1. Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty

    Eigentlich ist die gesamte Geschichte der Evolution ein einziges Solarzeitalter, einteilbar in drei Phasen: Die erste Phase waren die Hunderttausende Jahre, in der die Sonne die einzige Energiequelle für Wärme, Wind- und Wasserkraft sowie Nahrung war. Fossile Energie ab 1850 In der zweiten Phase entdeckte die Menschheit in der Erde brennbare fossile Energiequellen wie Kohle, Erdgas und Erdöl....

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    unter Druck, Gasnetze müssen zurückgebaut werden Rückbau der Gasnetze notwendig, Kosten steigen für Verbraucher. Transformation erfordert Anpassungen und Investitionen in nachhaltige Energiequellen. Die deutsche Erdgasversorgung war nach dem Ende des lokal erzeugten Stadtgases ganz auf flexible Pipelineversorgung zunächst aus den Niederlanden, später aus Russland und Norwegen ausgerichtet. Nur...

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

    It is fundamentally possible to move away from fossil fuels. “Previous studies have shown that our energy system can be converted to renewable energy sources such as wind and solar at low cost and with little environmental impact,” says Felix Schreyer from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK). How can renewable energy be used efficiently? "The next question is...

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

    be inserted into it than was created by nuclear fusion. Nevertheless, JET provides important insights for the future large-scale European reactor ITER. Nuclear fusion is considered a possible energy source of the future, but there is still debate about which type of reactor is best suited for it. Laser fusion has already achieved ignition of the fusion plasma, but can only produce tiny amounts of fuel...

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

    money in. Study shows that phasing out coal increases profit margins. Power plants should rely on green electricity returns. A guest post. Wind and solar energy are the fastest growing energy sources in the world and are expected to together generate twelve percent of global electricity by 2023. The amount of energy generated by wind and solar energy is expected to increase...

  6. Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy

    Landes and, like Héctor Reyes, is watching with concern the initiatives of the “Pact of the Corrupt”, which aim to make it more difficult for the president-elect to govern... * Energy sources | WNISR | Electricity mix report on nuclear energy: Nuclear power is on the decline worldwide The share of nuclear energy in the global electricity mix fell to 9,2 percent last year. Meanwhile, investments are flowing...

  7. Newsletter XLVIII 2023 - November 26th to December 2nd - Current News+ Greenwashing at COP28: How corporations lobby against climate goals

    to the almost 200 countries that will discuss in Dubai until mid-December how to get involved in the energy transition... * World Climate Conference | COP28 120 countries want to triple electricity production from renewable energy sources At the World Climate Conference in the United Arab Emirates, numerous countries joined the plan to increase their electricity production from renewable energy sources by 2030...

  8. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    the German-language Namibian "Allgemeine(n) Zeitung" (AZ): "The focus is that we - if desired - support Namibia in developing clean, reliable and inexpensive renewable energy sources. If Namibia then generates a surplus of these energy sources, we would We are very happy to import these products (ammonia). Ammonia is a more transportable...

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

    consists. That shouldn't have been allowed. Al-Jaber says openly that the future lies not in renewables, but in emission-free energies. He wants to continue using fossil energy sources, and the CO2 will apparently be miraculously stored somewhere. That won't be possible. [...] But climate protection is now increasingly viewed in society as...

  10. Newsletter XLIV 2023 - October 29th to November 4th - News+ Uranium exports from Lingen to Russia violate EU law - study by the Greens justifies the possibility of a ban

    Cases reported. The neighboring northern federal state of Schleswig-Holstein recorded three lawsuits, Lower Saxony two... * CO2 as a fuel Double blow against climate change: Carbon dioxide as an energy source How can carbon dioxide be captured from the atmosphere and used beneficially? In the USA, a research team has found a pioneering, highly efficient way to convert CO2 into fuel...

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

    is more than that, but highly dangerous for all life on this planet. October 19th Wind Energy | Solar energy | Coal-fired power generation Over 100 billion kWh of wind power in 2023: Wind energy is the most important energy source in Germany - Decline in coal-fired power generation Münster - Wind energy will be the most important energy source in the electricity sector in Germany in 2023. At the same time, the proportion of stone...

  12. Newsletter XXXIX 2023 - September 24th to 30th - News+ “Populist, verbally radical, ethnic” – and no end in sight

    Nuclear fusion Experts in the Bundestag's research committee express positive opinions about nuclear fusion. But the problems are numerous. BERLIN taz | Germany has a good chance in the race for nuclear fusion as the energy source of the future, but there is a long way to go. This view was represented by eight scientific experts at a hearing in the Bundestag's Research Committee on Wednesday...

  13. Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years

    News+ Background knowledge Top of page News+ ** Renewables | Sun and wind | Energy transition The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years. The sun is our largest and most reliable source of energy. Every second we are here, it sends us 15.000 times more energy than all of humanity uses today. It's been doing this for 4.5 billion years and another 4,5 billion years -...

  14. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    French nuclear companies and their owner, the French government, continue to be given the impression that nuclear energy is not only clean, but also a reliable and safe source of energy. But the military coup suddenly showed that France and the EU as a whole are very dependent on politically unstable and autocratically ruled countries for uranium supplies...

  15. 2010 to 2019 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Enco, which was founded in 1994 by former members of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). This came to the conclusion that nuclear power represents a cost-effective energy source for the goal of CO2 reduction and recommended extending the life of the existing nuclear power plant and building new ones. Three to ten new power plants were under discussion... February 12, 2013...

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

    on the Western model of prosperity". He points out that human progress in crucial areas of life would not have been possible without the use of "easily and cheaply available fossil energy sources". Neubauer is pursuing a wrong approach to climate policy and is thus creating a "new opposition". .. * July 5, 2000 (INES Klass.?) Grafenrheinfeld, DEU...

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

    ... Translated with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Nuclear power accidents by country#United_States June 9 Energy demand | CO2 emissions | Waste Heat Largest Untapped Energy Source "Waste Heat Can Power Entire Cities" Waste heat is the largest untapped energy resource in the world, say companies like Orcan Energy. But even if you want, you can find classic sources like...

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

    has actually done exactly that over and over again in all sorts of contexts. We should have known that dependence on one supplier and dependence on fossil energy sources made us vulnerable to blackmail. Personally, I, but also many other scientists, have repeatedly warned in studies and through public statements that we...

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

    On the evening of April 15, 2023, technicians disconnected 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 affected by...

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

    You may be able to readjust your successes. Because larger areas have to be involved if a significant effect is to be achieved, this can only be achieved with the largest natural energy source, the sun. It helps to convert more CO2 from the atmosphere into biomass in forests, floodplains and moors, increase the humus content of agricultural soils and convert carbon into...

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