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

    Energy was 155 billion kilowatt hours (terawatt hours, TWh) in the last twelve months. In the twelve months before the nuclear phase-out it was 210 TWh. Fraunhofer ISE prepared these figures as part of its energy charts. The CO₂ value of the German electricity mix, which the Federal Environment Agency estimated at 2022 grams per kilowatt hour for 434, will have increased in 2023 despite the nuclear phase-out...

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

    from Central Europe and Scandinavia largely PFAS-free... * Hydrogen | Photovoltaics | Battery | Heat exchanger | Fuel cell decarbonization of industry: Hydrogen power plant at Fraunhofer IWU demonstrates climate-neutral factory operation Chemnitz - The Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU in Chemnitz is involved in researching efficient...

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

    There is a risk that too much electricity is coming into the grid: "In such cases, wind power or solar systems are stopped and taken off the grid," explains Christoph Kost. He is a scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. Because the balance between electricity supply and demand must be balanced - in relation to Central Europe. Surplus electricity can also be sent to neighboring countries...

  4. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    CO2-based methanol production is therefore a sustainable and long-term investment even if the steel industry has completely switched to hydrogen,” explains Tim Schulzke from Fraunhofer UMSICHT. * Nature conservation | Agriculture | EU Parliament | Renaturation law before decisive vote "Farmers also benefit from renaturation" The EPP group wants to...

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

    After leaving the European Parliament, they are not allowed to lobby EU members for six months. The reform comes into force on May 1st... * Battery Technology | Fraunhofer Institute | Salt and ceramics From salt and ceramics: Salt-based battery from ALTECH and the Fraunhofer Institute Ceramic solid-state battery: Altech group commercializes together with the...

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

    of material weaknesses, poor safety culture and negligently carried out controls. A serious nuclear accident only happened due to chance... *** March 7th Fraunhofer | Ammonia | Hydrogen The Fraunhofer IMM is making ammonia fit for the energy transition Before ammonia can be used for energy supply, it must be split into hydrogen and nitrogen...

  7. Newsletter I 2023 - January 1st to 7th - News+ Where Are the Peacemakers?

    To further develop the technology up to mass production, the company has a cooperation agreement with the Center Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM) in Switzerland, the Helmholtz Center Berlin (HZB), the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) and the University of Stuttgart closed. The goal is to produce modules and solar cells with an efficiency of over 30 percent...

  8. Newsletter XLVIII 2022 - December 01st to 07th - News+ The New York Times and the new climate deniers

    Research on solar systems shows interesting results Research on various solar systems in agriculture is still in full swing: the University of Hohenheim and the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Freiburg are at the forefront. For example, they are researching whether so-called agri-photovoltaic systems could be a solution in agriculture. The...

  9. Newsletter XXII 2022 - May 27th to 31st - News+ The nuclear lobby is stepping on the gas again

    describes the US as “an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery.” The exercise of illegitimate power has become even more extreme in recent years (Part 1) * Solar Research | Fraunhofer New record: Fraunhofer ISE develops the world's most efficient solar cell with 47,6 percent efficiency Freiburg - For two years now, the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE...

  10. Newsletter XX 2022 - May 13th to 19th - News+ A flood of open letters and the day of freedom of the press

    Research for more double harvest As part of the Baden-Württemberg Model Region Agriphotovoltaics project, the first plant on Lake Constance went into operation. The researchers from Fraunhofer ISE, among others, want to find out more about how photovoltaics and agriculture influence each other. * Russia | Ukraine War | Weapons | Negotiation How a negotiated peace is torpedoed in the Ukraine war...

  11. Newsletter XX - 28.04. to 03.05.2021/28/XNUMX - News+ April XNUMX - Solar power drives Germany

    manufactured steel and an Arctic that is far too warm. Wow. That was once again a new record. Yesterday, Tuesday, solar systems temporarily delivered more than 40 gigawatts, as data from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems show. Accordingly, not quite 12 GW was fed into the grid between 15:13 p.m. and 45:41 p.m. The wind turbines supplied an additional eight GW. The...

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