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

    Teuerungen. Was davon ist eingetreten? FREIBURG/BERLIN taz | Die Debatte über Atomenergie hört nicht auf. Auch weil diese allgemein als relativ klimafreundlich gilt: Im Vergleich zu Kohle- und Gaskraftwerken verursacht sie weniger CO₂-Emissionen. Selbst im IPCC-Bericht wird Kernenergie deshalb trotz ihrer Risiken als Möglichkeit erwähnt, zumindest einen kleinen Teil des Energiebedarfs...

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

    auf dem Land betroffen. Im Gegenzug mussten andere Kraftwerke, die in diesen Phasen eigentlich nicht auf den Markt getreten wären, gut 14 TWh zusätzlich erzeugen. Es sind vor allem Kohle- und Gaskraftwerke in Nordrhein-Westfalen und Baden-Württemberg, die dann in die Bresche springen... * 8. April 1968 (Broken Arrow) U-Boot K-129 sank 2900 km nw Hawaii, UdSSR Atomwaffen A-Z Unfälle mit...

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

    Green hydrogen is becoming increasingly important - and with it the creation of storage capacities, according to an analysis for Germany's largest gas network operator. This requires the conversion of natural gas power plants and the construction of new salt caverns. It was only during the energy crisis that followed Putin's attack on Ukraine that many people realized how important large energy storage systems are. Almost every day...

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

    Pictures. * CO2 | CCS | Cement Habeck's plan for CO₂ storage: legitimation for nonsense emissions The federal government has presented its plan for CCS technology. Emissions from gas power plants should also be allowed to be stored. That's nonsense. Unfortunately, there are back doors: the federal government is finally tackling the capture and storage of carbon dioxide. The dangerous greenhouse gas...

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

    Kenfo also invested in 13 coal companies. All of the companies mentioned want to expand their business by developing new oil and gas fields and building pipelines, LNG terminals or gas power plants. In doing so, they are endangering the Paris climate goals, criticize the two organizations... * Russia | Sanctions | War Profits Two Years After the Invasion of Ukraine What...

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

    can no longer be removed 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 against...

  7. 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”

    to bring it to market maturity in order to make this energy available at any time. With batteries for cars, but especially with the construction of electrolyzers to produce green hydrogen, which are used to operate gas power plants, we are on the right track. No serious research institute doubts that cheap energy will ultimately only come from renewable sources...

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

    Operator Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) announced that the nuclear power plant with a gross output of 1.720 MW unexpectedly went offline on Sunday, November 19.11.2023th, 19 at 10:XNUMX p.m. Coal and gas power plants had to step in and start up as backup power plants to secure Finland's electricity supply. According to the investigations so far, the cause is a "faulty...

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

    protected freedom of expression."... * RWE | Profit | Investments How RWE doubles its profits The Essen-based electricity supplier benefits from investments in solar and wind farms and from its gas power plants. More of these will soon be needed - but there is a hurdle. Less electricity produced, but the profit almost doubled: The first nine months of the year were...

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

    According to experts, electricity prices will increasingly fall. “The more renewable energy systems with their low prices are in the electricity system, the less expensive wholesale gas power plants determine the electricity price,” said electricity market expert Fabian Huneke from the Agora Energiewende think tank. Renewables would already reduce future electricity prices. "You can see...

  11. Newsletter XXXVII 2023 - September 10th to 16th - News+ How Germany is ruining the climate with billions in gifts to industry

    climate-damaging industries and their influence on politics are too strong. Business in the luxury segment of the automotive industry is too good, or electricity trading and the operation of coal and gas power plants are too lucrative. But one thing is certain: others will pay for the consequences of these policies and these transactions. People who don't protect themselves from high food prices and severe weather disasters...

  12. Newsletter XXXV 2023 - August 27 to September 2 - News+ Historic victory: Ecuador becomes the first country to say no to oil

    because you invested in energy-saving technology in a timely manner? And how long should the subsidies last? They are actually only intended as a "bridge" until renewables have largely driven expensive gas-fired power plants out of the market. But experience shows that once introduced, withdrawing subsidies is difficult. [...] But there is an even simpler means: taxes on the...

  13. Newsletter XXXII 2023 - August 6th to 12th - News+ Hiroshima - The asphalt will burn. Chaos will reign

    CHP chairman Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu shouted in parliament to the representatives of the government factions, who, as expected, were stubborn... * Hydrogen | Subsidies | Gas power plants Is the federal government investing billions in new fossil gas power plants? Energy and climate – compact: Ministry of Economics wants to build power plants for dark periods. Green hydrogen in...

  14. Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson

    of the wonderful young man from Nazareth is the real turning point. And not more and more money for the military worldwide. After the end of nuclear energy, coal and gas power plants in Germany were started up again - with fatal environmental consequences... Unfortunately, this is a consequence of the 16 years of Merkel governments. They missed the energy transition, even though the knowledge was there long ago. We could...

  15. Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine

    As the comparison with the above production values ​​of the coal-fired power plants shows, this net import could easily have been covered by the coal-fired power plants. Or with the gas power plants, which are used even less... * Water | Hydrogen Even water is missing: another Achilles heel of the hydrogen strategy. Renewable energies are to be used, especially in southern countries such as Spain...

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

    Even if the coal phase-out is brought forward, there is a risk of a power gap that would endanger the stability of the network, it is said. Thousands of megawatts of so-called hydrogen-capable gas power plants are to be built to replace coal - but until they are online, it would be good to have nuclear power plants in reserve, insists the nuclear lobby... * Nuclear phase-out | Nuclear waste | Final repository | Responsibility of former environment minister...

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

    Cooling towers deprive our rivers of the valuable water that we so urgently need for agriculture, among other things. [...] These quantities are considerable: per year, gas power plants in the EU require 530 million cubic meters of water, coal-fired power plants 1,54 billion cubic meters and nuclear power plants 2,44 billion cubic meters of water. In total, this corresponds to the water consumption of all households...

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

    is to reduce Germany's imports of Russian gas. [...] The researchers' study is based on a comparison of the coefficient of performance (COP) of heat pumps with the efficiency of gas power plants. The performance factor indicates how efficiently a heat pump converts heat from renewable sources such as air, water or geothermal energy into heat for heating and hot water. They bet for the...

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

    says: »Today we are blocking the nuclear power plant on Söder's doorstep to make it clear that extending the running time is not an option. Nuclear power plants are too dangerous, they are not suitable to replace gas power plants and they represent an outdated, centralized energy supply.«... * March 06, 2006 (INES Class?!!) NFS, Erwin, TN, USA In one Nuclear Fuel Services plant in Erwin...

  20. Newsletter VII 2023 - February 12th to 18th - News+ Buzzword climate neutrality, saviors of the fossil lobby and the talk of alarmism

    wants to stop the EU Commission's controversial taxonomy law. The Austrian government has also initiated proceedings. The regulation classifies certain investments in nuclear and gas power plants as sustainable. The EU Commission rejected the objection - now one of the most controversial Brussels laws is being sued: In September, environmental groups filed a complaint against...

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