electricity from renewable energies can be used most sensibly and efficiently. Accordingly, the direct use of “green” electricity is more efficient and suitable for more areas than using the electricity for hydrogen production and eFuels. For...

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

    renew. This sets them apart from fossil energy sources that are finite or only regenerate over a period of millions of years. In addition to the efficient use of energy, renewable energy sources are considered the most important pillar of a sustainable energy policy and the energy transition. These include bioenergy (biomass potential),...

  5. Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?

    and replaced Per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) – also known as PFCs – are particularly long-lasting, complex compounds with strong carbon-fluorine bonds that prevent efficient decomposition. There are more than 10 variants of them. The long-lasting substances are used in food packaging, cookware, rainproof clothing, textiles,...

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

    Planet continues to heat up. However, previous processes for this so-called CO2 capture often require high temperatures, high pressure and a lot of energy overall. They are also usually not very efficient and cannot yet be used on a large scale. The binding and storage of carbon using CCS technologies is not yet fully developed. New tandem process circumvents previous...

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

    for the climate. Is the traffic light climate policy now at an end? In addition, Fridays for Future is divided because of the Middle East conflict. Is there now not enough pressure from below for more efficient climate policy? The “Emissions Gap Report 2023” from the UN environmental program UNEP has just shown that the demands and reality of climate protection are far apart. Globally we are miles away...

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

    or switch to another technology? A current analysis by the comparison portal Verivox, which is available exclusively to the editorial network Germany, shows: With a modern, efficient heat pump, a household can reduce heating costs by around 30 percent. The example calculation: A family in a single-family home with an annual consumption of 20.000 is currently paying...

  9. Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism

    Camp in Jülich or the shipment of nuclear waste to the Ahaus interim storage facility. The research center and waste disposal company in Jülich prefer the last option. They say it is the cheapest and most efficient. You already pay an annual rent of one million euros in Ahaus and have made all the preparations for transport. The radioactive balls are in 152 castors...

  10. Newsletter XL 2023 - October 1st to 7th - Current news + FDP proposal for industrial electricity price relief is spot on

    in the sense of environmental protection, on the one hand by increasing quantity taxes on energy consumption or on environmentally harmful behavior, and on the other hand through discounts for the use of more efficient or emission-reducing technologies. The aim was, among other things, to reduce external costs arising from environmental damage (e.g. consequential costs of global warming or damage to health...

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

    | DARPA | Nuclear propulsion Drive of the future NASA's first nuclear-powered rocket is scheduled to launch in 2027 The US space agency is working with Darpa on a mission that will ensure significantly more efficient travel through space [...] Like the US space agency and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), a US agency for military research projects,...

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

    years. [...] Now researchers in the Zn-H2 project have developed a battery storage device that is inexpensive to produce and is doubly useful: The zinc-based battery can store electricity efficiently and, in the first prototypes, achieves an energy density of almost 1.300 watt hours per liter of electrolyte. At the same time, however, this battery can also produce hydrogen. At the...

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

    Many people want to blame the Greens - including from the FDP -, this is almost entirely the fault of the FDP... July 5th Storage of hydrogen Solution for the safe and efficient storage of hydrogen receives the European Inventor Award 2023 Multidisciplinary team from France has developed a completely new method for storing hydrogen in the form of...

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

    per 2022 human lives in 100.000 alone. Yes, this is all happening at the same time, while right-wing populists like Markus Söder and Hubert Aiwanger try to convince us that extremely efficient heat pumps are something like the devil himself... * Drinking water | PFAS | Eternity poison "Post-It" manufacturer 3M fined billions for contaminated drinking water The...

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

    We no longer have pipelines or other fossil infrastructure because we simply manage most things with renewables. Electricity directly from the roof, which you can use to heat directly and much more efficiently, for example. These investors want to promote these “stranded assets” as “somehow useful” for as long as possible in order to...

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

    Without going through hydrogen, ammonia instead of hydrogen: To make steel production more climate-friendly, ammonia could also be used in the future. This gas reduces iron ore to iron just as efficiently and quickly as hydrogen - without first having to be broken down, as experiments in test facilities have now shown. The advantage: Ammonia can also be produced using renewable...

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

    this time. Unfortunately, this irresponsibility towards future generations remains with us. * Drinking water | Glyphosate | Pesticide New material efficiently filters glyphosate out of water The plant protection agent (pesticide) glyphosate can be found in almost all rivers and groundwater. A new filter based on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can...

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

    The granting of this loan is subject to conditions: The property must meet energy standards after the renovation. To achieve this, there is an additional incentive: the more energy-efficient the renovation is, the more the loan amount is subsequently reduced. An example: Anyone who manages to bring their house into the average energy efficiency class with the help of renovation measures...

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

    this week the EU MPs spoke out. Critics warn of a “compulsory renovation”. Numerous exceptions are planned. “Seven out of ten buildings in the EU are energy inefficient, and the number of people at risk of energy poverty is constantly growing,” says Ciarán Cuffe, Green MP in the EU Parliament. Most people in Europe live in poorly insulated houses...

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

    Crops even grew better than under a normal glass roof. Most common solar modules currently consist of silicon-based solar cells. These are stable and relatively efficient, but rigid, largely opaque and thick. This is different with organic solar cells. For these flexible polymer-based modules, semiconductor compounds are applied as a thin layer on a...

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