1. Newsletter XIII 2024 - News+ March 24th - Protest at the first nuclear summit in Brussels against the IAEA's “nuclear fantasies”.

    von US-Kriegsverbrechen ins Visier der Justiz in Washington geraten ist... * Klimawandel | Wasserstoff | Greenwashing Der Wasserstoff-Bluff Dem angeblich „vollständig wasserstofffähigen“ Erdgaskraftwerk in Leipzig fehlen noch Bauteile – und getestet wurde es noch nie. Die Bundesregierung gibt zudem Fördergelder für bundesweite Wasserstoff-Projekte ohne konkrete Umstiegsfrist frei....

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

    von Lobbycontrol. „Das verzerrt den Diskurs“, sagt sie. „Der Lobbyverband stellt in Aussicht, bestehende Geschäftsmodelle einfach erhalten zu können.“... * Treibhausgasemissionen | Methan | Erdgasförderung Methan-Mysterium: Wie der Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion die Emissionen beeinflusste Post-UdSSR: Förderung von Erdgas ging zurück, aber mehr Methan gelangte in die Atmosphäre. Wissenschaftler...

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

    half. [...] Finally, enormously rising CO2 prices can be expected. Anyone who still relies on fossil equipment, be it cars or heating systems, will soon find it expensive. * Methane | Natural gas | Petroleum New study Methane emissions in the USA higher than expected Methane is many times more harmful to the climate than CO2. Now a new study shows: Especially when it comes to reducing fossil fuels...

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

    NGOs say that the Kremlin is financing the war against Ukraine by exporting fossil energy to Europe. They are calling for stricter sanctions. BERLIN taz | German Environmental Aid (DUH) and 280 other NGOs are calling for a stop to the import of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) into the EU in an open letter to the G7 states and the European Union. On the two-year anniversary of the Russian...

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

    without destroying the other. Most of the time, the army's most important ally (not Pakistan), the USA, has favored this development and often forced it... * Gas-fired power plants | fossil natural gas | Hydrogen New power plant strategy Kemfert: Building new guest power plants is "nonsensical" Energy economist Claudia Kemfert warns that the federal government's power plant strategy could...

  6. Newsletter V 2024 - January 28th to February 3rd - Current news + US foreign policy: Profit over peace?

    Right-wing radicals in the global world, including in Germany, ignore truths and instead spread lies, such as the alleged renaissance of nuclear energy... * Dependencies | Natural gas | Security of supply Energy Independence Expert Council Break down the gas bridge more quickly for security Replacing Russian natural gas with LNG sourced worldwide does not create any...

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

    The amount paid for bioenergy was 15 billion euros last year, but at the beginning of 2024 it was no longer a billion. Why did the credit melt away so quickly? Hans-Josef Fell: Because of the very high natural gas prices, there were also very high electricity prices on the stock exchange in 2022 and 2023. These brought significant income into the EEG account. The expansion of renewable energies means that they can be fed into the grid...

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

    serve as a precursor to large-scale commercial fast reactor fuel reprocessing plants... Translated with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) * Fossile | Natural gas | Lobby Fossil Politics: The Natural Gas Connection Since reunification, Germany has doubled the import of climate-damaging natural gas. A look at the machinations of the lobbies. BERLIN...

  9. 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”

    new climate protection law even on June 21st. The months-long and now inconclusive stalemate is causing considerable discontent among energy transition associations and environmentalists... * Natural gas | Blackout | Whistleblower gas emergency and panic: Putin's nasty plan Revelations: Germany narrowly avoided a blackout in early 2022. There was probably already an emergency. Why we are world champions...

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

    In addition, the production of ammonia has so far been inextricably linked to the extraction of fossil raw materials, because the required hydrogen is produced from coal or natural gas using steam reforming. The Haber-Bosch process releases 450 million tons of carbon dioxide every year... * China | HTR-PM | Shandong China's demonstration HTR-PM enters commercial operation The...

  11. Newsletter XLVI 2023 - November 12th to 18th - News+ Violence as a consequence of climate change: No cool heads

    build that, just like in Great Britain, step in when there is too little wind and too little sun. These power plants should also be able to burn climate-friendly hydrogen instead of natural gas. However, these systems are only supposed to run for a few hours. In order for the high investments in the stability of the supply to still be worthwhile, the state must support these projects...

  12. 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

    In an open letter to the president of this year's climate conference, Sultan Al-Jaber, health experts from around the world are calling for a quick and fair phase-out of coal, oil and natural gas. Renewable energies should be expanded as quickly as possible. Three health organizations from Germany have also signed. The reason: Fossil energies threaten...

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

    The example calculation: As a new customer, a family in a single-family home with an annual consumption of 20.000 kilowatt hours currently pays around 1770 euros to generate heat using a natural gas burner. This corresponds to a price per kilowatt hour (kWh) of just under 8,9 cents, which represents the current average in this country. Consumers who want a modern heat pump...

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

    Methanol is an alcohol and the simplest liquid hydrocarbon. It already serves as an important raw material in the chemical industry. However, methanol has so far usually been produced from natural gas or - especially in China - from coal. It is therefore a fossil raw material. [...] The plant is located next to a coke factory, the exhaust gases from coke production...

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

    This will become cheaper - and thus convince even the last doubters to switch to electric cars, heat pumps and solar systems. But currently electricity is expensive, much more expensive than natural gas or oil. Consumers currently pay around 30 cents per kilowatt hour for electricity, around half of which comes from renewable sources. Gas, on the other hand, costs 9 cents per kWh, heating oil...

  16. Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread

    When she became party leader in 2015, she prescribed a new course for her party. Instead of welcoming immigrants and refugees, it relied on deterrence... * LNG terminal | Rügen Liquid natural gas from Rügen remains unnecessary Protests have been going on for days against the controversial LNG project on Rügen. Now a new DIW report shows that the planned floating terminals are not necessary to...

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

    2015. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a large part of the existing fossil energy reserves may no longer be mined and burned if the goal is to be achieved - specifically: 80 percent for coal and natural gas, 30 percent for petroleum. A lot more of it would have to stay in the ground if 1,5 degrees is the goal. The new IPCC boss Jim Skea recently pointed this out. The energy companies...

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

    The scientists in the Zn-H2 consortium have now combined this battery technology with alkaline water electrolysis and thus developed the new type of “double storage”... * Natural gas | LNG | Gas Lobby Exit Now: How municipal utilities are rebelling against the powerful gas lobby German gas companies have gained influence in the wake of the Russia sanctions. But criticism is growing, some...

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

    a classic vicious circle. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas and is released, among other things, during the anaerobic breakdown of organic material in soils, marine sediments or water bodies. The gas can also escape from natural gas and gas hydrate deposits underground. But some of these potential methane sources are still blocked: the permafrost and ice sheets of the polar regions...

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

    Defamation of scapegoats is a core element of right-wing radicals' victories. And a lightning rod for frustration works particularly well... June 25th Netherlands | Natural gas production | Earthquake decision by the Netherlands Largest European gas field will be shut down due to earthquake The largest natural gas field in Europe will soon be completely closed because production...

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