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

    von Batterien auf mehr als das Doppelte verlängern Auf das Laden kommt es an: Eine verblüffend einfache Maßnahme könnte die Lebensdauer gängiger Lithium-Ionen-Batterien deutlich erhöhen, wie ein Experiment enthüllt. Werden die Akkus demnach mit schnell wechselnder, gepulster Spannung aufgeladen, verringert dies den sonst typischen den Schwund der Ladekapazität – auch als Memoryeffekt bekannt. Im...

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

    JET reactor achieves world energy record Fusion generates 69 megajoules of energy for the first time, but still no breakeven World record: The JET fusion reactor in Great Britain set a new energy record in its last experiment. It produced 69 megajoules of energy from just 0,2 milligrams of deuterium-tritium fuel. This is more energy than any other fusion experiment...

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

    social norms and behaviors that we observe in our environment. To make it clear how powerful these can be, the climate psychologist recalls the so-called smoke study, an experiment from 1968: people were placed in a room into which white smoke was piped. It was clear to some of the participants that the smoke does not indicate fire; these initiates had the...

  4. 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”

    in nuclear facilities Nuclear power accidents by country#Canada Translation with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) Nuclear power plantsPlag Chalk River, Canada 1952 During an experiment on December 12, 1952, four valves under the reactor were accidentally opened , which were able to be closed again. Nevertheless, after the opening, some regulations...

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

    Nuclear power plantsPlag Cruas_(France) * December 2, 1949 (INES 4 | NAMS 3,8) Hanford nuclear plant, USA Those responsible intentionally released, among other things, 8.000 curies (289 TBq) of iodine-131; this experiment became known much later as the "Green Run". (Costs approximately US$1100 million) Nuclear Power Accidents At that time, very few people knew what happened in Hanford. But now we all have something...

  6. Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?

    "It's surprising how limited knowledge of the Nazi medical crimes is in the medical community today, apart from perhaps a vague idea of ​​Josef Mengele's experiments at Auschwitz," said lead author Herwig Czech of the Medical University of Vienna. For this reason, he and his Colleagues with the editor-in-chief of the specialist journal "The Lancet" three...

  7. 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

    the substance is converted into formate crystals using a cation exchange membrane electrolyzer. These have an efficiency of more than 96 percent, as the research team was able to show in laboratory-scale experiments. In solid form, the crystals have an unlimited shelf life and are so stable that they can be stored for years without any loss - unlike...

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

    than existing alternatives. At the same time, they would provide significantly more electricity and would be comparatively cheap to produce. Even though electricity production declined over the period of the experiment, it was proven that this type of electricity generation could be economically attractive... * Global warming | Glacier | Apocalypse melting ice shelves inevitable: New York...

  9. Reactor failure THTR - problems

    Hanford Site. This is where the plutonium for the first nuclear weapons test 'Trinity' and 'Fat Man', the Nagasaki atomic bomb, was produced and where the insane 'Green Run' experiment took place in December 1949, in which huge amounts of radioactive gas were blown into the wind, to measure where it would come back down. The residents of the irradiated area first felt the effects...

  10. 1940 to 1949 - INES, NAMS and other events

    1949-1940 | Before 1949 Dec. 2, 1949 "Green Run" (INES 4 | NAMS 3,8) Hanford nuclear plant, Washington, USA Those responsible intentionally released, among other things, 8.000 curies (289 TBq) of iodine-131; this experiment became known much later as the "Green Run". (Costs approximately US$1100 million) At that time, very few people knew what was happening in Hanford. But we've all heard about it by now, haven't we...

  11. 1950 to 1959 - INES, NAMS and other events

    werden konnten, wurden mit einer auffälligen Warnfarbe gekennzeichnet oder einbetoniert... 26. Juli 1959 (INES 6) SNL, Simi Valley, CA, USA Partielle Kernschmelze im Natriumreaktor-Experiment des Santa Susana Field Laboratory. Es wurden 1.036 TBq freigesetzt. (Kosten ca. 38 Millionen US$) Nuclear Power Accidents Wikipedia de Santa_Susana_Field_Laboratory Im Santa Susana Field Laboratory in...

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

    Nuclear engine and fuel The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has entered into an agreement with Lockheed Martin to begin manufacturing and designing an experimental thermal nuclear rocket and its engine. BWX Technologies, one of Lockheed Martin's partners in this project, will develop the nuclear reactor and produce the HALEU fuel...

  13. Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed

    those responsible for the European nuclear fusion strategy are running out of patience with the major ITER project. EuroFusion boss Tony Donné has now announced a change of course. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, or ITER for short, is about to lose its status as the key to nuclear fusion. Once again, the major project is currently experiencing significant delays. The reason is problems...

  14. Newsletter XVIII 2023 - April 30 to May 6 - News+ Everything green? Energy Colonialism through Hydrogen Cooperation

    at the US university and co-author of a study on the subject published in the journal "Nature Neuroscience", at a press conference on Monday. [...] Bioethics professor at the University of Grenada in Spain, David Rodriguez-Arias Vailhen, who was not involved in the experiment, confirmed that the system goes beyond what has been achieved with previous brain-computer interfaces...

  15. Newsletter XVII 2023 - April 23rd to 29th - News+ Faulty SPD, self-deception at 1,5 degrees and war as a climate destroyer

    Ammonia could also be used in the future. This gas reduces iron ore to iron just as efficiently and quickly as hydrogen - without first having to be broken down, as experiments in test facilities have now shown. The advantage: Ammonia can also be produced using renewable energies and does not release any CO2. But it is easier and more energy efficient to transport...

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

    to produce a natural material called molybdenum disulfide. Using a creative combination of photoelectrochemical and spectroscopic techniques, researchers conducted a series of experiments that showed that extremely thin films of molybdenum disulfide exhibit unprecedented charge carrier properties that could one day dramatically improve solar technologies... April 19...

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

    “Carbon Capture and Utilization”, or CCU for short. A distinction must be made between this and the CCS process, in which carbon dioxide is captured and then stored... * China | Nuclear fusion | Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) China takes the next big step in the tokamak fusion reactor Chinese researchers have once again made good progress in the practical implementation of nuclear fusion...

  18. Newsletter XIV 2023 - April 2-8 - News+ Wars and School Massacres: The Cancer of Dehumanization

    be. It is not just the crucial question of this century, but of human history. We are now, as he says, at a point where it will be decided whether the human experiment on Earth will continue in any recognizable form. The report was clear and concise. We have reached a point where irreversible processes are being set in motion. The...

  19. Newsletter XII 2023 - March 19th to 25th - News+ The poison of doubt is the sugar for the bastard

    Doubts about science. Doubts about women. Doubts about civil society. Because doubt slows down every activity. Change requires confidence. If you don't feel safe, don't dare to experiment. Those who are afraid don't set out. The spectrum of campaigns ranges from hatred and incitement on social media to subtle narratives and biases against any...

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

    ... *** February 2nd Nuclear Weapons Research | LLNL | Nuclear fusion Nuclear fusion research in the USA also serves military purposes Questionable ignition For the first time, more energy is said to have been released in a nuclear fusion experiment than was used. However, this is a question of the calculation basis, and fusion research also serves military purposes. "Is it called the shot that...

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