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

    Gesicht: Ihre längst vollzogene Kehrtwende hin zur vollen Unterstützung der Atomenergie. Im Folgenden ein Auszug aus ihrer Rede: „Ich stelle zudem fest, dass viele Länder nach der globalen Energiekrise, die durch die Invasion Russlands in die Ukraine verursacht wurde, einen neuen Blick auf die mögliche Rolle werfen, die die Atomenergie spielen könnte. Dafür gibt es mehrere Gründe. Erstens um...

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

    damit globale Unsicherheiten erzeugt werden und eine Energiewende diese negativen Effekte bannen kann (aber in der Ukraine ein anderer Weg eingeschlagen wird), ein kurzer Überblick über die Energiekrise in der Ukraine seit der Invasion Russlands im Februar 2022. Der Einmarsch Russlands in die Ukraine erschütterte den ukrainischen Energiesektor in einem noch nie dagewesenen Ausmaß, da Moskau die...

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    gestiegener Marktpreise und Schwankungen seien die erzeugten Strommengen im Vergleich zu 2022 zu deutlich besseren Konditionen verkauft worden. Eine Rolle spiele auch, dass das Vorjahr von der Energiekrise infolge des russischen Angriffskriegs auf die Ukraine geprägt war... * Weltklimagipfel | Superwahljahr | Aserbaidschan Aserbaidschan: Der Klimagipfel des Diktators Mit der Wiederwahl des...

  4. Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany

    largest gas network operator. This requires the conversion of natural gas power plants and the construction of new salt caverns. It was only during the energy crisis that followed Putin's attack on Ukraine that many people realized how important large energy storage systems are. Back then, the filling levels of the underground natural gas storage facilities, of which there are almost 50 in this country, were reported almost daily. These memories...

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

    The coalition is following the line of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who has clearly rejected a delivery several times... * RWE | Renewable | Fossils | Nuclear power | Profits in the billions Profit from the energy crisis Why RWE is making profits in the billions Last year, the energy company RWE's profits were almost a billion euros higher than expected - also due to high electricity prices....

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

    energy prices are more than 40 percent higher than in February 2021. According to an analysis by the comparison portal Verivox, the prices for heating, electricity and refueling are still 41 percent above pre-crisis levels three years after the start of the energy crisis. [...] Heating in particular is taking a toll. According to Verivox, heating in particular is still significantly more expensive than it was three years ago. The heating...

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

    Dossier bundles bpb content on the topic of energy policy. Energy supply in Germany In order to maintain security of supply, the federal government is temporarily relying on coal and nuclear power plants in the current energy crisis. The importance of renewable energies has been increasing for years. The question of whether energy...

  8. Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support

    Background knowledge Top of page News+ ** Energy transition | populism | Electricity production costs Surprise of 2023 The necessary change needs more support The high willingness of many people to invest in renewable heat supply after the energy crisis has been sacrificed by some parties at the altar of their own profile. The transformation must lead to...

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

    95 percent of electricity comes from renewable energies. In some years this proportion was as high as 98 percent. "I had worked abroad for 14 years and when I came back there was this energy crisis, but the only solution people offered was to install a nuclear power plant - that was all," Galain recalls. "I was a nuclear physicist and thought I could solve this problem...

  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”

    For this purpose, the federal government is providing additional financing through KfW, as announced last week. The BMZ is providing half a billion euros to address the acute energy crisis. The aim is to create new jobs and, in the long term, to build a competitive and transparent electricity market through private investments. However, the money doesn't go to...

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

    The debate about industrial electricity prices is becoming a long-running political issue. In the spring of this year, the following story emerged: Before the energy crisis triggered by the Ukraine war, industry had to pay around seven cents for a kilowatt hour of electricity. This price then rose several times over and has since fallen again, but not enough. Currently it costs...

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

    The costs for the federal government since 1991 have totaled around 7 billion euros, the company announced on Tuesday in Chemnitz. In 2022, problems in the supply chains, the energy crisis and inflation would have made work more difficult. Nevertheless, it was possible to fulfill the planned program in the most important aspects. This included completing the last day's mining operations in Schlema-Alberoda...

  13. Newsletter XXVI 2023 - June 25 to July 1 - News+ Two tips on how we can further strengthen the far-right AfD

    and populist fundamental opposition party with a taste for provocation is of course a crisis winner. It draws its main strength from insecurity and the weakness of others. The fossil energy crisis in the wake of the Ukraine war and runaway inflation are grist for the mill of those who have made political frustration their business model. That the AfD benefits from this...

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

    Last year, on August 4th, the ARD program Tagesthemen reported survey results on the trend in Germany. The survey was conducted amid energy sanctions against Russia, the fossil fuel crisis in Europe and growing fears of gas shortages in the wake of the Ukraine war. In the survey by the opinion research institute Infratest dimap, commissioned by...

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

    Instead, there was the last repetition of well-worn arguments, violent accusations against green old men and their supposed ideological stubbornness, dramatic warnings of an energy crisis, embellished depictions of the “best and safest reactors” in the world... * Renewable energies | Energy supply | Electricity requirements Energy supply without nuclear power How Germany is currently...

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

    stand on the brakes. At first glance it looks like good news: Germany has achieved its climate target in 2022. After all, this is not something to be taken for granted in the year of the energy crisis, which was particularly exacerbated by Russia's war against Ukraine. Due to a lack of gas from Russia, Germany has slowed down its coal phase-out and burned more coal than planned. [...] Also...

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

    The reason for the growth in emissions in the electricity and heat sectors was the switch from gas to coal. The IEA experts had actually expected even more emissions. "The impact of the energy crisis has not led to the sharp increase in global emissions initially feared - and this is due to the outstanding growth of renewable energy, electric vehicles, heat pumps and...

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

    Isar ll to block. Before the planned nuclear phase-out on April 15th, opponents of nuclear power fear political debates about possible extensions of the lifetime. In view of the energy crisis, these continue to be demanded by the Union, AfD and within the Berlin coalition by the FDP... * Ukraine | Tank | Armaments company Rheinmetall wants to build a tank factory in Ukraine The main battle tank "Panther"...

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

    The share could be significantly higher if renewable energies had continued to be promoted as they were at the beginning. According to the Federal Environment Agency, despite the Russian war, we do not have an energy crisis now. But there were and are also interests in not moving too quickly with climate protection. The journalist Annika Joeres calls them "the brakemen" and describes them in her book 'The...

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

    in the event that a further extension of the term is discussed. The Emsland nuclear power plant was actually supposed to be shut down at the turn of the year. However, due to the energy crisis, the federal government decided that the reactor - just like Isar 2 in Bavaria and Neckarwestheim 2 in Baden-Württemberg - should remain online until mid-April. Initiative: Nuclear power plants correspond...

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