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

    Not to waste valuable time and money on the climate crisis with the fantasies of the international nuclear lobby, but instead to invest in “safe, affordable and climate-friendly energy for all” with the transition to a system based on 100 percent renewable energies. In addition to the IPPNW, the signatories include Greenpeace, the Federation for the Environment...

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

    7,9) Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant, USA We are always looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: nucleare-welt@reaktorpleite.de March 23rd Atomlobby | Renewables | Renaissance nuclear power goodbye! “Nuclear power is on the rise again” wrote the Munich-based tz at the weekend after 30 countries had recently met at a conference in Brussels (Nuclear Energy Summit)...

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

    While there are traffic light parties in favor of a Taurus delivery, the coalition backed 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 The energy company RWE's profit last year was almost a billion euros...

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

    from the Court of Auditors The new report from the Federal Court of Auditors on the energy transition shows once again: The authority has a fundamental problem in understanding a 2018 percent renewable energy system. Every few years the marmot greets you from the Federal Audit Office's energy transition reports. We remember: Conclusion of the XNUMX report: The Federal Ministry of Economics coordinates...

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

    Last year, however, the concern that electricity prices in Germany have been rising since the last nuclear power plants were taken off the grid was unnecessary. In addition to Zösch ("The expansion of renewables clearly has a price-dampening effect"), the Bavarian Consumer Center also expressly spoke out in favor of a renewable energy supply - it was "in principle in favor of a rapid expansion of...

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

    we would give him what he wants. That's why we shouldn't be afraid. The only thing that should scare us is fear itself, as Roosevelt said in World War II... * Renewables | Fossils | Electricity prices | Nuclear power expert Kemfert in an interview: Operators of nuclear power plants no longer want the energy either. Economist Claudia Kemfert speaks in...

  7. Newsletter VII 2024 - February 11th to 17th - Current+ super election year in the crucial climate decade

    the world could listen to the majority of the population and have more courage to implement strict political measures and regulations to phase out fossil fuels and promote renewable energies." February 16th Putin | Navalny "Tortured to death": Navalny supporters suspect a perfidious murder plot Putin's isolation and hardly any medication: Putin's opponent Alexei Navalny is under...

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

    Underground mines in Europe. It is primarily known for the extraction of copper and zinc. Underground ore mining ended in August 2022. Now the mine will be used as a huge battery for electricity from renewable energies. The Scottish company Gravitricity wants to implement this. [...] The principle of such gravity storage is relatively simple: If excess electricity is available,...

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

    Aluminum from the bauxite remaining red mud problems. The highly alkaline mixture of various metal oxides and heavy metals is harmful to the environment and toxic. [...] If you partially use renewable energies for hydrogen and electricity production, then the process is worthwhile if the red mud contains around 50 percent iron oxide. However, if you calculate the costs that normally arise...

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

    | EEG | Electricity exchange | Federal budget "Stopping EEG funding would be a huge loss" Hans-Josef Fell fears that the dwindling EEG account could lead to a collapse in funding for renewable energy expansion if there is a lack of tax funds. The President of the Energy Watch Group calls for a return to the EEG levy financed by electricity prices and for a green electricity exchange to be created....

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

    8,4 gigawatts in operation. [...] Last year, the European Union approved an action plan with 15 immediate measures to support the wind sector. The EU plans to achieve a share of renewable energy of at least 42,5 percent by 2030. * Greenland | Climate change | Gulf Stream Greenland is losing 30 million tons of ice per hour The largest island in the world has...

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

    Climate in a traffic light traffic jam In 2024, the traffic light coalition will have to work through a large number of postponed legislative proposals. These not only concern the accelerated expansion of renewables, but also better protection of the climate and nature. Around Christmas, the storm "Zoltan" raged over Germany, followed by endless rain. Dikes gave way, places were...

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

    who came up with the software. This emerges from newly released documents from the federal court in Manhattan in which Cohen justifies his behavior... * Renewables | Blackout | CO2 prices One hundred percent renewables on a winter day instead of a blackout Thanks to high CO2 prices, the use of brown coal is becoming increasingly unprofitable. This means that the proportion of conventional energy...

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

    Lignite mining in Jänschwalde, the energy company Leag is pushing ahead with the construction of a solar system on the former opencast mining areas. [...] The energy company Leag is planning a conversion towards renewable energies. The phase-out of electricity generation from brown coal is legally agreed in 2038. Because of its high carbon dioxide emissions, lignite is more harmful to the climate than other energy sources. *...

  15. 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”

    Energy Agency fell by 23 percent, in the USA it fell by 21 percent. This is mainly due to weaker industrial activity and the move away from coal-fired power generation in favor of renewable energy... * Asylum policy | Migration | Deportations Secret migration deal with Iraq The federal government is keeping a migration agreement between Germany and Iraq secret....

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

    | Climate-neutral EU states declare nuclear power to be a climate-neutral technology Following the European Parliament last month, EU member states have also included nuclear power alongside renewable energies in the list of supported technologies in the Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA). In mid-March, the European Commission and the NZIA presented their proposal for a new industrial law...

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

    Scholz appeals to the almost 200 countries that will be deliberating in Dubai until mid-December 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...

  18. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    and inhumane projects (e.g. nuclear power plants) that are planned and implemented from above. The FZ Jülich is therefore left with the preliminary decision on the “suitability of land areas for renewable energies and hydrogen infrastructure” as well as the assessment of the “socio-political context and development opportunities”. The five-person national project group will...

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

    This personality damages the credibility of the UN climate conference because there is a conflict of interest. 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. It will be like this...

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

    magic to avoid the debt brake. It is likely to particularly affect energy transition projects whose financing is now in jeopardy. It's about such central things as promoting the expansion of renewable energy, building a charging infrastructure for electric cars, renovating the ailing Deutsche Bahn or natural climate protection, for example by restoring moors. [...] The...