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

    dass künftig Wasserstoff zum Heizen genutzt werde – was angesichts der damit verbundenen sehr hohen Kosten extrem unwahrscheinlich ist. So werbe „Zukunft Gas“ nach wie vor für den Einbau von Gasheizungen, kritisiert Christina Deckwirth von Lobbycontrol. „Das verzerrt den Diskurs“, sagt sie. „Der Lobbyverband stellt in Aussicht, bestehende Geschäftsmodelle einfach erhalten zu können.“... *...

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

    for new registrations; To achieve the goal of 15 million electric cars in 2030, the proportion must increase to 90 percent in the coming years. 2023 was a record year for heat pumps, but also for gas heating; Around 2,5 times more fossil heating systems were sold than climate-neutral heating systems. 4. With the Karlsruhe budget verdict, the financing of climate protection investments will become the central issue for 2024...

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

    wants to finance the welfare state if migration is to be limited. Global warming with its dramatic consequences is simply suppressed: the combustion engine simply continues to run and the gas heater stays in... * Energy transition | Grid expansion Grid expansion is not making progress Delay in the energy transition costs billions Too little green electricity is produced in the south and too much in the north. But...

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

    There are enormously large price ranges in terms of acquisition costs. The heating season has begun. This raises the question for many homeowners: Continue with the old gas heating system or switch to another technology? A current analysis by the comparison portal Verivox, which is available exclusively to the editorial network Germany, shows: With a modern...

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

    The federal government's campaigns also seem to have little effect here. While the broad media coverage of the planned and unimplemented gas levy or the ban on installing new gas heating systems - partly backed up with misinformation - reached far more people, but rather caused uncertainty and rejection. August 14 United States | greenhouse gas | Law...

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

    at the expense of the young generation, which the Federal Constitutional Court warned about in 2021.” At the instigation of the FDP, the legal text now to be passed also contains options to initially allow the installation of gas heating systems in order to later convert them to biogas or hydrogen. Just at the beginning of this week, a group of eight major municipal utilities such as Munich and Mannheim warned...

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

    “finally bury” in Senegal. The Development Ministry in Berlin stated that gas production would neither be financed nor supported through JETP... * Australia | Green electricity | Oil and gas heating banned 100 percent green electricity in Canberra: Oil and gas heating is now over. The Australian capital only uses clean, significantly cheaper electricity. Now the politics started...

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

    It was a difficult compromise: After long discussions, the federal government has defused its Building Energy Act (GEG), which was originally supposed to ban the installation of pure oil and natural gas heating systems next year. Now the regulation should only take effect where there are municipal heating plans. While the federal government wants to set a deadline of 2028 for its development,...

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

    give measures. Companies and households could receive relief of around ten billion euros if electricity taxes and other taxes were reduced. * United States | Heating law | Natural gas gas heating: The dispute is also raging in the USA. The US state of Washington is suspending decisions on heat pumps in new buildings. Final decision in August. That's what the dispute is about. Not only in...

  10. Newsletter XXI 2023 - 21 to 27 May - News+ World Biodiversity Day: Will the plan to restore Europe's biodiversity fail?

    is. The longer things are delayed and held up, the greater the uncertainty becomes and the more panic arises among the population, who, ignoring the situation, buy even more oil and gas heating systems. Just because it was never properly explained - or at least the explanations from the ministries no longer penetrate what exactly is intended and what it means in concrete terms - the...

  11. Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard

    such a speaker. [...] The Bild newspaper, which first reported on the issue, was also told that there were definitely no plans in the country to ban oil and gas heating systems based on this concept or to introduce an obligation to install a heat pump , emphasized Kretschmann... * Japan | Fukushima | Tritium water | Pacific release to begin in summer People...

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

    technological capabilities,” said Yoon, South Korea could produce its own nuclear weapons “fairly quickly”... * Gas ​​imports | Heating costs | Heat pump fact paper (pdf) Heat pump soon cheaper than gas heating? – Association: This would reduce heating costs. Many people shy away from heat pumps, but they can also save the German economy, claims the European Heat Pump Association. Here...

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

    Nuclear power technology... * Heat pump | Energy efficiency | Heat pump fact paper (pdf) New heat pumps at a glance – what might you consider getting a heat pump instead of oil or gas heating in your house? The good news: The devices that will soon come onto the market have overcome their teething problems. The heat pump is considered the path to the energy transition. But she is...

  14. Newsletter XIII 2023 - March 26 to April 1 - News+ What uranium ammunition would do to Ukraine

    Ms. Kemfert, the coalition committee is meeting this evening. Many of the points of contention between the SPD, the Greens and the FDP are about climate policy: coal phase-out, highway construction, the future of oil and gas heating. Are the days when climate policy was primarily a matter of Sunday speeches over? Claudia Kemfert: Yes. The energy transition and real climate protection in general have been delayed for far too long. For that...

  15. Newsletter XI 2023 - March 12th to 18th - News+ 12 years after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima – What have we learned from it?

    (PFAS). It is estimated that the group includes around 10.000 different substances... * Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | Avoid greenhouse gases | Transformation necessary Anyone who is in favor of nuclear energy, e-fuels and gas heating should read this report. Researchers are compiling knowledge on climate change for the sixth time. Many politicians have not yet understood how threatening the scenarios are. Especially the...

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

    The accompanying text is about the planned reform of the Building Energy Act. A draft by the Minister of Economic Affairs, which was made public at the end of February, envisages gradual bans on oil and gas heating from 2024. From 2045 onwards, all heating systems will be powered by renewable energies. Bild now asks in its...

  17. Newsletter XXVII 2022 - July 02nd to 10th - News+ Global security is only possible together!

    Houses abandoned due to flooding It was only in March that Australia's east coast was hit by severe flooding. Now the levels are rising massively again after heavy rain. * Fossils | Gas heating | Climate goals | renewable Fossil paths, the great climate club and the wait for the energy summit Calendar week 26: An energy transition summit and an emergency program against the fossil energy crisis...

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