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    0,2 Prozent auf die Herstellung... * Wirkungsgrad | Perowskit | Tandem-Solarzellen Leicht, flexibel, effizient: Tandem-Solarzellen auf Perovskit-Basis Vom Labor aufs Dach Zwei Schichten für mehr Effizienz: Tandem-Solarzellen auf Perovskitbasis können Sonnenlicht besser einfangen als herkömmliche Solarzellen aus Silicium. Im Labor konnten sich die leichten und flexiblen Zellen bereits beweisen –...

  2. Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD

    will experience expansion. The 32-page report states that "our ever-growing need for increased connectivity and artificial intelligence (AI) supports our daily needs for efficiency, creativity and automation of repetitive tasks." The combined electricity consumption of Big Tech firms is predicted to rise due to the hyper-exponential...

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

    consistently resist. Populists win when others adopt their positions and interpretations of the world. This doesn't just apply to crude attacks on political competition... * Production | Efficiency | Robot Robot workers on the way: BMW relies on humanoid robots in automobile production BMW is researching the use of humanoid robots on its assembly lines and could thus...

  4. Newsletter LI 2023 - December 17th to 23rd - Current news + steps towards climate change, unsettled OPEC and loving politics

    lots of loopholes and fig leaves. From a reference to “low carbon” fuels to the explicit mention of technologies such as “carbon capture and storage,” whose efficiency is a far cry from scales that can help the world in its current, urgent emergency. Both sides are right... * Funding program | Transport transition | Electric car |...

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

    Balcony power plants with and without storage work most reliably in practice... * Green hydrogen | photosynthesis | Enzyme breakthrough: Enzymes produce green hydrogen with 90% efficiency Green hydrogen can also be produced with significantly higher efficiency and without expensive catalyst materials. A research team from Tel Aviv University has shown this. You put...

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

    directly responsible. They also criticized the fact that, despite the unclear perspective for the project, possible alternatives, for example without tunnel construction, were not even examined... * Solar cell efficiency | Silicon Perovskite Silicon perovskite: A third of the incident solar radiation becomes electricity. New records in the efficiency of silicon perovskite solar cells are being achieved worldwide. The...

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

    5 | NAMS 7,9) Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant, USA * We are looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de *** March 18th EU Parliament | Building efficiency | Energy consumption Reform of the Building Efficiency Directive EU Parliament confirms renovation obligation The houses with the worst efficiency classes in the EU should be renovated by 2030. For that...

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

    Knoblach: "shameless and shabby behavior" On February 16th, parts of the nuclear waste from the dismantled Würgassen nuclear power plant were brought to the interim storage facility in Grafenrheinfeld... * Renewables | Efficiency | Saving ministries lobbying, energy transition with three "E's" and an end to climate glue It is not enough to replace fossil energy sources such as natural gas with renewable ones, says Michael Müller,...

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

    Have refrigerants on offer. Propane is particularly popular - the gas that we know from the gas grill in the garden. It is environmentally friendly and available in virtually unlimited quantities... * Hydrogen | Efficiency | Heat pump series of studies on the potential and limits of green hydrogen - first publication analyzes the heating sector [...] In order to examine various heating technologies against the background of...

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

    that the storage tanks were well filled and gas was saved... * Solar module production | Tandem cell | Perovskite Meyer Burger is working on the industrialization of perovskite modules with high efficiency. The tandem of silicon solar cell and a layer of metal halide semiconductor is already achieving high levels of efficiency in the laboratory. This efficiency is now to be transferred to mass production...

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

    of an aging reactor... * Solar cell | Tandem | Perovskite New world record for tandem solar cell Combined module made of silicon and perovskite creates 32,5 percent efficiency More efficiency for photovoltaics: A German research team has achieved a new world record for the efficiency of tandem solar cells. Their combination of a silicon sub-cell and a...

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

    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 electrolysers, their electrodes are usually made of expensive platinum metals, and a strongly acidic or alkaline electrolyte solution is used - which leads to...

  13. Newsletter XLVI 2022 - November 16th to 23rd - News+ Now only the wisdom of the Peace of Westphalia can help

    in order to immediately counteract such an imminent, serious defect. But the technology comes with disadvantages - in addition to the environmental impact, there are also costs and efficiency. Scientists are trying to find a remedy. [...] In 2021, Israel signed a memorandum of understanding with its neighbor Jordan, according to which Jordan would develop 600 megawatts...

  14. Newsletter XX 2022 - May 13th to 19th - News+ A flood of open letters and the day of freedom of the press

    | Hydropower | Nature conservation Expansion of renewables not at the expense of environmental and nature protection - BUND against offshore wild growth and small hydropower * Farmer | Energy price | Promotion | Efficiency Energy prices and saving energy This is why farmers should use higher funding for energy efficiency. The federal government has significantly increased its energy efficiency funding program for a one-off period. Farmers...

  15. THTR Newsletter No. 94 October 04

    What were the deciding factors for approval? One of the themes of the specific nuclear energy program of the Fifth Euratom Framework Program (FP5) (1998-2002) was "safety and efficiency of future systems". Research on high temperature reactors (HTR) was part of the work program to implement the specific program. Several European research institutions and...

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